By Mr. Smith: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Portland, (for a marine hospital,) presented December 13, 1833.

By Mr. Smith: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Cumberland county, Maine, presented April 28, 1834.

By Mr. Smith: The petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Maine, for a light-house, presented December 27, 1833.

By Mr. Smith: The proceedings of a meeting of merchants and ship owners of the State of Maine, relative to a breakwater for Portland harbor. By Mr. Adams: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Gloucester, in the State of Massachusetts, for a custom-house, presented December 16, 1833. By Mr. Adams: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Plymouth, Massachusetts, for a custom-house, presented January 21, 1833.

By Mr. Ingham: The petition of William Stannard, presented February 4. 1935.

By Mr. Heman Allen: The petition of sundry citizens of Burlington, in the State of Vermont, relative to breakwater in Burlington bay, presented February 27, 1832.

By Mr. Hard: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Oswego, in the State of New York, relative to Oak Orchard harbor, presented Jan. 4, 1832. By Mr. Hard: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Niagara county, New York, relative to a harbor at Eighteen Mile creek, presented December 15. 1834.

By Mr. Gillet: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Franklin county, New York, relative to breakwater and light-house, Plattsburgh and Cumberland Head, presented March 6, 1832.

By Mr. McKim: The petition of the corporation of Baltimore, in Maryland, relative to harbor, presented February 10, 1834.

By Mr. Joseph M. White: A resolution and documents relative to St. Augustine harbor, in Florida, presented December 14, 1832.

By Mr. Joseph M. White: The petition of sundry inhabitants of Florida, for light-house on east end St. George's Island, presented January 13, 1834. By Mr. Joseph M. White: The petition of inhabitants of Florida, for light-house on Egmont Island, presented February 10, 1834.

By Mr. Joseph M. White: The petition of inhabitants of Florida, for court-house and custom-house in Pensacola, presented December 13, 1832.

By Mr. Joseph M. White: The petition of inhabitants of Florida, relative to Ocilla river, presented February 23, 1835.

By Mr. Joseph M. White: The resolutions of the Legislative Council of Florida, for the improvement of the Suwannee river, presented February 10, 1834.

On motion of Mr. White, of Florida,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing for the erection of a light-house at the most suitable site at the eastern entrance into Appalachicola bay, and another at the pass into the bay of Mexico, at Egmont Island, on the coast of Florida.

On motion of Mr. White, of Florida,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation to improve the harbor of St. Augustine, in Florida, according to the report of the engineer who made the survey, in obedience to an act of Congress.

On motion of Mr. White, of Florida, Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to enquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for placing buoys in St. Mark's harbor, and two beacons on the east and west shoals, and buoys in the east pass into Appalachicola bay, in Florida.

Mr. Parks presented the petition of Silas Winchester, of the State of Maine, a soldier of the revolution, praying for arrears of a pension.

Mr. Briggs presented the petition of Joseph Hewins, of West Stockbridge, in the State of Massachusetts, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr J. Q. Adams presented the petition of Joseph Ewell and others, heirs of Thomas Church, deceased, of the State, of Massachusetts, praying legislative relief in relation to the pension of their ancestor.

Mr. Judson presented the petition of Avery Downer, of the State of Connecticut, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Heman Allen presented the petition of Thaddeus Tuttle, of the State of Vermont, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Wardwell presented the petition of Simeon Meacham, of the State of New York, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Wardwell presented the petition of Samuel Hubbard, of the State of New York, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

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Mr. Gideon Lee presented the petition of Josiah Strong, of Montgomery, New York, a soldier of the revolution, for a pension.

Mr. Doubleday presented the petition of Elias Snyder, of the county Cayuga, New York, a soldier of the revolution, for a pension.

Mr. Doubleday presented the petition of John Crofts, of the State of New York, a soldier of the revolution, for a pension.

Mr. Hard presented the petition of Benedict Alford, of New York, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Brown presented the petition of Leonard Smith, of the State of New York, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Hunt presented the petition of Moses Dusenbury, of the State of New York, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. P. C. Fuller presented the petition of John Packard, of the State of New York, praying for a pension, for services in the revolutionary war. Mr. Beardsley presented the petition of Peter Dimick, of the State of New York, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Washington presented the petition of Eliza Causin and John Turner, heirs of John II. Stone, deceased, of Maryland, praying for a pension due to him in his life time.

Mr. Steele presented the petition of Matthias Traverse, of the State of Maryland, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, presented the petition of Margaret Lawrence, of Pennsylvania, widow of Daniel Lawrence, deceased, a soldier of the revolution, praying pecuniary relief.

Mr. Storer presented the petition of Joseph, Chambers, of the State of Ohio, a soldier of the revolution, praying for a pension.

Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

The under mentioned petitions and memorials, heretofore presented, were

again presented, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions,

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By Mr. Kinnard.,, The petition of John Griffiths, presented January 8, 1835.

By Mr. Kinnard;, The petition, of Obadiah Turpin, presented May 19, 1834.

By Mr. Storer: The petition of John Wilkinson, presented May 18, 1833: By Mr. Bouldin, The petition of Robert Tucker, presented December 9. 1531.

By Mr. Bouldin: The petition of James Mullings, presented December 10. is34.

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By Mr. Anthony The petition of Robert Martin, presented February 17, 1835.

By Mr. Beaumont: The petition of Amy, Wilson, presented January 17. 1835.

By Mr. Granger: The petition of Jaines Fitch, presented Jan. 12, 1835. By Mr. Wardwell: The petition of Jacob Weaver, presented March 5, 1831.

By Mr. Wardwell: The petition of Peter Doxtator, presented March 5, 1831.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, presented the petition of Henry M. Shreve, praying compensation for the invention of the steam suag-boat, heretofore presented May 9, 1834,

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Mr. Huntsinan presented the petition of sundry inhabitants of the western district of Tennessee, praying relief in relation to occupant lands. Mr. Garland presented the petition of sundry inhabitants of the western land district in Louisiana, relative to the land office in the parish of St. Landrie, in the village of Opelousas..

Mr. Lane presented the petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Indiana, setting forth that the construction put upon acts of Congress by surveyors respecting the division of sections into quarter sections, operates very unjustly, and praying relief in the premises.

Mr. Ashley presented the petition of David Browning, of the State of Missouri, praying relief in relation to an error in his certificate of entry of public land...

Mr. Ashley presented a memorial of the Legislature of the State of Missouri, relative to the right of pre-emption in the purchase of lands...

Mr. Ashley presented a memorial of the Legislature of the State of Missour. praying for a grant of 500 acres of land.

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Mr. Ashley presented a memorial of the Legislature of the State of Missouri, praying for a change in the application of funds appropriated to the support of a seminary of learning.

Mr. Ashley presented a petition of sundry citizens of the State of Missouri, praying for the establishment of a new land district, to embrace within its limits the city of Jefferson.

Mr. Ashley presented a petition of Jonathan Boon, of the State of Missouri, praying permission to correct his entry of public land.

Mr. Ashley presented a petition of David T. Talbot, of Missouri, praying for the correction of an error in a patent certificate issued from the land office at St. Louis.

Mr. Sevier, presented the petition of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, praying that donations may be made, to those who lost their improvements by virtue of the, Choctaw treaty on all

Mr. Sevier presented a memorial of the General Assembly of Arkansas, relative to pre-emption rights to settlers upon public lands.

Mr. Sevier presented a memorial of the General Assembly of Arkansas, relative to the draining of alluvial lands in the bottoms of the Mississippi. Mr. Sevier presented a memorial of the General Assembly of Arkansas, relative to the construction of a certain road, and the completion of public buildings.

Mr. Sevier presented a memorial of the General Assembly of Arkansas, in relation to the petition of Capt. Henry M. Shreve, which prays for the right to enter six sections of land.

Mr. Sevier presented sundry documents relative to an application of Col. M. Arbuckle, of Arkansas, for relief in relation to certain lands.

Mr. Sevier presented the memorial of Enos Hannah, of Arkansas, relative to his claim of a donation of half a section of land as an actual settler on lands ceded to the Cherokee Indians.

Mr. Sevier presented the memorial of Allen Martin and others, of Arkansas, relative to certain lands appropriated by law of Congress for the use of schools.

Mr. Sevier presented the petition of Joseph Henderson, of Arkansas, praying relief in relation to the loss of certain papers concerning an adjudication of certain French and Spanish claims.

Mr. Sevier presented the petition of James Black, of Arkansas, praying compensation for injury sustained in the erection of a certain grist-mill on lands ceded to the Choctaw Indians.

Mr. Sevier presented sundry documents relative to the claim of the heirs of Thomas Patterson, deceased, to a donation of lands under the act of Congress of 1828.

Mr. Sevier presented the petition of John Wood, of Arkansas, praying for the right of pre-emption in the purchase of a certain lot of land in township No. 15, and range No. 29.

Mr. Sevier presented the petition of Thomas Parker Eskridge, of Arkansas, praying to be refunded the sum of $4,750 45 cents, with interest at the rate of six per cent. which he paid for lands in the Batesville land district, and at Helena, in the Mississippi land district.

Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

The under mentioned petitions and memorials, heretofore presented, were again presented, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands, viz:

By Mr. Joseph M. White: The petition of sundry inhabitants of the Territory of Florida, relative to Pensacola Academy, presented April 17, 1834. By Mr. Joseph M. White: The petition of Peter Alba, presented January 12, 1829.

By Mr. Joseph M. White: The petition of the Legislative Council of Florida, relative to the building of a court-house, presented February 23, 1835. By Mr. Joseph M. White: Sundry documents relative to the compensation of deputy surveyors of public lands in Florida, presented April 8, 1834. By Mr. Sevier: The petition of William Marcus, presented December 16, 1833.

By Mr. Sevier: The petition of William C. Stevenson, presented June 17, 1834.

By Mr. Casey: The petition of John Dement, presented March 5, 1834. By Mr. Kinnard: The petition of the Bloomington Rail-road Company, in the State of Indiana, presented January 19, 1835.

By Mr. Crane: The petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Ohio, presented March 5, 1834.

By Mr. Dunlap: The petition of Green Pryor, presented March 3, 1828. Mr. Lawrence presented the petition of Henry Hatch, of the city of Boston, praying relief in relation to claims due the estate of the late Crowell Hatch, deceased, for property illegally captured and condemned by the French Government prior to the year 1800.

Mr. Sutherland presented the petition of John Randolph Clay, Secretary of Legation of the United States, near the Court of Russia, praying for his salary and remuneration for expenses incurred as Charge des Affaires to the Court of St. Petersburgh.

Mr. Ingersoll presented the memorial of the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, relative to an insurance on the brig Josephine.

Mr. Ingersoll presented the petition of Margaret C. Meade, of the State of Pennsylvania, relative to the payment of a certain debt due to her deceased husband.

Ordered, That the said petitions and memorials be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

On motion of Mr. Washington,

Ordered, That the petition of Alexander Scott, presented December 11, 1833, be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Hard presented the petition of sundry citizens of Brockport, in the State of New York, praying for establishment of a mail route from Rochester to Lockport.

Mr. McComas presented the petition of J. F. Caldwell, of the State of Virginia, praying to be remunerated for injury sustained by the alteration of certain mail routes upon which he had contracted to carry the mail.

Mr. Luke Lea presented the memorial of sundry inhabitants of the State of Tennessee, relative to a mail route from Knoxville to Kingston, by way of Low's ferry, on Clinch river.

Mr. Dunlap presented the petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Tennessee, praying for the extension of a mail route from Lagrange to Coffinville, in the Choctaw Purchase.

Mr. Garland, of Louisiana, presented a petition of sundry citizens of Louisiana, relative to a mail route between Point Coupee and Cheneyville. Mr. Lane presented the petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Indiana, praying for a post route from Napoleon, in Indiana, to Georgetown, in Kentucky.

Mr. Chapman presented the memorial of sundry citizens of Benton county, Alabama, relative to the establishment of sundry post routes.

Mr. May presented the petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Sangamon, McLane, Lasalle, and Cooke, in the State of Illinois, praying for a post route from Springfield to Chicago.

Mr. Ashley presented the petition of sundry citizens of Missouri, praying for the establishment of a mail route from Columbia, in Boon county, to the county seat of Lafayette county.

Mr. Ashley presented the petition of George Knox, of Rocheport, in the State of Missouri, praying for a change in the mail stage route from Columbia, via Rocheport, Boonville, &c.

Mr. Sevier presented sundry documents of James Edington, of Arkansas, relative to a remuneration for past services rendered to the United States, in conveying the mail.