FRIDAY, June 16, 1809.

Mr. Lewis presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Washington county, in the district of Columbia, and of Prince George county, in the state of Maryland, whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying that an act may pass declaring a road leading from the lower eastern branch bridge in the district of Columbia, to the line of the said district, a public highway, on such terms as Congress may think proper.

The said petition was read, and referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia.

On motion of Mr. Macon,

Ordered, That the Committee to whom was referred on the twelfth instant, the report of the attorney general of the United States, on the petition of Edward Livingston, and the petitions of sundry inhabi. tants of the city and territory of Orleans, in relation to the conflicting claims to the Batture adjoining to the city of Orleans, be discharged from the farther consideration of the said report.

On motion of Mr. Macon, and seconded, that the House do come to the following resolution:

Resolved, That so much of the message of the President of the United States of the seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, as relates to the Batture in the suburbs of St. Mary's, adjoining New Orleans, and the documents which accompanied it, together with the petitions of Edward Livingston, and the petitions of the citizens of New Orleans on the same subject, and the documents which accompanied the same, be referred to the attorney general of the United States, and that he be instructed to receive and collect such other testimony as may be necessary to ascertain the title of the United States to the before mentioned Batture, and that he be directed to report to this House, at the next session of Congress, his opinion as to the vali

dity of the claim of the United States, to the said Batture.

Ordered, That the said resolution do lie on the table.

Mr. Johnson, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was re-committed on the ninth instant, their report on the petition of Hannah Foster, reported a detailed statement of facts in relation to the merits of the claim of the petititioner, which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.

Ordered, That Mr. Potter have leave to be absent from the service of this House from Monday next for the remainder of the session.

The House proceeded to consider the unfinished business of yesterday. The question depending at the time of adjournment was again stated, to wit: "shall the committee of the whole House have leave to sit again on the bill supplementary to the act, entitled An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt."

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And the same being taken,

It was resolved in the affirmative.

The House, accordingly, resolved itself into a committee of the whole House on the said bill; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Pitkin reported, that the committee had, according to order, had the same under consideration, and made no amendment thereto.

A motion was made by Mr. Randolph, and seconded, that the House do come to the following resolution :

Resolved, That during the discussion of the bill supplementary to the act, entitled “An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the reduction of the public debt," the Secretary of the Treasury be required to give information, touching the same, to this House, in person.

And on the question that the House do proceed to the consideration of the said resolution,

It was resolved in the affirmative,

The yeas and nays being demanded by one fifth of

the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are

Those who voted in the negative, are

The question was then taken to agree to the said

And determined in the negative,

yeas and nays being demanded by one fifth of

the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative, are