Ebenezer Seaver, Samuel Shaw, Daniel Sheffey, John Thompson, George M. Troup, Robert Witherspoon. The House then proceeded to consider the said bill at the Clerk's table, A motion was made by Mr. Dana, and seconded, that the same do lie on the table. And the question being taken thereupon, It was determined in the negative. A motion was then made by Mr. Dana, and seconded, to amend the said bill, by inserting after the words "according to law" the following: "whenever the product of the duties on imports and tonnage, with other monies appropriated to the sinking fund, after reserving the yearly sum of six hundred thousand dollars, as by law provided, towards the support of government, shall be insufficient to satisfy and discharge the sum of eight millions of dollars annually, as appropriated and vested by law in the commissioners of the said fund." And after debate theron, A motion was made by Mr. John G. Jackson, and seconded, that the same do lie on the table. And the question being taken thereupon, It was again determined in the negative. An adjournment was then called for: When The several orders of the day were farther postponed until to-morrow. And the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, eleven o'clock. SATURDAY, June 17, 1809. Mr. Moseley, from the committee to whom was referred on the second instant, the petition of Daniel Pettibone, made a report thereon, which was read, and referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. Mr. Potter presented a petition of Thomas Lindsey, of Bristol, in the state of Rhode Island, stating, that in the month of May last, his sloop called the Philadelphia, brought into the port of Charleston, state of South Carolina, a number of French families together with their negro slaves, from the' island of Cuba, to prevent their being murdered by the Spanish populace of that island, in consequence of which the said sloop has been libelled and condemned for a violation of an act of Congress, which prohibits the importation of slaves into any part of the United States, and that it is probable the cargo of the said sloop, upon the same ground, may also be condemned; and praying such relief in the premises, as to the wisdom of Congress shall appear just and proper. Mr. Gardner presented a petition of sundry manufacturers of salt, in the town of Yarmouth, in the state of Massachusetts, whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying that a duty may be imposed on foreign salt imported into the United States. The said petitions were read, and severally referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. Mr. Rhea (of Tennessee) presented petitions of sundry inhabitants of the state of Connecticut, whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying the establishment of a post-road from the town of Norwalk to the town of Danbury, in the said state. Mr. Rhea also presented a petition of sundry in habitants of the county of Northampton, in the state of Pennsylvania, praying the establishment of a postroad from Easton, in Pennsylvania, to Elizabethtown, in the state of New Jersey. Mr. Rhea also presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Berks county, in the said state of Pennsylvania, to the same effect with the petition last stated. Ordered, That ine said petitions be severally referred to the committee of the whole House, to whom is committed the bill to alter and establish certain postroads. A motion was made by Mr. Sheffey, and seconded, that the House do come to the following resolution: Resolved, That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill authorizing the President of the United States to appoint commissioners to try and determine the dispute between the United States and the persons who were removed from the possession of a certain parcel of land, called the Batture, in the city of Orleans, on the twenty-fifth of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight. The said resolution was read, and ordered to lie on the table. On motion of Mr. Love, Ordered, That the Committee for the District of Columbia be discharged from the farther consideration of the petition of the president and directors of the bank of Alexandria, referred to them on the sixth instant, and that the said petition be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, with instruction to examine the matter thereof, and report the same with his opinion thereupon to the House. A motion was made by Mr. Dana, and seconded, that the House do come to the following resolution: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before this House, such information as may be in the Treasury deparment touching the exercise or construction of the duties, powers or authorities mentioned or contained in the tenth and nineteenth sections of the act of the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," as the same may appear from any minutes or proceedings of the commissioners of the sinking fund, and also copies of any correspondence with the di rectors of the bank of the United States, respecting the making of any loan or loans for reimbursing or paying the whole or any part of the stock, created by virtue of the act of the eleventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States. A motion was made by Mr. Ross, and seconded, that the said proposed resolution do lie on the table; And the question being taken thereupon, { Yeas 51. It was determined in the negative, Nay's 56. The yeas and nays being demanded by one fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are Lemuel J. Alston, Thomas Gholson, junior, Peterson Goodwin, James Holland, Jacob Hufty, Richard M. Johnson, Thomas Kenan, William Kennedy, John Love, John Rea, (Pennsylvania) William Baylies, William W. Bibb, James Breckenridge, John C. Chamberlain, James Emott, William Hale, Nathaniel A. Haven, Jonathan O. Moseley, Gurdon S. Mumford, Joseph Pearson, Benjamin Pickman, junior, Henry Southard, Archibald Van Horn, Samuel M'Kee, William Milnor, Thomas Moore, Jeremiah Morrow, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Laban Wheaton, Ezekiel Whitman. The question was then taken to agree to the said proposed resolution, And resolved in the affirmative, S Yeas, 65. 2 Nays, 46. The yeas and nays being demanded by one fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are zekiel Bacon, William Barlies Burwell Bassett, William W. Bibb, |