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Ordered, That a Committee of Elections be appointed, pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Findley, Mr. Clay, Mr. Sturges, Mr. Troup, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Van Rensselaer, and Mr. Gannett.

Ordered, That a Committee of Claims be appointed, pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Seaver, Mr. Butler, Mr. Pitkin, Mr. Robert Brown, Mr. Jones and Mr. Stanley.

Ordered, That a Committee of Commerce and Manufactures be appointed, pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Newton, Mr. Dana, Mr. Marion, Mr. Cutts, Mr. Mumford, Mr. John Porter and Mr. M'Kim.

Ordered, That a Committee of Ways and Means be appointed, pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Eppes, Mr. Willis Alston, Mr. Tallmadge, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Rea (of Pennsylvania) and Mr. Haven.

Ordered, That a Committee on the Public Lands be appointed, pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Morrow, Mr. Goodwyn, Mr. Bibb, Mr. Ely, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Howard, and Mr. Sammons.

Ordered, That a Committee of Revisal and Unfinished Business be appointed, pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Southard, Mr. Richard Jackson, and Mr. Shaw.

Ordered, That a Committee of Accounts be appointed pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Nicholas R. Moore, Mr. Stedman, and Mr. Milnor.

Ordered, That a Committee for the District of Columbia be appointed, pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Love, Mr. Holland, Mr. Van Horn, Mr. Lemuel J. Alston, Mr. Newbold, Mr. Samuel Smith, and Mr. Garde. nier.

Ordered, That a Committee on the Post-offices and Post-roads be appointed, pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House.

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Rhea, (of Tennessee) Mr. Helms, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Desha, Mr. Kenan, Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Smelt, Mr. Morrow, Mr. Davenport, Mr. Chittenden, Mr. Goldsborough, Mr. Whitehill, Mr. Potter, Mr. John Smith, Mr. Upham, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Bard.

The Speaker laid before the House several letters from the Governor of the state of Virginia, enclosing certificates of the election of the Representatives of that state in the eleventh Congress of the United States.

Ordered, That the said certificates, together with the credentials of the members of the House from the several states and territories, be referred to the Committee of Elections.

On motion of Mr. Stedman, and seconded,

Resolved, That the Clerk of this House cause the members to be furnished during the present session with three newspapers to each member, such as the members, respectively, shall choose, to be delivered at their lodgings; and that if any member shall choose to take any newspaper other than a daily paper he shall be furnished with as many of such papers as shall not exceed the price of a daily paper.

And then the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, ten o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, May 24, 1809.

Another member, to wit: Gurdon S. Mumford, from New York, appeared, produced his credentials and took his seat, the oath to support the Constitution of the United States being first administered to him by Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Livermore presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Newburyport, in the state of Massachusetts, whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying that the light house at the entrance of the harbour of Newburyport aforesaid may be rebuilt.

Mr. Anderson presented a petition of John B. Sarazin, and others, of the state of Pennsylvania, whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying for the reasons therein mentioned, relief against a decision of the Secretary of the Treasury in the case of a bond given by them to the United States agreeably to the provisions of an act supplemental to the act laying an embargo, for permission to dispatch a vessel to the Havannah, to import American property.

The said petitions were read and referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

A motion was made by Mr. John G. Jackson and seconded, to amend the journal of yesterday, by inserting after the reference of the message from the President of the United States the following order:

"Ordered, That five thousand copies of the said message and documents be printed for the use of the members of Congress."

And the question being taken thereupon,

It was resolved in the affirmative.

Mr. Bacon presented a petition of Charles Turner, junior, of the district of Piymouth, and state of Massachusetts, praying that William Baylies, one of the members returned to serve in this House for the state of Massachusetts, may be declared not duly elected, and that he may be admitted to a seat in the House as the representative in the place of the said

William Baylies, whose election and return he declares to be illegal.

Mr. Bacon also presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the said district of Plymouth, praying that the above named petitioner Charles Turner, junior, may be admitted to his seat in the House, he being, in their opinion, fairly, legally and constitutionally elected.

The said petitions were read and referred to the Committee of Elections.

A message from the Senate by Mr. Otis, their Secretary.

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have elected the reverend Mr. Wilmer, chaplain to Congress, on their part: And then he withdrew.

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

Resolved, That the troops raised under the act of the twelfth of April, one thousand-eight hundred and eight, entitled "An act ro raise for a limited time, an additional military force," be immediately disbanded; and that the balance of appropriation remaining unexpended in relation to the same; and any balance of appropriation for gun boats which may remain unexpended, be applied towards arming, and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States.

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire and report whether monies drawn from the Treasury, since the third of March one thousand eight-hundred and one have been faithfully applied to the objects for which they were appropriated, and whether the same have been regularly accounted for; and to report likewise whether any further arrangements are necessary to promote economy, enforce adherence to legislative restrictions, and secure the accountability of persons entrusted with public money.

A motion was made by Mr. Randolph and seconded, that the House proceed to the consideration of the said proposed resolutions,

And the question being put thereupon,

It was unanimously agreed to by the House, every member present voting in the affirmative, to wit:

Lemuel J. Alston, Willis Alston, junior, William Anderson,

Ezekiel Bacon,

William Baylies,
David Bard,
Burwell Bassett,
William W. Bibb,
Daniel Blaisdell,
Adam Boyd,

James Breckenridge,
John Brown,
Robert Brown,

William A. Burwell,

William Butler, John Campbell,

John C. Chamberlain,
William Chamberlin,
Epaphroditus Champion,
Martin Chittenden,
Howell Cobb,

James Cochran,
James Cox,

William Crawford,

Henry Crist,

Richard Cutts,

Samuel W. Dana,

John Davenport, junior,
John Dawson,
Joseph Desha,
William Ely,

James Emott,

John W. Eppes,
William Findley,
Jonathan Fisk,

Meshack Franklin,

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Daniel Heister,

William Helms,
Benjamin Howard,
Jonathan H. Hubbard,
Jacob Hufty,
John G. Jackson,
Richard Jackson,
Robert Jenkins,
Richard M. Johnson,
Walter Jones,
Thomas Kenan,

William Kennedy,

Philip B. Key,

Herman Knickerbacker,
Joseph Lewis, junior,

Edward St. Loe Livermore,
Robert Le Roy Livingston,
John Love,

Matthew Lyon,

Aaron Lyle,

Nathaniel Macon,
Robert Marion,
Vincent Matthews,
Archibald M'Bryde,
Samual M'Kee,
Alexander M'Kim,
Pleasant M. Miller,
William Milnor,
John Montgomery,
Nicholas R. Moore,
Thomas Moore,
Jeremiah Morrow,
Jonathan O. Moseley,

Roger Nelson,

Thomas Newbold,

Thomas Newton,

Joseph Pearson,

Benjamin Pickman, junior.
Timothy Pitkin, junior,
John Porter,

Peter B. Porter,

Elisha R. Potter,

Josiah Quincy,

John Randolph,

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