5. Resolved, That so much of the message from the President of the United States as relates to the revenue and expenditures of the United States, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

The House proceeded to consider the said resolutions at the Clerk's table, and the same being again read, were, upon the question severally put thereon, agreed to by the House.

Ordered, That Mr. John G. Jackson, Mr. Macon, Mr. Thomas Moore, Mr. Moseley, Mr. Quincy, Mr. Troup, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Fisk, and Mr. Anderson, be appointed a committee pursuant to the first resolution.

Ordered, That Mr. Cutts, Mr. Bassett, Mr. Milnor, Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Hale, Mr. John Brown, and Mr. Sage, be appointed a committee pursuant to the third resolution.

Ordered, That Mr. Burwell, Mr. Key, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. George Smith, Mr. Peter B. Porter, Mr. Gardner, and Mr. William Chamberlin, be appointed a committee pursuant to the fourth resolution.

On mction of Mr. Quincy,

Ordered, That the petition of Nathaniel Fosdick, presented to this House on the twenty-sixth of February one thousand eight hundred and eight, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

On motion of Mr. Pickman,

Ordered, That the several petitions of Joseph Wilson, collector of Marblehead, of William R. Lee, collector of Salem and Beverly, of Asa Andrews, collector of Ipswich, and of Henry Warren, collector of Plymouth, in the state of Massachusetts, presented to this House on the twenty-first of December and the sixth of February last, be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

Mr. Love presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the city of Washington, whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying that a company be in

corporated for the purpose of opening a turnpike road from the city of Washington to the boundary of the district of Columbia, so as to communicate with a turnpike road proposed to be opened from the said boundary to the city of Baltimore in the state of Ma ryland.

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

Mr. M'Kim presented a memorial of the manufac turers of hats in the city of Baltimore, whose names are thereunto subscribed, to the like effect with a memorial of the manufacturers of hats in Fredericktown, presented on the twenty-fifth instant.

Ordered, That the said memorial be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

On motion of Mr. Van Horn, and seconded, Resolved, That the Committee for the District of Columbia, be instructed to inquire what amendments are necessary in the act concerning the district of Columbia.

Mr. Quincy presented a petition of sundry inhabi tants of the state of Massachusetts, whose names are thereunto subscribed, to the like effect with a petition of sundry inhabitants of the said state, presented on the twenty-fifth instant.

Ordered, that the said petition be referred to the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads.

On motion of Mr. Pitkin, and seconded,

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy, be directed to lay before this House a statement, of the number of gun-boats which have been built, the expense of building and equipping the same; also, the number that have been employed in actual service, the time they have been employed, and the expense of them while in service.

On motion of Mr. John G. Jackson,

Ordered, That the letter and report yesterday received from the Secretary of the Navy, be referred to the committee this day appointed on so much of

the message of the President of the United States as relates to the military and naval establishments.

On motion of Mr. Johnson,

Resolved, That the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads, be directed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-road from Augusta to Cyntheana, thence to Paris, thence to Mount-Sterling; also from Frankfort, to New Castle, thence to port William, thence to Boone court house, thence to Newport, all in the state of Kentucky

On motion of Mr. Montgomery,

Resolved, That the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a cross post road from Belle Air in Maryland, to Columbia, on the Susquehannah, in Pennsylvania, by Ramsay's tavern, Chaunceford meeting house and the Brogue tavern.

On motion of Mr. Randolph, and seconded, Ordered, That the committee this day appointed on so much of the message of the President of the United States, as relates to the modifications of the the military and naval establishments of the United States, be discharged from the consideration of that part of the subject referred to them which relates to the modifications of the military establishment, and that the same be referred to Mr. Nelson, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Champion, Mr. Lyon, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Livermore, and Mr. Franklin, to consider and report thereon.

On motion of Mr. Randolph and seconded,

Ordered, That the committee of the whole House on the state of the union, to whom was committed on the twenty-fourth instant, a resolution proposed by Mr. Randolph for immediately disbanding the troops raised by virtue of "An act to raise for a limited time, an additional military force," and for applying any balance of appropriation remaining unexpended in relation to the same, and any unexpended balance of appropriation for gun boats, towards arming and

equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States, be discharged from the consideration thereof; and that the same be referred to the committee last appointed.

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

Resolved, that the promptitude and frankness with which the President of the United States has met the overtures of the government of Great Britain, towards a restoration of harmony and a free commercial intercourse between the two nations, receives the approbation of this House.

A motion was made by Mr. Bacon, and seconded, to amend the resolution of Mr. Randolph, by adding to the end of the same these words: "and furnishes an additional proof of the spirit of accommodation on the part of the government of the United States, which has, at no time, been intermitted."

A motion was then made by Mr. John G. Jackson, and seconded, that the proposed resolution and the amendment offered thereto, be postponed indefinitely. And debate ensuing,

An adjournment was called for, when

The several orders of the day were farther postponed until to-morrow.

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

SATURDAY, May 27, 1809.

On motion of Mr. Bassett, and seconded, Resolved, That a committee be appointed, jointly with a committee of the Senate, to inquire what business it is requisite should be done at the present session, and report to the House.

Ordered, That Mr. Bassett, Mr. Richards, Mr. Wheaton, Mr. Cox, and Mr. Crist, be appointed a committee on the part of this House.

On a motion made and leave given by the House, Mr. Newton from the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, presented, according to order, a bill authorizing the issuing of debentures in certain cases, which was received and read the first time. On motion.

The said bill was read the second time, and ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole House on Wednesday next.

Mr. Potter presented a petition of sundry inhabi. tants of the state of Rhode Island, whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying the establishment of a new post route from Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, to Newport, in the state of Rhode Island, so as to pass through the towns of Troy and Freetown. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads.

On motion of Mr. Baylies,

Ordered, That the petition of sundry inhabitants of Bridgewater, in the state of Massachusetts, presented to this House on the eighth of February one thousand eight hundred and eight, be referred to the committce last mentioned.

Mr. Quincy presented a petition of the sugar refi. ners in the town of Boston, state of Massachusetts, whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying that a law may be passed granting a drawback on refined sugar exported to any foreign port or place, equal to the duties paid on the importation of brown sugar.

The said petition was read, and referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

Mr. Livermore presented a petition of Joseph Sav. age, of the state of Massachusetts, praying an additional compensation for his services, in bearing to the seat of the general government, the late electoral votes of Massachusetts for President and Vice-President of the United States.

The said petition was read, and referred to the Committee of Claims.