ABSTRACT C-Continued. The United States in account current with W. C. H. Waddell, Agent for paying the contingent expenses of the Northeastern Boundary Agency. CR. DR. 1830, Jan. 1, To expenditures from 2d May, 1829, to date To balance due the United States 16 1830, Jan. 1, By warrants to date $5,800 00 $2,683 20 3,116 80 5,800 00 1830, Jan. 1, To balance from old account $3,116 80 5,800 00 DR. The United States in account current with W. C. H. Waddell, Agent for paying the contingent expenses of Foreign In 1830, Jan. 1, To expenditures from 2d May, 1829, tercourse. CR. to date To balance due the United States 10,615 47 10,615 47 1830, Jan. 1, To balance from old account $3,980 00 3,000 00 The United States in account current with W. C. H. Waddell, Agent for paying the expense of procuring statements of fines and forfeitures, agreeably to a resolution of Congress, of DR. 1830, Jan. 1, To expenditures from 2d May, 1829, to date To balance due the United States CR. $3,000 00 1830, Jan. 1, By balance from account $1,074 59 The United States in account current with W. C. H. Waddell, Agent for paying the contingent expenses of Intercourse with the Barbary Powers. DR. 1830, Jan. 1, To expenditures from 2d May, 1829, to date The United States in account current with W. C. H. Waddell, Agent for paying the expense of fixtures for the Patent Office. 1830, Jan. 1, To expenditures from 2d May, 1829, to date $3,000 00 DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 1st Session. JAMES H. PECK. APRIL 29, 1830. Read, and laid upon the table. MR. BUCHANAN, from the committee to which the subject had been referred, exhibited to the House the following article of impeachment. against James H. Peck, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Missouri. Article exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States, in the name of themselves, and of all the people of the United States, against James H. Peck, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Missouri, in maintenance and support of their impeachment against him for high misdemeanors in office. ARTICLE. That the said James H. Peck, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Missouri, at a term of the said court, hoiden at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, on the fourth Monday in December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, did, under and by virtue of the power and authority vested in the said court, by the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims," approved on the twentysixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, render a final decree of the said court in favor of the United States, and against the validity of the claim of the petitioners, in a certain matter or cause depending in the said court, under the said act. and before that time prosecuted in the said court before the said Judge, by Julie Soulard, widow of Antoine Soulard, and James G. Soulard, Henry G. Soulard, Eliza Soulard, and Benjamin A. Soulard, children and heirs at law of the said Antoine Soulard, petitioners against the United States, praying for the confirmation of their claim, under the said act, to certain lands situated in the said State of Missouri; and the said court did thereafter, on the thirtieth day of December, in the said year, adjourn to sit again on the third Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. And the said petitioners did, and at the same December term of the said court, holden by and before the said James H. Peck, Judge as aforesaid, in due form of law, under the said act, appeal against the United States, from the judgment and decree so made and entered in the said matter, to the Supreme Court of the United States; of which appeal so made and taken in the said District Court, the said James H. Peck, Judge of the said court, had then and there full notice. And the said James H. Peck, after the said |