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IN SENATE

OF

THE UNITED STATES.

FEBRUARY 7th, 1816.

Mr. Williams, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Richard Mitchill,

REPORT....

That a judgement was obtained in the year 1802 for the sum of $ 5,531 24, against Richard Mitchill, and others, as securities for Reuben Saunders, collector of the internal revenues in the State of Tennessee

That a part of the amount of the judgement, to wit, $2,094 10, consisted of uncollected revenue. From the payment of this sum Richard Mitchill prays to be exonerated.

In support of his claim, the petitioner states that he has paid $ 3,501, (rather more than the actual sum collected by Reuben Saunders;) that this payment has been made at a great sacrifice by forced sales of his property, under execution; and that all persons joined with him as securities in the bond have become insolvents, or removed from the State of Tennessee; that Reuben Saunders, the collector, for whom he was bound, was removed from office before he had completed his

collection, and delivered over to his successor in office, by the directions of the supervisor, all the books and papers relating to the uncollected balance; that the failure of Reuben Saunders to collect this balance did not proceed from negligence or inattention, but was produced by causes over which he had no control.

All the facts material to a decision of this case are stated in a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the chairman of the committee of ways and means, dated January 30th, 1813.

The committee, taking into view the circumstance that Richard Mitchill has paid the whole sum collected by Saunders, that the balance for which he is bound as security was never collected, and also, that Saunders was removed from office before he completed his collection, submit a bill for the relief of Richard Mitchill.

IN SENATE

OF

THE UNITED STATES.

FEBRUARY 7, 1816.

Mr. Goldsborough submittted the following motion for consideration:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to lay before the Senate copies of all the correspondence he may have had with the prize agent, the navy agent at New-York, and other persons, relative to the ship Cyane, captured by the United States frigate Constitution; and that he furnish copies of certificates of the valuation of the different prizes brought into the United States by the ships of war, and taken into the service of the United States; with a statement of their actual force when captured.

IN SENATE

OF

THE UNITED STATES.

FEBRUARY 6th, 1816.

The committee, to whom was referred so much of the President's message as relates to roads and canals, having, in their general report, recommended to congress the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal as an object of first importance, requiring the aid of the general government, beg leave to make a separate report concerning the same.

The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, as an object of high national importance, has for many years claimed the attention of congress. It was first presented to their consideration in the year 1806, by a memorial of the president and directors, dated the first of December, 1805; and by a report subsequently made, on the 21st of March, 1806, it appears that an enlightened committee of the senate recommended that aid should be granted to the memorialists. The report of this committee was finally adopted, and one or more bills passed the senate, authorizing a grant of land to the company not exceeding two hundred thousand acres, to be exchanged for the stock of the company. These bills, however, were postponed by the house of representatives, owing, it is believed,

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