The said resolution being read, Mr. Cook moved that it lic on the table; which being decided in the negative,

The question was taken to agree to the said resolution;
And passed in the affirmative.

The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill further to amend the act, authorizing payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military ser vice of the United States, and for other purposes, passed 9th April. 1816; and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, reported that the committee had, according to order, again had the said bill under consideration, and made further progress therein.

Ordered, That the committee of the whole have leave to sit again on the said bill.

And then the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 29, 1824,

On motion of Mr. Mitchell, of Maryland,

Ordered, That the claim of Mary Sears, for losses sustained in the late war with Great Britain, heretofore presented to this House, be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Gurley presented a petition of Edward Livingston, of the city of New Orleans, praying compensation for fuel and timber cut and taken from his lands, at Pass Christian, for the use of the troops of the United States, stationed at that place; which petition was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims. made a report on the petition of Ebenezer Averill, accompanied by a bill for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made a report on the petition of William Hambly, accompanied by a bill for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

Mr. Campbell, from the same committee, also made an unfavorable report on the petition of John Buhler; which was laid upon the table.

Ordered, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to which was referred, on the motion of Mr. Gazlay, on the 20th instant, the letter from the Postmaster General, of the 7th of April, 1824, accompanied with the names of Postmasters who are defaulters to the government, with instructions to report upon the expediency of adopting measures to collect the arrearages therein named, be discharged from the further consideration thereof.

Mr. Harvey, from the Joint Committee for Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee did, on the 28th instant, present to the President of the United States, enrolled bills of the following titles, viz: "An act to authorize the Legislature of the state of Ohio to sell and

convey certain tracts of land granted to said state for the use of the people thereof;" and

An act concerning General Lafayette."

On motion of Mr. Thompson, of Georgia, it was

Ordered, That the committee of the whole House, to which is committed the report of the Committee on Military Affairs, of the 28th of January last, on the memorial of the Legislature of Georgia, relative to the claims of certain detachments of militia of that state, for services performed in the years 1792, 1793, and 1794, be discharged from the consideration thereof,

Mr. Thompson then moved, that the said report be recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs, with instructions to report a bill making an appropriation for the payment of the said claims; the appropriation to be conformed to the report of the Secretary of War, made to this House, upon the subject of these claims, in the year 1803; and to embrace each class of claims, respectively, as described in that report.

It was then

Ordered, That the said report be laid upon the table.

A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Everett, his Secretary, notifying that the President did, on the 28th inst. approve and sign

An act to authorize the Legislature of the state of Ohio to sell and convey certain tracts of land, granted to said state for the use of the people thereof; and

An act concerning General Lafayette.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.

Mr. Everett also delivered the following message, in writing, from the President, viz:

To the House of Representatives of the United States:

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 27th inst. requesting information explanatory of the character and objects of the visit of the naval officer of the United States, commanding in the West Indies, to the town of Faxyardo, in the island of Porto Rico, on the day of November last, I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of the Navy, with a letter from Commodore Porter, which contains all the information in possession of the Executive on the subject. Deeming the transactions adverted to of high importance, an order has been sent to Commodore Porter to repair hither, without delay, that all the circumstances connected therewith, may be fully investigated.

Washington, Dec. 28th, 1824.

JAMES MONROE.

The said message was read, and laid upon the table.

The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole. House on the bill further to amend the act, authorizing payment for property lost. captured, or destroyed by the enemy, in the late war with Great Britain, and for other purposes, passed 9th of April, 1816: and, after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and

Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, reported that the committe had, according to order, again had the said bill under consideration, and made further progress therein.

Ordered, That the committee of the whole House have leave to sit again on said bill.

And then the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 30, 1824.

On motion of Mr. Longfellow,

Ordered, That the petition of John M. Moody and Samuel Moody, heretofore presented on the 11th of February, 1822, be referred to the Committee on Commerce.

Mr. Strong presented a petition of Robert Le Roy Livingston, surviving executor of Walter Livingston, late of the state of New York, deceased, praying payment for supplies furnished troops of the United States, in the war of the Revolution; which petition was referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Mitchell, of Penn. presented a petition of Jesse Cornelius, of the state of Pennsylvania, a soldier of the Revolution, praying that some provision may be made for his maintenance.

Mr. Ellis presented a petition of Huldah Eldred, of the state of Pennsylvania, widow of John Eldred, deceased, late a pensioner of the United States, praying that the pension enjoyed by her late husband may be continued to her, during her life.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Stewart presented a petition of Benjamin Wells, late Collector. of Internal Revenue of the 4th survey, in the district of Pennsylvania, stating that great and palpable errors have been committed in the settlement of his accounts, under the act of the 18th of February, 1815, entitled “An act for the relief of Benjamin Wells and others;" and praying that the same may be corrected, and that he may receive that justice to which he conceives himself entitled; which petition was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

On motion of Mr. James Stephenson,

Ordered, That the petition of Lewis Wernwag, heretofore presented on the 26th December, 1814, be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. Moore, of Kentucky, presented a petition of Benedict Joseph Flaget, Bishop of the Roman Apostolical Church, of the Diocess of Bardstown, in the state of Kentucky, praying that the duties chargeable by law on some rich church vestments, and other articles of church furniture," presented to the petitioner by his Grace the Duke of Orleans, at Lyons, in France, for the sole use of the Church in which he exercises his religious functions may be remitted; which petition was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. M⚫Lean, of Ohio, presented a memorial of merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, and property-holders, of the town of Portsmouth, in the state of Ohio, praying that duties may be laid on auction sales of

foreign made goods; which memorial was referred to the Committee on Manufactures.

Mr. Livingston presented a memorial of Bernard Marigny, of the state of Louisana, stating that he is the owner of a canal, already made, from the river Mississippi to the Bayou St. John, near the city of New Orleans, as also of land through which said canal may be extended to Lake Pontchartrain; that the said canal is of great and indispensable use to the community at large, and offering to exchange the same, together with the land through which it is contemplated to continue the same, for the lots occupied by the arsenal and magazines belonging to the United States, in said city, upon the conditions mentioned in the memorial; which was referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals.

Mr. Gurley presented a petition of the heirs and representatives of Noel Soileau, deceased, late of the county of Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana, praying confirmation of the title to a tract of land owned by the said Soileau, in his life-time; which petition was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

Ordered, That the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims be discharged from the consideration of the petition of Isaac Moses, and that it be referred to the committee appointed on the petition of George Lewis.

Ordered, That the Committee on Military Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the cases of Colonel Samuel Dale, Edward Livingston, William Henry, and Abraham Forbes, and that they be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of Samuel Bayles, accompanied by a bill for his relief; which bill was read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Cutts, their Secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed the bill, entitled "An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to adopt a new Hydrometer for ascertaining the proof of liquors;" they have, also, passed a bill, entitled "An act confirming the claims of the heirs and legal representatives of Charles Parent to two tracts of land;" in which they ask the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew.

Mr. Cook offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire whether any, and, if any, what, provision it will be proper and practicable to make, to aid the state of Illinois in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan and the Illinois river; and that said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise.

The said resolution being read, was, on motion of Mr. Allen, of Massachusetts, amended, by instructing the "Committee on Roads and Canals" to make the inquiry therein proposed: When it was Ordered, That the said resolution be laid upon the table.

On motion of Mr. Archer, it was

Resolved That a committee be appointed, to unite with a committee of the Senate, in announcing to General Lafayette the passage of the

act "concerning" him, which has just been approved; and to express to him the respectful request and confidence of the two Houses of Congress, that he will add his acceptance of the testimony of public gratitude extended to him by this act, to the many and signal proofs which he has afforded of his esteem for the United States.

Ordered, That Mr. Archer, Mr. Van Rensselear, and Mr. Markley, be appointed of the committee, on the part of this House; and that the Clerk ask the concurrence of the Senate in the said resolution.

On motion of Mr. Ross,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for the taking of appeals and writs of error from the decision of the highest judicial tribunal of the territory of Michigan to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Resolved, That the said committee be, also, instructed to inquire whether any, and, if any, what, provision is necessary, by law, to define, more clearly, the number of Judges necessary to constitute a Supreme Court in the said territory.

On motion, of Mr. McLean, of Ohio,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill, allowing to William Mendenhall, a citizen of the state of Ohio, the sum of one hundred and fifty-five dollars, for two horses lost while in the service of the United States, during the late war.

On motion of Mr. Crafts,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of discontinuing the post road from Danville, in the county of Caledonia, to Cambridge, in the county of Franklin, in the state of Vermont; also, of discontinuing the post road from Hardwick, in the county of Caledonia, through the county of Orleans, to Richford, in the county of Franklin, in said state; and of establishing a post road from Danville, through Walden, Hardwick, Greensboro', Craftsbury, Kelly-vale, and Montgomery, to Berkshire, in said county of Franklin.

On motion of Mr. Adams,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from the town of Clarkson, in the county of Monroe, through the town of Sweden, in the same county, and then through the towns of Bergen, Le Roy, and Covington, to the Post Office in the town of Middlebury, in the county of Genessee, in the state of New York.

On motion of Mr. Herrick,

Resolved, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to consider the expediency of compensating Isaac Pool for his services and sacrifices in recapturing the schooner "Evergreen," and her cargo, from a piratical crew, and bringing said pirates to trial, by allowing him a sum, to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States, not exceeding the amount of duties collected on said cargo.

On motion of Mr. Tracy,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be