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of, 438 to 440.

Fortifications in North Carolina. See Appropriation B

Crimes against the United States, debate on the amend- [ Florida Judges, resolution for inquiring into the conduc
ment exempting arson from punishment by
death, 348 to 355; negatived, 355.
debate on the amendment to punish forgery by
imprisonment, 363 to 365; negatived, 365.
bill ordered to a third reading, 365.

resolution requesting the President of the Unit-
ed States to report thereon, 734, 735.
Cumberland River, resolution on improving the Naviga-
tion of the, 212.

resolution laid on the table, 215.

Cumberland Road, debate on the bill for the continuation
of the, 189 to 193.

proposed substitute for the bill, 193.
debate thereon, 194 to 198.

motion to strike out that part which pledges the
two per cent. fund, 198; negatived, 199.
motion to fill the blank with $200,000; negatived,
199
to fill the blank with $150,000, debate thereon,
199 to 212 231 to 239.

motion adopted and bill reported, 239.
other amendments proposed and negatived, 240
to 242

vote on last amendment reconsidered, 245.
amendment adopted, 245

debate continued, 245 to 261.

General Appropriation Bill. See Appropriation.
Georgia Militia Claims, committee discharged from fe
ther consideration of the report on, 75.
motion to recommit with instructions, 75.
debate thereon, 75 to 82, 564 to 582, 594 to 600
report laid on the table, 82.

concurred in, 616.

Lake

report thereon, 2.

his reception by the House, 3.
Speaker's Address to, 3.

his reply, 4.

bill making provision for, reported, 34.
debate thereon, 34, 35, 45 to 51, 51 to 55.
amendments proposed, 35.

bill laid on the table, 35.

bill from the Senate on the same subject, read a
first time, and laid on the table, 44.

motion to appoint a Committee to state his ac-
counts, 45.

motion to recommit the bill, 45.

motion to postpone it indefinitely, 45.

motion to lay the bill on the table; negatived, 51
motions to recommit, and to lessen the appro
priation; negatived, 55.

bill passed, 55.

Speaker obtains leave to record his vote, 56.
resolution to appoint a Committee, (jointly with
the Senate,) to announce to him the passage
of the act, 99.

report from Joint Committee, 113.
Champlain, resolution on building a steam vessel
for the defence of, 13.

and erroneously sold by the United States; bill autho- | Piracy Bill, all after the first section stricken out, 728.
rizing repayment for; passed, 6.

in Ohio, bill to authorize the sale of; passed, 6.
sold by the United States, cause of conflicting
to claims, 616, 617.

bill for quieting, ordered to a third reading, 617.

Maison Rouge, resolution concerning the claims of the
representatives of; postponed, 43, 44.

resolution modified; amended; adopted, 68.
bill read a third time and passed, 683.
Massachusetts Militia Claims, motion to take up the bill
providing for; negatived, 616.
message relative to, 645.

debate on referring it to the military
tee, 645, 646; referred, 646.

motion to reduce the number of sloops of war;
debate thereon, 729 to 731.

motion carried in committee, 731.

motion negatived by the House, and bill ordered
to a third reading, 722.

debate on the third reading, 732 to 734.

bill passed and sent to the Senate; title altered,
734

Postmaster General, resolution requiring from him an
annual statement of the amount of postage, 734
Post Office Department, bill for regulating the; ordered
to a third reading, 373.

President Elect, letter from the, 546, 547.
cominit-Presidential Election. See Election of President.
President's Accounts, message relative to, 150.

committee discharged from the further considera-
tion of, 735.

Maston S. Clarke, resolution for the relief of, 536.
Message (from P. U. S.) at the commencement of the
session. See Appendix, p. 2.

relative to the President's accounts, 150.
on the conduct of Officers of the Navy, 164.
on the preservation of the Indians, 371, 372.
on preventing contagious diseases, 623.
transmitting copies of the correspondence with
the French Government, 623.

relative to the Massachusetts Claims, 645.
Military Appropriations. See Appropriations.

Lands, resolution on the expediency of exempt-
ing the original claimants from taxation for, 69;
adopted, 70.

debate thereon, 69, 70.

bill laid on the table, 735; passed, 737.

Naval School, resolution on establishing a, 112.

resolution laid on the table, 113.

amendment offered: withdrawn, 127..
resolution negatived, 128.

Navy, motion to take up the bill for building ten addi-
tional Sloops of War; negatived, 6.

[N. B. The same proposition was afterwards incor-
porated in the bill from the Senate for the Sup-
pression of Piracy, and passed. See Piracy.]
Navy, message on the conduct of officers of the, 164.
appropriations for the. See Appropriations.
Niagara Sufferers. See Property lost.

Ohio Canals, resolution on the subject of granting to the
State the United States' lands intersected by
the, 590

Lands. See Lands in Ohio.

Order; decisions of. See Speaker.

Oregon. See Columbia.

Pea Patch, inquiry relative to; answered, 520.
Penal Code. See Crimes against the United States.
Penitentiaries, National, resolution to inquire into the ex-
pediency of establishing, 151.

Pennsylvania District Courts, debate on a motion to
amend the law relative to, 558.

amendment proposed; debate thereon, 559, 560.
laid on the table, 560.

Pensacola, bill for completing the road to St. Augustine
from; ordered to a third reading, 547.

bill for establishing a Navy Yard at; amended,
passed, and sent to the Senate, 738

Piracy, bill twice read, for the suppression of, 169.
sundry resolutions relative to, 487, 488.
debate thereon, 490.

mode of conducting it in Cuba, 489.

bill from the Senate for the suppression of; read
by sections, 714, 715.

debate thereon, 715 to 728.

motion to refer to a Select Committee, 170.
motion to divide it, and refer his private accounts
to the committee of claims, 170; negatived,
debate thereon, 170 to 179.
motion to refer it to a select committee, with in-
structions, 179; adopted, 186.

debate thereon, 179 to 196.

179

a committee of seven appointed, 186.
Prevost, General, remarks on his proclamation respect-
ing the Niagara Frontier, 107, 132, 142, 143.
Property lost or destroyed during the war; amendment
offered to the bill authorizing payment for, 9.
debate thereon, 9, 10.

sketch of the amendatory act of 1817, 61.
debate on the principle of the bill, 61 to 66.
motion to strike out the enacting clause, 70.

debate thereon, 70 to 74; 82 to 90; 101 to 109;
113 to 114.

motion withdrawn, 115.

St. Lawrence, resolution relative to the correspondence | Speaker, vote of thanks to the, 739.
with Great Britain on the navigation of the, 735

St. Mary's River, debate on the bill for surveying a road
to Tampa Bay from, 547.

bill ordered to a third reading, 547.

his reply, 739, 740.

Spirits, bill authorizing the importation of foreign de
tilled, 686.

bill laid on the table, 687.

Slave Trade, resolution for printing the report of the Supreme Court, resolutions for regulating the jurisdic
committee on the, 625.

debate thereon, 625 to 628; adopted, 628.
resolution recommending negotiations for the
abolition of the, 697; rejected, 736.

on the same subject, deprecating the exposure of
our vessels to be searched, 739.

Sloops of War. See Navy.

Smith, J. L. See Florida Judges.

tion of the, 365, 366.

debate thereon; deferred, 366 to 370

Territorial Governments, resolution on legislative pro
vision for the administration of justice in, 164.
land taxes, resolution on regulating sales for non-
payment of, 186.

Snow, Elisha, jun. bill for the relief of; ordered to a Unclaimed Stock Dividends, debate on resolution rela

third reading, 630.

Speaker, address to Gen. Lafayette, by the, 3.

decision on a motion to recommit while a motion
for postponement was pending, 45.

corrects his decision, 48.

decision on a motion to lay a resolution on the
table, 112.

adheres to his decision, 113.

decision on a motion to strike out certain words

from a bill before the whole had been gone
through, 338.

decision on a motion for indefinite postponement,

appeal to the House, 440, 441.

debate thereon, 441, to 444; 463 to 486.

479

tive to holders of 591, to 593.
resolution laid on the table, 593.

Virginia Claims for advances during the late war; re-
ferred to the Committee of Claims, 12, 13.
debate on bill for payment of interest due on, 530

amendment; negatived; renewed, 630.
bill ordered to a third reading, 667.

to 66%

Warehousing System, resolution calling for information
on the; laid on the table, 713, 714.
resolution adopted, 735.
Western Armory, resolution on the location of a; Laid
on the table, 687.
Western National Road.

See Cumberland Road.

motion to refer it and the accompanying docu- Wrecks on the coast of Florida, bill concerning, order

ment to a committee of nine, 441.

motion to postpone ; negatived, 479.

motion to postpone indefinitely, 479 to 483; nega-
tived, 485.

motion to refer to a select committee, 482; adopt-
ed, 486.

a committee of seven appointed, 486.

report of the committee, 522.

letter of Mr. Kremer, relative to, 522 to 525.
decision on renewing an argument in the House
in reply to one used in committee of the
whole, 510.

ed to a third reading, 697.

Yeas and Nays on the bill making provision for General
Lafayette, 55.

for the relief of the Niagara sufferers, 145, 24
for subscribing to the Delaware and Chesapeake
Canal, 223, 333.

for extending the Cumberland Road, 261, 554
on the Speaker's Appeal to the House, 484, 485
on the bill relative to the Virginia Claims, 667.
to incorporate the Chesapeake and Ohio Cana!
Company, 687.

to Mr. Brown, 43, 45.

Convention for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. See
Slave Trade.
Correspondence. See Letters.

Documents accompanying Messages, 8 to 36; 41 to 47;

from War Department, list of, 30.

57 to 63

to H. R. on the commercial regulations with the Everett, Mr. letters to Mr. Adams from, 66, 70, 71, 72,

Lafayette, Gen. resolution of the General Assembly of Piracy, report of the Committee of Foreign Relations in
Indiana in refererce to, 82.

Laws. See Acts.

Letters from Mr. Rush to Mr. Adams, 8 to 12; 18, 23, 24.

Mr. Huskisson to Mr. Rush, 18.

Mr. Canning to Mr. Addington, 18.
Mr. Addington to Mr. Adams, 21, 26.
Mr. Adams to Mr. Rush, 22, 25.
Mr. Canning to Mr. Rush, 24.
Mr. Rush to Mr. Canning, 25.
Mr. Adams to Mr. Addington, 27.
Mr. Adams to Mr. Sheldon, 41.
Count de Menou to Mr. Adams, 42.
Mr. Adams to Count de Menou, 42.
Mr. Sheldon to Mr. Adams, 42.

Mr. Sheldon to Viscount Chateaubriand, 43.
Mr. Adams to Mr. Brown, 43, to 45.

Mr. Brown to Mr. Adams, 43, 44, 45, 46.
Mr. Brown to M. de Chateaubriand, 44.
Vt. de Chateaubriand to Mr. Brown, 44.
Mr. Brown to Baron de Damas, 46.

Comptroller of the Treasury on Canal Boats, 47, 48
Mr. Z. Bermudez to Mr. Nelson, 51.

Mr. Everett to Mr. Adams, 66, 70, 71, 72.
Mr. Everett to Baron de Nagell, 67, 68, 70.
Baron de Nagell to Mr. Everett, 67.

Mr. Adams to Mr. Everett, 69.

Mr. Everett to the Chevalier Reinhold, 72.
Mr. Reinhold to Mr. Everett, 72.

the H. of R. on, 49 to 51.

letter from Mr. Z. Bermudez, to Mr. Nelson on,

report of the Committee of Foreign Relations in
the Senate on, 51.

Postmaster General, reports of the, 35 to 37.

Public Debt, report of the Committee of Ways and
Means on the, 72, 73.

Reinhold, Mr. letter to Mr. Everett from, 72.

Reports of committee of the H. of R. on the Slave Trade,
20, 21; 73 to 75

the Secretary of War, 27 to 30.
Maj. Gen. Brown, 30, 31.

from the Engineer Department, 31, to 33.

of the Secretary of the Navy, 33 to 35.
of the Postmaster General, 35 to 36.

of the Postmaster General,on a post route from
New Orleans, 36, 37.

of the Secretary of the Treasury, annual, 37 to 41
of committees on Piracy. See Piracy.

of the Navy Department, 52 to 56.

of War, on the Indians, 57 to 59.

from the Office of Indian Affairs, 59 to 63.

of the Committee of Ways and Means on the Pub-
lic Debt, 72, 73.

of the Committee on Roads and Canals, 75 to 81.
Roads and Canals, report on, 75 to 81.

Members of the Senate and House of Representatives, Rush, Mr. letters to Mr. Adams from, 8 to 12, 18, 23, 24.

list of, 1.

Memorial of the Bar of Nashville, 63 to 65.
Menou, Count de, letter to Mr. Adams from, 42.
Message of the President of the United States at the
opening of the Session, 2 to 8.

transmitting additional documents on the Slave
Trade, 18.

on the same subject, 19 to 20.

on the negotiations with France, 41.
on locating the Indians, 56, 57.
transmitting a copy of the convention with Russia,

Messages on various topics during the session. See "Mes
sages," in Index to Debates.

Nagell, Baron de, letter to Mr. Everett from, 67.
Nashville, Memorial of the Bar of, 63 to 65.
Navy Department, reports from the, 33 to 52.
Netherlands, commercial relations between the U. S.
and the, 66 to 72.

Mr. Canning, 25.
Russia, convention with, 65, 66.

Senate, proceedings of the, on the convention with G.
See Adams, Mr.
Secretary of State.
Sheldon, Mr. letter to Mr. Adams from, 42.
Britain, 17, 19, 21, 22.

to Viscount de Chateaubriand, 43.

Slave Trade, convention between the United States and
Great Britain for the suppression of the, 12 to 14
British counter projet, 14 to 16.

proceedings of the Senate thereon, 17, 19, 21, 22
messages relative to the, 18, 19, 20.
British act for the suppression of the, 18, 19.
reports of committees of the H. of R. on the, 20,
21; 73 to 75

Treasury Department, annual report from the, 37.
War Department, reports from the, 27,
57.

Piracy, report of the Committee of Naval Affairs in the Yeas and Nays in the Senate on the convention for sup-

H. of R. on, 48, 49.

pressing the Slave Trade, 21, 22.

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