So the bill was loft. On motion, Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby authorized to retain to his own use, out of the contingent fund, the fum of three hundred dollars as a compensation for his additional expenses at the feat of government, during the present feffion of Congress. On motion, Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate be authorized and directed to pay out of the monies appropriated to defray the contingent expenfes of the Senate, the fun of two hundred dollars each, to the principal and engroffing clerks in his office, and to the door-keeper and affiftant door-keeper of the Senate. On motion, Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby authorized to pay to Hugh M'Kinley, out of the contingent fund, the fum of two dollars and an half per diem, as a compenfation for his labour and attendance on the Senate during the prefent feffion of Congress. A meffage from the Houfe of Representatives, by Mr. Ofwald, their Clerk. Mr. PRESIDENT,-The Houfe of Representatives have poftponed, until the firft Monday in December next, the bill fixing the compenfations of receivers of public monies for land of the United States. And he withdrew. Mr. Dwight Fofter, from the committee, reported that they did, this day, lay before the President of the United States the four enrolled bills laft reported to have been examined. On motion, Ordered, That Mr. Read and Mr. Wells be a committee on the part of the Senate, with such as the House of Reprefentatives may join, to wait on the President of the United States, and notify him that unless he may have any further communications to make to the two Houfes of Congress, they are ready to adjourn. Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint the House of Representatives therewith, and defire the appointment of a committee on their part. On motion, Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate pay to Bishop Claggett, the Chaplain of the Senate, for the present feffion, one hundred dollars, out of the contingent fund, in addition to the allowance to which he is by law entitled. A message from the House of Representatives by Mr. Ofwald, their Clerk: Mr. PRESIDENT-The Houfe of Representatives concur in the refolution of the Senate appointing a joint committee to wait on the Prefident of the United States, and notify him of the proposed adjournment of the two Houfes of Congrefs, and have appointed a committee on their part. The Prefident of the United States did, this day, approve and fign an act for erecting light-houses on New Point Comfort and other places therein mentioned, and placing buoys in Narraganfet bay; an act in addition to an act making provision for the further accommodation of the household of the Prefident; an act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ certain clerks; an act to augment the falaries of the district judges in the districts therein mentioned; an act authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas deftroyed by fire; an act to amend the act to establish a general ftamp-office; an act fupplementary to an act concerning the district of Columbia; an act providing for the naval peace establishment; and an act for altering the times and places of holding certain courts. I am also directed to notify to the Senate that the House of Reprefentatives having completed the business before them, are about to adjourn without day. And he withdrew. Mr. Read reported, from the joint committee, that they had waited on the Prefident of the United States, and that he replied, that he had nothing further to communicate to Congrefs, except his best wishes for the health and happiness of its members refpectively. On motion, The Senate adjourned without day, Paffed at the fecond feffion of the fixth Congress began and held at the city of Washington, from the 17th of November 1800, to the 3d of March 1801, inclufive. An act extending the privilege of franking letters to the delegate from the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, and making provifion for his compenfation. An act concerning the district of Columbia. An act to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States. An act to continue in force the acts laying duties on licences for felling wines and foreign diftilled fpirits by retail, and fo much of the act laying certain duties on fnuf and refined fugar as refpects a duty on refined fugar; on property fold at auction, and on carriages for the conveyance of perfons. An act to provide for the erection and support of a light-houfe on cape Poge, at the north-easterly part of Martha's Vineyard. An act to allow the transportion of goods, wares and merchandize to and from Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Appoquinimink and Saffafras. An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia. An act to discharge Samuel Lewis, fenior, from his imprisonment. An act making the ports of Biddeford and Pepperrelborough, and the port of New Bedford in Maffachusetts ports of entry for fhips or veffels arriving from the cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the fame. An act to add to the diftrict of Maffac on the Ohio, and to discontinue the district of Palmyra in the state of Tenneffee, and therein to amend the act entitled" an act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." An act giving a right of preemption to certain perfons who have contracted with John Cleves Symmes, or his affociates, for lands lying between the Miami rivers in the territory of the United States north-weft of the Ohio. An act to establish the district of Bristol, and to anncx the towns of Kittery and Berwick to the diftrict of Portsmouth. An act freeing from poftage all letters and packets to John Adams. An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1801. |