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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Senate Executive Journal --TUESDAY, January 6, 1846.
Mr. Breese, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred, on the 3d instant, the nominations of Charles A. Bradford, George W. Jones, William Pelham, Lucius Lyon, Robert Butler, Frederick R. Conway, and Loren Spencer, reported.
Whereupon
Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of the said persons, agreeably to their nominations respectively.
Mr. Breese, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred, on the 3d instant, the nomination of Pierre T. Landry, reported.
Mr. Allen, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom were referred, on the 22d December, the nominations of Gansevoort Melville, William H. Stiles, Henry W. Ellsworth, Benjamin A. Bidlack, and Anthony Ten Eyck, reported.
Mr. Cameron, from the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, to whom was referred, on the 29th December, the nomination of Edmund Burke, reported.
Mr. Breese, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom were referred, on the 29th December, the nominations of John A. Langlois, Braxton Parish, Harman Alexander, William E. Russell, John Dement, Thomas Dyer, Jonathan Kearsley, Benjamin Sherman, Frederick Hall, Thomas Watson, William McNair, Alfred W. Morrison, Franklin Cannon, Aaron Snyder, Benjamin Davies, James H. McBride, Nicholas R. Smith, William Monroe, Benjamin P. Jett, John Bruton, David C. Glenn, and William S. Taylor, reported.
Mr. Niles, from the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, to whom were referred, on the 29th December, the nominations of James M. Buchanan, Paul Dean Carrique, Robert H. Morris, George F. Lehman, Henry C. Conklin, George Sanderson, and Stephen Isley, reported.
Mr. Sturgeon presented the memorial of certain practicing attorneys and officers of the several courts in the county of Centre, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying that the nomination of George W. Woodward may be confirmed; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Dix presented the memorial of John H. Prentiss, praying that the injunction of secrecy may be removed from the action of the Senate upon his nomination.
Mr. Dix submitted the following resolution for consideration:
Resolved, That the injunction of secrecy be so far removed from the action of the Senate on the nomination of John H. Prentiss for the office of marshal of the northern district of the State of New York as to allow the said Prentiss to receive a copy of a paper presented to the Senate by Edward Curtis while said nomination was under consideration.
On motion by Mr. Cameron,
Ordered, That leave be granted to withdraw the resolution submitted by him the 3d instant.
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