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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
House Journal --MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1811.
Ordered, That Mr. Fisk have leave of absence, from to-morrow, for the remainder of the session.
The Speaker laid before the House a resolution of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, "approving the measures of the General Government;" which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
On motion of Mr. Miller,
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to lay before this House any information, (not heretofore communicated, and that, in his opinion, is proper to be disclosed,) which he may have, touching the legal repeal, or modification, as well as the practical operation, of the orders and decrees affecting our neutral commerce, since the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ten.
Mr. Miller and Mr. Sawyer were appointed a committee to present the foregoing resolution to the President.
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Mr. Seybert presented a memorial of Ralph Eddowes, merchant, of Philadelphia, stating, that a cargo of merchandise, of which he is the owner, having arrived in said city, from Great Britain, subsequent to the second instant, and is, in consequence of a provision of the act of the first of May last, under detention by the Custom House officers, and praying such relief in the case as Congress may think proper to grant; which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Mumford presented a petition of the weighers at the port of New York, praying an increase of their compensations.
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Mr. P. B. Porter presented a memorial of William Morrison, John Edgar, and Robert Mortison, of Kaskaskia, in the Illinois Territory, by John Rice Jones, their Attorney in fact, complaining of the "illegal and oppressive" decisions of the Land Commissioners for the District of Kaskaskia, and praying that the said commissioners may be removed from office, and that others may be appointed to supply their places, with power to revise the decisions of the commissioners aforesaid.
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.
On motion of Mr. Morrow,
Resolved, That the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post road from Urbanna to Troy, both in the State of Ohio.
Mr. Mitchill, from the committee appointed on that part of the President's message, at the commencement of the session, which relates to the establishment of a seminary of learning by the National Legislature, made a report; which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Anderson, from the Joint Committee for Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee did, on the eighteenth instant, present to the President of the United States, for his approbation, two enrolled bills, to wit:
"An act making a further distribution of such laws of the United States as respect the public lands;" and
"An act to incorporate the Union Bank of Georgetown."
Mr. Whitman presented a petition of the weighers, gaugers, and measurers, of the port of Portland, in the District of Maine, praying an increase of their compensations.
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Mr. Whitman also presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the District of Maine, praying the erection of a light house on Boon Island, in said District.
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the bill to erect a light house on Boon Island, in the State of Massachusetts; and for other purposes.
Mr. Knickerbacker presented a petition of Peter Frink, of the State of New York, praying compensation for services rendered as a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Claims.
Mr. Newton, from the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, made a favorable report on the petition of John Macnamara, referred the sixth instant; which was read, and concurred in by the House: When,
Mr. Newton, from the same committee, presented a bill for the relief of John Macnamara; which was read the first time.
On motion,
The said bill was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow.
Mr. Cheves presented a petition of Nathaniel Russell and others, of Charleston, creditors and assignees of Robert Hazlehurst, praying, for the reasons therein set forth, that the said Hazlehurst may be exonerated from the payment of interest on certain debts due to the United States from Thomas Morris, and that the proper accounting officers may be authorized to receive the principal of the said debts, and give a final discharge in the case.
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
The House proceeded to consider the bill from the Senate, entitled "An act to enable the Georgetown Potomac Bridge Company to levy money for the object of its incorporation:" Whereupon,
Ordered, That the said bill be read the third time.
The said bill was accordingly read the third time.
Resolved, That the same do pass.
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Ordered, That the Clerk do acquaint the Senate therewith.
The House, according to the order of the day, again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill authorizing the issuing of debentures, in certain cases; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Cutts reported that the committee had, according to order, again had the said bill under consideration and made no amendment thereto.
Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow.
The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill to erect a light-house on Boon Island, in the State of Massachusetts; to place bouys off Cape Fear river; and to erect a beacon at New Inlet, in the State of North Carolina; and to place buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, in the State of Massachusetts; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Cutts reported that the committee had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made amendments thereto; which were delivered in at the Clerk's table, where they were concurred in by the House.
Ordered, That the said bill be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow.
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their Secretary:
Mr. Speaker: The President of the United State did, on the sixteenth instant, approve and sign "An act to incorporate the Bank of Potomac;" and "An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Farmers' Bank of Alexandria." The Senate recede from their amendments disagreed to by this House to the bill, entitled "An act providing for the removal of the land office established at Nashville, in the State of Tennessee, and Canton, in the State of Ohio; and to authorize the Register and Receiver of Public Moneys to superintend the public sales of land in the District East of Pearl river." And then he withdrew.
The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a Committee of the the Whole House on the bill for the relief of Lieutenant Simeon Knight; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Pitkin reported that the committee had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made no amendment thereto.
An adjournment being then called for,
The House adjourned until to-morrow morning eleven o'clock.
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