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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
House Journal --THURSDAY, December 19, 1850.
The following petitions and memorial were laid on the Clerk's table under the 24th rule of the House, to wit:
Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
By Mr. Bennett: The petition of the heirs of Thomas Park, praying for compensation for private property sold for the use of the government during the revolutionary war; which was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims--heretofore presented January 16, 1844.
By Mr. Savage: The petition of Joel Thacker--heretofore presented February 15, 1845;
Also, the petition of John Gawney--heretofore presented February 17, 1846.
Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.
By Mr. Bullard: The petition of John A. Ragan, praying permission to drain the swamp lands on the Mississippi river, on certain conditions.
By Mr. Taylor: The petition of citizens of Sciota county, in the State of Ohio, praying for a grant of certain public lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from Portsmouth, on the Ohio river, to Newark, in Licking county;
Also, the petition of the register and receiver of public lands at Chillicothe,
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in the State of Ohio, praying for additional compensation for locating bounty-land warrants.
Ordered, That said petitions he referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
By Mr. Putnam: The petition of the members of the Genesee Quarterly Meeting of the Free-will Baptists in the State of New York, praying, for the repeal of the "fugitive-slave law;" which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. Bullard: The petition of Albert G. Blanchard, praying compensation as acting assistant commissary of subsistence in the years 1839 and 1840.
By Mr. Morton: The petition of Samuel Hilton, praying compensation for two horses--one taken for the use of the general government, and the other taken by the enemy, during the last war with Great Britain.
Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims.
By Mr. Rose: The petition of citizens of Geneva, in the State of New York, praying for the establishment of national arbitration for the settlement of national difficulties without war.
By Mr. Morton: The petition of George Taylor, praying for indemnity on account of spoliations by the French prior to the year 1800.
Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
By Mr. Grinnell: The petition of citizens of Portland, in the State of Maine, praying for an appropriation to place a light, boat on the shoals off Chatham, on the coast of Massachusetts;
Also, the petition of citizens of Thomaston, in the State of Maine, of like import with the foregoing;
Also, the petition of citizens of Noank, in the State of Connecticut, of like import with the foregoing;
Also, the petition of citizens of Chatham, in the State of Massachusetts, of like import with the foregoing.
By Mr. Duncan: The petition of citizens of Danvers, in the State of Massachusetts, praying that said town may be made a port of entry, in connexion with the towns of Salem and Beverly.
Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Commerce.
By Mr. Bokee: The memorial of Christian Hanson, containing a proposition for the establishment of a line of mail-steamers, in connexion with the United States, between the city of New York and Gluckstadt, in Holstein, belonging to the kingdom of Denmark; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
By Mr. Eliot: The petition of Winthrop W. Chenery and Samuel E. Guild, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, proposing the purchase from them by Congress of the portraits of the first five Presidents of the United States; which was referred to the Joint Committee on the Library.
On motion of Mr. Boyd, by unanimous consent,
Ordered, That the Committee on Territories be discharged from the further consideration of the certificate of election of William S. Messervey to represent New Mexico in the House of Representatives for the 31st Congress, and that the same be referred to the Committee of Elections.
Mr. McClernand gave notice, under the rule, of his intention to movie, for leave to introduce a bill of the following title, viz: "A bill to reorganize the State Department, and to improve the efficiency of that department."
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On motion of Mr. Potter, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; and, after some time spent in there, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Burt reported that the committee, having, according to order, had the state of the Union generally under consideration, and particularly the special order for this day, to wit: the bill of the House (No. 351) "to reduce and modify the rates of postage in the United States," had come to no resolution thereon.
Mr. Disney gave notice, under the rule, of his intention to move for leave to introduce a bill of the following title, viz: "A bill to provide for the proper adjustment of the accounts between the United States and the new States growing out of the compacts in relation to the sales of the public lands."
Mr. Robert W. Johnson, by unanimous consent, and in pursuance of previous notice, introduced a bill (No. 415) "granting to the States of Arkansas and Missouri the right of way for, and a portion of the public lands to aid in the construction of, a railroad from St. Louis, in Missouri, via Little Rock, to some point on Red river near the town of Fulton, in the State of Arkansas, and for a branch of said road in Arkansas to the Mississippi river;" which was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
Mr. Dickey, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined a bill and resolution of the Senate of the following titles, viz:
And thereupon,
The Speaker signed the said bill and resolution.
The Speaker, by unanimous consent, laid before the House the following executive communications, viz:
Ordered, That the said letter and accompanying document be laid on the table, and printed.
Ordered, That the said letter and accompanying report be laid on the table, and printed.
And then,
On motion of Mr. Ashmun, at 2 o'clock and 55 minutes p. m., the House adjourned until to-morrow, at 12 o'clock m.
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