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A Century of Lawmaking, 1774-1873

Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 17th Congress

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Amendment Proposed by Mr. M'Lane to the Bill Supplementary to, and to amend, an act, entitled ''An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,'' passed second March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and to repeal an act supplementary thereto, passed twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and for ... (H.R. 194)

Amendments. The Bill extending the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office, being under consideration, in the House, the following Amendment, to come in at the end of the second section, was submitted, and agreed to, viz: (H.R. 196)

Committed to a committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. Ordered to be printed. Joint Resolution, Submitted by Mr. Walworth, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States in relation to bankruptcies. (H.R.)

Offered in Committee of the whole, and ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. M'Kim, to the Bill Supplementary to, and to amend, ''an act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,'' passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and to repeal an act supplementary thereto, passed twentieth ... (H.R. 194)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives, as amended. [The parts stricken out are included in brackets; the amendments are in italics.] A Bill Supplementary to, and to amend, an act, entitled ''An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,'' passed second March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and repeal an ... (H.R. 194)

Read the first and second time, and ordered to lie on the table. A Bill Further to extend the provisions of the act, entitled ''An act supplementary to an act, entitled ''An act for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands, prior to the 1st July, 1820.'' (H.R. 271)

Read twice and committed to the committee of the whole House, to which is committed the ''Act to make perpetual an act passed the 3d day of March, 1817, entitled 'An act to continue in force an act, entitled 'An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, passed the 3d day of March, 1815, and for other purposes. ... (H.R. 146)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. A Bill Concerning the signature of the President of the United States to patents for land. (H.R. 299)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. A Bill Further to regulate the Post Office Department. (H.R. 238)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill For carrying into effect the Convention of Navigation and Commerce between the United States and France, concluded at Washington, on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-two. (H.R. 306)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill For the more effectual encouragement and protection of certain Domestic Manufactures. (H.R. 222)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill Making appropriations for the Public Buildings. (H.R. 294)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill Making Appropriations for the support of Government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. (H.R. 256)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill Making Appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. (H.R. 257)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill Making further appropriations for the Military Service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. (H.R. 266)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the State of the Union. A Bill Making further appropriations for the Military Service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. (H.R. 267)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill Providing for the extinguishment of the Indian title to certain reserves of lands within the state of Georgia. (H.R. 216)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill Relative to the heirs of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (H.R. 258)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill To amend ''An act for the establishment of a Territorial Government in Florida.'' (H.R. 242)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill To authorize the building of Light-houses and Light-vessels, for erecting Beacons therein mentioned, and for other purposes. (H.R. 302)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. A Bill To provide for sick and disabled Seamen. (H.R. 287)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. A Bill Concerning the disbursement of Public Money. (H.R. 174)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House on the third Monday of January instant. Ordered to be re-printed. A Bill, To procure the necessary Surveys, Plans, and Estimates, on the subject of Roads and Canals. (H.R. 19)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to which is committed the ''bill granting to the state of Alabama, and territory of Arkansas, the right of pre-emption to certain quarter section of land.'' Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. A Bill, Enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the state of ... (H.R. 117)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road. A Bill To authorize the state of Indiana, to open a canal through the Public Lands, to connect the navigation of the rivers Wabash and Miami of Lake Erie. (H.R. 248)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. A Bill Concerning invalid pensions. (H.R. 195)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Concerning Patents. (H.R. 239)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Concerning the apportionment of Representatives in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 202)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Concerning the jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States. (H.R. 289)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the Whole House to-morrow. A Bill Extending the time for locating Virginia Military Land Warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office. (H.R. 196)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the discharge of John Burgin from imprisonment. (H.R. 261)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the preservation and repair of the Cumberland Road. (H.R. 192)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of Edmund Kinsey and William Smiley. (H.R. 292)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of George B. R. Gove. (H.R. 209)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of John Craine. (H.R. 251)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of John Goodall. (H.R. 218)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of John Jenkins. (H.R. 198)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of Joseph Marechal. (H.R. 272)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of Nathan Branson. (H.R. 189)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of Sarah Perry, mother of the late Oliver H. Perry. (H.R. 243)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of Stephen Howard, jr. (H.R. 247)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of the Corporation of the Church of St. Anne, and to authorize the extension of Larned street, in the town of Detroit. (H.R. 281)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of the heirs or legal representative of William T. Nimmo. (H.R. 200)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of the mother and unmarried sister of Lieutenant William H. Allen, deceased. (H.R. 208)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of Thomas Collins. (H.R. 290)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of William Bartlett and John Stearns, owners of the Schooner Angler; Nathaniel Carver, owner of the schooner Harmony; and Isaac Collyer, owner of the schooner Dove, and others. (H.R. 241)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the Relief of William Kendall. (H.R. 278)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of William N. Earle. (H.R. 255)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of William Sayles. (H.R. 188)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of Woodson Wren. (H.R. 204)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Further to prolong the continuance of the Mint at Philadelphia. (H.R. 270)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill In addition to the act, entitled ''An act for the prompt settlement of Public Accounts,'' and for the Punishment of the Crime of Perjury. (H.R. 215)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Making appropriations for the Cumberland Road. (H.R. 193)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Respecting the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine. (H.R. 234)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Supplementary to the Act, entitled ''An Act to amend the judicial system of the United States.'' (H.R. 259)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Supplementary to the acts to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. (H.R. 207)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To abolish Imprisonment for Debt. (H.R. 227)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To alter the Judicial Districts of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 252)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To alter the times of holding the Circuit Court within the Sixth Circuit of South Carolina District, and for other purposes. (H.R. 262)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To alter the times of the sessions of the Circuit Courts and District Court in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 230)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To authorize and empower the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury to sell the public lots and other property belonging to the United States, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 269)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To authorize the laying out, and opening, of a road from Wheeling, in the state of Virginia, to the seat of government of the state of Missouri. (H.R. 201)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To authorize the Postmaster General to pay for certain repairs to the General Post Office, and to keep the Engine House, the Fire Engine, and apparatus, in repair. (H.R. 226)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To carry into effect the ninth article of the Treaty concluded between the United States and Spain, the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. (H.R. 297)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To confer certain powers on the Levy Court of the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 214)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To continue the present mode of supplying the Army of the United States. (H.R. 197)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To discontinue certain Post Roads and to establish others. (H.R. 304)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To provide for reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court. (H.R. 246)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To punish frauds committed on the Government of the United States. (H.R. 293)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill, Authorizing the establishment of a Penitentiary within the District of Columbia. (H.R. 78)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill, Supplementary to, and to amend, an act, entitled ''An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,'' passed second March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and to repeal an act supplementary thereto, passed twentieth April, one thousand ... (H.R. 94)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill, For the relief of Thaddeus Mayhew. (H.R. 23)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Committee of the Whole discharged, and re-committed to the Committee of Ways and Means. A Bill Supplementary to, and to amend, an act, entitled ''An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,'' passed second March, one thousand seven hundred and ... (H.R. 119)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Committee of the whole reported progress, leave granted to sit again, and bill ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, To authorize the occupation of the Columbia River. (H.R. 47)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be re-printed. A Bill Securing to mechanics, and others, payment for their labor and materials, in erecting any house, or other building, within the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 120)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be re-printed. A Bill To confirm certain claims to lots in the village of Peoria, in the state of Illinois. (H.R. 167)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be re-printed. A Bill To provide for instructing and disciplining the Midshipmen in the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 136)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill Further regulating the compensation of Postmasters, and for other purposes. (H.R. 161)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill To make perpetual an act, passed the third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, entitled ''An act to continue in force an act, entitled 'An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,' passed third day of ... (H.R. 122)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, A Bill to abolish imprisonment for debt. (H.R. 106)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, Confirming certain claims to land in the state of Illinois. (H.R. 107)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, For laying out, and making, a road from the lower Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the western boundary of the Connecticut Western Reserve, in the state of Ohio, agreeable to the provisions of the treaty of Brownstown. (H.R. 112)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, For the relief of James Ross. (H.R. 45)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, To authorize the holding of a District Court at Louisville, in Kentucky. (H.R. 46)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, To incorporate the United States Naval Fraternal Association, for the relief of the families of decease officers. (H.R. 82)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, To provide for the sale of Lands conveyed to the United States and for sales under executions at the suit of the United States. (H.R. 70)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. A Bill To addition to ''An act to continue in force 'An act to protect the commerce of the United States, and punish the crime of piracy,' and, also, to make further provision for punishing the crime of piracy.'' (H.R. 147)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. Recommitted to the Committee on the subject of the Militia. Reported with amendments--ordered to lie on the table, and printed as amended. A Bill, To provide for the Discipline of the Militia of the United States. (H.R. 21)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives, as amended by a select committee on the first of April last; and committed to a committee of the whole House on the second of January next. The parts to be stricken out are embraced in brackets; the addition are printed in ... (H.R. 35)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House, on the state of the Union. A Bill To authorize the laying out and opening certain public roads in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 275)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House, to-morrow. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill To enable the Inhabitants of the District of Columbia to form a frame of Government. (H.R. 133)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole on the state of the Union. A Bill To fix and render permanent the Naval Peace Establishment of the United States. (H.R. 237)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the whole House on the bill concerning Invalid Pensioners. A Bill To reimburse the sum withdrawn from the Fund for Navy Hospitals. (H.R. 268)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the whole House on the State of the Union. A Bill Making appropriations for the Military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. (H.R. 265)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill Providing for the payment of the salaries of Public Officers, and for other purposes. (H.R. 171)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, Concerning the Military Academy. (H.R. 104)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the ''bill to confirm certain claims to lots in the village of Peoria, in the state of Illinois.'' A Bill To revive, and continue in force, certain acts for the adjustment of land claims, in the Territory of Michigan. (H.R. 206)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the Bill concerning the disbursement of public money. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. A Bill To reduce the monthly allowance to the pensioners placed upon the pension roll under the acts of 1818 and 1820. (H.R. 178)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the Bill extending the time for locating Virginia Military Land Warrants, &c. A Bill Extending the time for issuing and locating Military Land Warrants to Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army. (H.R. 221)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill for the relief of Clement B. Penrose. Ordered to be re-printed. A Bill Concerning pre-emption rights in the territory of Arkansas. (H.R. 151)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill from the Senate, entitled ''An act to authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to remit the instalments due on certain lots in Shawneetown, in the state of Illinois.'' Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill To establish an additional land office in ... (H.R. 165)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill further to prolong the continuance of the mint at Philadelphia. A Bill To continue in force an act, entitled, ''An act regulating the currency within the United States, of the gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain, and the crowns of ... (H.R. 273)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill to authorize the state of Illinois to open a canal through the public land, &c. &c. Reprinted by order of the House, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill Providing for the examination of the titles to land in that part of the ... (H.R. 123)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill to authorize the state of Indiana to open a canal through the public lands, &c. A Bill Changing the mode of surveying the Public Lands, on any River, Lake, Bayou, or Water Course, in the state of Mississippi, and territory of Arkansas. (H.R. 288)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill, (No. 165,) to establish an additional land office in the territory of Michigan. A Bill Authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to correct mistakes in entries of land. (H.R. 221)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House to-morrow. A Bill To enable the holders of incomplete French and Spanish titles to lands within that part of the late province of Louisiana, which is now comprised within the limits of the state of Missouri, to institute proceedings to try the validity thereof, and to obtain complete ... (H.R. 219)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House, to which is committed ''A bill to establish an additional land office in the territory of Michigan.'' A Bill To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office of remit the instalments due on certain lots in Shawneetown in the state of Illinois. (H.R. 229)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House, to which is committed the ''Bill to limit the compensation of Marshals, in certain cases.'' Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, To repeal a part of the act, entitled ''An act to lessen the compensation for Marshals, Clerks, and Attorneys, in the cases therein mentioned.'' (H.R. 100)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill extending the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, &c. A Bill Reviving the fifth section of an act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, giving certain pre-emption rights in the state of Louisiana. (H.R. 210)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House, to which is committed the bill for the relief of James Ross. A Bill For the relief of James H. Clark. (H.R. 244)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the whole House, to which is committed the bill for the relief of James Ross. A Bill For the relief of John Coffe. (H.R. 295)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the whole House, to which is committed the bill for the relief of Sarah Perry, mother of the late Oliver H. Perry. A Bill For the relief of John L. Poleresky, late a Major in the French troops, allied with the American troops, in the war of the Revolution. (H.R. 274)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the whole House, to which is committed the bill further to prolong the continuance of the Mint at Philadelphia. A Bill Making the gold Coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain, receivable in payments, on account of Public Lands. (H.R. 277)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House, to which is committed the bill making provision for the survey and disposal of the public lands in Florida. A Bill Granting to the Corporation of the City of Mobile, in the state of Alabama, certain lots of ground in the said city. (H.R. 260)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole House, to which is committed the bill, altering the compensation of the members of Congress and delegates from Territories: and, also, the salaries of the Clerks and Doorkeepers, &c. of each House of Congress. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill To reduce the annual compensation of certain ... (H.R. 180)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole on Bill No. 126, providing for the sale of public lands in Florida. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. A Bill Directing the sale of certain tracts of land in the state of Ohio, heretofore reserved on account of salt springs. (H.R. 139)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole on the bill for the benefit of the mother and sister of the late Lieut. William H. Allen. A Bill Making provision for the support of Penelope Denny, the mother of James Denny, late a quartergunner in the Navy of the United States. (H.R. 225)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole to which is committed the Bill to provide for the discipline of the Militia of the United States. Reported from the committee of the whole without amendment--ordered to lie on the table, and to be re-printed. A Bill, To provide for clothing the Militia when called into the service of the ... (H.R. 48)

Read twice, and committed to the committee of the whole, to which is committed the Bill to provide for the sale of lands conveyed to the United States, and for sales under executions at the suit of the United States. Ordered to be reprinted. A Bill, To limit the Compensation of Marshals in certain cases, and for other purposes. (H.R. 71)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. A Bill For the better organization of the District Court of the United States within the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 231)

Read twice, and ordered to lie on the table. A Bill To abolish the office of Measurer. (H.R. 309)

Read twice, and ordered to lie on the table. Joint Resolution Requiring from the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, an Annual Statement of the Expenditures from the Contingent fund of the two Houses. (H.R. 310)

Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Resolution Authorizing the purchase of one hundred and thirty-eight copies of the sixth volume of the Laws of the United States. (H.R.)

Read, and ordered to be printed; and the bill was ordered to lie on the table. Amendment, Proposed by Mr. Mallary to the bill to authorize the occupation of the Columbia river. After the enacting clause of the bill, strike out the residue thereof, and insert: (H.R. 47)

Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Amendments Reported by the Committee on Naval Affairs to the bill, entitled ''A bill to incorporate the United States' Naval Fraternal Association, for the relief of the families of deceased Officers.'' The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was committed the bill, entitled ''A Bill to incorporate the United ... (H.R. 82)

Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. A Bill Authorizing the employment of additional Clerks, and of certain Messengers and Assistants, in the several Departments. (H.R. 280)

Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. A Bill Granting a tract of land to the inhabitants of the Parish of Point Coupee, on certain conditions. (H.R. 296)

Read, and, with the bill, committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. Amendments Proposed by the Committee on the Public Lands, to the bill from the Senate (No. 2,) ''Concerning the lands to be granted to the state of Missouri, for the purposes of education, and other public uses.'' The Committee on the Public Lands propose the following ... (H.R.)

Read, and, with the Bill, committed to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill to enable the holders of incomplete French and Spanish titles to land in Missouri, to try the validity thereof, &c. &c. Amendments Reported by the Committee on the Public Lands to the Bill from the Senate for the relief of the heirs and ... (H.R.)