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Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 25th Congress

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(Doc No. 400.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize James Goddard, president of the Macon Steamboat Company, and others, to import, free of duties, iron for the construction of two iron steamboats. (H.R. 809)

(Doc. No. 117.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the defence of the Northern and Western frontiers. (H.R. 1079)

(Doc. No. 141.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To limit the operation of the third section of the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, entitled ''An act confirming the reports of the ... (H.R. 514)

(Doc. No. 145.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (H.R. No. 70) for the relief of Joseph Nourse. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of War to allow compensation to pension agents. (H.R. 528)

(Doc. No. 158.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for building light-houses, light-boats, beacon-lights, and buoys, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 1096)

(Doc. No. 159.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to authorize the register or enrolment and license to be issued in the name of the president or secretary of any corporated ... (H.R. 1098)

(Doc. No. 161.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the purchase of land adjoining the arsenal in Charleston, South Carolina. (H.R. 1110)

(Doc. No. 197) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Boon, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant additional compensation to the assistant surveyors of the public lands in the State of Michigan. (H.R. 608)

(Doc. No. 217.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the issuing of land scrip to satisfy military bounty land warrants. (H.R. 1167)

(Doc. No. 26.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 893)

(Doc. No. 265.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for arrearages for the year ... (H.R. 676)

(Doc. No. 266.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the employment of two additional clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two additional clerks in the office of the Navy Commissioners, ... (H.R. 678)

(Doc. No. 27.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriations for the protection of the Northern frontier of the United States. (H.R. 892)

(Doc. No. 294.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill In relation to donations of land to certain persons in the State of Arkansas. (H.R. 707)

(Doc. No. 419.) Read twice, and consideration postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Boon, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the sale of certain lands on the route of the Wabash and Erie canal, in the State of Indiana. (H.R. 831)

(Doc. No. 420.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill For the repayment of duties paid by the Steamboat Company of Georgia on the importation on an iron steamboat. (H.R. 832)

(Doc. No. 60.) Read twice, and postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend ''An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes to meet the current expenses of the Government,'' approved the twenty-first of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 982)

(Doc. No. 61.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriations for the payment of a company of volunteers mustered into the service of the United States by Captain Drane, and which acted as a ... (H.R. 987)

(Doc. No. 92.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the importation, free of duty, of the iron materials for certain iron vessels. (H.R. 1048)

(No Report.) Mr. McKennan, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of certain improvements in the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1134)

(No Report.) Mr. Mercer, from the Committee of Roads and Canals, to which the same was recommitted, reported the following bill with amendments; which were agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow. A Bill Giving the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled ''An act to ... (H.R. 924)

(No Report.) Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. Yell submitted the following as an amendment or substitute for the bill No. 734. A Bill To provide for the defence of the Western frontier. (H.R. 734)

(No Report.) Read the first and second time, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors therein mentioned, and for surveys of certain harbors therein mentioned, for the year one ... (H.R. 766)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Garland, of Louisiana, (by leave of the House,) submitted the following bill: A Bill To provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States. (H.R. 1138)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House this day. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue in force an act passed on the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the ... (H.R. 804)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Beirne, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Washington City Benevolent Society. (H.R. 1055)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George C. Johnson. (H.R. 493)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the Choctaw Indians. (H.R. 886)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bouldin, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the charter of the Union Bank of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia. Whereas, it appears that an extension of the charter of the Union Bank of Georgetown ... (H.R. 521)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to cause to be surveyed and ascertained the boundary line between the State of Missouri and Territory of Wisconsin. (H.R. 498)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Lafayette Beneficial Society of the City of Washington. (H.R. 1057)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Navy Yard Beneficial Society of the City of Washington. (H.R. 1056)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Richard Hendley. (H.R. 769)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect an act approved the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, ''to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes.'' (H.R. 762)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chaney, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Baldridge. (H.R. 494)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sutten Stephens. (H.R. 542)

(No report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cilley, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John H. Shepperd, administrator of Abel Wood. (H.R. 516)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Coles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frances Fowler. (H.R. 745)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Doctor Samuel Kennedy. (H.R. 489)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Crary, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Susan Gratiot, administratix, and Charles H. Gratiot, administrator, of Henry Gratiot, deceased. (H.R. 889)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and heirs at law of the late Lewis Grant Davidson, deceased. (H.R. 505)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. De Graff, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Potter and James Cassidey, of Wilmington, North Carolina. (H.R. 600)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the executors of Robert McFarland, late a pensioner of the United States. (H.R. 710)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fletcher, of Vermont, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hazard Knowles. (H.R. 736)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to the act entitled ''An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to preserve peace on the frontiers,'' approved June thirty, eighteen ... (H.R. 741)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Ballentine. (H.R. 701)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To revive the act entitled ''An act to enable claimants to land within the limits of Missouri and the Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of ... (H.R. 523)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Garland, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To restore circuit-court jurisdiction to the district court of the northern district of New York, and further to regulate the terms of the circuit and district courts therein. (H.R. 1077)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jenifer, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the city of Washington and District of Columbia. (H.R. 1089)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jenifer, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide a free bridge across the Eastern branch of the river Potomac, in the city of Washington. (H.R. 1088)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jennifer, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the suppression of gaming in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 646)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jennifer, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriations for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 638)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jennifer, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide a free bridge across the Eastern branch of the river Potomac, in the city of Washington. (H.R. 613)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the sale of certain public lands of the United States near the Wabash and Erie canal, in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 592)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the issuing of duplicate land warrants in cases where the warrants originally issued are lost or destroyed. (H.R. 1105)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting land to the Portage Canal Company for the construction of a canal at the Wisconsin and Fox-river portage. (H.R. 1076)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Ohio, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the erection of an armory on the Western waters. (H.R. 1108)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Peyton. (H.R. 1150)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Adams, of Massachusetts. (H.R. 1170)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Baugh. (H.R. 641)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Smith. (H.R. 784)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Letitia Crane. (H.R. 603)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Windham, widow of the late Joshua Lamb, a soldier of the Revolution. (H.R. 870)

(No report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the executors of Robert McFarland. (H.R. 1069)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Parmenter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Hoffman. (H.R. 522)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Patton, from the Committee on the Library, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the employment of an agent of the Library Committee. (H.R. 692)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Phillips, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the assignees of Jacob Clements, deceased. (H.R. 881)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pickens, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Colonel Robert D. Wainwright. (H.R. 1073)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rencher, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John B. Rodgers. (H.R. 607)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Robertson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Peyton Randolph, deceased. (H.R. 884)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sergeant, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject of steam-boilers, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to the act entitled ''An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or ... (H.R. 1071)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Cassady (H.R. 871)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toucey, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Abiel Wood. (H.R. 875)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James L. Cochran. (H.R. 612)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Reported from the Committed of the Whole on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect an act approved the twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, ''to ... (H.R. 762)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for to-day. Mr. Lyon, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a new jail in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1146)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bell, from the Select Committee to which was referred, on the 5th instant, the bill (No. 605) to secure the freedom of elections, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill To secure the freedom of elections. (H.R. 605)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To enlarge the provisions of the act entitled ''An act granting half pay to widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received ... (H.R. 456)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To approve and confirm an act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1067)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the election or appointment of certain officers in the Territory of Iowa, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1058)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the people of Florida to form a constitution and State Government, and to provide for the admission of said State into the Union. (H.R. 780)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To define and establish the eastern boundary-line of the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 1028)

(No report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable the people of Iowa to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union. (H.R. 1068)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a new judicial district in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 497)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a system of internal improvement in Wisconsin. (H.R. 1113)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To fix the salaries of the keepers of the public archives in Florida. (H.R. 1114)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To reorganize the Legislative Council of Florida and for other purpose. (H.R. 828)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the people of Florida to form a constitution and State Government, and to provide for the admission of said ... (H.R. 887)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, front the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act establishing the Territorial Government of Wisconsin. (H.R. 1059)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States. (H.R. 645)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the payment of the salaries and compensation of the officers of the customs, and making additional appropriations for the public service for the ... (H.R. 864)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to the act entitled ''An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes.'' (H.R. 737)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue. (H.R. 597)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the investment of money received under the will of the late James Smithson, of London. (H.R. 863)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Campbell, of Tennessee, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Extending the provisions of the act approved October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled ''An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to ... (H.R. 1086)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the sale of the public lands in half of quarter-quarter sections. (H.R. 610)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Coles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize, for a limited time, two additional clerks in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence. (H.R. 702)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Establishing a port of entry at Indian Key, Florida. (H.R. 834)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Explanatory of the fifth section of an act entitled ''An act making appropriations for building light-houses, light-boats, beacon-lights, buoys, and making surveys for ... (H.R. 1164)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for building a pier at the northern extremity of Winnebago lake, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1097)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for repairing certain public works. (H.R. 1165)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill In relation to moneys received for the use of Indians or Indian tribes. (H.R. 867)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to the act entitled ''An act to provide for the organization of the department of Indian affairs,'' approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 763)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for running the boundary lines of lands assigned to Indian tribes west of the Mississippi, and for surveying portions thereof to be held in severalty. (H.R. 813)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the location and temporary support of the Seminole Indians removed from Florida. (H.R. 1092)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the security and protection of the emigrant and other Indians west of the States of Missouri and Arkansas. (H.R. 495)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Garland, of Virginia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To reorganize the district courts of the United States in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 491)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Garland, of Virginia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To restore the jurisdiction taken from the United States court for the northern district of Alabama. (H.R. 474)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Grant, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To provide for certain harbors and for the removal of obstructions in and at the mouths of certain rivers, and for other purposes, during the year one thousand eight hundred and ... (H.R. 1139)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For reducing under one head of appropriation various appropriations for building, rebuilding, replacing, purchasing, and repairing vessels of war, and for ... (H.R. 571)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the augmentation of the United States marine corps. (H.R. 652)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the payment of certain pensions heretofore paid out of the privateer pension fund. (H.R. 525)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To alter and regulate the navy ration. (H.R. 572)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act, approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, entitled ''An act to regulate the pay of the navy of the United States.'' (H.R. 484)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Isaac Fletcher, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John W. Faunce and Oliver Perrin. (H.R. 1159)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Isaac Fletcher, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill In addition to an act to promote the progress of the useful arts. (H.R. 1158)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish an additional land office in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 568)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for erecting fire-proof offices for each surveying district of the public lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 876)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on Public Buildings, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain repairs and improvements upon the public buildings and grounds, and for other purposes. (H.R. 801)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the erection of a fire-proof building for the use of the General Post Office Department. (H.R. 1031)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain repairs and improvements upon the public buildings and grounds, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1062)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Buildings, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a fire-proof building for the use of the Department of War. (H.R. 1084)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Making a donation of land to the Territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon. (H.R. 1103)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Concerning the Western frontier. (H.R. 734)

(No Report.) Read twice, and Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for paying the claims of the militia of Vermont, called out by the Governor of that State to prevent an unlawful incursion into Canada. (H.R. 1109)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the repair and rebuilding of the wharves of the forts in the New York harbor. (H.R. 1148)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to carry on and complete certain military surveys. (H.R. 1111)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled ''An act for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the ... (H.R. 1037)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled ''An act for the punishment of frauds committed on the Government of the United States,'' approved third March, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 776)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to accept the service of volunteers. (H.R. 596)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of War to purchase of the authorities of Key West, so much of the streets as intersect the grounds now owned by the Government. (H.R. 554)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To increase the army of the United States and for other purposes. (H.R. 496)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain roads in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 829)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a road from Dubuque, in the Territory of Iowa, to the northern boundary of the State of Missouri, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1061)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a road through the lands of the United States at Harper's Ferry. (H.R. 846)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Naylor, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill Imposing a duty on starch. (H.R. 862)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Petrikin, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate certain banks in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 647)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Potts, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To alter and amend the organic law of the Territories of Wisconsin and Iowa. (H.R. 1115)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Snyder, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue the national road from Vandalia, in the State of Illinois, to Jefferson city, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 684)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Thomas, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To increase and regulate the terms of the circuit and district courts for the northern district of the State of New York. (H.R. 861)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of certain widows of revolutionary soldiers. (H.R. 1039)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Worthington, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Establishing certain collection districts and creating ports of entry therein. (H.R. 488)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Worthington, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the limits of the port of New Orleans. (H.R. 818)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the reorganization of the Treasury Department (H.R. 96)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state, of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of the Allegany river between Pittsburg and Olean. (H.R. 1085)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 294, for the relief of Polly Lemon. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Stoker, William G. Belknap, and Benjamin Walker. (H.R. 632)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 389, for the relief of the heirs of Thomas Jett. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of a loan office certificate of the United States, issued to James ... (H.R. 770)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (H.R. No. 14) for the relief of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company. Mr. Sergeant, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. and G. Ralston and ... (H.R. 606)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (H.R. No. 736) for the relief of Hazard Knowles. Mr. Phelps, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John J. Roane. (H.R. 888)

(No Report.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill H.R. No. 121, for the relief of the legal representatives of Philip Turner. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Willmot. (H.R. 664)

(No Report.) Read twice, and laid upon the table. Mr. Martin, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To change the terms of the circuit courts for the eastern district of Louisiana and the southern district of Alabama. (H.R. 1168)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time on Monday next. Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Giving the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, entitled ''An act to amend an act incorporating the Falmouth and Alexandria ... (H.R. 604)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act for the relief of Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold,'' approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. (H.R. 570)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time this day. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Milligan. (H.R. 693)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time this day. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issuing of a register to Anthony C. Meneghetty for the sloop Sarah. (H.R. 1030)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-day. Mr. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal a part of the second section of an act entitled ''An act to provide for the organization of the department of Indian affairs. (H.R. 868)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-day. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for selling the land granted to the Kentucky asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb. (H.R. 629)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-day. Mr. Martin, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend ''An act to reorganize the district courts of the United States in the State of Mississippi,'' approved June eighteen, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 939)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-day. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of New York for the services of her militia. (H.R. 869)

(No report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-day. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Bradbury T. Jipson. (H.R. 961)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office. (H.R. 836)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi Chadwick. (H.R. 910)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Lawler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. A. Fleming. (H.R. 755)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Road and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Ceding to the State of Ohio the interest of the United States in a certain road within the State. (H.R. 661)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Giving the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled ''An act to amend an act incorporating the Falmouth and Alexandria Railroad Company,'' ... (H.R. 924)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of the Cumberland road through the towns of Salem and Lewisburg, in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 690)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a pension agency at MacMinnville, in the State of Tennessee. (H.R. 800)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Phillips, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Messrs. Smith and Town. (H.R. 883)

(No Report.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. r. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William A. Whitehead. (H.R. 794)

(No Report.) Read twice, and postpone until to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Relating to the tenure of office of subordinate officers of the customs. (H.R. 749)

(No Report.) Read twice, and postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the allowance of invalid pensions to certain Cherokee warriors, under the provisions of the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five. (H.R. 855)

(No Report.) Read twice, and postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and to repeal the acts therein mentioned,'' approved twentieth of April, eighteen ... (H.R. 595)

(No Report.) Read twice, and postponed until Wednesday next. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To revive ''An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to authorize the inhabitants of the State of Louisiana to enter back lands.''' (H.R. 697)

(No Report.) Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fairfield, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to which was referred, on the eighth of February last, the bill No. 540, to provide for surveying the Northeastern boundary line of the United States, according to the provisions of the treaty of ... (H.R. 540)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Chastelain and Ponvert. (H.R. 894)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Dennis Tramell. (H.R. 1014)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Baugh. (H.R. 927)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Lybrook. (H.R. 988)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Smith. (H.R. 944)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Oliver Peck. (H.R. 929)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian ... (H.R. 895)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine (H.R. 896)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 897)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the cancellation of certain debenture bonds on the exportation of coal. (H.R. 1010)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Dromgoole, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for carrying into effect the convention between the United States of America and the republic of Texas for marking the boundary between them. (H.R. 975)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Haynes, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 983)

(No Report.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pope, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the continuation of the Cumberland road in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. (H.R. 984)

(No Report.) Referred to a Select Committee of seven members. Mr. Mercer, by leave of the House, Submitted the following bill: A Bill To alter the mode of appointing certain officers of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1033)

(No Report.)Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Further to provide for the relief of distressed American seamen in foreign countries. (H.R. 797)

(No. Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For extending and improving the navy yard at Brooklyn and for constructing a dry dock at the same. (H.R. 703)

(No. Report.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize William Delesdernier, to draw the arrearages of pension due the late Lewis Y. Delesdernier at the time of his death. (H.R. 654)

(Rep No. 183.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Keeler. (H.R. 1046)

(Rep No. 240.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Montgomery, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Willis. (H.R. 1102)

(Rep. No. 1.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chambers, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Griffith Coombe and John P. Ingle, trustees of the house in the city of Washington commonly called ''the brick capitol.'' (H.R. 899)

(Rep. No. 10.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of James Burton, deceased. (H.R. 907)

(Rep. No. 100.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saltonstall, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William A. Whitehead. (H.R. 974)

(Rep. No. 101.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the protection of the citizens of the United States residing in the Oregon Territory, or trading on the Columbia river or its tributaries. (H.R. 976)

(Rep. No. 102.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Leonard Smith. (H.R. 977)

(Rep. No. 1026.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James L. Stokes, and for other purposes. (H.R. 853)

(Rep. No. 1028.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the accounting officers of the Treasury to settle certain claims. (H.R. 865)

(Rep. No. 103.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel B. Hugo. (H.R. 978)

(Rep. No. 1030.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. L. Williams Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the representatives of Ann Levacher De Van Brun. (H.R. 866)

(Rep. No. 1039.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Southgate, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the heirs of Colonel Daniel Boon, deceased. (H.R. 872)

(Rep. No. 1040.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Russell, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill To prevent the deportation of paupers and convicts from foreign countries into the United States. (H.R. 873)

(Rep. No. 1043.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph M. Hernandez. (H.R. 877)

(Rep. No. 1044.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Woodburne Potter. (H.R. 878)

(Rep. No. 1046.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stuart, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Tongue and the administrator of William Hodson, deceased. (H.R. 880)

(Rep. No. 1048.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Phillips, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Galencia (H.R. 882)

(Rep. No. 1052.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Robertson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the several acts for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies. (H.R. 885)

(Rep. No. 11.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Thomas Cooke, deceased. (H.R. 908)

(Rep. No. 110.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant John McDowel. (H.R. 985)

(Rep. No. 111.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Apollos Cooper, deceased. (H.R. 986)

(Rep. No. 12.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Roger Stayner, late a captain in the army of the Revolution. (H.R. 909)

(Rep. No. 122.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Matthew Wiley. (H.R. 989)

(Rep. No. 123.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 990)

(Rep. No. 124.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to widow Susannah Hoagland. (H.R. 991)

(Rep. No. 125.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William A. Cuddeback. (H.R. 992)

(Rep. No. 13.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel Francis Vigo. (H.R. 911)

(Rep. No. 130.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Harvey Reynolds. (H.R. 997)

(Rep. No. 131.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Doctor Sylvester Nash. (H.R. 998)

(Rep. No. 132.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Stephen Appleby. (H.R. 999)

(Rep. No. 133.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Rollins. (H.R. 1000)

(Rep. No. 134.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Sloan. (H.R. 1001)

(Rep. No. 135.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Clark. (H.R. 1002)

(Rep. No. 136.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Gilbert Sprague Fish. (H.R. 1003)

(Rep. No. 137.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wright Hurlbert. (H.R. 1004)

(Rep. No. 138.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Eliphalet Spafford. (H.R. 1005)

(Rep. No. 139.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Ann Ross, widow of Lieutenant Andrew Ross. (H.R. 1006)

(Rep. No. 14.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant Colonel William Fontaine, deceased. (H.R. 912)

(Rep. No. 140.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to Josiah Westlake. (H.R. 1007)

(Rep. No. 141.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saltonstall, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Grady, of Macon county, North Carolina. (H.R. 1008)

(Rep. No. 142.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nicholas Phelan, heir at law of John Phelan, deceased. (H.R. 1011)

(Rep. No. 144.) Read twice, and the further consideration postponed until Monday next. Mr. Hubley, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peters, Moore, & Co., and others. (H.R. 1012)

(Rep. No. 145.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. R. Garland, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Rosaline Prudhomme. (H.R. 1013)

(Rep. No. 146.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to David Mellen. (H.R. 1015)

(Rep. No. 147.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumer, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi M. Roberts (H.R. 1016)

(Rep. No. 148.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumer, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin F. Wesley. (H.R. 1017)

(Rep. No. 15.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Jones, deceased. (H.R. 913)

(Rep. No. 151.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Campbell, of Tennessee, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Chauncey Calhoon. (H.R. 1018)

(Rep. No. 152.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chambers, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Teakle Savage, administrator of Bolitha Laws, deceased. (H.R. 1019)

(Rep. No. 153.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Worthington, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill A bill for the relief of John McColgan. (H.R. 1020)

(Rep. No. 154.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William B. Livesay. (H.R. 1021)

(Rep. No. 155.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Philip Catner. (H.R. 1022)

(Rep. No. 156.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Miller. (H.R. 1023)

(Rep. No. 157.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Samuel Jaccard. (H.R. 1024)

(Rep. No. 158.) Read twice, and consideration postponed until Friday next, 19th instant. Mr. R. Garland, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas M. Burland. (H.R. 1027)

(Rep. No. 159.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jones, of New York, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for purchasing a law library for the use and benefit of the Legislative Council and the court of appeals of the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 1029)

(Rep. No. 16.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Lathrop Allen, deceased. (H.R. 914)

(Rep. No. 160.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Richard Shubrick. (H.R. 1025)

(Rep. No. 161.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain John De Treville, deceased. (H.R. 1026)

(Rep. No. 168.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. C. Johnson, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a national foundry for the fabrication of cannon for the use of the army and navy of the United States. (H.R. 1032)

(Rep. No. 17.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Major William Langbourne, deceased. (H.R. 915)

(Rep. No. 172.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saltonstall, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs at law of James Maglenen, late of the city of Baltimore, deceased. (H.R. 1035)

(Rep. No. 173.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Word, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain purchases of the public lands in the State of Mississippi, under the act of the nineteenth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. (H.R. 1036)

(Rep. No. 176.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the settlement of the claims of New Hampshire against the United States. (H.R. 1038)

(Rep. No. 177.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Harper, of South Carolina. (H.R. 1040)

(Rep. No. 178.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Updegroff, of Butler county, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 1041)

(Rep. No. 179.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin Price, of New Jersey. (H.R. 1042)

(Rep. No. 18.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize issuing land warrants in certain cases. (H.R. 916)

(Rep. No. 180.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Joseph Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Conrad Widrig. (H.R. 1043)

(Rep. No. 181.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Barton Hooper. (H.R. 1044)

(Rep. No. 182.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Risley. (H.R. 1045)

(Rep. No. 188.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saltonstall, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Howe. (H.R. 1047)

(Rep. No. 19.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill H.R. No. 141, for the relief of the legal representatives of John Jordan, deceased. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Thomas Wishart. (H.R. 917)

(Rep. No. 190--last session.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jenifer, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to George Barkley and John Weaver. (H.R. 1094)

(Rep. No. 191.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to the widow of John March, deceased. (H.R. 1049)

(Rep. No. 195.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ebenezer A. Lester. (H.R. 1052)

(Rep. No. 196.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Campbell, of Tennessee, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Jackson. (H.R. 1053)

(Rep. No. 197.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant to the counties of Lee, Des Moines, Jackson, and Dubuque, land to aid in erecting county buildings. (H.R. 1054)

(Rep. No. 198.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elijah Foochee. (H.R. 1060)

(Rep. No. 2.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chambers, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Fillebrown, jun. (H.R. 900)

(Rep. No. 20.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Augustine H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel O. Pettus, deceased. (H.R. 918)

(Rep. No. 209.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chambers, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain officers of the Florida militia. (H.R. 1064)

(Rep. No. 21.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Tarlton Woodson, deceased. (H.R. 919)

(Rep. No. 211.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Virginia, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Milnor and John Thomson. (H.R. 1066)

(Rep. No. 212.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Reuben Murray, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 1070)

(Rep. No. 219.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Darlington, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Benns. (H.R. 1074)

(Rep. No. 22.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Augustine H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Major Tarlton Woodson. (H.R. 920)

(Rep. No. 220.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Menzies Gilespie, late a soldier of the United States army. (H.R. 1075)

(Rep. No. 221.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William Vause, deceased. (H.R. 1078)

(Rep. No. 229.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of public buildings in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 1081)

(Rep. No. 23.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain James Purvis, deceased (H.R. 921)

(Rep. No. 231.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Chauncey Rice. (H.R. 1082)

(Rep. No. 232.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James B. Rice. (H.R. 1083)

(Rep. No. 237.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital in the city of St. Joseph, Territory of Florida. (H.R. 1095)

(Rep. No. 238.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan Levy. (H.R. 1099)

(Rep. No. 239.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Montgomery, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elliot Smith and Nathan Farnsworth. (H.R. 1101)

(Rep. No. 24.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor Charles Taylor, deceased. (H.R. 922)

(Rep. No. 241.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, State of Ohio, for the loss of school lands. (H.R. 1104)

(Rep. No. 242.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Parmenter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Hoffman. (H.R. 1106)

(Rep. No. 243.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. May, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Don Carlos De Vilemont. (H.R. 1107)

(Rep. No. 244.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Brothertown Indians, in the Territory of Wisconsin. (H.R. 1112)

(Rep. No. 245.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill In favor of Ellen Turney. (H.R. 1116)

(Rep. No. 246.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Esther Parrott. (H.R. 1117)

(Rep. No. 247.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill In favor of Elizabeth Rowe. (H.R. 1118)

(Rep. No. 248.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Huldah Farlow. (H.R. 1119)

(Rep. No. 249.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill A Bill Granting a pension to Alexander Gillis. (H.R. 1120)

(Rep. No. 25.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Francis Eppes, deceased. (H.R. 923)

(Rep. No. 250.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Hedrick, of the State of North Carolina. (H.R. 1121)

(Rep. No. 251.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cecelia Ragan, widow of Richard Ragan. (H.R. 1122)

(Rep. No. 252.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Philip Hartman, of Virginia. (H.R. 1123)

(Rep. No. 253.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrows. Mr. J. Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Joanna Bartlett. (H.R. 1124)

(Rep. No. 254.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Emanuel Srofe. (H.R. 1125)

(Rep. No. 255.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John H. Lincoln. (H.R. 1126)

(Rep. No. 256.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Euler. (H.R. 1127)

(Rep. No. 257.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter W. Short. (H.R. 1128)

(Rep. No. 258.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sylvester Tiffany. (H.R. 1129)

(Rep. No. 259.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Heman Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi Collmus. (H.R. 1130)

(Rep. No. 26.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Solomon Prewett. (H.R. 925)

(Rep. No. 260.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Neil Shannon. (H.R. 1131)

(Rep. No. 261.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Poole. (H.R. 1132)

(Rep. No. 262.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. R. M. T. Hunter, from the Select Committee to which the subject was referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the collection and disbursement of the public revenue. (H.R. 1133)

(Rep. No. 27.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John England (H.R. 926)

(Rep. No. 270.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of New York, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting to the judges of the supreme court of Iowa the same compensation as by law is given to the judges of the supreme court of Wisconsin. (H.R. 1135)

(Rep. No. 271.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Evans, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill For the improvement and survey of certain rivers and the repair of certain roads in Florida. (H.R. 1136)

(Rep. No. 273.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Atherton, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Latham. (H.R. 1142)

(Rep. No. 274.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chambers, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Milus W. Dickey. (H.R. 1143)

(Rep. No. 275.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saltonstall, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas W. Taylor. (H.R. 1144)

(Rep. No. 276.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Shields, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William Williams, senior, deceased. (H.R. 1145)

(Rep. No. 28.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Jones and others. (H.R. 928)

(Rep. No. 284.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Petrikin, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William Anderson, deceased. (H.R. 1147)

(Rep. No. 287.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Boylan. (H.R. 1151)

(Rep. No. 288.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Job Halsey, of New York. (H.R. 1152)

(Rep. No. 289.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumer, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Burnett Burdsall. (H.R. 1153)

(Rep. No. 290.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Wright. (H.R. 1154)

(Rep. No. 291.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Wilson. (H.R. 1155)

(Rep. No. 292.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Randolph Carter. (H.R. 1156)

(Rep. No. 298.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Steenrod. (H.R. 1162)

(Rep. No. 299.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure to actual settlers on public lands the right to purchase their own improvements, when offered for sale, in preference to other persons. (H.R. 1166)

(Rep. No. 3.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased. (H.R. 901)

(Rep. No. 30.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Susannah Rowe, widow of John Rowe, deceased. (H.R. 930)

(Rep. No. 302.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elisha Bently, of the State of New York. (H.R. 1171)

(Rep. No. 303.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elnathan Sears. (H.R. 1172)

(Rep. No. 304.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Christian Brougher, of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 1173)

(Rep. No. 31.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Restoring the name of John Davis to the pension-roll. (H.R. 931)

(Rep. No. 311.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dawson, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the settlement and payment of a claim of the State of Georgia. (H.R. 1174)

(Rep. No. 314.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and made the special order for to-morrow at 11 o'clock. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Giving to the President of the United States additional powers for the defence of the United States, ... (H.R. 1176)

(Rep. No. 32.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elizabeth Durant. (H.R. 932)

(Rep. No. 33.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow of Captain James Hunter. (H.R. 933)

(Rep. No. 34.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. William, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Fielding Pratt. (H.R. 934)

(Rep. No. 35.) Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 141, for the relief of the representatives of John Jordan, deceased. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Presley Thornton. (H.R. 935)

(Rep. No. 39.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris. (H.R. 936)

(Rep. No. 4.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nathan Lamme, deceased. (H.R. 902)

(Rep. No. 40.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Darlington, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Wilkinson, deceased. (H.R. 937)

(Rep. No. 449.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James J. Coffin, of Massachusetts. (H.R. 452)

(Rep. No. 450.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin Mitchell. (H.R. 453)

(Rep. No. 451.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Solomon Prewett. (H.R. 451)

(Rep. No. 452.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Johan Jost Dietz, of New York. (H.R. 454)

(Rep. No. 453.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Jacob Erb, of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 455)

(Rep. No. 454.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James B. Rice. (H.R. 457)

(Rep. No. 455.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill In favor of Lewis Hatch. (H.R. 458)

(Rep. No. 456.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Pemberton. (H.R. 459)

(Rep. No. 457.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Philip Hartman, of Virginia. (H.R. 460)

(Rep. No. 458.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eliza Causin, daughter and heir of Colonel John H. Stone, deceased. (H.R. 461)

(Rep. No. 459.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph W. Knipe. (H.R. 462)

(Rep. No. 460.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Salmonds. (H.R. 463)

(Rep. No. 461.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Casey. (H.R. 464)

(Rep. No. 462.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Ann Ross, widow of Lieutenant Andrew Ross. (H.R. 465)

(Rep. No. 463.) Read twice, and committed, to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Grant, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of the Niagara ship canal. (H.R. 466)

(Rep. No. 464.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rencher, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel McComb. (H.R. 468)

(Rep. No. 465.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlsey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for paying three companies of militia, in the State of Indiana, called into the service of the United States. (H.R. 469)

(Rep. No. 466.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Louisville Savings Institution. (H.R. 470)

(Rep. No. 467.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chambers, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Adam Smith. (H.R. 471)

(Rep. No. 468.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Richard Shubrick. (H.R. 475)

(Rep. No. 469.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harper, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Israel Honeywell. (H.R. 476)

(Rep. No. 47.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Word, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Grimball, senior, deceased. (H.R. 938)

(Rep. No. 470.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Mandeville, deceased. (H.R. 477)

(Rep. No. 472.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To define the number, compensation, and duties of officers of the customs. (H.R. 472)

(Rep. No. 472.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Reprinted by order of the House. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To define the number, compensation, and duties of officers of the customs. (H.R. 472)

(Rep. No. 473.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill H.R. No. 156, for the relief of James Moor. Mr. Rariden, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Safford and other heirs at law of Joseph Safford, late of the New Hampshire line ... (H.R. 478)

(Rep. No. 483.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Rowe. (H.R. 479)

(Rep. No. 484.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Campbell, of South Carolina, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize a settlement of the claims of George Fisher for property destroyed by troops of the United States. (H.R. 480)

(Rep. No. 485.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Roger Jones, adjutant general of the army. (H.R. 481)

(Rep. No. 486.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Ramsay. (H.R. 482)

(Rep. No. 487.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ezekiel Jones. (H.R. 483)

(Rep. No. 488.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Grantland, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Champney. (H.R. 485)

(Rep. No. 489.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles G. Ridgely. (H.R. 486)

(Rep. No. 490.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Barton Hooper. (H.R. 487)

(Rep. No. 494.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Dickerson. (H.R. 490)

(Rep. No. 495.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. May, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Philip Barbour, deceased. (H.R. 492)

(Rep. No. 496.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Huldah Tucker. (H.R. 499)

(Rep. No. 497.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the widow of Noah Chittendon. (H.R. 500)

(Rep. No. 498.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Collins. (H.R. 501)

(Rep. No. 499.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumer, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gideon Sheldon. (H.R. 502)

(Rep. No. 5.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Tarpley White, deceased. (H.R. 903)

(Rep. No. 500.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Cotton Evans. (H.R. 503)

(Rep. No. 501.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Grennell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ann S. Heileman. (H.R. 504)

(Rep. No. 508.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cornelius Tiers. (H.R. 506)

(Rep. No. 509.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Theodore Middleton. (H.R. 507)

(Rep. No. 510.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Ohio, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josephine Nourse. (H.R. 509)

(Rep. No. 511.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. L. Williams, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing a grant of bounty land to the heirs of Bennett Shurley. (H.R. 508)

(Rep. No. 512.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Grennell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary A. Patrick. (H.R. 510)

(Rep. No. 518.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fairfield, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander Scott. (H.R. 512)

(Rep. No. 520--last session.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saltonstall, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Addoms. (H.R. 1009)

(Rep. No. 525.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick Sammons. (H.R. 515)

(Rep. No. 527.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pope, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lewis H. Bates and William Lacon. (H.R. 518)

(Rep. No. 528.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Colt and William Donoldson. (H.R. 519)

(Rep. No. 529.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chambers, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased. (H.R. 520)

(Rep. No. 532.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nicholas Verplast. (H.R. 524)

(Rep. No. 534.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Legare, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Randolph Clay. (H.R. 526)

(Rep. No. 535.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To divide the Territory of Wisconsin and to establish the Territorial Government of Iowa. (H.R. 527)

(Rep. No. 536.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Jones and others. (H.R. 529)

(Rep. No. 537.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Asahel Kingsley. (H.R. 530)

(Rep. No. 538.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Erastus Pierson. (H.R. 531)

(Rep. No. 539--last session.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Andrews, of the State of New York. (H.R. 994)

(Rep. No. 539.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Andrews, of the State of New York. (H.R. 532)

(Rep. No. 540.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin McCullock. (H.R. 533)

(Rep. No. 543.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Duncan, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill To purchase the right to use Doctor Boyd Reilly's vapor-bath. (H.R. 534)

(Rep. No. 544.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. W. B. Campbell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Abel A. Pasko and others. (H.R. 535)

(Rep. No. 545.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Martha Strong. (H.R. 536)

(Rep. No. 550.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Marcy Richards. (H.R. 537)

(Rep. No. 551.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eleanor Clark. (H.R. 538)

(Rep. No. 552.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frances Chandler. (H.R. 539)

(Rep. No. 553.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Francis Mallaby. (H.R. 541)

(Rep. No. 554.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cheatham, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Don Louis Rosamond Orillion. (H.R. 543)

(Rep. No. 557.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Shields, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant an additional quantity of land for the location of revolutionary bounty land warrants. (H.R. 546)

(Rep. No. 558.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Solomon Sturges, assignee of Rezin Frazier. (H.R. 547)

(Rep. No. 559.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to ascertain the quantity of land covered by grants made to Anthony Shane and to Louis Godfroy, in section sixteen, ... (H.R. 548)

(Rep. No. 560.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hopkins, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elisha Jackson, of Virginia. (H.R. 549)

(Rep. No. 561.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Avery, Saltmarsh, and Company. (H.R. 550)

(Rep. No. 563.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Thomas Triplett. (H.R. 552)

(Rep. No. 564.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Deberry, from the Committee on Agriculture, reported the following bill: A Bill To encourage the introduction and promote the cultivation of tropical plants in the United States. (H.R. 553)

(Rep. No. 565.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander H. Everett. (H.R. 555)

(Rep. No. 566.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander Hammett. (H.R. 556)

(Rep. No. 568.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Phebe Champe, of Franklin county, Ohio. (H.R. 558)

(Rep. No. 569.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Catherine Allen, widow of Henry Allen. (H.R. 559)

(Rep. No. 570.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Mellen. (H.R. 560)

(Rep. No. 571.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi M. Roberts. (H.R. 561)

(Rep. No. 572.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Rollins. (H.R. 562)

(Rep. No. 573.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elijah Blodget. (H.R. 563)

(Rep. No. 574.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Aaron Tucker. (H.R. 564)

(Rep. No. 582.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain John Vannettin and his company, for their services during the late war. (H.R. 566)

(Rep. No. 584.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 129, for the relief of the representatives of Charles Snead, deceased. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Wishart. (H.R. 569)

(Rep. No. 585.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize James Alexander to relinquish certain land and to locate other land in lieu thereof. (H.R. 567)

(Rep. No. 586.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the pay and emoluments of pursers in the navy. (H.R. 573)

(Rep. No. 587.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Bailey. (H.R. 574)

(Rep. No. 588.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Gale. (H.R. 575)

(Rep. No. 589.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Poole. (H.R. 576)

(Rep. No. 590.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hiram Saul. (H.R. 577)

(Rep. No. 591.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wright Hurlbut. (H.R. 578)

(Rep. No. 592.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill. A Bill For the relief of Levi Johnson. (H.R. 579)

(Rep. No. 593.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Roger Stayner, late a captain in the army of the Revolution. (H.R. 580)

(Rep. No. 594.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Brown and Company. (H.R. 581)

(Rep. No. 6.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Edward Wade, deceased. (H.R. 904)

(Rep. No. 602.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Selby. (H.R. 583)

(Rep. No. 604.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of Tennessee, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Bloomer. (H.R. 584)

(Rep. No. 605.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Restoring the name of John Davis to the pension-roll. (H.R. 585)

(Rep. No. 606.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Restoring the name of John Lathram to the pension-roll. (H.R. 586)

(Rep. No. 607.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Becker. (H.R. 587)

(Rep. No. 608.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Grist. (H.R. 588)

(Rep. No. 609.) Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Phelps, of the State of Massachusetts. (H.R. 589)

(Rep. No. 610.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Oliver Dorsett. (H.R. 590)

(Rep. No. 611.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain James Hunter. (H.R. 591)

(Rep. No. 615.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Commissioner of Pensions to cause the unpaid pension of Captain Robert Laird, of the State of Georgia, to be paid to his executor. (H.R. 593)

(Rep. No. 616.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Risley. (H.R. 594)

(Rep. No. 623.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Doctor Francis Lambert. (H.R. 598)

(Rep. No. 624.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Alexander. (H.R. 599)

(Rep. No. 625.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wisconsin. (H.R. 601)

(Rep. No. 626.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel H. Hooe. (H.R. 602)

(Rep. No. 635) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, of Missouri, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Enoch Matson. (H.R. 609)

(Rep. No. 636.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the commissioners of Paulding county, in the State of Ohio, to enter a certain tract of land for the seat of justice of said county. (H.R. 611)

(Rep. No. 637.) Mr. Dromgoole, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Aaron Vail, deceased, late consul at L'Orient. (H.R. 614)

(Rep. No. 638.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Adams Smith. (H.R. 615)

(Rep. No. 639.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Charles S. Walsh. (H.R. 616)

(Rep. No. 642.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Matthew Wiley. (H.R. 618)

(Rep. No. 643.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Stephen Appleby. (H.R. 619)

(Rep. No. 644.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Doctor Sylvester Nash. (H.R. 620)

(Rep. No. 645.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Heman Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi Collmus. (H.R. 621)

(Rep. No. 646.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Heman Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Simon Knight. (H.R. 622)

(Rep. No. 647.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York,"", from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Coffin Sanborn. (H.R. 623)

(Rep. No. 648.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumber, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Sloan. (H.R. 624)

(Rep. No. 649.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumber, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wilfred Knott. (H.R. 625)

(Rep. No. 650.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Moses Eldred. (H.R. 626)

(Rep. No. 651.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William R. Joynes. (H.R. 627)

(Rep. No. 652.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the sureties of H. H. B. Hays, deceased, late a postmaster at Claiborne, Alabama. (H.R. 628)

(Rep. No. 653.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cheatham, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. Eloi Rachal. (H.R. 630)

(Rep. No. 654.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cheatman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Paul Poissot. (H.R. 631)

(Rep. No. 655.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Agriculture, reported the following bill: A Bill In addition to the ''Act to promote the progress of useful arts, and for other purposes,'' approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. (H.R. 633)

(Rep. No. 661.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Graves, from the Committee on Road and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the purchase of the stock held by individuals in the Louisville and Portland canal, and to make the navigation thereof free. (H.R. 634)

(Rep. No. 662.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fletcher, of Vermont, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Commissioner of the Patent Office to issue a patent to John Howard Kyan. (H.R. 635)

(Rep. No. 663.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Josias Thompson. (H.R. 636)

(Rep. No. 664.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Marcus, of Arkansas. (H.R. 637)

(Rep. No. 665.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cheatman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Joseph Nibert, deceased. (H.R. 639)

(Rep. No. 666.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fletcher, of Vermont, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Blanc. (H.R. 642)

(Rep. No. 667.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fletcher, of Vermont, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill To renew the patent right of William Perkinson. (H.R. 643)

(Rep. No. 668.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fletcher, of Vermont, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Stephen P. W. Douglass. (H.R. 644)

(Rep. No. 67.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ichabod Beardsly. (H.R. 945)

(Rep. No. 670.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of James Broadus, deceased. (H.R. 648)

(Rep. No. 671.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Emmerson. (H.R. 649)

(Rep. No. 672.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Larkin Smith. (H.R. 650)

(Rep. No. 673.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Patton, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill In addition to an act for the relief of the heirs and representatives of John Campbell, late of the city of New York, deceased. (H.R. 651)

(Rep. No. 676.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel H. Crockett. (H.R. 655)

(Rep. No. 677.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Miller Francis (H.R. 656)

(Rep. No. 678.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant John Allison. (H.R. 657)

(Rep. No. 679.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Barton. (H.R. 658)

(Rep. No. 68.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sibel Barnes. (H.R. 946)

(Rep. No. 680.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Challer. (H.R. 659)

(Rep. No. 681.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Vattier. (H.R. 660)

(Rep. No. 687.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Dougherty, of Wisconsin. (H.R. 662)

(Rep. No. 69.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth French. (H.R. 947)

(Rep. No. 691.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill H.R. No. 239, for the relief of Robert Murray. Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Tilford Taylor. (H.R. 663)

(Rep. No. 692.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill H.R. No. 127, for the relief of the heirs of John Chilton, deceased. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the ... (H.R. 665)

(Rep. No. 693.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill H.R. No. 123, for the relief of the administrator of Wharton Quarles, deceased. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased. (H.R. 666)

(Rep. No. 694.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of John Hopper. (H.R. 667)

(Rep. No. 698.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Leonard Smith. (H.R. 672)

(Rep. No. 699.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Job Halsey, of the New York. (H.R. 673)

(Rep. No. 70.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William Ford, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 948)

(Rep. No. 700.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elisha Davis. (H.R. 674)

(Rep. No. 701.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sibel Barnes. (H.R. 675)

(Rep. No. 705--last session.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Stephen Olney. (H.R. 996)

(Rep. No. 705.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Stephen Olney. (H.R. 679)

(Rep. No. 708.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William Ford, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 682)

(Rep. No. 71.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Samuel Hatten, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 949)

(Rep. No. 713) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Susannah Rowe, widow of John Rowe, deceased. (H.R. 683)

(Rep. No. 716.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issuing of Treasury notes. (H.R. 685)

(Rep. No. 717.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 129, for the relief of the representatives of Charles Snead, deceased. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Williams, deceased. (H.R. 686)

(Rep. No. 718.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 141, for the relief of the representatives of John Jordan, deceased. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel Irish, deceased. (H.R. 687)

(Rep. No. 719.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Parker, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Joseph Dukes. (H.R. 688)

(Rep. No. 72.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Restoring the name of John Lathram to the pension-roll. (H.R. 950)

(Rep. No. 720.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill In favor of William Ferguson. (H.R. 689)

(Rep. No. 721.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Miller. (H.R. 691)

(Rep. No. 728.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Madison. (H.R. 694)

(Rep. No. 73.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Catherine Allen, widow of Henry Allen. (H.R. 951)

(Rep. No. 731.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, from the Committee on the Public Lands,"", reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm the claim of Charles Morgan, in right of Simon Porche, to a tract of land. (H.R. 698)

(Rep. No. 732.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Martin, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah H. B. Stith. (H.R. 699)

(Rep. No. 737.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the removal of the walls of the Treasury building, and for the erection of a fire-proof building for the Post Office Department. (H.R. 706)

(Rep. No. 738.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Israel Parsons. (H.R. 704)

(Rep. No. 739.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Neil Shannon. (H.R. 705)

(Rep. No. 74.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elijah Blodget. (H.R. 952)

(Rep. No. 746.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rives, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James H. Grant, Moses W. Simpson, and Preston Going. (H.R. 708)

(Rep. NO. 747.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thomas Maxwell. (H.R. 709)

(Rep. No. 75.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sherrod Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Thomas Collins. (H.R. 953)

(Rep. No. 751.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Phillips, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Milnor, late gauger in the custom-house at Philadelphia. (H.R. 711)

(Rep. No. 752.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for building light-houses, light-boats, beacon-lights, buoys, and making surveys, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 712)

(Rep. No. 753.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs for the United States. (H.R. 713)

(Rep. No. 754.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Cushing. (H.R. 714)

(Rep. No. 756.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a bounty in land to the organized militiamen, mounted militiamen, volunteers, and rangers, who defended the country during the late ware with Great Britain. (H.R. 715)

(Rep. No. 757.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Abraham Stipp. (H.R. 716)

(Rep. No. 758.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and children of Lieutenant Jonathan Dye. (H.R. 717)

(Rep. No. 759.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Philip Lightfoot. (H.R. 718)

(Rep. No. 76.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel A. Asbury. (H.R. 954)

(Rep. No. 760.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pennybacker, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John L. Allen. (H.R. 719)

(Rep. No. 761.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Bush. (H.R. 720)

(Rep. No. 762.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to David W. Sleeth, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 721)

(Rep. No. 763.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill In favor of Mary Snow. (H.R. 722)

(Rep. No. 769.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Susannah Hoagland, of the city of New York, widow of John Hoagland. (H.R. 723)

(Rep. No. 77.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Fleming (H.R. 955)

(Rep. No. 770.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Harvey Reynolds. (H.R. 724)

(Rep. No. 771.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John H. Lincoln. (H.R. 725)

(Rep. No. 774.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gratia Ray. (H.R. 727)

(Rep. No. 775.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Samuel Hatten, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 728)

(Rep. No. 776.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jones, of New York, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriations for purchasing a law library for the use and benefit of the Legislative Council and the court of appeals of the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 729)

(Rep. No. 777.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Brown. (H.R. 730)

(Rep. No. 778.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William A. Cuddeback. (H.R. 731)

(Rep. No. 78.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Whittet. (H.R. 956)

(Rep. No. 780.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell. (H.R. 732)

(Rep. No. 781.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jones, of New York, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the compilation of the laws of Florida. (H.R. 733)

(Rep. No. 783.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Worthington, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Herman Harris, of the city of New York. (H.R. 735)

(Rep. No. 788.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stuart, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Snider. (H.R. 738)

(Rep. No. 79.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Myron Chapin. (H.R. 957)

(Rep. No. 791.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension of Phebe Weeks. (H.R. 740)

(Rep. No. 792.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and heirs of the late Captain John A. Hopper, deceased. (H.R. 739)

(Rep. No. 793--last session.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Helen Miller, of New York. (H.R. 993)

(Rep. No. 793.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Helen Miller, of New York. (H.R. 742)

(Rep. No. 794--last session.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thruston Cornell. (H.R. 995)

(Rep. No. 794.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thruston Cornell. (H.R. 743)

(Rep. No. 795.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the Alabama, Florida, and Georgia Railroad Company. (H.R. 744)

(Rep. No. 796.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Harrison. (H.R. 746)

(Rep. No. 797.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fletcher, of Vermont, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill In addition to ''An act to promote the progress of the useful arts.'' (H.R. 747)

(Rep. No. 798.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, of Massachusetts, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a bounty in land to such soldiers of the old fourth regiment of United States infantry as served during any part of the war with Great ... (H.R. 748)

(Rep. No. 8.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of William Gregory, deceased. (H.R. 905)

(Rep. No. 80.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jared Winslow. (H.R. 958)

(Rep. No. 803.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin B. Dowd. (H.R. 750)

(Rep. No. 806.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Anderson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jesse E. Dow. (H.R. 751)

(Rep. No. 807.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Mary Updegroff, of Butler county, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 752)

(Rep. No. 808.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Truman Kellog. (H.R. 753)

(Rep. No. 81.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel Davis (H.R. 959)

(Rep. No. 812.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable certain townships in Ohio to obtain their school lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 754)

(Rep. No. 814.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac D. Saunders. (H.R. 756)

(Rep. No. 816.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eunice Sanders, late Eunice Pierson. (H.R. 757)

(Rep. No. 817.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Virginia, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Grozer. (H.R. 758)

(Rep. No. 819.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Reuben Murray, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 805)

(Rep. No. 819.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cecelia Ragan, widow of Richard Ragan. (H.R. 759)

(Rep. No. 82.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Justis. (H.R. 960)

(Rep. No. 820.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension of John Black, of the State of Georgia. (H.R. 760)

(Rep. No. 820.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hoffman, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Thomas Ap Catesby Jones (H.R. 806)

(Rep. No. 821.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Charles Fitzgerald, deceased. (H.R. 761)

(Rep. No. 83.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaiah Parker. (H.R. 962)

(Rep. No. 84.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi M. Roberts. (H.R. 963)

(Rep. No. 848.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Garret Vleit. (H.R. 764)

(Rep. No. 849.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of E. H. William, administrator of the state of Doctor Hazel W. Crouch. (H.R. 765)

(Rep. No. 85.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Boyd. (H.R. 964)

(Rep. No. 851.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant a quantity of land to the Territory of Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those Rock ... (H.R. 767)

(Rep. No. 852.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill In regard to the town of Southport, in the Territory of Wisconsin. (H.R. 768)

(Rep. No. 853.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Townes, deceased. (H.R. 771)

(Rep. No. 854.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of George Yates, deceased. (H.R. 772)

(Rep. No. 855.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Savage, deceased. (H.R. 773)

(Rep. No. 856.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Abner Prior. (H.R. 774)

(Rep. No. 857.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Maxwell, of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 775)

(Rep. No. 87.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Smith. (H.R. 966)

(Rep. No. 872.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Paynter, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the erection of a dry dock at the navy yard at Philadelphia. (H.R. 777)

(Rep. No. 875.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Wagener, from the Committee on the Militia, reported the following bill: A Bill More effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States. (H.R. 778)

(Rep. No. 876.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. William, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Keeller. (H.R. 781)

(Rep. No. 877.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elam Higley. (H.R. 782)

(Rep. No. 878.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jared Winslow. (H.R. 783)

(Rep. No. 879.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin Dufree. (H.R. 785)

(Rep. No. 88.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Fitzgerald. (H.R. 967)

(Rep. No. 880.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elijah Foochee. (H.R. 786)

(Rep. No. 881.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elizabeth Durant, the widow of Thomas Durant. (H.R. 787)

(Rep. No. 882.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Sayre. (H.R. 788)

(Rep. No. 89.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eunice Sanders, late Eunice Pierson. (H.R. 968)

(Rep. No. 890.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Mussey and Thomas James, of the county of Crawford, in the State of Missouri. (H.R. 789)

(Rep. No. 891.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill H.R. No. 552, for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Thomas Triplett, deceased. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal ... (H.R. 790)

(Rep. No. 892.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. H. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the investment and disposition of moneys received or appropriated for the use of Indians or Indian tribes. (H.R. 791)

(Rep. No. 893.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 792)

(Rep. No. 894.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. J. Picket and George W. Gayle. (H.R. 793)

(Rep. No. 895.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a right or pre-emption to certain lots in the town of Perrysburg, in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 795)

(Rep. No. 9.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of James Conway, deceased. (H.R. 906)

(Rep. No. 90.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Charles Fitzgerald, deceased. (H.R. 969)

(Rep. No. 902.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Cox. (H.R. 796)

(Rep. No. 904.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of certain judgments which have been or may be obtained against the State of Virginia. (H.R. 798)

(Rep. No. 905.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of James Hackley. (H.R. 799)

(Rep. No. 909.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Montgomery, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the rates of letter postage and for other purposes. (H.R. 802)

(Rep. No. 91.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Martha Strong. (H.R. 970)

(Rep. No. 917.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Irad Kelly and Datus kelly. (H.R. 803)

(Rep. No. 922.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Jones and Charles Souder and Robinson Carr and Company. (H.R. 807)

(Rep. No. 923.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bouldin, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To make temporary provision for the comfort and support of certain lunatics in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 808)

(Rep. No. 924.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Dunscomb Bradford, deceased. (H.R. 810)

(Rep. No. 927.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Wyman (H.R. 812)

(Rep. No. 928.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of the late Doctor James H. Cheears (H.R. 811)

(Rep. No. 934.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill (S. No. 179) for the relief of the legal representatives of Robert White. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Spotswood. (H.R. 814)

(Rep. No. 935.) Read twice, and committed to the same Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 144, for the relief of the heirs of Apollos Cooper. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John P. Harrison. (H.R. 815)

(Rep. No. 936.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. R. Garland, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert M. Roberts of his legal assignees. (H.R. 817)

(Rep. No. 938.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the trustees of the township of Oxford, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, to enter a section of land in lieu of section sixteen, in said township, for ... (H.R. 819)

(Rep. No. 939.) Read twice, and committed to the same Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 218, for the relief of the legal representatives of Wadleigh Noyes. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Rebecca Burch, widow of Benjamin Burch, deceased. (H.R. 820)

(Rep. No. 940.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant William Lewis. (H.R. 821)

(Rep. No. 941.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for completing the public buildings in Wisconsin. (H.R. 822)

(Rep. No. 942.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm the act of the Legislative Council of Florida, incorporating the ''Florida Peninsula Railroad and Steamboat Company,'' and granting the right of ... (H.R. 823)

(Rep. No. 946.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Parmenter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Rutledge, deceased. (H.R. 824)

(Rep. No. 947.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hastings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Lilley. (H.R. 825)

(Rep. No. 95.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Connor, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Patrick Green. (H.R. 971)

(Rep. No. 951.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Birdsall, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Edward Wade, deceased. (H.R. 826)

(Rep. No. 952.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Parmenter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of David Gould, deceased. (H.R. 827)

(Rep. No. 953.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William B. Ferguson and his sureties. (H.R. 830)

(Rep. No. 954.) Reported, and same day recommitted to the same Committee. Reported without amendment, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Barret. (H.R. 816)

(Rep. No. 955.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, of Vermont, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Hommill. (H.R. 833)

(Rep. No. 959.) Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Dickson. (H.R. 835)

(Rep. No. 96.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, of Vermont, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John F. Wiley. (H.R. 972)

(Rep. No. 964.) Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Special order for Monday, June 16. Mr. Montgomery, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish certain post routes and to discontinue others. (H.R. 839)

(Rep. No. 965.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Traverse. (H.R. 837)

(Rep. No. 966.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stuart, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew Rembert. (H.R. 838)

(Rep. No. 968.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Birdsall, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nathan, deceased. (H.R. 840)

(Rep. No. 981.) Read first and second time. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph K. Averill. (H.R. 841)

(Rep. No. 982.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. T. Whittlesey, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Maria Hornbeck. (H.R. 842)

(Rep. No. 983.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Engrossed. Mr. Thomas T. Whittlesey, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thompson Hutchinson. (H.R. 843)

(Rep. No. 984.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Conly. (H.R. 844)

(Rep. No. 986.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners, officers, and crew, of the armed brig Warrior, or their legal representatives. (H.R. 847)

(Rep. No. 987.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hamer, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel T. Anderson. (H.R. 848)

(Rep. No. 988.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah F. Caldwell. (H.R. 850)

(Rep. No. 99.) Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rusell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick Richmond. (H.R. 973)

(Rep. No. 990.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Richard Booker and others. (H.R. 849)

(Rep. No. 991.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, of Kentucky, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jamison & Williamson (H.R. 851)

(Rep. No. 992.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoon, of Kentucky, from the Committee on the Post of Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cornelius Taylor. (H.R. 852)

(Rep. No. 994.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow or legal representatives of John Tilden. (H.R. 856)

(Rep. No. 995.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jesse Seymour, or his representatives, and in alteration of an act entitled ''An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,'' approved ... (H.R. 857)

(Rep. No. 996.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Rockwell. (H.R. 858)

(Rep. No. 997.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow of Thomas Kibbey. (H.R. 859)

(Rep. No. 998.) Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John G. Mozart. (H.R. 860)

Amendatory Bill. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which was recommitted the bill (H.R. No. 330) making appropriations for the suppression of Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, reported the following amendatory bill: A ... (H.R. 330)

Amendatory Bill. Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Toucey, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred bill No. 1063, introduced by Mr. Henry Johnson, on leave, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill To authorize the circuit courts of the United States to appoint ... (H.R. 1063)

Amendatory Bill. Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Recommitted to the Committee of Ways and Means, and amendatory bill reported same day. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for the year one ... (H.R. 225)

Amended bill for the relief of John E. Alexander. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which the original bill is committed. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Alexander. Amendment. Strike out one hundred and seventy dollars and insert three ... (H.R. 599)

Amendment Proposed by Mr. Wise, in Committee of the Whole, to bill No. 676, making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Add to the bill the following proviso, viz: (H.R. 676)

Amendment proposed by the Committee on Roads and Canals of the House of Representatives to the amendments of the Senate. Strike out of the proviso, at the end of the Senate's amendment, all that follows the words ''free from expense,'' in the twentieth and twenty-first lines, and insert the following clause, viz: (H.R. 604)

Amendment reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, proposed by Mr. Bell: Add to the end of the bill the following: (H.R. 1090)

Amendment. To be proposed by Mr. Robertson as an amendment to the bill (H.R. No. 4) imposing additional duties, as depositaries, in certain cases, on public officers, and for other purposes, when the same shall be taken up for consideration. (H.R. 4)

Amendments proposed by Mr. Bell, by direction of the Committee on Indian Affairs. (H.R. 1090)

Amendments To be proposed by Mr. Bell. (H.R. 676)

A Bill To authorize the issuing of Treasury notes. Reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, amended as follows: Strike out the whole of the bill reported by the Committee of Ways and Means, after the enacting clause, and insert as follows: (H.R. 2)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union An Act Giving the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, entitled ''An act to amend an act incorporating the Falmouth and Alexandria Railroad Company,'' which passed February second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. (H.R. 604)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union to which the said bill is committed. Mr. C. H. Williams submitted the following, which, when the bill (H.R. No. 412) to provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an ... (H.R. 412)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to which the said bill is committed. Mr. Robertson submitted the following, which, when the bill (H.R. No. 4) imposing additional duties, as depositaries, in certain cases, on public officers, and for other purposes, shall be taken up for consideration, he will move us. ... (H.R. 4)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which said bill is committed. Mr. Henry submitted the following; which when the bill (No. 802) ''to regulate the rates of letter postage, and for other purposes,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an Amendment. (H.R. 802)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which the said bill (No. 227) is committed. Amendment. Mr. Atherton, from the Committee of Ways and Means, submitted the following amendment to the bill entitled ''An act providing for the adjustment of certain accounts under a provision in the general appropriation act of eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 227)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which the said bill is committed. Amendments Submitted by the Committee on Roads and Canals to the bill No. 1134, reported by that committee, relative to certain internal improvements in the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 1134)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which the said bill is committed. Mr. McKennan submitted the following, which when the bill No. 230, ''making appropriations for the Cumberland road,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an amendment. Amendment To be offered to the Cumberland road bill, (No. 230), reported by the ... (H.R. 230)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which the said bill is committed. Mr. Montgomery submitted the following; which, when the bill No. 897, ''making appropriations for the support of the army for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as Amendments. (H.R. 897)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole on the Union. Mr. Whittlesey, of Ohio, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to provide for the payment of horses lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States,'' approved January 18, 1837. (H.R. 11)

General Appropriation Bill. Amendment. Mr. Bell offered the following as an amendment to the general appropriation bill: (H.R. 224)

General Appropriation Bill. Amendments Adopted in Committee of the Whole House. 1st. After line 302, insert: For compensation of clerks in the office of said surveyor general, per act of the ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, five hundred dollars. 2d. In line 396, after the words ''United States,'' insert: including the compensation of ... (H.R. 224)

General Appropriations. Amendments Proposed in Committee of the Whole, and reserved for the decision of the House. 1st amendment, by Mr. Adams: In line 3, after the word ''sums,'' insert the words ''amounting to.'' 2d amendment: On page 16, lines 382 and 383, for contingent expenses, pay, and mileage of members, &c. of the Legislative Assembly of ... (H.R. 981)

Granting a pension to Catharine Allen. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which the said bill is committed. Amendment. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following amendment to the bill for the relief of Catharine Allen. Strike out the sixth, seventh, and eighth lines of the bill, and insert: ''at ... (H.R. 559)

Introduced, on leave, by Mr. John Quincy Adams, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Same Day Reported from Committee of the Whole without amendment, and ordered to be engrossed for to-morrow. A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Crocker Sampson, deceased. (H.R. 1093)

Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, submitted the following amendment to bill No. 1048, ''to authorize the importation, free of duty, of the iron materials for certain iron vessels.'' Amendment. (H.R. 1048)

Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following bill: A Bill For the adjustment of certain claims to reservations of land under the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty, with the Choctaw Indians. (H.R. 1147)

Mr. Clark laid on the table the following bill, which he gave notice he would move as a substitute to bill No. 898, on the same subject, when that bill should be taken up for consideration. A Bill More effectually to prevent frauds in the collection, keeping, transferring, and disbursing of the public revenue and to punish defaulters. (H.R. 898)

Mr. Evans moved that the President's message of 29th January, 1838, about imprisonment of Mr. Greely, be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, with instructions to report this bill. Debate. Mr. Evans asked leave to introduce this bill; which was granted. The bill was then introduced, was read the first and second time, and Mr. Evans moved ... (H.R. 540)

Mr. John Quincy Adams asked and obtained leave to introduce the following bill. It was read the first and second time, and referred to a Select Committee, consisting of Mr. John Q. Adams, Mr. Toucey, Mr. Elmore, Mr. Rariden, Mr. Grennell, Mr. Grantland, Mr. Clark, Mr. Henry, and Mr. Coffin. A Bill To prohibit the giving or accepting, within the ... (H.R. 890)

Mr. John Quincy Adams, from the Select Committee to which was referred the bill introduced by him, on leave, on the sixth of December instant, ''to prohibit the giving or accepting, within the District of Columbia, of a challenge to fight a duel, and for the punishment thereof,'' reported the following Amendment Bill. (H.R. 890)

Mr. Webster, of Ohio, submitted the following; which, when the bill No. 802, ''to regulate the rates of letter postage, and for other purposes,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an Amendment. (H.R. 802)

Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, to which was referred an act (H.R. 413) ''to secure the payment of certain commissions on duty bonds, to collectors of the customs,'' reported the same with the following Amendment. Add at the end of the bill the following proviso: (H.R. 413)

Printed as amended in, and reported from, the Committee of the Whole. Note.--Additions printed in Italics. A Bill To establish certain post routes and to discontinue others. (H.R. 839)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Amendment. Mr. Lincoln submitted the following, as an amendment to the bill (H.R. No. 706) to provide for removing the walls of the Treasury building and for the erection of a fire-proof building for the Post Office Department. To amend by striking out, in the second section, all after the word ... (H.R. 706)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Amendment. To be moved by Mr. Turney to the bill H.R. 804, ''to continue in force an act passed on the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to provide for the payment of horses or other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States.'' (H.R. 804)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Amendments To the bill making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 981)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. Ewing submitted the following; which, when the bill (H.R. No. 804) ''to continue in force an act passed on the eighteenth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States,'' shall ... (H.R. 804)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. Garland, of Virginia, submitted the following: (H.R. 11)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. R. M. T. Hunter submitted the following; which, when the bill (H.R. No. 696) to establish a board of commissioners to examine and decide certain claims against the United States shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an Amendment. (H.R. 696)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. W. C. Johnson submitted the following; which, when the bill (H.R. No. 898) ''more effectually to prevent frauds in the collection, keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, and to punish public defaulters,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as substitute for the ... (H.R. 898)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Submitted by Mr. Doty, as a substitute to bill NO. 768, entitled ''A bill in regard to the town of Southport, in the Territory of Wisconsin'' A Bill In relation to the town of Southport, in the Territory of Wisconsin. (H.R. 768)

Proposed Amendment. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Amendment Proposed to be offered by Mr. Ewing to the bill (No. 235) granting pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands, viz: Add the following section: (H.R. 235)

Read first and second times--hour elapsed. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to provide for the better protection of the Western frontier,'' approved July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and to repeal so much of the act making appropriations for the ... (H.R. 1080)

Read twice, and committed specially to a Committee of the Whole House on Friday next. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a board of commissioners to examine and decide certain claims against the United States. (H.R. 696)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whale House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant Colonel William Fountain. (H.R. 438)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For adjusting the remaining claims upon the late deposite banks. (H.R. 5)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Imposing additional duties as depositaries, in certain cases, on public officers, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriations for the suppression of Indian hostilities the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. (H.R. 8)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 89)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year ... (H.R. 269)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 90)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making further appropriations the year one thousand eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. (H.R. 9)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize merchandise to be deposited in the public stores, and for other purposes. (H.R. 6)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issuing of Treasury notes. (H.R. 2)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To revoke the charters of such banks in the District of Columbia as shall not resume specie payments within a limited time, and to suppress the circulation of small notes ... (H.R. 7)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To postpone the fourth installment of deposite with the State. (H.R. 1)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pope, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain roads for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 271)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Shields, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the ... (H.R. 119)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the reorganization of the Treasury Department. (H.R. 96)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriations for a marine hospital at Portland harbor, in the State of Maine. (H.R. 98)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the employment of boys in the merchant vessels of the United States. (H.R. 97)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Thomas, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue in force certain laws to the close of the next session of Congress. (H.R. 10)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Reprinted, with amendments proposed by Mr. Cambreleng and Mr. Rhett. Amendments at the end. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issuing of Treasury notes. (H.R. 2)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House this day. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making a partial appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 450)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah Barney, widow of Samuel Barney, late of Connecticut. (H.R. 427)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain James Purvis, deceased. (H.R. 153)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor Charles Taylor, deceased. (H.R. 155)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Major Tarlton Woodson. (H.R. 154)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Martha Woodlief, deceased. (H.R. 292)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel O. Pettus, deceased. (H.R. 243)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Adams, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Joshua Huddy. (H.R. 1051)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Anderson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Hewitt. (H.R. 173)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Atherton, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel D. Walker, of Baltimore. (H.R. 272)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin F. Wesley. (H.R. 434)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel W. Going. (H.R. 433)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John M. Jewell. (H.R. 432)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Milley Yates. (H.R. 168)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Reuben E. Gentry, William Monroe, and others. (H.R. 248)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Us-se-yoholo, a Creek Indian, a patent for a certain reservation of land in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 167)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Birdsall, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Crocker Sampson, deceased. (H.R. 152)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Birdsall, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain John De Treville, deceased. (H.R. 151)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Birdsall, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain John Marks, deceased. (H.R. 150)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John McClellan. (H.R. 197)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah Clark. (H.R. 199)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Sawney York, deceased. (H.R. 198)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bond, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Alexander Gillis. (H.R. 200)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Boon, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands. (H.R. 235)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Boon, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant the Mount Carmel and New Albany Railroad Company the right of way through the public lands of the United States. (H.R. 349)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bouldin, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Relating to the Orphans' Court of Alexandria county, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 282)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bruyn, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Balch, junior. (H.R. 447)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Pierce and others. (H.R. 640)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Chastelain and Ponvert. (H.R. 12)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Lynch. (H.R. 270)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John B. Lasala, of New York. (H.R. 228)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Dickey, of New York. (H.R. 13)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government, for the year eighteenth hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 224)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the suppression of Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 330)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the adjustment of certain accounts under a provision in the general appropriation act of eighteen hundred and thirty-four. (H.R. 227)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Campbell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Willis Stephens and wife. (H.R. 246)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carter, of Tennessee, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the provisions of an act entitled ''An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the ... (H.R. 369)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Malone. (H.R. 398)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of George C. Willard. (H.R. 236)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the establishment of a Surveyor General's office for the State of Illinois. (H.R. 107)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the establishment of the Peoria land district in Illinois. (H.R. 276)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To create the office of Surveyor of public lands in the Wisconsin Territory (H.R. 278)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish two additional land offices in that part of Wisconsin Territory west of the river Mississippi. (H.R. 277)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Abraham Woodall. (H.R. 115)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis. (H.R. 109)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Wellborn, junior, and William Wellborn. (H.R. 108)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James A. William. (H.R. 114)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jehu Hollinsworth. (H.R. 110)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joel Chandler. (H.R. 113)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William James Aarons. (H.R. 111)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Walker. (H.R. 112)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To allow such purchasers of public lands in the years eighteen hundred and eighteen and eighteen hundred and nineteen as omitted to take the credit allowed by law, the same relief which has ... (H.R. 279)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cheatham, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Shepard and the other heirs at law of Frederick M. Bell, who was a captain in the New Hampshire line. (H.R. 378)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel W. Kinney, of the State of New York. (H.R. 367)

Read twice, and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Boylan. (H.R. 368)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Coles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Parker. (H.R. 336)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Coles, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect the resolutions of Congress for erecting monuments to the memory of certain general officers of the Revolution, and for erecting a marble column at York, in Virginia. (H.R. 448)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Corwin, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas McClelland and James Smith. (H.R. 386)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claim, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Tarpley White, deceased. (H.R. 288)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Crawford Johnson. (H.R. 132)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of for the legal representatives of Captain Thomas Cooke, deceased. (H.R. 286)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the corporation of the First Presbyterian Church of Scotland, in Hanover, now Yorktown, Westchester county, New York. (H.R. 441)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of William B. Bunting. (H.R. 133)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of William Gregory, deceased. (H.R. 334)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of James Burton, deceased. (H.R. 285)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nathan Lamme, deceased. (H.R. 354)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Timothy Feely, deceased, late a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution. (H.R. 134)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William Vause, deceased. (H.R. 287)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Wickham. (H.R. 345)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William Tudor, junior. (H.R. 307)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John H. Pease. (H.R. 273)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Kern and John D. George. (H.R. 332)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Deshields. (H.R. 102)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Marcus Quincy and William Gorham. (H.R. 342)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Moses Merrill. (H.R. 101)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan Levy. (H.R. 103)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan Smith and others. (H.R. 99)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of the schooner Three Brothers. (H.R. 100)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Darlington, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Benns. (H.R. 88)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Darlington, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sylvester Phelps and the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, deceased. (H.R. 446)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. DeGraff, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ferdinand Clark. (H.R. 104)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dromgoole, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Hewitt. (H.R. 304)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dromgoole, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cornelius Manning. (H.R. 306)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dromgoole, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Hodges, deceased. (H.R. 305)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the Levy Court of Calvert county, in the State of Maryland. (H.R. 82)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander G. Morgan. (H.R. 62)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ann W. Johnston. (H.R. 85)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain John Downes. (H.R. 65)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Christopher Werner. (H.R. 66)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of D. W. Haley. (H.R. 84)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel T. Patterson. (H.R. 20)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Doctor David H. Maxwell. (H.R. 67)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ebenezer A. Lester. (H.R. 17)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward Burgess. (H.R. 19)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Freeman Brady. (H.R. 74)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of H. W. Russel. (H.R. 73)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hugh McDonald. (H.R. 83)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Callan. (H.R. 77)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Herron. (H.R. 72)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James L. Kenner. (H.R. 71)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jesse E. Dow. (H.R. 18)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John L. McCarty. (H.R. 879)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John P. Austin and Edward N. Tailer. (H.R. 61)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John P. Converse and Henry J. Rees. (H.R. 79)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Wilson. (H.R. 64)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jonathan Eliot. (H.R. 63)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Nourse. (H.R. 70)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Major General Alexander Macomb. (H.R. 15)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Melancthon T. Woolsey. (H.R. 69)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Richard Frisby. (H.R. 60)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Sanderson. (H.R. 16)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A bill For the relief of the administrators of Edward W. Duval. (H.R. 59)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Robert Fulton. (H.R. 80)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris. (H.R. 78)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Springfield Manufacturing Company. (H.R. 395)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Fillebrown, jr. (H.R. 81)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Tyner and others. (H.R. 68)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Crooks and James Crooks. (H.R. 76)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Tharp. (H.R. 75)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Abraham Lansing. (H.R. 42)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Albion T. Crow. (H.R. 34)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Allen R. Moore. (H.R. 38)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin H. Mackall. (H.R. 25)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Mooers. (H.R. 48)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Christopher Clark. (H.R. 52)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Curtis Grubb. (H.R. 54)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Davis. (H.R. 27)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eli Horton. (H.R. 49)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elias Johns. (H.R. 39)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frances Gardiner. (H.R. 47)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hannah Budlong. (H.R. 57)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Barker. (H.R. 28)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James J. Pattison. (H.R. 26)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James McMahon. (H.R. 40)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John B. Perkins. (H.R. 55)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Krepps. (H.R. 44)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John M. Oliver. (H.R. 51)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John McCarty. (H.R. 22)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jonathan Davis. (H.R. 33)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Hall. (H.R. 32)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of M. Gelston, executor of David Gelston. (H.R. 50)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nicholas Hedges. (H.R. 45)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Philip Marshal, and the legal representatives of John Marshal. (H.R. 53)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Presley N. O'Bannon. (H.R. 46)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Peebles and John Graham. (H.R. 58)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Murphy. (H.R. 41)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Teakle Savage, administrator of Bolitha Laws. (H.R. 31)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of David Caldwell, deceased. (H.R. 24)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Addoms. (H.R. 36)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Roswell Lee, deceased (H.R. 29)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas W. Bacot, late of Charleston, South Carolina, deceased. (H.R. 37)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas F. McCanless. (H.R. 30)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas J. Lawler and Smith M. Miles. (H.R. 43)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Baily, survivor of Baily and Delord. (H.R. 21)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Eadus. (H.R. 56)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William H. Bell. (H.R. 23)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Whittlesey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William R. Taylor, administrator of Jonathan Taylor, deceased. (H.R. 35)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ann Bloomfield. (H.R. 315)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Primus Hall, alias Trask. (H.R. 318)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Smith. (H.R. 317)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Steel, of the State of New York. (H.R. 428)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Catharine Rollins, otherwise called Catharine Mosely. (H.R. 316)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fairfield, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the settlement of the accounts of Edmund Roberts, late diplomatic agent of the United States to Cochin China, Muscat, and Siam. (H.R. 359)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Presley Gray, of Kentucky. (H.R. 312)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Harper, of South Carolina. (H.R. 311)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin Price, of New Jersey. (H.R. 310)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Richard Elliott. (H.R. 308)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fry, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Seth Whitney, of Delaware county, New York. (H.R. 309)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Garland, of Virginia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill Requiring the holding of semi-annual terms of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Missouri. (H.R. 415)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Graham, of North Carolina, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Poas Hadgo. (H.R. 358)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Grantland, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Dudley Walker. (H.R. 302)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pension, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Myron Chapin. (H.R. 324)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief James H. Bradford. (H.R. 265)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Wilson. (H.R. 264)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Justis. (H.R. 364)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel Davis. (H.R. 338)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Whitlet. (H.R. 339)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Bradley True Jipson. (H.R. 211)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John F. Wiley. (H.R. 266)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Randolp Carter. (H.R. 267)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Everett, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas T. Triplett. (H.R. 247)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain settlers, living on what is called the Salt Lick reservation, in the western district of Tennessee. (H.R. 418)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Dawson, deceased. (H.R. 335)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Todd. (H.R. 325)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harper, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Prescott. (H.R. 355)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harper, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Captain Robert Bealle, deceased. (H.R. 416)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Duchuquette, William Hebet, dit La Compte, J. B. Dubois, and Charles Sangunete. (H.R. 347)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Making a donation of lands to the States of Missouri and Arkansas, for the purpose of constructing a road for military and other purposes. (H.R. 409)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, of Missouri, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hiner Stigermire. (H.R. 348)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, of Missouri, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Whitsitt. (H.R. 241)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, of Missouri, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Wiley and Jefferson Greer. (H.R. 240)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, of Missouri, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Murray. (H.R. 239)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Haynes, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James W. Osborne, of Baltimore. (H.R. 229)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Heman Allen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Rardon. (H.R. 212)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Charles Coffin. (H.R. 214)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Boyd. (H.R. 340)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaiah Parker. (H.R. 213)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension of Josiah Westlake. (H.R. 215)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Herod, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to George Barkley and John Weaver. (H.R. 216)

Read twice, and committed to a committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the settlement of the accounts of Richard Harrison, late consular agent of the United States in Spain. (H.R. 404)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hunter, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John A. Peterson, executor of the last will and testament of John H. Peterson, deceased. (H.R. 106)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Doctor J. M. Foltz. (H.R. 1050)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jarius Loomis and James Basset. (H.R. 422)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John March. (H.R. 423)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ingham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Empson Hamilton. (H.R. 424)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Francher. (H.R. 314)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Davis. (H.R. 251)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Faris. (H.R. 252)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Joseph Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension of Frederick Hill. (H.R. 193)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Joseph Johnson, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Conrad Widrig. (H.R. 194)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Kilgore, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased. (H.R. 171)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anna West, of the State of Massachusetts. (H.R. 188)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Veazie, of the State of Maine. (H.R. 191)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Simeon Smith, of the State of New Hampshire. (H.R. 192)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Solomon Ketcham. (H.R. 187)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Fitzgerald. (H.R. 189)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Klingensmith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Jenkinson, of the State of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 190)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Moor. (H.R. 156)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Sroufe. (H.R. 328)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Robert Farmer, deceased. (H.R. 157)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Robert Farmer, deceased. (H.R. 162)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Robert Farmer, deceased. (H.R. 557)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William C. Hazard, of Rhode Island. (H.R. 299)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on Private Land Claim, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel, deceased. (H.R. 163)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ashbel Mason. (H.R. 420)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John and Samuel Rowe, heirs and legal representatives of Ludwick Rowe, deceased. (H.R. 357)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel Plumb. (H.R. 419)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Polly Lemon. (H.R. 294)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Leadbetter, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Zebulon Sheets. (H.R. 379)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and assignees of Peter Alba, deceased. (H.R. 346)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Cooper. (H.R. 297)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Borey, of Arkansas. (H.R. 298)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Clark. (H.R. 326)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Loomis, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Zebulon Baxter. (H.R. 327)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel B. Perkins. (H.R. 383)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Bailey. (H.R. 382)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Glover. (H.R. 384)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Ohio, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the settlement of the accounts of the heirs of Captain Jesse Copeland. (H.R. 249)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Virginia, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Innes. (H.R. 344)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Virginia, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Culver. (H.R. 343)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. May, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amelia Leach. (H.R. 164)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. May, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A bill For the relief of Olive Welch. (H.R. 165)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John R. Midwinter. (H.R. 323)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Gilbert Sprague Fish. (H.R. 259)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Jacob Shade. (H.R. 260)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Richard Hall. (H.R. 322)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McClellan, of New York, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the erection of a monument to the memory of David Williams, one of the captors of Major Andre. (H.R. 435)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William S. Colquhoun. (H.R. 381)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McKim from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Zachariah Jellison. (H.R. 445)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McKim, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company. (H.R. 14)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McKim, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which had been recommitted the bill No. 14, For the relief of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company, reported the same with amendments. Note.--The amendments are printed in italics. (H.R. 14)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Miller, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Allowing rations to Brigadier General John E. Wool, Inspector General United States army. (H.R. 402)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Milligan, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Hambleton, purser in the navy of the United States. (H.R. 303)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Montgomery, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Patrick Green. (H.R. 120)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Montgomery, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for additional clerks in the Post Office Department, and the Auditor's office connected therewith, and for other purposes. (H.R. 513)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pension, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Edgecomb. (H.R. 177)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill A bill for the relief of Anne Watson. (H.R. 1149)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amos Thompson. (H.R. 181)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Gannett, widower of Deborah Gannett, a soldier of the Revolution. (H.R. 184)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Davis. (H.R. 182)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Granting a pension to Niel McNiel. (H.R. 179)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Huldah Taylor. (H.R. 186)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Austin. (H.R. 180)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Hilton. (H.R. 178)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Boyd. (H.R. 425)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John England. (H.R. 653)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John McCormick. (H.R. 313)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Oliver Peck. (H.R. 183)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wealthy Barker, widow of Isaac Barker, deceased, (H.R. 250)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William York. (H.R. 185)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the select committee to which was referred the petition of Peter Yarnall and others, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Yarnall and others. (H.R. 268)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claim, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs at law of Lieutenant James Conway. (H.R. 217)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Hunt, heir of Captain William Hendricks, deceased. (H.R. 220)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of For the relief of the heirs at law of Wadleigh Noyes. (H.R. 218)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Clark. (H.R. 222)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant John McDowel. (H.R. 223)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Simon Summers. (H.R. 387)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children and heirs at law of John Clinton, deceased. (H.R. 127)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Captain Presley Thornton, deceased. (H.R. 283)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Garland Burnley, deceased. (H.R. 284)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs at law of Joshua Fanning, deceased. (H.R. 128)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs at law of Wadleigh Noyes. (H.R. 218)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Major Peter Helphenston, deceased. (H.R. 219)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Charles Snead, deceased. (H.R. 129)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain John Winston, deceased. (H.R. 221)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel George Gibson, deceased. (H.R. 131)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William Hooker Smith, deceased. (H.R. 130)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenburg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children and heirs of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Irwin, deceased. (H.R. 125)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Muhlenburg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Campbell. (H.R. 126)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Owens, from the Select Committee on the petition of Samuel Raub, junior, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to have the invention of Samuel Raub, junior, called ''the self-acting double safety valve,'' applied to steam ... (H.R. 365)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Parmenter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor William Johonnot, deceased. (H.R. 135)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Paynter, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Spencer C. Gist. (H.R. 172)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Phillips, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Cushing. (H.R. 105)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumber, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George McFadden (H.R. 262)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumber, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Robert Lucas. (H.R. 263)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumber, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William Bowman. (H.R. 261)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumer, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Smith. (H.R. 431)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumer, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Michael McCray. (H.R. 429)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumer, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thomas Frazer. (H.R. 430)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pope, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas H. Perkins, of Boston. (H.R. 331)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pope, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the continuation of the Cumberland road in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and for other purposes. (H.R. 230)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rariden, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Mennie. (H.R. 377)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. mr. Rariden, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Stephen Marsters. (H.R. 245)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rariden, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Francis Jarvis, deceased. (H.R. 166)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rariden, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Marbury. (H.R. 244)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Commodore Isaac Hull. (H.R. 169)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas R. Parsons. (H.R. 170)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to purchase a tract of land belonging to the heirs of John Harris, deceased, being within the limits of the navy yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts. (H.R. 301)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Robertson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Saunders and William R. Porter, sureties of William Estis, late paymaster of the fourth regiment of Virginia troops stationed at Norfolk during the late war. (H.R. 375)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Robertson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill Making further compensation to the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the United States. (H.R. 385)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ebenezer Lobdell. (H.R. 366)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Ratcliff. (H.R. 87)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel Goddard, and others. (H.R. 91)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Keyworth. (H.R. 86)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Sinnard. (H.R. 370)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee, of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William P. Rathbone. (H.R. 1163)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Fielding Pratt. (H.R. 208)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Bosworth. (H.R. 209)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Brown. (H.R. 210)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel M. Asbury. (H.R. 337)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sherrod William, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Thomas Collins. (H.R. 207)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Shield, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Middleton Tuttle, of Arkansas. (H.R. 281)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Shields, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Legislature of the State of Tennessee sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in that State. (H.R. 118)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick Wilheid. (H.R. 201)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Simeon Moss. (H.R. 203)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Chauncey Rice. (H.R. 205)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elizabeth Case, widow of James Case, deceased. (H.R. 202)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sibley, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thomas West, of Alabama. (H.R. 204)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nathan Sage. (H.R. 397)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Smith, of Main, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Relating to consular certificates of invoices, and repealing certain provisions of former acts upon the subject. (H.R. 231)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick Reze. (H.R. 94)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Beamish. (H.R. 93)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Squire Stearns. (H.R. 95)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Winthrop Sears and others. (H.R. 92)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Eliphalet Spafford. (H.R. 407)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Leonard Loomis. (H.R. 361)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sylvester Tiffany. (H.R. 363)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Robert Frazier. (H.R. 362)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stuart, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Winslow Lewis. (H.R. 396)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill A bill for the relief of the legal representatives of Everard Meade. (H.R. 417)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nancy Haggard, child of William Grymes, deceased. (H.R. 291)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the administrator of Wharton Quarles, deceased. (H.R. 123)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant Thornton Taylor, deceased. (H.R. 290)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Nathan, Peter and William Adams, deceased. (H.R. 122)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Dr. Philip Turner, deceased. (H.R. 121)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William T. Smith, late of Philadelphia, deceased. (H.R. 124)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William Wright, deceased. (H.R. 289)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah Strong and Samuel Remick. (H.R. 253)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Pamela Brown. (H.R. 411)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert McBride. (H.R. 257)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Emanuel Srofe. (H.R. 258)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Robert Casey. (H.R. 360)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel B. Hugo. (H.R. 255)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James M. Edwards. (H.R. 254)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, of New York, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Samuel J. Smith. (H.R. 256)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Thomas, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James P. Carlton. (H.R. 351)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Thomas, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Wallis, and the heirs and legal representatives of Robert Leckie and of Jeremiah D. Hayden, deceased. (H.R. 436)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Thomas, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the settlement of the claims of Walter Jones against the United States. (H.R. 437)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Thomas, of Maryland, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain heirs and legal representatives of James Wilson, late of the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 352)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph R. Folsom and the owners and crew of the schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, in the State of Maine. (H.R. 582)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toucey, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Fry. (H.R. 372)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toucey, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Ward and George Ficklin. (H.R. 414)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toucey, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Polly Lining, executrix of the last will and testament of Charles Lining, deceased, who, in his lifetime, and at the time of his death, was executor of the last will and ... (H.R. 374)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toucey, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Cooper. (H.R. 373)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toucey, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the the following bill: A Bill To refund a fine imposed on the late Matthew Lyon, under the sedition law, to his legal heirs and representatives. (H.R. 401)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Witherell. (H.R. 142)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi Chadwick. (H.R. 147)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children and heirs of Colonel Thomas Knowlton, deceased. (H.R. 148)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Apollos Cooper, deceased. (H.R. 144)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Joseph Young, deceased. (H.R. 146)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Marshal Rochambeau. (H.R. 392)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of William Vawter. (H.R. 139)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Jones, deceased. (H.R. 143)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Col. Francis Vigo. (H.R. 136)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel Willis Reddick, deceased. (H.R. 137)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Taylor, deceased. (H.R. 145)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John B. Ashe, deceased. (H.R. 140)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Jordan, deceased, late a captain in the continental line of artillery artificers. (H.R. 141)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Lathrop Allen, deceased. (H.R. 149)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel Tracy, deceased, and of the legal representatives of Thomas Gordon, deceased. (H.R. 138)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Glascock, deceased. (H.R. 440)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize issuing land warrants in certain cases. (H.R. 390)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of seven years' half pay to the widows or children of certain officers of the continental line of the revolutionary army. (H.R. 391)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Major William Langbourne. (H.R. 439)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. W. B. Campbell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Archibald R. S. Hunter. (H.R. 371)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Christopher Dennison. (H.R. 196)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eli Eastman. (H.R. 405)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth French. (H.R. 406)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ichabod Beardsly. (H.R. 195)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams of North Carolina, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John McCarroll, junior. (H.R. 333)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Tandy Walker. (H.R. 321)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Fleming. (H.R. 320)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James McFarland. (H.R. 319)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wise, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting to James Lowe a section of land. (H.R. 426)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wise, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To allow additional compensation to William Easby. (H.R. 175)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wise, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide compensation to James Barron for the use of his invention called ''A Ventilator of Ships.'' (H.R. 174)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Worthington, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frederick Frey and Company. (H.R. 275)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Worthington, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gilbert A. Smith and others. (H.R. 274)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands reported the following bill: A Bill To establish an additional land district in the State of Arkansas. (H.R. 117)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Davlin. (H.R. 238)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Tucker, of Arkansas. (H.R. 350)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of sundry citizens of Arkansas, who lost their improvements in consequence of a treaty between the United States and the Choctaw Indians. (H.R. 116)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William W. Stevenson and Joseph Henderson. (H.R. 237)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Legislature of the State of Arkansas to sell the land heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in that State, and for other purposes. (H.R. 544)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Yell, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To create the St. Francis land district out of the Mississippi district, in the State of Arkansas. (H.R. 545)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Joint Committee on the Smithsonian Bequest, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the disposition and management of the fund bequeathed to the United States, in trust, by James Smithson, of London, deceased, for the establishment ... (H.R. 1161)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Joint Committee on the Smithsonian Fund, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the disposal and management of the fund bequeathed by James Smithson to the United States, for the establishment of an institution for the increase ... (H.R. 1160)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Boon, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To graduate and reduce the price of the public lands subject to private entry. (H.R. 234)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable the people of East Wisconsin to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union. (H.R. 779)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the purchase of certain books for distribution among the members of the House of Representatives, according to a resolution of the House of the twenty-seventh ... (H.R. 517)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the protection of the Northern frontier of the United States. (H.R. 393)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain fortifications for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 1141)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 1090)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 225)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 226)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Curtis, of New York, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lewis B. Willis, formerly acting deputy surveyor for the district of Mississippi. (H.R. 233)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of entry at St. Joseph, in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 1137)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the compensation of certain officers of the customs for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 1175)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushman, from the Committee on Commerce, to which the same had been recommitted, reported the following amendatory bill: Amendatory Bill Establishing certain collection districts and creating ports of entry therein. (H.R. 488)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee on Mileage, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend ''An act allowing compensation to the members of the Senate, members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and to the delegates of the Territories, and ... (H.R. 380)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Garland, of Virginia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To require the judge of the district courts of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in said State. (H.R. 399)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Garland, of Virginia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To restore circuit jurisdiction to the district courts of the western district of Virginia. (H.R. 353)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Haynes, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 412)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the satisfaction of claims due to certain American citizens for spoliations Committed on their commerce prior to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand ... (H.R. 449)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. McKim, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for certain harbors and for the removal of obstructions in and at the months of certain rivers, and for other purposes, during the year one thousand eight hundred ... (H.R. 394)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize certain internal improvements, to institute and continue certain surveys, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1157)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Extending the provisions of the act entitled ''An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,'' passed ... (H.R. 176)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Parker, of New York, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Tuscarora nation of Indians. (H.R. 1072)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the privileges of drawback, and to abolish distinctions in ports of entry. (H.R. 341)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the registration of vessels of the United States, the collection of hospital money, the erection of marine hospitals, and the relief of sick and disabled seamen and of ... (H.R. 403)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the erection of custom-houses and public storehouses. (H.R. 695)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, to which was referred a resolution of the House of Representatives of December eighteen, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to revive and continue in force a certain act of Congress relating to tonnage duty ... (H.R. 232)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To restore to certain invalid and other pensioners, the amount of pensions by them relinquished. (H.R. 206)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. C. Johnson, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to complete that part of the great national road between Rockville, in Maryland, and the Monocacy river. (H.R. 511)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 116, for the relief of sundry citizens of Arkansas, who lost their improvements by Indian treaty, &c. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain persons who have been deprived of the ... (H.R. 442)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 124, for the relief of the representatives of William T. Smith. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Jett, deceased. (H.R. 389)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 124, for the relief of the representatives of Wm. T. Smith. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Sumpter. (H.R. 388)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 127, for the relief of the heirs of John Chilton. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of John ... (H.R. 700)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed bill No. 136, for the relief of the representatives of Col. Francis Vigo. Mr. Muhlenberg, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the representatives of Colonel Anthony Walton White. (H.R. 356)

Read twice, and committed to thee Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing a subscription to a stereotype edition of the Laws. (H.R. 329)

Read twice, and courted to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company to locate and construct a railroad over the public lands, and for other purposes. Whereas certain proprietors of lands in the State ... (H.R. 408)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Robertson, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To change the time of holding the spring terms of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, and of the district court of the United States for the ... (H.R. 376)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-day. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled ''An act for the relief of James Steel,'' approved June twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. (H.R. 410)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Jenifer, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Officers and Managers of the Washington Monument Society to erect a Monument to the memory of George Washington on the public mall. (H.R. 473)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Lawler, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for paying certain pensioners at Tuscaloosa, in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 467)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow. Mr. Smith, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To secure the payment of certain commissions on duty bonds to collectors of customs. (H.R. 413)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time this day. Mr. C. Shepard, from the Committee on the Territories, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill Making provision for a court-house in Duval county, Florida. (H.R. 1140)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time this day. Mr. De Graff, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill In addition to ''An act supplementary to and to amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,' passed second of March, one thousand seven hundred ... (H.R. 1100)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal the proviso to the second section of an act approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the ... (H.R. 1091)

Read twice, and referred to a Select Committee to prepare and bring in the same. Mr. Bell asked and obtained leave to submit to the House the following bill: A Bill To secure the freedom of elections. Whereas complaints are made that officers of the United States, or persons holding offices or employments under the authority of the same, other than ... (H.R. 605)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee of Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Glascock, deceased. (H.R. 440)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee of Claims. Reported with amendments, accompanied by a special report, (No. 367). Note.--The parts proposed to be stricken out are in brackets [ ]; those to be inserted are in italics. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris. (H.R. 78)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee of Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Taylor, deceased. (H.R. 145)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To authorize the issuing of a register to Anthony C. Meneghetty for the sloop Sarah. (H.R. 1030)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To establish a port of entry at St. Joseph, in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 1137)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To provide for certain harbors and for the removal of obstructions in and at the mouths of certain rivers, and for other purposes, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 394)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act For the relief of Samuel Milligan. (H.R. 693)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making a partial appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 450)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. (H.R. 676)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 981)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 895)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 225)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 90)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize the issuing of Treasury notes, to meet the current expenses of the Government. (H.R. 762)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To provide for the erection of public buildings in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 1081)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. An Act To repeal a part of the second section of an act entitled ''An act to provide for the organization of the Department of Indian Affairs.'' (H.R. 868)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 897)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act regulating the pay and emoluments of brevet officers,'' approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen. (H.R. 481)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of New York for the services of her militia. (H.R. 869)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Bradbury T. Jipson. (H.R. 961)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of Mary Hunter, widow of the late Captain James Hunter. (H.R. 591)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act For the relief of William Smith. (H.R. 317)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Catharine Allen, widow of Henry Allen. (H.R. 559)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 792)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Harvey Reynolds, and for the relief of Ephraim Shaler. (H.R. 724)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act Granting a pension to Phebe Champe, of Franklin county, Ohio. (H.R. 558)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To amend the act entitled ''An act for the relief of James Steel,'' approved twenty-eighth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. (H.R. 410)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. An Act To authorize William Delesdernier to draw the arrearages of pension due the late Lewis F. Delesdernier at the time of his death. (H.R. 654)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported without amendment; and adversely. An Act For the relief of the executors of Robert McFarland. (H.R. 1069)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Pensions. Reported without amendment; and adversely. An Act For the relief of Thompson Hutchinson. (H.R. 843)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act For the relief of the children and heirs of Sebastian Sroufe, late of Ohio, deceased. (H.R. 328)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Robert Farmer, deceased. (H.R. 157)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Abraham Woodall. (H.R. 115)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of James A. Williams. (H.R. 114)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Jehu Hollinsworth. (H.R. 110)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act For the relief of William James Aarons. (H.R. 111)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office. (H.R. 836)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To extend the time for selling the land granted to the Kentucky Asylum, for teaching the deaf and dumb. (H.R. 629)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.An Act For the relief of J. A. Fleming. (H.R. 755)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claim. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant John McDowell. (H.R. 223)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of Crawford Johnson. (H.R. 132)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of John Clark. (H.R. 222)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of legal representatives of Col. Francis Vigo. (H.R. 136)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of legal representatives of William Hooker Smith, deceased. (H.R. 130)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the children and heirs at law of John Clinton, deceased. (H.R. 127)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the children and heirs of Colonel Thomas Knowlton, deceased. (H.R. 148)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the children and heirs of Lieutenant Colonel Henry, deceased. (H.R. 125)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs at law of Joshua Fanning, deceased. (H.R. 128)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Campbell. (H.R. 126)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs of William B. Bunting. (H.R. 133)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs-at-law of Lieutenant James Conway. (H.R. 217)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the heirs-at-law of Wadleigh Noyes. (H.R. 218)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain James Purvis, deceased. (H.R. 153)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain John De Treville, deceased. (H.R. 151)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain John Marks, deceased. (H.R. 150)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain John Winston, deceased. (H.R. 221)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Williams, deceased. (H.R. 686)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor Charles Taylor, deceased. (H.R. 155)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased. (H.R. 666)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Timothy Feely, deceased, late a lieutenant in the army of the revolution. (H.R. 134)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the representatives of Colonel Anthony Walton White. (H.R. 356)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act Read twice, and referred to the legal representatives of Doctor William Johonnot, deceased. (H.R. 135)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of John McClelland, deceased. (H.R. 700)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Thomas H. Boyles, deceased. (H.R. 665)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Reported without amendment. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Crocker Sampson, deceased. (H.R. 1093)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Charles Snead, deceased. (H.R. 129)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. An Act For the improvement and survey of certain rivers, and the repair of certain roads in Florida. (H.R. 1136)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. An Act To authorize the construction of a road from Dubuque, in the Territory of Iowa, to the northern boundary of the State of Missouri, and for other purposes. (H.R. 1061)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. An Act To confirm the act of the Legislative Council of Florida, incorporating the ''Florida Peninsula Railroad and Steamboat Company,'' and granting the right of way to said company through the public lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 823)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act For the erection of a court-house in Alexandria, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 726)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To provide a free bridge across the Eastern branch of the river Potomac, in the city of Washington. (H.R. 613)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act To provide for the erection of a new jail in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 1146)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Reported with amendments, viz: Insert the words printed in italics. An Act Giving the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, entitled ''An act to amend an act incorporating the Falmouth and Alexandria Railroad Company,'' which passed ... (H.R. 604)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To change the time of holding the spring terms of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, and of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, directed by law to be held in the city of Richmond. (H.R. 376)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To reorganize the district courts of the United States in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 491)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To require the judge of the district courts of East and West Tennessee to hold a court at Jackson, in said State. (H.R. 399)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Curtis asked and obtained leave to introduce the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain debtors of the United States, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto. (H.R. 565)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. An Act For the relief of Joel Chandler. (H.R. 113)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. An Act For the relief of William Walker. (H.R. 112)

Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and reported with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States. (H.R. 1138)

Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which the said bill is committed. Mr. Briggs submitted the following, which, when the bill H.R. No. 380, respecting the mileage of members of Congress, shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an Amendment. Amend by striking out all after the word ''route'' in the tenth line of ... (H.R. 380)

Read, and laid upon the table. Mr. Hall, of Vermont, submitted the following; which, when the bill No. 802, ''to regulate the rates of letter postage, and for other purposes,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an Amendment. (H.R. 802)

Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Henry submitted the following; which, when the bill (H.R. No. 696) ''to establish a board of commissioners to examine and decide certain claims against the United States,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an Amendment. (H.R. 696)

Read, and postponed to Friday the 26th January instant. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of A. Quertier and Albert, of New Orleans. (H.R. 443)

Read, and postponed until Friday the 2d of February ensuing. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Repealing certain provisions of ''An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,'' approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. (H.R. 444)

Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Rignal, alias Nick Hillary. (H.R. 979)

Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. Shepperd, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of James Broadus, deceased. (H.R. 980)

Read, twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Plumber, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gideon Sheldon. (H.R. 965)

Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 981)

Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 891)

Read, twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill More effectually to prevent fraud in the collection, keeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue, and to punish public defaulters. (H.R. 898)

Received. An Act For the benefit of William B. Ferguson, and his sureties. (H.R. 830)

Received. An Act For the relief of Eliza Causin, daughter and heir of Colonel John H. Stone, deceased. (H.R. 461)

Received. An Act For the relief of Henry Hoffman. (H.R. 522)

Received. An Act For the relief of Joseph Prescott. (H.R. 355)

Received. An Act For the relief of Roger Stayner, late a captain in the army of the revolution. (H.R. 580)

Received. An Act For the relief of Simon Summers. (H.R. 387)

Received. An Act For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Captain Presley Thornton, deceased. (H.R. 283)

Received. An Act For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Garland Burnley, deceased. (H.R. 284)

Received. An Act For the relief of the heirs at law of Edward Wade, deceased. (H.R. 826)

Received. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Deborah Gannett, a soldier of the revolution, deceased. (H.R. 184)

Received. An Act For the relief of the heirs of James Hackley. (H.R. 799)

Received. An Act For the relief of the heirs of Richard Shubrick. (H.R. 475)

Received. An Act For the relief of the heirs-at-law of Doctor David Gould, deceased. (H.R. 827)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Jones, deceased. (H.R. 143)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Tarpley White, deceased. (H.R. 288)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Thomas Cook, deceased. (H.R. 286)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of James Broadus, deceased. (H.R. 648)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of James Burton, deceased. (H.R. 285)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of John B. Ashe, deceased. (H.R. 140)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Lathrop Allen, deceased. (H.R. 149)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant Colonel William Fontaine. (H.R. 438)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Major William Langbourne. (H.R. 439)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Nathan Lamme, deceased. (H.R. 354)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel O. Pettus, deceased. (H.R. 243)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Tarlton Woodson, deceased. (H.R. 551)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Wishart. (H.R. 569)

Received. An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of William Vause, deceased. (H.R. 287)

Received. An Act For the relief of William Dickson. (H.R. 835)

Received. An Act Granting a pension to the widow of John March, deceased. (H.R. 423)

Received. An Act Granting the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Captain William Gregory, deceased. (H.R. 334)

Received. An Act Granting the seven years' half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Lieutenant Jonathan Dye. (H.R. 717)

Received. An Act Granting the seven years' half pay, due on account of the revolutionary services of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Eppes, deceased. (H.R. 292)

Referred to a Select Committee of three members. Reported, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-day. Mr. Mason, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To repeal the second section of ''An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants and returning surveys thereon to the General Land ... (H.R. 1034)

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Tillinghast, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To allow a drawback of duties on imported hemp when manufactured into cordage and exported. (H.R. 1087)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. H. Johnson, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act establishing circuit courts and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts in the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio,'' approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and seven. (H.R. 1063)

Reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union with amendments The words stricken out are in brackets []; those added are in italics. A Bill To alter and regulate the navy ration. (H.R. 572)

Reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union with amendments, as stated at the end of the bill. A Bill Making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. (H.R. 676)

Reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union with amendments. The amendments added are in italics--the parts stricken out in brackets, [].A Bill To regulate the pay and emoluments of pursers in the navy. (H.R. 573)

Reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union without amendment. A Bill For extending and improving the navy yard at Brooklyn and for constructing a dry dock at the same. (H.R. 703)

Reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union without amendment. A Bill For reducing, under one head of appropriation, various appropriations for building, rebuilding, replacing, purchasing, and repairing vessels of war, and for providing materials for the same. (H.R. 571)

Reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union without amendment. A Bill For the payment of certain pensions heretofore paid out of the privateer pension fund. (H.R. 525)

Reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union without amendment. A Bill To authorize the purchase of two vessels, to be employed as receiving-vessels in the naval service. (H.R. 670)

Submitted by Mr. Robertson, as an amendment to the above bill, and printed by order of the House of Representatives. A Bill Imposing additional duties, as depositories in certain cases, upon public officers, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4)

Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Niles to the bill (H.R. 1146) ''to provide for the erection of a new jail in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia,'' viz: Strike out after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 1146)