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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

American State Papers --INDEX TO MISCELLANEOUS. VOLUME I.

American State Papers [Miscellaneous: Volume 1] : Index
INDEX TO MISCELLANEOUS. VOLUME I.

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• A.
• Year.
• Pages.
• Abolition of slavery--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the, Society of Quakers for the, 1791 ... 12

  For the liberation of a free negro, kidnapped and sold as a slave--Memorial of the Pennsylvania Society for the, 1791 ... 39

  For abolishing the slave trade--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of certain societies for the, 1794 ... 76

• Accountant of the War Department--Of amount due to General De la Fayette, statement of Joseph Howell, 1793 ... 72

  And number of clerks in his office--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 304

  Of the Navy Department, and number of clerks in his office--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 304

• Accounts between the United States and individual States--The clerks and messengers in their office, names of the commissioners for settling the, 1793 ... 59

  Balance due on, 1793 ... 69

• Adams, Vice President of the United States, with a salary of $5,000--John, 1793 ... 57
• Agriculture--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of establishing a national society for the promotion of, 1797 ... 154
• Alexandria--For the erection of a bridge across the Potomac river at Washington, report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the people of, 1806 ... 437
• Allegany Turnpike Company--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on application for subscription to the stock of the, 1803 ... 344
• Aliens--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relating to a revision of the naturalization act, and regulations respecting, 1798 ... 180
• Alien and sedition laws--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petitions for repeal of the, 1799 ... 181
• Aliens--To be admitted to citizenship after a residence of five instead of fourteen years, report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of sundry, 1800 ... 208

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on an application for extending the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States in favor of, 1805 ... 419

• Alien, for a patent right--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Anthony Boucherie, an, 1807 ... 655
• Amendments of the constitution, (See Constitution.)
• American Philosophical Society--That a more detailed view of the population of the United States be collected, memorial of the, 1800 ... 202
• Appointment of a member of Congress as colonel commandant of Louisiana--Message of the President relative to the, 1805 ... 421
• Armories of the United States--Names and pay of the officers of the military stores and, 1802 ... 313
• Arms and ammunition--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of remitting forfeitures under the act prohibiting the exportation of, 1800 ... 210
• Army--And clerks in his office, name of the paymaster general of the, 1793 ... 58

  Of militia embodied for suppression of the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Instructions to the commander-in-chief for the conduct and movements of the, 1794 ... 112

  Of the United States--General George Washington's acceptance of the command of the, 1798 ... 181

  Of the revolution--Report of the Secretary of War, with an account of the destruction of the War Office by fire, with the muster-rolls and other documents relating to the, 1801 ... 232

  Of the United States--Names and pay of the officers of the, 1802 ... 308

  For the defence of the posts on the Mississippi--Instructions from General James Wilkinson to Colonel Thos. H. Cushing, of the, 1806 ... 561

  In observing the movements of the Spanish troops on the Mississippi, &c.--From General Wilkinson to the Secretary of War relative to the operations of the, 1806 ... 562

  For a pacific and scientific tour through the Indian country on the Arkansas and Red rivers--Instructions from General Wilkinson to Lieutenant Z. M. Pike, of the, 1806 ... 564

  Under his command, for operations in defence of the frontier limits against the Spanish army--General orders from General Wilkinson to the, 1806 ... 565

  In favor of General Wilkinson, and of Major Bruff against him--Testimony of certain officers of the, 1807 571, ... 578

  Had been destroyed by fire, in 1801--Testimony of John Smith, chief clerk in the War 1807 ... 571, 578

  Office, that records of courts-martial of the, 1807 ... 603

  On charges of being a pensioner of the Spanish Government--Letter from the Secretary of War, detailing a court of inquiry on the conduct of General Wilkinson, of the, 1808 ... 706

  Of the United States, introduced at the trial of Aaron Burr--(See Burr.)--Letters and statements from, and documents relating to certain officers of the. 120
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• Army--Letter of the Secretary of War accepting the resignation of Major Bruff, of the, 1807 ... 586

  For an exploring expedition to the source of the Mississippi--instructions from General James Wilkinson to Lieutenant Z. M. Pike, of the, 1805 ... 942

• Arsenals--In service of the Ordnance Department, &c.--Rents of, 1793 ... 58

  Names and pay of storekeepers, inspectors, --c. at the United States, 1802 ... 313

• Arsenals and magazines--Act of the Legislature of South Carolina to enable the United States to purchase land in that State, not exceeding two thousand acres, for, 1788 ... 794
• Ash, for a general plan of insurance against loss by fire--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of William Frederick, 1794 ... 77
• Attorney General of the United States--On plan of a judiciary system for the United States, report of Edmund Randolph, 1790 ... 21

  Relative to fugitives from justice from one State to another--Opinion of the, 1791 ... 41

  Of Virginia relative to fugitives from justice from one State to another--Opinion of the, 1791 ... 41

  Of the United States, on the connexion of his office with the district attorneys, and asking to be allowed a clerk--Letter from the, 1791 ... 46

  With the district attorneys, and allowing him a clerk--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on connecting the office of the, 1792 ... 46

  Of the United States, salary $1,900--Edmund Randolph, 1793 ... 59

  Of the United States relative to decision of the Supreme Court on the validity of adjudications by certain judges on claims to invalid pensions--From William Bradford, 1794 ... 78

  Of the United States relative to costs and fees in the courts of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the report of the, 1794 ... 82

  Of the United States with the draught of a bill to establish the fees and compensation for the officers of the courts of the United States--Report from the, 1795 ... 117

  Of the United States on application of James Mackey for discharge from imprisonment at the suit of the United States--Report of the, 1796 ... 138

  Of the United States on the conduct of George Turner, judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwestern Territory--Report of Charles Lee, 1796 ... 151

  On the construction of the act of May 28, 1796, for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt--Report of the, 1797 ... 161

  On the construction of the act of May 28, 1796, for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt--Report of the, 1798 ... 162

  Of the United States, salary, $3,000--Levi Lincoln, 1802 ... 302

  Of the United States--Names of agents appointed by the, 1802 ... 307

  Of Indiana Territory, for services rendered the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to allowing compensation to the, 1804 ... 387

  On the propriety of reimbursing purchasers of real estate sold under an execution by the United States, the title to which proved defective--Opinion of Cæsar A. Rodney, 1808 ... 713

  On the expediency of passing a law for the punishment of conspirators and traitors against the Government--Opinion of the, 1808 ... 717

• Attorneys of the United States and their compensation--Names of the district, 1793 ... 59

  In the courts of the United States--Draught of a bill to establish the fees of the, 1795 ... 120

  Of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of additional compensation to the district, 1796 ... 152

  Names and compensation of the district, 1802 ... 303

  And assistant counsel, for legal advice and services rendered the United States--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with statements showing compensation made to the district, 1804 ... 392

  And assistant counsel for legal advice and services rendered the United States--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with statements showing compensation made by collectors of the customs and supervisors of the revenue to district, 1805 ... 406

  And officers, &c. of the courts of the United States--Report of the Attorney General of the United States, with a table of fees and compensation of the, (vide Courts,) 1807 ... 656

• Auditor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office--Names and salaries of the, 1793 ... 58

  With a statement of the books and papers destroyed by fire in the Treasury Office--Report from Richard Harrison, 1801 ... 241

  And number (with compensation) of clerks in his office--Names of the, 1802 ... 304

• B.
• Balances of accounts between the United States and the several States, 1793 ... 69
• Bard, a Representative from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the legality of the election of David, 1796 ... 142
• Barney, contesting the election of William McCreery, a Representative in Congress from Maryland--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Joshua, 1807 ... 484

  Contesting the election of William McCreery, a Representative from Maryland--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Joshua, 1807 ... 647

• Bartlett, Governor of New Hampshire, with a remonstrance of the Legislature of that State against the exercise of certain powers by the judiciary of the United States--From Josiah, 1794 ... 79
• Bassett, contesting the election of John Clopton, Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Burwell, 1796 ... 136
• Beacons, buoys, public piers, and stakage--Names and pay of superintendents of light-houses, 1793 ... 67
• Beckley, Clerk of the House of Representatives, salary $1,896--John, 1793 ... 59
• Bell, for relief from imprisonment for debt at the suit of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of William, 1798 ... 160
• Blair, and other judges of the Supreme Court, relative to defects in the judiciary system--From John, 1794 ... 77
• Blount, Governor of Southwestern Territory, relative to boundary between that Territory and Virginia--From William, 1792 ... 55
• Blount, Governor of the Territory south of the Ohio--William, 1793 ... 59

  Or Tennessee, for forming a constitution and State Government--From William, 1796 ... 146

• "Blue Book," or list of civil officers of the United States--First, 1793 ... 57

  Or list of officers, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States--Second, 1802 ... 260

• Books, draughts, and models, for the War Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, relative to purchase from William Tatham of, 1806 ... 456
• Boucherie, an alien, for a patent right--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of Anthony, 1807 ... 655
• Boundary--Between Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Territory south of the Ohio, message from President of the United States, with documents relative to, 1792 ... 53

  Between Virginia, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to, 1794 ... 113

  Between Georgia and West Florida--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives describing the bounds of Georgia and the, 1798 ... 178

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• Boundary--Of Ohio, described in report of a committee of the House of Representatives on subject of admission of that State into the Union, 1802 ... 326

  Between Georgia and North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on subject of disputed, 1806 ... 439

• Bradford--Attorney General of United States, relative to decisions of judges on claims to pensions--From William, 1794 ... 78

  And others, for suppressing whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Commission to William, 1794 ... 87

  Attorney General of United States, with the draught of a bill to establish the fees of the officers of the courts of the United States--Report from William, 1795 ... 117

• Breach of privileges.--(See Privileges.)
• Brent, marshal of the District of Columbia, relative to building a jail in Washington--From Daniel Carroll, 1803 ... 338
• Bribe its members--Proceedings of the House of Representatives in case of a breach of privileges, by an attempt to, 1795 ... 125
• Bridge--Across the Potomac river at Washington, report of a committee of the House of Representatives on expediency of incorporating a company to erect a, 1805 ... 422

  Across the Potomac river at Washington, report of a committee of the House of Representatives on expediency of erecting a, 1806 ... 437

  Statement relative to the construction of the Rhode Island, 1808 ... 868

• Bridges in New York, with their capital stock--List of toll, 1808 ... 874
• British aggression--Declaration of the people of Washington county, Mississippi, on the subject of, 1807 ... 481
• Brown--On manner of authenticating an edition of the laws of the United States, to be printed by Andrew, 1791 ... 37
• Bruin, presiding judge of that Territory--Resolutions of the Legislative Council of Mississippi impeaching Peter B., 1808 ... 921
• Buoys, public piers, and stakage--Names and pay of superintendents of light-houses, beacons, and, 1793 ... 67
• Burr, Vice President of the United States--Salary $5,000, Aaron, 1802 ... 300

  Message from Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, with documents relative to the conspiracy of Aaron, 1807 ... 468

  Deposition of General Wilkinson relative to, ... 469

  Message from the President of the United States, with documents implicating Samuel Swartwout, Peter V. Ogden, James Alexander, and Dr. Erick Bollman, in the treasonable conspiracy of Aaron, ... 471

  Letters from Aaron Burr and General Wilkinson, ... 472

  Message from the President of the United States, with letters to General Andrew Jackson, relative to the progress made by Aaron, ... 473

  Message from the President, with a letter from Cowles Mead, Acting Governor of Mississippi Territory, relative to the arrival there of Aaron, ... 477

  Message from the President, with information from Cowles Mead of the surrender of Aaron, ... 478

  At Richmond, Virginia--Message from the President, with proceedings and evidence exhibited on arraignment and trial of Aaron, ... 486

  Documents accompanying the same, viz:

  Bill of indictments by George Hay, United States attorney, ... 486

  Proceedings in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Virginia, showing the counsel, bail, jurors, witnesses, &c., ... 487

  Presentment of the grand jury, ... 489

  Evidence on motion for an attachment against General James Wilkinson, and for the arrest of Aaron Burr, Herman Blannerhasset, and Israel Smith, ... 491

  Testimony of James Knox, Lieutenant Gaines, and Mr. Graham, ... 491

  General Eaton, ... 493

  Commodore Truxton, ... 496

  Peter Taylor, ... 499

  General John Morgan, ... 501

  Colonel George Morgan, ... 503

  Jacob Albright, ... 504

  William Love, ... 506

  Thomas Hartley, ... 508

  Simeon Poole, ... 509

  Maurice P. Belknap, ... 509

  Edmund P. Dana, ... 511

  Israel Miller, ... 512

  James McDowell, ... 513

  Jacob Dunbaugh, ... 514

  Stephen S. Welch, ... 518

  Samuel Moxley, ... 519

  Chandler Lindsley, ... 520

  John Munhollan, ... 521

  Hugh Allen, ... 523

  David Fisk, ... 524

  Alexander Henderson, ... 525

  John Graham, ... 528

  John G. Henderson, ... 532

  Charles Duval, ... 533

  David C. Wallace, ... 535

  Robert Wallace, ... 536

  David Gillmore, ... 537

  General William Eaton, ... 537

  Commodore Shaw, ... 556

  Documents referred to in General Wilkinson's testimony, viz:

  A, deposition of Colonel Cushing, ... 557

  B, letter from Aaron Burr to General James Wilkinson, ... 558

  C, letter from Jonathan Dayton to General James Wilkinson, ... 558

  D, letters from A. Stephens to J. Peters, and from Erick Bollman to General Wilkinson, ... 558

  E, letter from Jonathan Dayton to General Wilkinson, ... 559

  F, letter from James L. Donaldson to General Wilkinson, ... 559

  G, letter from Erick Bollman to General Wilkinson, ... 559

  H, deposition of A. L. Duncan, ... 560

  I, deposition of J. B. Walback, ... 560

  K, letter from General Wilkinson to Colonel Thomas H. Cushing, ... 561

  L, instructions from General Wilkinson to Colonel Cushing, ... 561

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• Burr, Vice President of U. S.--Documents referred to in Gen. Wilkinson's testimony, viz:

  M, letter from General Wilkinson to the Secretary of War, relative to the army, 1807 ... 562

  N, letter from General Wilkinson to the Secretary of War, ... 562

  O, letter from General Andrew Jackson to Governor Wm. C. C. Claiborne, ... 563

  P, deposition of Commodore Shaw, ... 563

  Q, deposition of Commodore Shaw and William Tharp, ... 564

  R, letter from Wm. White to Colonel Andrew Burk, ... 564

  S, instructions to Lieutenant Pike, ... 564

  T, additional instructions to Lieutenant Pike, ... 565

  V, letter from General Wilkinson to General Samuel Smith, ... 565

  W, general orders from General Wilkinson to the troops, ... 565

  X, deposition of George Peter, ... 566

  Y, letter from Leonard Covington to General Wilkinson, ... 567

  Z, letter from Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, to General Wilkinson, ... 567

  Evidence of Gabriel G. Van Horne, ... 567

  George Poindexter, ... 568

  Major James Bruff, ... 571

  Commodore Shaw, ... 577

  Captain Daniel Bissel, ... 577

  Letter from General Wilkinson to Major Bruff, ... 577

  Certificate of R. J. Meigs, Jun., relative to Major Bruff, ... 577

  Testimony of certain officers of the army in favor of General Wilkinson, ... 578

  Evidence of General Wilkinson, in explanation of Major Bruff's testimony, ... 578

  Cross-examination of Major Bruff, ... 581

  Evidence of Captain E. P. Gaines, ... 584

  Captain D. Bissel, ... 584

  Lieutenant Clarence Mulford, ... 585

  D, extract of a letter from General Wilkinson to Major Bruff, ... 585

  E, F, G, H, extracts of letters from General Wilkinson to Major Bruff, ... 586

  Letter from the Secretary of War to Major Bruff, accepting his resignation, ... 586

  Evidence furnished by the district attorney, viz:

  Witness on behalf of the accused--Littleton W. Tazewell, ... 586

  Deposition of Matthew Ellis, ... 589

  Captain D. Bissel, ... 590

  Deposition relative to furlough of Sergeant Dunbaugh, ... 590

  Evidence of Judge Todd, ... 592

  Colonel John McKee, ... 593

  Mr. Gates, on behalf of H. Blannerhasset, ... 596

  Charles Fenton Mercer, on behalf of H. Blannerhasset, ... 596

  Lemuel Henry, on behalf of H. Blannerhasset, ... 597

  Elijah Jones, on behalf of H. Blannerhasset, ... 597

  Thomas Bodly, on behalf of Aaron Burr, ... 598

  Colonel Charles Lynch, on behalf of Aaron Burr, ... 599

  Silas Dinsmore, on behalf of Aaron Burr, ... 600

  Lemuel Henry, on behalf of Aaron Burr, ... 601

  Colonel Henry Gaither, to discredit General Eaton, ... 603

  Captain Samuel Tinsley, to discredit General Eaton, ... 604

  General Eaton, in explanation of Colonel Gaither's testimony, ... 604

  John Brokenbrough and Joseph C. Cabell, on the testimony of General Wilkinson, ... 606

  Thomas Power, ... 607

  Lieutenant Jacob Jackson, ... 610

  Opinion of the court on motion to commit Aaron Burr, ... 611

  Opinion of the court whether Jacob Dunbaugh's affidavit was admissible, &c., ... 612

  Opinion of the court on motion for a writ of subpoena duces tecum, to be directed to the President of the United States, ... 613

  Opinion of the court on question whether Charles Willie should be compelled to answer certain questions, ... 618

  Opinion of the court on motion for an attachment against General Wilkinson, ... 619

  Opinion of the court on question concerning the order in which the evidence was to be introduced, ... 620

  Opinion of the court on motion to stop the introduction of evidence, ... 621

  Opinion of the court on proper process to be employed for bringing Aaron Burr before the court to answer the indictment for the misdemeanor, ... 636

  Opinion of the court on motion to exclude evidence on trial. &c., ... 637

  Conclusive opinion of Chief Justice Marshall on the motion for commitment, ... 641

• Burr--Report of a committee of the Senate on the subject of expelling John Smith, a member, on account of participating in the conspiracy of Aaron, 1807 ... 701
• Burr's conspiracy--Message from the President relative to letters from John Smith and Matthew Nimmo, respecting, 1808 ... 921
• C.
• Cabell, contesting the election of Thomas Mann Randolph, Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on memorial of Samuel J., 1804 ... 392
• Cadwallader, acting United States district attorney for the county of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in case of James Mackey, imprisoned for debt--Statement of John, 1796 ... 138
• Canal in the city of Washington--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on application for an act of incorporation to make a, 1802 ... 258
• Canal from the head to the foot of the rapids of the Ohio river--Report of a committee of the Senate on the subject of extending aid for making a, 1805 ... 419
• Canal Company--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives adverse to granting pecuniary assistance to the Chesapeake and Delaware, 1806 ... 452
• Canal at the rapids of the Ohio river--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the Legislature of Kentucky for aid in opening a, 1806 ... 453
• Canal Company--Report of a committee of the Senate on memorial of the Chesapeake and Delaware, 1806 ... 454
• Canal at the rapids of the Ohio river--Report of a committee of the Senate on the practicability of constructing the Louisville and Portland, 1807 ... 478
• Canals--Report from Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, with a general view of internal improvements by roads and, (See Gallatin.) 1808 ... 724

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• Canals along the Atlantic seacoast, viz: (See Gallatin.)

  1. Massachusetts canal, 1808 ... 725

  2. New Jersey canal, ... 726

  3. Delaware and Chesapeake canal, ... 726

  4. Chesapeake and Albemarle canal, ... 727

• Canals--Interior, viz:

  1. Merrimack, or Blodget's canal, ... 735

  2. Schuylkill and Delaware, ... 736

  3. Schuylkill and Susquehannah, ... 736

  4. Appomattox, ... 736

  5. Neuse and Beaufort, ... 736

  6. Cape Fear river, ... 736

  7. New Orleans, or Canal Carondelet, ... 737

• Canals--General queries respecting, ... 742
• Canals, viz: Massachusetts canals, ... 742

  1. Back river, in Buzzard's bay, to Scusset river, in Barnstable bay, ... 742

  2. Hyannuss harbor, south of cape, to Barnstable town, north of cape, ... 742

  3. Weymouth and Taunton canal, ... 746

  Raritan and Delaware canal, ... 748

  Chesapeake and Delaware canal, ... 752

  Chesapeake and Albemarle canal, ... 762

  1. Dismal Swamp canal, ... 762

  2. Canal between the waters of Virginia and North Carolina, ... 763

  Northern Company, for connecting the waters of Hudson river with Lake Champlain, ... 765

  1. Examination of the Hudson river, ... 765

  2. Communication between the Atlantic rivers and the great lakes, ... 769

  Report to the directors of the Western and Northern Inland Lock Navigation, ... 770

  Memorial of the directors of the Western and Northern Inland Lock Navigation to the Legislature of New York, ... 777

  Acts of the Legislature of New York for establishing and opening lock navigation in that State, ... 781

  3. Canal at or near Niagara, ... 789

  Canal between Santee and Cooper rivers, ... 789

  1. Catawba canal, in South Carolina, ... 791, 946

  2. Acts of the Legislature of South Carolina for opening navigation between the Catawba and Wateree rivers, ... 792

  3. James river canal, ... 797

  Act of the Legislature of Virginia for clearing and improving James river, ... 798

  Act of the Legislature of Virginia, vesting in General George Washington certain canal stock, ... 808

  4. Potomac river canal, ... 808

  Extending navigation to Shenandoah river, ... 818

  Extending navigation to Appomattox canal, ... 818

  5. Susquehannah canal, ... 819

  6. Falls of the Ohio, ... 821

  Acts of the Legislature of Kentucky, incorporating Ohio Canal Company, &c. ... 822

  Providence and Charles river, above tide water, ... 826

  Blodget, Essex, and Middlesex canals, ... 827

  Susquehannah and Schuylkill canal, ... 828

  Historical account of canal navigation, ... 830

  Delaware navigation, ... 835

  Susquehannah navigation, ... 835

  Plan for improvement of roads and inland navigation, ... 841

  Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, incorporating company for a canal between the Schuylkill and Susquehannah rivers, ... 843, 860

  Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, incorporating a company for a canal between the Delaware and Schuylkill, ... 847

  Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, incorporating the Conewago Canal Company, ... 851

  Memorial of the Schuylkill and Susquehannah Canal Navigation Company, ... 852

  Delaware and Schuylkill canal, ... 859

  Grants of public money by the Legislature of Pennsylvania for improvements of roads and waters. ... 863

  Newbern and Beaufort canal, ... 865

  Cape Fear river canal, ... 866

  Statement of B. H. Latrobe, relative to natural navigation in the United States, and the canals parallel thereto, leading to the sea, ... 910

  Statement of B. H. Latrobe, relative to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, ... 914

  Statement of B. H. Latrobe, relative to the construction of railroads, &c., ... 916

  Statement by Robert Fulton, on the subject of roads and canals, ... 917

• Capitol and other public buildings at the seat of Government--Message of the President, relative to erection of the, 1796 ... 133

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the erection of the 1796 ... 136

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on progress made on the, 1796 ... 142

• Carmichael, chargé des affaires of the United States at Madrid--William, 1793 ... 57
• Carpenter, stenographers, proposing to furnish to that House the debates in Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Lloyd and, 1796 ... 153

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of Thomas, 1797 ... 159

• Catawba and Wateree rivers--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the improvement of the, 1809 ... 946
• Census--The President returns with objections the bill for the apportionment of Representatives among the States, according to the first, 1792 ... 48

  Or population of the United States be collected--Memorial of the American Philosophical Society that a more detailed view of the, 1800 ... 202

• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives adverse to assisting the, 1806 ... 452

  Report of a committee of the Senate in favor of assisting the, 1806 ... 454

• Chesapeake--Declaration of the people of Washington county, Mississippi, respecting the attack of the British ship Leopard upon the United States frigate, 1807 ... 481
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company--Report, &c. concerning the, 1808 ... 726, 752
• Chouteau and Eligius Fromentin, appointed delegates to represent the interests of the people of Louisiana to Congress--Augustus, 1804 ... 404

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• Citizenship, (See Naturalization.)
• Civil officers of the United States--First "Blue Book," or list of, 1793 ... 57
• Civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States, and their compensation--Second "Blue Book," or list of officers, 1802 ... 260
• Claiborne, Governor of Mississippi Territory, salary $2,000--W. C. C., 1802 ... 305
• Claims of widows and orphans barred by limitation to pensions, &c.--The judges of the Supreme and district courts of the United States object to the performance of certain duties under the act for the settlement of, 1792 ... 49, 50, 51
• Clark, and Pike and Freeman--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to an exploration of the western waters by Lewis and, 1806 ... 463
• Clark relative to an illicit connexion between Gen. Wilkinson and the Spanish--Statement of Daniel, 1808 ... 704
• Clerks and other officers in the civil employment of the United States--List of, 1793 ... 57
• Clerks of the Supreme and district courts of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 60
• Clerks of the district courts of the United States--Draught of a bill to establish the fees of, 1795 ... 117
• Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States--Draught of a bill to establish the fees of the, 1795 ... 121
• Clerks of the Supreme and district courts of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 303
• Clopton, Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Burwell Bassett contesting the election of John, 1796 ... 134
• Coinage, weights, and measures--Reports of the Secretary of State on uniformity in, 1790 ... 13 1791 36
• Collectors of the customs of the United States--Names and emoluments of the, 1793 ... 60
• Collectors and other officers of the customs--List of names and emoluments of, 1802 ... 261
• College or university of Vincennes--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the trustees of the, 1807 ... 654
• Collins, Governor of Rhode Island, on the condition of that State before its adoption of the constitution of the United States--From John, 1789 ... 10
• Colonization of people of color from that State--Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia, with correspondence between the Governor and President United States relative to land for the, 1807 ... 464
• Columbia. (See District of Columbia.)
• Contested elections of Representatives in Congress. (See Elections.)
• Commissioner of the Revenue, and the clerks and messenger in his office--Names and salaries of the, 1793 ... 58
• Commissioner of the Revenue, with number and compensation of clerks in his office--Name of the, 1802 ... 304
• Commissioners for settling the accounts between the United States and the individual States, with the clerks and messengers in their office--Names of the, 1793 ... 59
• Commissioners of balances of accounts between the United States and the several States--Report from the, 1793 ... 69
• Commissioners of loans of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 60
• Commissioners of loans and agents for paying invalid pensions--Names and compensation of, 1802 ... 305
• Commissioners for suppressing the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Report of James Ross, Jasper Yeates, and William Bradford, 1794 ... 87
• Commissioners under the act for the establishment of the seat of Government of the United States--

  Report of Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, 1796 ... 133

  Report of Alexander White, one of the, 1796 ... 143

• Commissioners of the city of Washington--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on discontinuing the offices of, 1802 ... 260

  Relative to the establishment of a national university in the District of Columbia--Report of the, 1796 ... 153

• Commissioners for settling treaties with foreign countries--Names and compensation of, 1802 ... 307
• Committees in the House of Representatives--Report of a committee on the mode of appointing the chairmen of, 1804 ... 395
• Committees of the House of Representatives and Senate. (See subjects reported on.)
• Compensation of civil officers of the United States--Names and, 1793 ... 57
• Compensation. (See officer or officers entitled thereto.)
• Comptroller of the Treasury--Names and salaries of comptroller, clerks, and messenger in the office of the, 1793 ... 57

  Relative to books destroyed by fire in the Treasury Office--Report from John Steele, 1801 ... 241

  With the number and compensation of clerks in his office--Name of the, 1802 ... 304

• Confederation--Remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire concerning the relative powers of the General and State Governments under the, 1794 ... 79

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire concerning the relative powers of the General and State Governments under the, 1794 ... 81

• Confederation, and other documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting the journals of Congress under the, 1799 ... 185
• Conference on disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill "fixing the salaries of certain officers therein named"--Report of a committee on the part of the House of Representatives of, 1803 ... 385
• Congress--(See Elections)--Contested election of Representatives in.

  Among the several States, according the first census--The President returns, with objections, the bill for the apportionment of Representatives to, 1792 ... 48

  A report from that Department--From the Secretary of the Treasury relative to errors made in printing for, 1793 ... 68

  A report from that Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on do., 1793 ... 69

  From Southwestern Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the legality of the election of James White as delegate to, 1794 ... 83

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of appointing reporters of debates, as officers, for that House 1795 ... 123

  Proceedings of the House of Representatives against Robert Randall and Charles Whitney for a breach of privileges, in attempting to bribe members of, 1795 ... 125

  Message from the President, with report of commissioners for establishing the seat of Government, relative to the erection of buildings for the accommodation of, 1796 ... 133

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with a resolution for the appointment of a stenographer to report the debates of that House of, 1796 ... 140

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives to provide for furnishing members of that House, by Lloyd & Carpenter, with copies of the debates in, 1796 ... 153

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives to provide for furnishing members of that House, by Thomas Carpenter, with copies of the debates in, 1797 ... 159

  Under the confederation, and other public documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting the journals of, 1799 ... 185

  From Mississippi Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the credentials of Nasworthy Hunter, a delegate to, 1801 ... 252

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of expediting the printing of, 1801 ... 253

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• Congress in 1802--Names of Senators and Representatives in, and officers of, 1802 ... 300
• Congress--Report of a committee of conference on the part of the House of Representatives on disagreeing votes of the two Houses of, 1803 ... 385

  Message from the President relative to the appointment of Samuel Hammond as colonel commandant of Louisiana while a member of, 1805 ... 421

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the propriety of extending the library of, 1806 ... 437

  Under the confederation--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for supplying members with copies of the journals of, 1806 ... 452

• Congressional library--Report of a joint committee of the two Houses on the establishment of the, 1801 ... 253
• Congressional documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting the laws, journals, and other, 1803 ... 357
• Connecticut--Turnpike roads of, 1807 ... 869
• Conspiracy against the United States, by Aaron Burr, (See Burr)--Documents relative to the treasonable, 1807 ... 468
• Conspiracy or treason against the United States--Opinion of the Attorney General on the expediency of a law for the punishment of the crime of, 1808 ... 717
• Constitution of the United States--Application of Virginia for a convention to amend the, 1788 ... 6

  Application of New York for a convention to amend the, 1789 ... 7

  Situation of Rhode Island before its adoption of the, 1789 ... 10

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire against the power exercised by the judiciary of the United States in annulling a law of that State passed prior to the adoption of the, 1794 ... 79

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire against the power exercised by the judiciary of the United States in annulling a law of that State passed prior to the adoption of the, 1794 ... 81

• Constitution respecting the suability of the States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the ratification, by the States, of the amendment to the, 1797 ... 156
• Constitution in relation to the election of President, Vice President, and members of the House of Representatives--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on propositions to amend the, 1801 ... 216
• Constitution as respects the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States and the several States--Memorials for an amendment to the, 1807 ... 479
• Consuls and commercial agents of the United States in foreign countries--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 307
• Convention to amend the constitution of the United States--Application of Virginia and New York for a, 1788 ... 6 1789 7
• Cooper to act as counsel for William Duane, charged with a breach of the privileges of the Senate--Refusal of Thomas, 1800 ... 212
• Copyrights--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the extension of patent and, 1805 ... 416
• Counsel for services rendered the United States, (See Attorneys)--Compensation to assistant, 1804 ... 392
• Court of the United States--New York, object to the performance of certain duties prescribed by law, the judges of the district, 1792 ... 49

  Pennsylvania, object to the performance of certain duties prescribed by law, the judges of the district, 1792 ... 50

  As district judges, object to the performance of certain duties prescribed by law--John Jay, chief justice, and certain associate justices of the Supreme, 1792 ... 49, 50, 52

  Recommending a change in the judiciary system, letter from judges of the Supreme, 1792 ... 51

• Courts of the United States--Names and compensation of the clerks of the Supreme and district, 1793 ... 60

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire against the exercise of certain powers by the, 1794 ... 79

  Report of a committee of the Senate on remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire against the exercise of certain powers by the, 1794 ... 81

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire against the exercise of certain powers by the, 1795 ... 123

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to costs and fees in the, 1791 ... 82

  Report from the Attorney General, with the draught of a bill to establish the fees and compensation of the officers of the Supreme and district, 1795 ... 117

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the report of the Attorney General, with the draught of a bill to establish the fees and compensations of the officers of the Supreme and district, 1795 ... 123

• Court contrary to law in the Northwestern Territory, &c.--Report of the Attorney General on the misconduct of George Turner, judge, in holding a, 1796 ... 151

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the report of the Attorney General on the misconduct of George Turner, judge, in holding a, 1797 ... 157

• Courts of the United States--Names and compensation of the judges and officers of the Supreme, circuit, and district, 1802 ... 302

  Message of the President, with a list of suits decided and depending in the, 1802 ... 319

• Courts in the Territories, and adverse to appeals from said courts to the Supreme Court of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for regulations of, 1803 ... 384
• Courts in the District of Columbia, and praying relief--Memorial of the people, complaining of the exorbitancy of fees of officers of the, 1805 ... 409
• Court in the District of Columbia--Table of fees of the marshal, crier, and clerk of the circuit, 1805 ... 412

  Expenses of an uncontested suit in the circuit, 1805 ... 415

• Courts of the United States in favor of aliens--Report of a committee of the House of Representatatives relative to extending the jurisdiction of the circuit, 1805 ... 419
• Courts to remit forfeitures and penalties under revenue laws--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on vesting power in the judges of State, 1806 ... 435
• Courts of the United States and of the several States--Memorials for an amendment to the constitution as respects the jurisdiction of the, 1807 ... 479
• Courts of the United States--Report from the Attorney General of the United States, with a table of fees and compensation of the attorneys, officers, jurors, and witnesses of the, viz:

  In the State of New Hampshire, 1807 ... 656

  In the State of Massachusetts, ... 657

  In the State of Rhode Island, ... 659

  In the State of Connecticut, ... 660

  In the State of Vermont, ... 661

  In the State of New York, ... 664

  In the State of New Jersey, ... 670

  In the State of Pennsylvania, ... 674

  In the State of Delaware, ... 676

  In the State of Maryland, ... 681

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• Courts of the United States--Report from the Attorney General of the United States, with a table of fees and compensation of the attorneys, officers, jurors, and witnesses of the, viz:

  In the State of Virginia, 1807 ... 685

  In the State of North Carolina, ... 688

  In the State of South Carolina, ... 690

  In the State of Georgia, ... 693

  In the State of Kentucky, ... 695

  In the State of Tennessee, ... 697

  In the State of Ohio, ... 698

• Court of the United States in Virginia, on the trial of Aaron Burr--Opinions of District, (See Burr.)
• Courts-martial. (See Army--Military.)
• Cox, Commissioner of the Revenue, with a salary of 1, $900--Tench, 1793 ... 58
• Cox, suspected of having designs upon the Indians lands--Message from the President, with documents relative to the arrest of Zachariah, 1803 ... 358

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Zachariah, 1803 ... 361

• Cranch, and other commissioners relative to the affairs of city of Washington--Report from William, 1801 ... 219
• Crimes against the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petitions for a repeal of the sedition act, or act for the punishment of certain, 1799 ... 181
• Crimes of conspiracy or treason against the United States--Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States on the expediency of a law for the punishment of, 1808 ... 717
• Culpepper, Representative from North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Duncan McFarland, contesting the election of John, 1807 ... 652
• Cumberland road--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to proceeds of the public lands in Ohio, and location of the, 1805 ... 432

  Message of the President, with report of the commissioners for laying out the, 1807 ... 474

  Message of the President, with report of the commissioners for locating the, 1808 ... 714

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, stating the amount of the five per cent. fund from sales of public lands in Ohio, and expenses and estimate for the, 1808 ... 718

  Message of the President, with report of the commissioners for laying out the, 1808 ... 940

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of expenditures on the, 1809 ... 947

• Cushing and other judges of Supreme Court relative to defects in judiciary system--From William 1794 ... 77
• Customs of the United States--Names and emoluments of the collectors and other officers of the, 1793 ... 60
• Customs--Names and emoluments of the inspectors, gaugers, weighers, measurers, and boatmen employed by the collectors of the, 1793 ... 63

  List of names and emoluments of the collectors and other officers of the, viz:

  For New Hampshire, 1802 ... 261

  For Massachusetts, ... 262

  For Vermont, ... 267

  For Rhode Island, ... 267

  For Connecticut, ... 268

  For New York, ... 269

  For Pennsylvania, ... 271

  For Delaware, ... 272

  For Maryland, ... 272

  For Virginia, ... 274

  For North Carolina, ... 276

  For South Carolina, ... 277

  For Georgia, ... 278

  For the Territories of the United States, ... 279

• Cutters--Names and compensation of the officers of the revenue, 1793 ... 63
• D.
• Dallas to act as counsel for William Duane, charged with a breach of privileges of the Senate--Refusal of Alexander J., 1800 ... 211
• Dauphin of France--Message from the President on the death of the, 1789 ... 10
• Dean and certain French officers to serve the United States in the revolutionary war--Engagement between Silas, 1793 ... 71
• Debates in that House--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of appointing reporters of, 1796 ... 123

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with a resolution for the appointment of a stenographer to report the, 1796 ... 140

• Debates of Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a proposition of Lloyd & Carpenter to furnish members of that House with the, 1797 ... 153

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a proposition of Thomas Carpenter to furnish members of that House with the, 1797 ... 159

• Debt--Report of the Attorney General on the application of James Mackey for a discharge from imprisonment, at suit of the United States, on account of, 1796 ... 138

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Joseph Rittenhouse to be discharged from imprisonment for, 1797 ... 157

• Debt at suit of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives and Attorney General on the petition of William Bell for relief from imprisonment for, 1798 ... 160
• Debt--Message from the President, with opinions of the Attorney General of the United States and the judge of Pennsylvania district (Richard Peters) on construction of the act for the relief of persons imprisoned for, 1798 ... 162

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for a revision of the act for the relief of persons imprisoned for, 1798 ... 179

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for a revision of the acts "for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities accruing in certain cases," and "for the relief of persons imprisoned for," 1798 ... 180

• Debtors to the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of relief to insolvent, 1800 ... 213
• De Kalb to serve the United States in the revolutionary war--Engagement of Baron, 1776 ... 71
• Delaware and Chesapeake canal--Reports respecting the, 1806 ... 452, 454 1808 726, 752
• Delegate to Congress from the Southwestern Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the legality of the election of James White as, 1794 ... 83
• Delegate to Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the right of Mississippi to send a, 1801 ... 252
• Dexter, Acting Secretary of War, relative to the destruction of the War Office by fire, in 1800--Report from Samuel, 1801 ... 232
• Dexter, Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the destruction of books and papers by fire in that Department--Report from Samuel, 1801 ... 241

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• Diplomatic ministers of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 306
• Discoveries and inventions--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proper mode of encouraging useful, 1796 ... 140
• District attorneys, and allowing him a clerk--Letter from the Attorney General relative to connecting his office with, 1791 ... 46

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on connecting office of Attorney General with, 1792 ... 46

• District attorneys of the United States and their compensation--Names of the, 1793 ... 59
• District attorneys in the courts of the United States--Draught of bill to establish the fees of the, 1795 ... 120
• District attorneys of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of increasing the compensation of the, 1796 ... 152

  Names and compensation of the, 1804 ... 392

• District attorneys, for services rendered the United States--Statements of the amount of compensation to assistant counsel and, 1802 ... 303
• District attorneys and assistant counsel for legal advice and services rendered the United States--

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury showing compensation by the collectors of the customs and supervisors of the revenue to, 1805 ... 406

• District courts, (See Courts.)
• District of Columbia--Message from the President of the United States with a report of the commissioners under the act for establishing the seat of Government of the United States, relative to grants of land by individuals, and of money by Maryland and Virginia for erecting public buildings and the establishment of the boundaries of the federal city, or city of Washington, in the, 1796 ... 133

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1796 ... 136

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the property and expenditures of the United States at the seat of Government in the, 1796 ... 142

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to establishment of a national university in the, 1796 ... 153

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on certain applications for divorces in the, 1803 ... 386

  Memorial of delegates complaining of sundry grievances, and praying that provision be made for relief of the people of the, 1805 ... 409

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for incorporating a company to erect a bridge across the Potomac river in the, 1805 ... 422

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of authorizing the construction of a bridge in the, 1806 ... 437

  Report of the surveyor of public buildings in the, 1807 ... 482

  Public lots, buildings, &c. in the, (See Washington.)

• Divorces in the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on certain applications for, 1804 ... 386
• Documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting journals of Congress under the Confederation, and other public, 1799 ... 185

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting the laws, journals, and other Congressional, 1803 ... 357

• Dodge and others for renewal of patent right--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of George, 1806 ... 453
• Doughlass and others against the election of Michael Leib as Representative from Pennsylvania--

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of John, 1806 ... 436

• Duane, for breach of the privileges of that House, by defamatory publications in the "Aurora" newspaper--Report or a committee of the Senate on charges against William, 1800 ... 208

  Same, 1800 ... 209

  Same, 1800 ... 210

  Same, 1800 ... 211

  Same, 1800 ... 212

• Duane, &c.--Remonstrance of the citizens of Philadelphia against the proceedings in the case of William, 1800 ... 215
• Dumas, agent of the United States at the Hague, 1793 ... 57
• E
• Education, by establishing a national university in the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for encouragement of, 1796 ... 153
• Election as President of the United States--Notification to George Washington of his, 1789 ... 15
• Election of President, Vice President, and members of the House of Representatives--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on proposition to amend the constitution in relation to, 1801 ... 216
• Election of William Smith as Representative in Congress from South Carolina--Report of a committee on the petition of David Ramsay contesting, 1789 ... 5, 8
• Election of Representatives from New Jersey--Report of a committee on illegality of, 1789 ... 8, 9
• Election of Anthony Wayne, Representative from Georgia--Report of a committee on the petition of James Jackson contesting, 1791 ... 43
• Election of John E. Van Allen, Representative from New York--Report of a committee on the petition of Henry K. Van Rensselaer contesting, 1793 ... 70
• Election of Albert Gallatin as Senator from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the Senate on the petition of Conrad Laub and others contesting, 1793 ... 73
• Election of John Patten, Representative from Delaware--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Henry Lattimer contesting the, 1794 ... 75
• Election or appointment of Kensey Johns as a Senator from Delaware--Report of a committee of the Senate on the illegality of the, 1794 ... 80
• Election of James White as a delegate to Congress from the Southwestern Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the legality of the, 1794 ... 83
• Election of James Morris, Representative from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of John Richards contesting the, 1796 ... 134
• Election of John Clopton, Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Burwell Bassett contesting the, 1796 ... 136
• Election of Israel Smith, Representative from Vermont--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Matthew Lyon contesting the, 1796 ... 139
• Election of David Bard, Representative from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the legality of the, 1796 ... 142
• Election of Joseph Bradley Varnum, Representative from Massachusetts--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the contested, 1796 ... 145
• Election of Israel Smith, Representative from Vermont--Further report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Matthew Lyon contesting the, 1796 ... 152
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• Election of Daniel Morgan, Representative from Virginia, with rules for taking evidence, prescribed by the committee--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Robert Rutherford contesting the, 1797 ... 158
• Elections--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested, 1797 ... 159
• Election of Nasworthy Hunter, a delegate to Congress from Mississippi Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the credentials of the, 1801 ... 252
• Election as Representative from New York void by accepting a commission in militia of the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives that John P. Van Ness had rendered his, 1803 ... 336
• Election of Thomas Lewis, Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Andrew Moore contesting the, 1804 ... 387
• Election of Samuel D. Purviance, Representative from North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Duncan McFarland contesting the, 1804 ... 389
• Election of Thomas Mann Randolph, Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of Samuel J. Cabell contesting the, 1804 ... 392
• Election of John Hoge, Representative from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition contesting the, 1804 ... 395
• Election of Cowles Mead, Representative from Georgia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Thomas Spalding contesting the, 1805 ... 431
• Election of Michael Leib, Representative from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of John Doughlass and others against the, 1806 ... 436
• Election of William McCreery, Representative from Maryland--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Joshua Barney contesting the, 1807 ... 484

  Same, 1807 ... 647

• Election of Philip B. Key, Representative from Maryland--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of thirty electors contesting the, 1807 ... 651

  Same, 1808 ... 717

• Election of John Culpepper, Representative from North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Duncan McFarland contesting the, 1807 ... 652
• Elective franchise, &c. in Indiana Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of the, 1804 ... 387
• Ellicott, commissioner for establishing the line between the United States and the Spanish provinces, relative to conduct of the Spaniards in Louisiana, their intrigues for the separation of the Union, &c.--From Andrew, 1808 ... 709
• Evans, for extension of his patent right--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Oliver, 1805 ... 416

  Memorial of Oliver, on the same, 1805 ... 434

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Oliver, on the same, 1807 ... 646

• Excise law in Pennsylvania--Message from the President of the United States relative to opposition to the United States, 1794 ... 83
• Exploration of the western waters--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the surveys by Lewis and Clarke, and Pike and Freeman, and to further, 1806 ... 463
• Explored--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of causing certain remote and unknown parts of Louisiana to be, 1804 ... 390
• Exploring expeditions under Captain Zebulon M. Pike--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the, 1808 ... 719
• Exploring expedition to the source of the Mississippi river, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of compensating Captain Zebulon M. Pike and others for services on, 1808 ... 942
• Exportation of arms and ammunition--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of remitting forfeitures under act prohibiting the, 1800 ... 210
• F.
• Fauchet, minister from France, with the standard of weights and measures adopted by that country --From Joseph, 1794 ... 115
• Federal city, or city of Washington, in the District of Columbia--Message from the President, with report of commissioners for the establishment of the seat of Government at the, 1796 ... 133
• Federal city--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the message, &c. relative to the establishment of the seat of Government at the, 1796 ... 136
• Fees in the courts of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the establishment of the costs and, 1794 ... 82
• Fees and compensation of the officers of the courts of the United States--Report from the Attorney General, with the draught of a bill to establish the, 1795 ... 117
• Fees in the Supreme and district courts of the United States--Report of committee of the House of Representatives on establishing the, 1795 ... 123
• Fees to district attorneys and assistant counsel for legal advice and services rendered the United States--Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, with statements of compensation or, 1804 ... 392
• Fees to officers of justice in the District of Columbia, and praying a reduction of the same--Memorial complaining of the exorbitancy of, 1805 ... 409
• Fees of the marshal, crier, and clerk of the circuit court of the District of Columbia--Table of the, 1805 ... 412
• Fees of the attorneys, officers, jurors, and witnesses of the courts of the United States--Report of the Attorney General of the United States, with table of, (See Courts,) 1807 ... 656
• Ferries in the Northwestern Territory--Report of a committee of the Senate in favor of granting land to Ebenezer Zane to establish, 1796 ... 145
• Finances of the United States--Memorial of Robert Morris for an inquiry into his official conduct as superintendent of the, 1790 ... 11
• Finances--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of Robert Morris for an inquiry into his official conduct as superintendent of the, 1791 ... 38
• Fires in the War and Treasury offices, (See War and Treasury)--Papers destroyed by, 1801 ... 232, 247
• Fitch for the exclusive right in the application of steam to navigation--Memorial of John, 1791 ... 12
• Florida--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with a copy of a commission from King George III. of Great Britain, describing the bounds of Georgia and Florida, and the boundary between Georgia and West, 1798 ... 178
• Foreign countries--List of ministers and agents of the United States in, 1793 ... 57
• Foreigners--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of extending the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States in favor of, 1805 ... 419
• Foreign relations of the Government--Memorial from the people of Kentucky on the subject of the, 1793 ... 929

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• Foreign relations--Declaration of the people of Mississippi, approving the measures of the General Government regarding its, 1807 ... 481

  Resolution of the Legislature of North Carolina, approving the measures of the General Government regarding its, 1808 ... 944

• Forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities accruing in certain cases--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for a revision of the act for mitigating or remitting the, 1798 ... 180
• Forfeitures under the act prohibiting the exportation of arms and ammunition--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of remitting, 1800 ... 210
• Forfeitures and penalties under the revenue laws, so far as regards the northern frontiers of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on vesting in State courts authority to mitigate, 1806 ... 435
• Fortifications--Names of agents for, 1802 ... 314
• France--Message from the President of the United States on the death of the Dauphin of, 1789 10 Message from the President, with the standard of weights and measures adopted by, 1795 ... 115

  General Washington's opinion of the conduct of the Directory of, 1798 ... 181

• Freeman--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to an exploration of the western waters by Lewis and Clarke, and Pike and, 1806 ... 463
• Free negro, and selling him as a slave--Message from the President relative to fugitives from Pennsylvania to Virginia, charged with forcing off a, 1791 ... 38
• Free negroes had been sold as slaves under the laws of North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a memorial of the Quakers stating that certain, 1798 ... 163
• French officers to serve the United States in the revolutionary war--Engagement of Baron de Kalb, Marquis de Lafayette, and other, 1793 ... 71
• French officers, prisoners at Burlington, New Jersey--Report from the Secretary of the Navy relative to the treatment of the, 1799 ... 191
• Fromentin, appointed delegates to represent the people of Louisiana in Congress--Augustus Chouteau and Eligius, 1804 ... 404
• Fugitives from Pennsylvania to Virginia charged with forcing off a free negro, and selling him-- Message from the President relative to, 1791 ... 38
• Fulton on the subject of roads and canals--Statement of Robert, 1808 ... 917
• G.
• Gallatin, as Senator from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the Senate on the contested election of Albert, 1793 ... 73

  And others on the part of those engaged in the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania-- Conference between the commissioners of the United States and Albert, 1794 ... 87

  Secretary of the Treasury, salary $5,000--Albert, 1802 ... 304

  Secretary of the Treasury, with a general view of internal improvements by means of roads and canals--Report from Albert, 1808 ... 724

  Viz: Great canals along the Atlantic coast, ... 725

  1. Massachusetts canal, ... 725, 742

  2. New Jersey canal, ... 726, 748

  3. Delaware and Chesapeake canal, ... 726, 752

  4. Chesapeake and Albemarle, ... 727

  Communications between the Atlantic and western waters, ... 728

  Navigable rivers, &c. improved, viz:

  1. Santee, ... 729

  2. The Lower or Great Falls of Roanoke, ... 730

  3. James river, ... 730

  4. Potomac, ... 731

  5. Susquehannah, ... 731

  6. Ohio, ... 732

  Communications between the Atlantic rivers and the St. Lawrence and the great lakes, ... 733

  1. Hudson and Champlain, or northern navigation, ... 733

  2. Mohawk and Ontario, or western navigation, ... 734

  3. Niagara, ... 735

  Interior canals, viz:

  1. Merrimack, or Blodget's canal, ... 735

  2. Schuylkill and Delaware, ... 736

  3. Schuylkill and Susquehannah, ... 736

  4. Appomattox, ... 736

  5. Neuse and Beaufort, ... 736

  6. Cape Fear river, ... 736

  7. New Orleans, or canal Carondelet, ... 736

  Turnpike or artificial roads, ... 737

  Recapitulation and resources, ... 739

  Accompanying documents, viz: Queries respecting canals, ... 742

  Queries respecting artificial roads, ... 742

  Massachusetts canal, ... 742

  1. Back river, in Buzzard's bay, to Scusset river, in Barnstable bay, ... 742

  2. Hyannus harbor, south of cape, to Barnstable town, north of cape, ... 742

  3. Weymouth and Taunton, ... 746

  Raritan and Delaware canal, ... 748 Chesapeake and Delaware canal, ... 752 Chesapeake and Albemarle, ... 762

  1. Dismal Swamp canal, ... 762

  2. Canal between waters of Virginia and North Carolina, ... 763

  Northern company for connecting the Hudson river with Lake Champlain, ... 765

  1. Examination of the Hudson river, ... 765

  2. Communication between the Atlantic rivers and the great lakes, ... 769

  Report to the directors of the Western and Northern Inland Lock Navigation, ... 770

  Memorial of the same to the Legislature of New York, ... 777

  An act for establishing and opening lock navigation within this State, (New York,) ... 781

  Acts to amend the same, ... 787, 788

  3. Canal at or near Niagara, ... 789

  1. Canal between the Santee and Cooper rivers, ... 789

  2. Catawba Canal Company in South Carolina, ... 791

  Acts of the Legislature of South Carolina for establishing and regulating the Catawba and Wateree Company, ... 792, 795

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  Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, with a general view of internal improvements by means of roads and canals--Report from Albert, &c. viz: Act of South Carolina to enable the United States to purchase land in that State for arsenals, 1808 ... 794

  James river canal, ... 797 Acts of the Legislature of Virginia for establishing and regulating the same, ... 798

  3. Act of the Legislature of Virginia vesting certain shares of stock in George Washington, &c., ... 802

  4. Potomac river canal, ... 808

  Extending the navigation of the Shenandoah river, ... 818

  Extending the navigation of the Appomattox river, ... 818

  5. Susquehannah canal, ... 819

  6. Falls of the Ohio, ... 821

  Acts of the Legislature of Kentucky incorporating the Ohio Canal Company, &c., ... 822

  Providence and Charles river above tide water, ... 826

  Blodget, Essex, and Middlesex canals, ... 827

  Susquehannah and Schuylkill canal, ... 828

  Historical account of canal navigation, ... 830

  Delaware navigation, ... 835

  Susquehannah navigation, ... 835

  Plan for executing the improvement of roads and inland navigation, ... 841

  Act of Pennsylvania incorporating a canal company between the Schuylkill and Susquehannah, ... 843, 860

  Act of Pennsylvania incorporating a canal company between the Delaware and Schuylkill, ... 847

  Act of Pennsylvania incorporating the Conewago Canal Company, ... 851

  Memorial of the Schuylkill and Susquehannah Canal Navigation Company, ... 852

  Delaware and Schuylkill canal, ... 859

  Grants of public money for improvement of roads and waters by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, ... 863

  Newbern and Beaufort canal, ... 865

  Cape Fear river, ... 866

  Turnpike roads of Massachusetts, ... 866

  Rhode Island, ... 867

  Connecticut, ... 869

  New York, ... 873

  New Jersey, ... 878

  Acts of the Legislature of New Jersey to incorporate the New Jersey Turnpike Company, ... 880

  Turnpike roads of Pennsylvania, ... 883

  Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to incorporate the road company of Philadelphia, ... 886

  Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to incorporate the road from Philadelphia to Lancaster, ... 894, 898

  Turnpike roads in Maryland, ... 900

  Baltimore and Reistertown Turnpike Road Company, ... 901

  Act of the Legislature of Maryland to incorporate companies to make roads through Baltimore county, ... 901

  Turnpike roads in Virginia, ... 910

  Statement by B. H. Latrobe, concerning the natural navigation in the United States, and the canals parallel to them, leading to the sea, ... 911

  Same of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, ... 914

  Same, relative to construction of railroads, ... 916

  Statement by Robert Fulton on the subject of roads and canals, ... 917

• Gates, purchasers of real estate under an execution by the United States, the title to which proved defective--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the expediency of reimbursing Smith and, 1808 ... 713
• Georgetown opposed to the erection of a bridge across the Potomac--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of, 1806 ... 437
• Georgia and West Florida--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives with a copy of a commission from King George III. of England, describing the bounds of Georgia and the boundary between, 1798 ... 178
• Georgia and North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of disputed boundary between, 1808 ... 439
• German language--Reports of committees of the House of Representatives on publishing a proportion of copies of the laws of the United States in the, 1794 ... 81, 114
• Granger, Postmaster General, salary $3,000--Gideon, 1802 ... 305
• Great Britain, to James Wright as Governor of Georgia and West Florida--Commission from George III. King of, 1798 ... 178
• Great Britain--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of extending jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States in favor of aliens or subjects of, 1805 ... 419

  Declaration of the people of Washington county, Mississippi, on the subject of the aggressions of, 1807 ... 481

  Resolution of the Legislature of North Carolina approving the measures of the General Government regarding, 1808 ... 944

  Memorial of the people of Kentucky complaining of the insults and injuries from, 1793 ... 929

• Greenough and others, libellants, and John Penhallow and others, respondents, in a case of capture by a privateer, under the laws of New Hampshire prior to the adoption of the constitution--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to David Stoddard, 1794 ... 81
• Griswold--Report of a committee on breach of privileges in the House of Representatives, by disorderly conduct of Matthew Lyon towards Mr. 1798 ... 166
• Gaugers employed by the collectors of the customs--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 63

  And other officers of the customs--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 261

• Guyer, for compensation for discovering a method for ascertaining, the longitude--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Frederick, 1796 ... 140
• H.
• Hadfield, architect, relative to building a jail in the city of Washington--From George, 1803 ... 338
• Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, with salary of $3,500--Alexander, 1793 ... 57

  Secretary of the Treasury, requesting an inquiry into his official conduct--From Alexander, 1793 ... 70

• Hammond, as colonel commandant of Louisiana while a member of the House of Representatives-- Message from the President relative to the appointment of Samuel, 1805 ... 421
• Harrison, Auditor of the Treasury, with a salary of $1,900--Richard, 1793 ... 58

  Auditor of the Treasury, relative to the books destroyed by fire in the Treasury office-- Report from Richard, 1801 ... 241

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• Harrison--Auditor of the Treasury, salary $3,000--Richard, 1802 ... 304

  Governor of Indiana Territory, salary $2,000--William Henry, 1802 ... 305

• Highland Turnpike Road Company, New York, for subscription to stock, &c.--Report of a committee on petition of the, 1806 ... 463
• Hoge, a Representative from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition contesting the election of John, 1804 ... 395
• House of Representatives, (See Representatives.) On the propriety of appointing stenographers to report the debates, as officers of that House-- Report of a committee of the, 1795 ... 123

  In case of breach of privileges by an attempt of Robert Randall and Charles Whitney to bribe its members--Proceedings of the, 1795 ... 125

  (See Election)--Contested election of members of the. With resolution for the appointment of a stenographer to report the debates in that House--Report of a committee of the, 1776 ... 140

  On the proposition of Lloyd and Carpenter, stenographers, to furnish to that House the debates in Congress--Report of a committee of the, 1796 ... 153

  On the proposition of Thomas Carpenter, stenographer, to furnish to that House the debates in Congress--Report of a committee of the, 1797 ... 159

  By disorderly behavior of one of the members--Report of a committee on breach of privileges in the, 1798 ... 166

  By two officers of the army or navy--Message from the President, with complaint of John Randolph, a member, complaining of a breach of privileges of the, 1800 ... 195

  On same--Report of a committee of the, 1800 ... 196

  On a breach of the privileges of that House, by warrant from a magistrate for imprisonment of the sergeant-at-arms, while arresting an individual for disorderly conduct in the gallery--Report of a committee of the, 1801 ... 216

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a proposition to amend the constitution, relative to the election of the President and Vice President, and members of the, 1801 ... 216

  Of the United States in 1802--Names of members and officers of the, 1802 ... 301

  By accepting a commission in the militia of the District of Columbia--Report of a committee that John P. Van Ness had forfeited his seat in the, 1802 ... 336

  Printing for the--(See Printing.) On disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the "bill fixing the salaries of certain officers therein named"--Report of the committee of conference on the part of the, 1803 ... 385

  Report of a committee on the mode of appointing the chairman of committees in the, 1804 ... 395

• Howell, Accountant of the War Department, of the amount due General De Lafayette--Statement by Joseph, 1793 ... 72
• Humphreys, resident minister of the United States at Lisbon--David, 1793 ... 57
• Hunter, a delegate to Congress from Mississippi Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the credentials of Nassworthy, 1801 ... 252
• I.
• Impeachment--Report of the Attorney General relative to the manner of proceeding in cases of, 1796 ... 151
• Impeaching Peter B. Bruin, presiding judge of that Territory--Resolutions of the Legislative Council of Mississippi, 1808 ... 921
• Imprisoned for debt--Message of the President, with the opinions of the Attorney General of the United States, and the judge of the Pennsylvania district, Richard Peters, on the construction of an act for the relief of persons, 1798 ... 162

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for a revision of the act for the relief of persons, 1798 ... 179

  Same, 1798 ... 180

• Imprisonment for debt at suit of the United States--Report of the Attorney General on the application of James Mackey to be discharged from, 1796 ... 138

  At suit of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on application of Joseph Rittenhouse to be discharged from, 1797 ... 157

  At suit of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives and Attorney General on petition of William Bell for relief from, 1798 ... 160

• Indiana Territory--Names and compensation of the officers of the, 1802 ... 305

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subjects of slavery, elective franchise, public lands, and other matters relating to the, 1804 ... 387

  And annexing it to Ohio--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of the right of suffrage, admission of slavery, for a division of the, 1806 ... 450

  To obtain a suspension of the ordinance of Congress of 1787 prohibiting slavery, &c.--Resolution of the Legislative Council of the, 1807 ... 464

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of the suspension of ordinance and admission of slavery in the, 1807 ... 477

  Report of the Senate against suspension, &c. in the, 1807 ... 484

  For aid--Report of a committee of the House of Representative on the petition of the trustees of the University of Vincennes, 1807 ... 654

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petitions of the people of Randolph and Hancock counties for a division of the, 1808 ... 922

  Agreeably to the ordinance of Congress--Report of the committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of dividing the 1808 ... 945

• Indian Affairs--Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwestern Territory, and superintendent of, 1793 ... 59
• Indian department--Names and compensation of the superintendent, agents, factors, &c. employed in the, 1802 ... 313
• Indians in Louisiana--Historical and statistical account of the, 1803 ... 349
• Indians' lands in Mississippi--Message of the President, with documents relative to the arrest of Zachariah Cox, suspected of having designs on, 1803 ... 358

  Lands--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1803 ... 361

  Instructions to Lieut. Z. M. Pike for a pacific and scientific tour on the Arkansas and Red rivers, and to the Osages, Kanzas, Yanctons, Ietans or Cammanches, Peorias, and others, 1806 ... 564

• Innis, district judge of the United States for the district of Kentucky, charged with being a pensioner of the Spanish Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives appointed to inquire into the conduct of Harry, 1808 ... 922

  Attorney General of Virginia, on the delivery of fugitives from justice in one State to another --Opinion of James, 1791 ... 41

  Insolvent debtors, (See Debtors.) Inspectors of the customs--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 63

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• Inspectors of the internal revenue--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 67

  And other officers of the customs--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 261

  And other officers of the internal revenue--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 261

• Inspector's office--Number of clerks, &c. in the, 1802 ... 314
• Insurance against loss by fire--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of W. F. Ash, for the establishment of a general plan of, 1794 ... 77
• Insurrection in Pennsylvania in opposition to the law of the United States establishing a tax upon whiskey--Message of the President of the United States relative to the, 1794 ... 83
• In Pennsylvania--Documents communicated to Congress, 5th of December, 1799, by the President, concerning the opposition to the execution of the law establishing a tax upon whiskey, or the, (See Pennsylvania,) 1799 ... 185

  Near Lake Champlain--Proclamation of the President of the United States for the suppression of an, 1808 ... 940

• Internal revenue--Names, &c. of the officers of the, 1793 ... 67
• Internal revenues--Names and compensation of the supervisors, inspectors, collectors, and other officers employed in the collection of the, (See Revenue,) viz: Same for New Hampshire, 1802 ... 280

  Same for Massachusetts, ... 280

  Same for Rhode Island, ... 281

  Same for Connecticut, ... 281

  Same for Vermont, ... 281

  Same for New York, ... 281

  Same for New Jersey, ... 282

  Same for Pennsylvania, ... 282

  Same for Delaware, ... 283

  Same for Maryland, ... 283

  Same for Virginia, ... 284

  Same for Ohio, ... 285

  Same for Tennessee, ... 286

  Same for North Carolina, ... 286

  Same for South Carolina, ... 287

  Same for Georgia, ... 288

• Internal improvements by roads and canals, &c.--Report from Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, with a general view of, (See Gallatin,) 1808 ... 724
• Invalid pensions, (See Pensions.)
• Inventions--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proper mode of encouraging useful discoveries and, 1796 ... 140
• Irvine, one of the commissioners for settling accounts with the States, salary $2,500--William, 1793 ... 59
• Isaacs, proposing a plan for converting salt water into fresh--Report of the Secretary of State on the petition of Jacob, 1791 ... 44
• J.
• Jackson, contesting the election of Anthony Wayne, a Representative in Congress from Georgia-- Report of a committee on the petition of James, 1791 ... 43
• Jay, Chief Justice of the United States, and certain associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, object to the performance of certain duties prescribed by law--John, 1792 ... 49
• Jefferson, Secretary of State, on uniformity in coinage, weights, and measures--Report of Thomas, 1790 1791
  ... 13, 36
• Jefferson, Secretary of State, on the manner of authenticating printed editions of the laws of the United States--Report from Thomas, 1791 ... 37
• Jefferson, Secretary of State, with a salary of $3,500-- Thomas, 1793 ... 57
• Jefferson, President of the United States, salary $25,000--Thomas, (for Messages see President,) 1802 ... 300
• Jefferson, relative to the treasonable conspiracy of Aaron Burr, (See President,)--Communications from Thomas, 1807 ... 468, 486
• Johns, as a Senator from Delaware--Report of a committee of the Senate on the illegality of the appointment of Kensey, 1794 ... 80
• Johnson, superintendent of the stamp office, relative to fire in the Treasury Office--Report from Joshua, 1801 ... 243
• Johnson, superintendent of stamps, salary $2.000--Joshua, 1802 ... 304
• Journals of Congress under the Confederation, and other public documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting the, 1799 ... 185
• Journals and other congressional documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting the laws, 1803 ... 357
• Journals of Congress under the Confederation--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for supplying members with copies of, 1806 ... 452
• Judges of the district court of the United States, object to the performance of certain duties prescribed by law--The chief and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and certain, 1792 ... 49, 50, 52
• Judges, acting as commissioners on claims to invalid pensions--Decision of the Supreme Court on the validity of adjudications made by said, 1794 ... 78
• Judge, in holding a court contrary to law, and other irregular practices in the Northwestern Territory --Report from the Attorney General on the misconduct of George Turner, a, 1796 ... 151

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1797 ... 157

• Judge of the United States for Pennsylvania district, on the construction of an act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt--Opinion of Richard Peters, 1798 ... 162
• Judges of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 302
• Judges, complaining of being deprived of their offices by act of Congress--Report of a committee of the Senate on the memorial of Richard Basset and other, 1802 ... 340
• Judges of the United States in the Territories, and adverse to appeals to the Supreme Court from their decisions--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the powers, &c. of the, 1803 ... 384
• Judges of State courts power to mitigate forfeitures and penalties under the revenue laws--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on vesting in, 1806 ... 435
• Judge of that Territory--Resolutions of the Legislative Council of Mississippi, impeaching Peter B. Bruin, 1808 ... 921
• Judge of the United States for the district of Kentucky--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives appointed to inquire into the conduct of Harry Innis, 1808 ... 922
• Judge of that State, as a pensioner of the Spanish Government--Report of a committee of the Legislature of Kentucky, with testimony implicating Benjamin Sebastian, 1806 ... 924
• Judges of the district court of the United States for the district of Virginia, on the trial of Aaron Burr, (See Burr,)--Opinions of the.

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• Judicial powers in the courts of the United States and of the several States--Memorials for an amendment to the constitution as respects the, 1807 ... 479
• Judiciary system for the United States--Report from E. Randolph, Attorney General, on the plan of a, 1790 ... 21
• Judiciary system of the United States--Message from the President, with letter from the judges of the Supreme Court recommending a change in the, 1792 ... 51
• Judiciary system, and stating certain personal difficulties to which they are subjected--Message from the President, with a letter from the judges of the Supreme Court, on defects in the, 1794 ... 77
• Judiciary of the United States--Remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire against the exercise of certain powers by the, 1794 ... 79

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1794 ... 81

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1795 ... 123

• Judiciary system of the Western or Northwestern Territory--Message from the President, with a letter from the Governor, relative to defects in the, 1795 ... 115
• Judiciary of the United States--Names and compensation of officers in the, 1802 ... 261, 302
• Jurisdiction of States, &c. (See Power--States.)
• Jurors in the courts of the United States--Draught of a bill to establish the pay of, 1795 ... 121
• Justice from Pennsylvania to Virginia--Message from the President relative to fugitives from, 1791 ... 38
• K.
• Kean, one of the commissioners for settling accounts with the States, salary $2,500--John, 1793 ... 59
• Keepers of light-houses--Names and compensation of, 1793 ... 68
• Kentucky and Territory south of the Ohio river--Message from the President of the United States relative to the settlement of the boundary between, 1792 ... 53

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the boundary between, 1794 ... 113

• Kentucky charging Humphrey Marshall, a Senator from that State, with fraud and perjury--Memorial of the Legislature of, 1796 ... 141

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1796 ... 144

• Kentucky for aid in opening a canal at the rapids of the Ohio river--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the Legislature of, 1806 ... 453
• Kentucky--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives appointed to inquire into the conduct of Harry Innis, district judge of the United States for the district of, 1808 ... 922
• Kentucky, with testimony implicating Benjamin Sebastian, a judge of that State, as a pensioner of the Spanish Government--Report of a committee of the Legislature of, 1806 ... 924
• Kentucky for the navigation of the Mississippi, and separation from the Union--Proposition from Spain to the people of, 1795 ... 926
• Kentucky, relative to their rights, and memorial from them, complaining of the insults and injuries from Great Britain and Spain--Address to the people of, 1793 ... 929
• Kentucky, expressive of the attachment of that State to the Union, &c.--Resolutions of the Legislature of, 1806 ... 933
• Key, Representative in Congress from Maryland--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of thirty electors contesting the election of Philip Barton, 1807 ... 651

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1808 ... 717

• Kidnapping negroes and mulattoes--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of, 1797 ... 155
• L.
• La Fayette to serve the United States in the revolutionary war--Engagement of the Marquis de, 1776 ... 71

  While a prisoner at Olmutz--Message from the President relative to relief to General, 1793 ... 70

  For services in the revolutionary war--Statement of the amount due to General, 1793 ... 72

  Son of General La Fayette--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to George Washington Motier, 1796 ... 149

  Land for light-houses--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to conditions of acceptance of cessions from the States with certain reservations of, 1794 ... 81

• Land ceded by them to the United States for the erection of light-houses, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives granting a concurrent jurisdiction to the States on the, 1794 ... 114
• Land companies, and would be called upon to decide cases involving their own interests, and recommending a change in the judiciary system of that Territory--From the Governor of the Western Territory, stating that two of the judges of that Territory were interested in the Ohio and Miami, 1794 ... 116
• Land from Congress, by an attempt to bribe its members--Proceedings against Robert Randall and Charles Whitney, who desired to obtain the pre-emption right to a large tract of, 1795 ... 125
• Lands--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of Roosevelt and Mark to be permitted to pursue their business of mineralogy and metallurgy on the public, 1796 ... 140
• Land to E. Zane for establishing ferries in the Northwestern Territory--Report of a committee of the Senate in favor of granting, 1796 ... 145
• Land offices--Names and compensation of the registers and receivers of the, 1802 ... 261, 288
• Lands in that State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on conditions for admitting Ohio into the Union so far as it regards the public, 1802 ... 326

  In the Territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, including the Virginia military district--Statements of the quantity and quality of, 1802 ... 328

  The power of States to tax lands sold by the United States, &c.--From the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the sale and disposition of the public, 1802 ... 327

  And military tract, conditional to the admission of Ohio into the Union--Report of a committee relative to the disposition of the public, 1803 ... 340

  In Ohio; grants from the military tract; reservations for schools; Connecticut reserve; sales and grants to J. C. Symmes and his associates; Ohio company purchase, &c.--From the Secretary of the Treasury relative to sales of public, 1803 ... 341

  Message of the President relative to the arrest of Zachariah Cox, suspected of having designs upon the Indian, 1803 ... 358

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Zachariah Cox, suspected of having designs upon the Indian, 1803 ... 361

  In Indiana Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to sales of salt-springs, pre-emption rights, &c. to, 1804 ... 387

  In Louisiana--Remonstrance of the people of Louisiana complaining of the political system adopted for them, and relating to titles and claims to, 1804 ... 402

  Granted in the district of Louisiana from its establishment to November 2, 1804--Statement of the quantity of, 1804 ... 405

  In Ohio, and location of the Cumberland road--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the application of the proceeds of the sales of the public, 1805 ... 432

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• Lands in Michigan Territory--Memorial of Augustus B. Woodward, judge, &c., relative to titles to, 1806 ... 461

  In Louisiana, under the Spanish Government--Documents relative to terms of settlement on, 1808 ... 707

  Sold under execution by the United States, the title being defective--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the propriety of reimbursing the purchasers of real estate, or, 1808 ... 713

  In Ohio--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, stating the expenses of and estimate for the Cumberland road, and the amount of the fund arising from five per cent. of the proceeds of the sales of public, 1808 ... 718

  In that State not exceeding two thousand acres for arsenals and magazines--Act of the Legislature of South Carolina to enable the United States to purchase, 1788 ... 793

• Langdon, one of the commissioners for settling accounts with the States, salary $2,250--Woodbury, 1793 ... 59
• Latrobe, surveyor of public buildings in Washington--Report from Benjamin Henry, 1808 ... 719

  Concerning the natural navigation in the United States, and canals parallel thereto, leading to the sea--From B. H. 1808 ... 910

  Same, relative to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, 1808 ... 914

  Same, relative to the construction of railroads, 1808 ... 916

• Lattimer, contesting the election of John Patten, Representative from Delaware--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Henry, 1794 ... 75
• Laub and others, contesting the election of Albert Gallatin--Report of a committee of the Senate on the petition of Conrad, 1793 ... 73
• Laws of the United States--Report of the Secretary of State on the manner of authenticating printed editions of the, 1791 ... 37

  In the German language to accommodate the German citizens of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of publishing a proportion of the, 1794 ... 81

• Laws--Adopted by the Governor and judges of the Northwestern Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives disapproving of certain, 1794 ... 82

  Of the United States laying a tax upon whiskey--Message of the President relative to the insurrection in Pennsylvania in opposition to the, 1794 ... 83

  Of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on measures for the more general promulgation of the, 1794 ... 114

  Of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for further promulgation of the, 1795 ... 122

  Of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting the, 1803 ... 357

• Laws, &c. of Louisiana--Message from the President with a digest of the regulations, 1803 ... 362
• Lee, Governor of Virginia, relative to the boundary between that State and the Southwestern Territory-- From Henry, 1792 ... 54

  Attorney General of the United States, on official misconduct of George Turner, a judge in the Territory northwest of the Ohio--Report of Charles, 1796 ... 151

  Oration on the death of General George Washington, by Major General Henry, 1799, ... 192

• Leib, as Representative from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of John Doughlass and others against the election of Michael, 1806 ... 436
• Lewis, a Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Andrew Moore contesting the election of Thomas, 1804 ... 387
• Lewis and Clarke, and Pike and Freeman--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the exploration of the western waters by, 1806 ... 463
• Libellous publication in the "Aurora" newspaper--Report of a committee of the Senate on charges against William Duane for a breach of the privileges of that House by, (See Duane,) 1800 ... 208
• Library--Report of a joint committee of the two Houses on the establishment of the congressional, 1801 ... 253
• Library of Congress--Report of a committee of the Senate on the propriety of extending the, 1806 ... 437
• Light-houses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and stakage--Names and compensation of superintendents of, 1793 ... 67
• Light-houses--Names and compensation of keepers of, 1793 ... 68

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to cessions of land by States to the United States, with certain reservations for, 1794 ... 81

• Light-houses, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives granting concurrent jurisdiction to States on land ceded by them to the United States for the erection of, 1794 ... 114
• Lloyd and Carpenter, stenographers, to furnish to that House the debates in Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition of, 1796 ... 153
• Loans of the United States--Names and compensation of the commissioners of, 1793 ... 60
• Loans and agents for paying invalid pensions--Names and compensation of commissioners of, 1802 ... 305
• Longitude--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Frederick Guyer for compensation for the discovery of a method for calculating the, 1796 ... 140
• Louisiana--Message from Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, with a statistical, geographical, and general description of, 1803 ... 344

  Message from the President, with a digest of the regulations, laws, &c. of, 1803 ... 362

  Of the cabildo, ... 363

  Of the alcaids ordinary, ... 365

  Of the alcaid mayor provincial, ... 365

  Of the alguazil mayor, ... 366

  Of the depositary general, ... 367

  Of the receiver of fines, ... 367

  Of the procureur general, ... 367

  Of the mayordome des propres, ... 368

  Of the scrivener of the cabildo, ... 368

  Of the jailer and the prisons, ... 368

  Form of the oath of governors, alcaids, and other judges, ... 369

  Of civil judgments in general, ... 369

  Of executions, ... 370

  Of judgment in criminal causes, ... 371

  Of appeals, ... 372

  Of punishments, ... 373

  Of testaments, ... 374

  Table of fees demandable by judges, lawyers, scriveners, attorneys, and other officers of justice, ... 375

  Regulations for grants of land to settlers, &c., ... 376

  Regulations for general police, repair of bridges, roads, and mounds, and police of slaves, for the use of commanders of posts and coasts, and the syndics, ... 377

  Functions of the syndics, ... 377

  General police, ... 378

  Bridges, roads, and mounds, ... 379

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• Louisiana--Message from the President of the United States, with a digest of the laws, --c. of, 1803 ... 362

  Police of slaves, ... 380

  Census of Louisiana in 1785, ... 381

  Census of the districts or posts of Louisiana and West Florida, ... 382

  Population, births, marriages, deaths, stock, and productions of Upper Louisiana, in 1799, ... 383

  Census of New Orleans, ... 384

• Louisiana be prohibited--Memorial from the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, that the importation of slaves into, 1804 ... 386
• Louisiana--Message from the President relative to a late importation of slaves into, 1804 ... 390

  Louisiana to be explored--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of authorizing certain remote and unknown parts of, 1804 ... 390

• Louisiana and their representatives against the political system adopted by Congress for them-- Remonstrance of the people of, 1804 ... 396
• Louisiana--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, being a revision of the plan of a political system for the government of, 1805 ... 417

  Message from the President relative to the appointment of Samuel Hammond, while a member of Congress, as colonel commandant of, 1805 ... 421

  Message from the President relative to illicit connexion between General James Wilkinson and the Spanish Government, also with a statement on the commerce of, 1808 ... 705

• Louisiana for the trade of the Mississippi river--Negotiations between the people of the western country and the Spanish Government of, 1795 ... 926
• Louisville and Portland Canal Company--Report of a committee of the Senate on extending aid to the, 1805 ... 419
• Louisville and Portland Canal--Report of the House of Representatives on the same, 1806 ... 453

  Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the practicability of the, 1807 ... 478

• Lyon, contesting the election of Israel Smith, Representative from Vermont--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Matthew, 1796 ... 139

  Further report on the same, 1796 ... 152

• Lyon towards Mr. Griswold--Report of committee on a breach of privilege in the House of Representatives by disorderly conduct of Matthew, 1798 ... 166
• M.
• McCreery, Representative in Congress from Maryland--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Joshua Barney, contesting the election of William, 1807 ... 484

  Same, 1807 ... 647

• McFarland, contesting the election of Samuel D. Purviance, a Representative from North Carolina-- Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Duncan, 1804 ... 389

  Contesting the election of John Culpepper, Representative from North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Duncan, 1807 ... 652

• McGuire charged with forcing off a free negro from Pennsylvania, and selling him as a slave--Francis, 1791 ... 39
• Mackey to be discharged from imprisonment for debt at suit of the United States--Report of the Attorney General on the application of James, 1796 ... 138
• McKnight, of the marine corps, accused of insulting John Randolph, a member of the House of Representatives, for words spoken in debate--Captain James, 1800 ... 196
• Marine corps, accused of insulting John Randolph for words spoken in debate in the House of Representatives--Captain James McKnight and Lieutenant Michael Reynolds, of the, 1800 ... 196
• Marine corps--Names and pay of the officers of the, 1802 ... 318
• Mark, to be permitted to work mines on the public lands--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Nicholas Roosevelt and Jacob, 1796 ... 140
• Marshall, a Senator from Kentucky, with fraud and perjury--Memorial from the Legislature charging Humphrey, 1796 ... 141

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1796 ... 144

• Marshals of the several districts of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 59

  Draught of a bill to establish the fees of the, 1795 ... 117

  Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 303

• Martin, relative to the boundary line between Virginia, North Carolina, and the Territory south of the Ohio river--From Joseph, 1792 ... 54
• Maryland and Virginia for the erection of public buildings at the seat of Government--Message from the President, with a report of the commissioners relative to grants of money by, 1796 ... 133

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1796 ... 136

• Maryland--Turnpike roads of, 1807 ... 900

  To incorporate companies to make several turnpike roads through Baltimore county--Act of the Legislature of, 1805 ... 901

• Massachusetts on land ceded by that State to the United States for light-houses, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on granting concurrent jurisdiction to, 1794 ... 114

  Massachusetts canals--Report respecting the, 1808 ... 725, 742

• Massachusetts--Turnpike roads of, 1808 ... 866
• Mead, Representative from Georgia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Samuel Spalding contesting the election of Cowles, 1805 ... 431
• Measurers employed by the collectors of the customs--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 63

  And other officers of the customs--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 261

• Measures--Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania for the passage of a law fixing the standard of weights and, 1804 ... 388

  Report of the Secretary of State on uniformity in coinage, weights, and, 1790
  1791 13 36

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1791 ... 38

  For the United States--Report of a committee of the Senate on establishing a uniform standard of weights and, 1792 ... 48

  As adopted by France--Message from the President, communicating a letter from the French minister with the standard of weights and, 1795 ... 115

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of weights and, 1796 ... 148

• Members of Congress, (See Senate-House of Representatives.)
• Meredith, Treasurer of the United States, with a salary of $2,159 34--Samuel, 1793 ... 58
• Messages, (See President.)
• Metallurgy on the public lands--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Roosevelt and Mark to be permitted to pursue their business of mineralogy and, 1796 ... 140
• Michigan Territory, relative to its political and judicial condition, land titles, &c.--Memorial of Augustus B. Woodward, judge of the, 1806 ... 461
• Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania, relative to fugitives from justice from that State to Virginia--From Thomas, 1791 ... 38
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• Military, and naval, in the service of the U. States, and their compensation--List of officers, civil, 1802 ... 260

  Commission conferred upon a member of Congress--Message from the President relative to a, 1805 421

  Operations of the army in observing the movements of the Spanish troops on the Mississippi--From General Wilkinson to the Secretary of War relative to, 1806 562

  And scientific tour through the Indian country--Instructions from General Wilkinson to Lieutenant Z. M. Pike for a, 1806 ... 564

  Orders from General Wilkinson to the army for operations in defence of the frontier limits against the Spanish forces--General, 1806 ... 565

  Courts-martials had been destroyed by fire, in 1801-- Testimony of John Smith, chief clerk in the War Office, that the records of, 1807 ... 603

  Court of inquiry on the conduct of General James Wilkinson, charged with being a pensioner of the Spanish Government, &c.--Letter from the Secretary of War appointing a, 1808 ... 706

• Militia to suppress the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Message from the President relative to calling out the, 1794 ... 84

  Embodied for the suppression of the insurrection, --c. in Pennsylvania, the Governor of Pennsylvania to be second in command, and the Governor of New Jersey to be third in command--Instructions to the Governor of Virginia, as commander-in-chief of the, 1794 ... 112

  For the suppression of the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Letter of instructions, &c. from the Secretary of War, organizing a body of, 1799 ... 188

  Of the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the appointment of J. P. Van Ness in the, 1802 ... 336

  System in that District--Memorial of delegates on the past of the people of the District of Columbia, suggesting certain defects and praying for an improvement of the, 1805 ... 409

• Milledge, Governor of Georgia, relative to the boundary between that State and North Carolina--From John, 1803 ... 441
• Miller, Commissioner of the Revenue, relative to papers destroyed by fire in the Treasury Office--Report from William, 1801 ... 243
• Miller, Commissioner of the Revenue, salary $3,000--William, 1802 ... 304
• Mineralogy and metallurgy on the public lands--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Roosevelt and Mark to pursue their business of, 1796 ... 140
• Ministers and agents of the United States in foreign countries--List of, 1793 ... 57

  Names and compensation of, 1802 ... 306

• Mint of the United States--Names and salaries of the director and others at the, 1793 ... 59

  Same, 1802 ... 305

• Mississippi Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on application for alterations in the political system established for the government of the, 1800 ... 203, 207

  In certain cases--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on permitting the owners of slaves to bring them into the, 1800 ... 213

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives with objections to certain laws passed by the Governor and judges of the, 1800 ... 214

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the official conduct of Winthrop Sargent, Governor of the, 1801 ... 233

  Documents accompanying the same, viz: ... 234

  Statement in defence by Winthrop Sargent, ... 234

  Charge to the grand jury of Adams county by Judge Dunbar, ... 238

  Estimate of the expense of Adams county for 1799. ... 239

  Presentment of the grand jury of Adams county, October term, 1800, ... 240

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the credentials of Nasworthy Hunter, a delegate to Congress from the, 1801 ... 252

  Names and compensation of the officers of the, 1802 ... 305

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on extending the right of suffrage, and increasing the members in the General Assembly of, 1805 ... 422

• Mississippi river and its tributaries--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to Lewis and Clarke's and Pike and Freeman's surveys, and a further exploration of the, 1806 ... 463
• Mississippi Territory relative to British aggression--Declaration of the people of, 1807 481
• Mississippi Territory against Peter B. Bruin, judge of that Territory--Resolutions of impeachment by the Legislative Council of the, 1808 ... 921
• Mississippi river--Documents relating to negotiations between the people of the western country and the Spanish Government of Louisiana, concerning the navigation of the, 1795 ... 926
• Missouri river by Lewis and Clarke, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the exploration of the, 1806 ... 463
• Monroe, Governor of Virginia, to the President, relative to land for colonization of slaves guilty of crimes from that State--From James, 1807 ... 464
• Moore, contesting the election of Thomas Lewis, a Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Andrew, 1804 ... 387
• Morgan, Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Robert Rutherford contesting the election of Daniel, 1797 ... 158
• Morris, soliciting an inquiry into his official conduct as Superintendent of the Finances of the United States--Memorial of Robert, 1790 ... 11

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1791 ... 38

  Minister plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris--Governeur 1793 ... 57

  As a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of John Richards contesting the election of James, 1796 ... 134

• Munroe, superintendent of the city of Washington, relative to the sale of lots, funds, &c.--Letter from Thomas, 1802 ... 337
• N.
• Naval officers and other officers of the customs of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 61
• Naval, in the service of the U. States, and their compensation--List of officers, civil, military, and, 1802 ... 260
• Navigation, (See Rivers--Canals.)

  In the United States, and canals parallel thereto, leading to the sea--From B. H. Latrobe, relative to the natural, 1808 ... 910

  Of the Mississippi river--Negotiations between the people of the western country and the Spanish Government of Louisiana respecting the, 1795 ... 926

• Naturalization act and regulations concerning aliens--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relating to a revision of the, 1798 ... 180
• Naturalization after a residence of five instead of fourteen years--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition to be admitted to, 1800 ... 208
• Navy, relative to the treatment of the French officers, prisoners at Burlington, New Jersey--Report of the Secretary of the, 1799 ... 191

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• Navy Department--Names and compensation of the Secretary and clerks of the, 1802 ... 304
• Navy of the United States--Names and pay of the commissioned and warrant officers of the, 1802 ... 314
• Navy agents--Names and pay of the superintendents of navy yards, clerks, storekeepers, and, 1802 ... 318
• Navy under the act providing for a naval peace establishment--Reduction of the, 1802 ... 319
• Navy, introduced at the trial of Aaron Burr--Testimony of Commodore Shaw, of the, 1807 ... 556, 563, 577
• Negro, and selling him as a slave--Message from the President, relative to fugitives from Pennsylvania to Virginia, charged with forcing off a free, 1791 ... 38
• Negroes and mulattoes--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of kidnapping, 1797 ... 155
• New Hampshire against the exercise of certain powers by the Judiciary--Remonstrance of the Legislature of, 1794 ... 79

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1794 ... 81

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1795 ... 123

• New Hampshire to the United States for light-houses, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on granting concurrent jurisdiction on land ceded by, 1794 ... 114
• New Jersey--Contested election of Representatives in Congress from, 1789 ... 8, 9

  Canal--Report respecting the, 1808 ... 796, 748

  Turnpike roads of, 1808 ... 878

  Turnpike Road Company--Act of the Legislature to incorporate the, 1806 ... 880

• New Orleans, (See Louisiana,)--Census of, 1803 ... 384

  Negotiations between the people of the western country and Spain for trading to, 1795 ... 926

• New York for a convention to amend the constitution of the United States--Application of, 1789 ... 7

  Of land at Montauk Point for a light-house--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on accepting the cession by, 1794 ... 81

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on granting concurrent jurisdiction to the same, 1794 ... 114

  For establishing and opening lock navigation within this State--Act of, 1792 ... 781

  Turnpike roads of, 1808 ... 873

• Nimmo and John Smith, respecting Burr's conspiracy--Message from the President relative to letters from Matthew, 1808 ... 921
• North Carolina relative to the boundary between that State and Virginia--Act of, 1790 ... 56
• Northwestern Territory, (See Territory.)
• North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the boundary between Virginia and, 1794 ... 113

  Is considered in connexion with the admission of Tennessee into the Union--Report of a committee of the Senate in which the cession of, 1796 ... 150

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the Quakers that certain free negroes had been sold as slaves under the laws of, 1798 ... 163

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with documents, on the subject of the disputed boundary between Georgia and, 1806 ... 439

  Approving the measures of the General Government in its relations with Great Britain and France--Resolutions of the Legislature of, 1808 ... 944

• Nourse, with a salary of $1,500--Joseph, 1793 ... 58

  Register of the Treasury, salary $2,400--Joseph, 1802 ... 304

  Relative to the destruction of books, &c. by fire in the Treasury Office--Report from Joseph, 1801 ... 242

• O.
• Officers of the United States--First "Blue Book," or list of civil, 1793 ... 57
• Officers of the customs of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 60
• Officers of the courts of the United States--Report of the Attorney General of the United States, with a draught of a bill to establish the fees and emoluments of the, 1795 ... 117
• Officers, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States, and their compensation-- Second "Blue Book," or list of the, 1802 ... 260
• Official conduct--From Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, requesting an inquiry into his, 1793 ... 70
• Ohio river--Message from the President of the United States, relative to settlement of the boundary between Virginia, Kentucky, and the Territory south of the, 1793 ... 53
• Ohio to form a State Government and boundary thereof--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on enabling the people of, 1802 ... 325

  Into the Union--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the disposition of the public lands, &c. conditional to the admission of, 1803 ... 310

  Accepting the conditions for the admission of Ohio into the Union with certain modifications--Proposition of the convention of the people of, 1802 ... 343

  River--Report of a committee of the Senate on the subject of extending aid for making a canal from the head to the foot of the Rapids of the, 1805 ... 419

  Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the location and construction of the Cumberland road, and the proceeds of the sales of the public lands in, 1805 ... 432

  To prohibit the importation of slaves into the U. States--Resolution of the Legislature of, 1806 ... 464

• Ordnance Department--Names of storekeepers, list of arsenals, &c. in the service of the, 1793 ... 58
• Otis, Secretary of the Senate, salary $1,896--Samuel A., 1793 ... 59
• P.
• Parsons charged with forcing off a free negro and selling him as a slave--Baldwin, 1791 ... 38
• Patent right in the application of steam to navigation--Memorial of John Fitch for a, 1791 ... 12
• Patents for exclusive rights, and not by pecuniary compensation--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives that the proper mode of encouraging useful discoveries and inventions is by granting, 1796 ... 140
• Patent and copyrights--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the extension of, 1805 ... 416
• Patents issued for new and useful arts, machines, manufactures, or composition of matter, or improvements therein--Report of the Secretary of State, with a list of, 1805 ... 423
• Patent right--Memorial of Oliver Evans for an extension of his, 1805 ... 434

  For making nails--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the assignees of Jacob Perkins for a renewal of his, 1806 ... 453

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Oliver Evans for an extension of, 1807 ... 646

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Anthony Boucherie, an alien, for a, 1807 ... 655

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• Patten, Representative from Delaware--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Henry Lattimer, on the contested election of Jóhn, 1794 ... 75
• Patterson and other judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, relative to defects in the judiciary system--From William, 1794 ... 77
• Paymaster General, and clerks in his office--Names and salaries of the, 1793 ... 58

  Compensation of the, 1802 ... 314

• Pay, (See Army--Navy.)
• Penalties, and disabilities, accruing in certain cases--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for revision of the act for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, 1798 ... 80

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1806 ... 435

• Penhallow and others, respondents--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the case of D. S. Greenough, libellant, and John, 1794 ... 81
• Pennsylvania, relative to fugitives from that State to Virginia, charged with forcing off a free negro and selling him as a slave--From the Governor of, 1791 ... 38

  In opposition to the law of the United States laying a tax upon whiskey, &c.--Message from the President of the United States relative to the insurrection in, 1794 ... 83

  To the President of the United States, with his views of the measures proper to be pursued for the suppression of the insurrection in the western counties of that State--Letter from Thomas Mifflin, Governor of, 1794 ... 97

  Documents transmitted to Congress by the President, relative to the whiskey insurrection in, viz: 1799 ... 185

  Letter from the district judge of Pennsylvania, ... 185

  Report of the marshal of the district of Pennsylvania, ... 185

  Deposition of Valentine Führer, ... 187

  Deposition of Jacob Eyerly and Stephen Balliot, ... 187

  Proclamation of the President of the United States, ... 187

  Letter from the Secretary of War to the Governor of Pennsylvania, ... 188

  Instructions from the Secretary of War to General McPherson, ... 188

  To obtain the passage of a law fixing the standard of weights and measures--Resolution of the Legislature of, 1804 ... 388

  To obtain an amendment of the constitution for the abolition of the slave trade--Resolution of the Legislature of, 1808 ... 716

• Pennsylvania, &c.--Historical account of canal navigation in, 1808 ... 830
• Pennsylvania--Turnpike roads of, 1808 ... 883

  To incorporate a Turnpike Road Company from Philadelphia--Act of the Legislature of, 1801 ... 886

  To incorporate the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Companies--Acts of the Legislature of, 1792 ... 894, 898

• Pensions, &c.--The judges of the Supreme and district courts of the United States object to the performance of certain duties under the act to regulate claims to invalid, 1792 ... 49, 50, 52
• Pensions--Decision of the Supreme Court on the validity of adjudications by said judges on claims to invalid, 1794 ... 78

  Names and compensation of the commissioners of loans and agents for paying invalid, 1802 ... 305

• Perkins for a renewal of a patent right for nails--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of assignees of Jacob, 1806 ... 453
• Peters, judge of the district court of the United States, sent with the army for the suppression of the insurrection, &c. in Pennsylvania--Richard, 1794 ... 113
• Philosophical Society, that a more detailed view of the population of the United States be collected-- Memorial of the American, 1800 ... 202
• Physicians of Philadelphia on the deleterious effects of distilled spirits--Memorial of the college of, 1790 ... 20
• Piers and stakage--Names and compensation of the superintendents of light-houses, beacons, bouys, public, 1793 ... 67
• Pickering, Postmaster General--Timothy, 1793 ... 59
• Pike and Freeman--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the exploration of the western waters by Lewis and Clarke, and, 1806 ... 463
• Pike--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the exploring expedition of Captain Zebulon M., 1808 ... 719

  And his associates for services on said expedition--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives favorable to compensating Captain Zebulon M., 1808 ... 942

• Pinckney, minister of the United States at London--Thomas, 1793 ... 57
• Population of the United States be collected--Memorial of the American Philosophical Society that a more detailed view of the census or, 1800 ... 202
• Postmaster General--Timothy Pickering, 1793 ... 59
• Post offices of the U. States--Names and compensation of persons engaged in the general and deputy, 1802 ... 261, 289
• Post Office--Names and compensation of the Postmaster General, and the clerks in the General, 1802 ... 305
• Powers exercised by the Judiciary of the United States--Remonstrance of the Legislature of New

  Hampshire against certain, 1794 ... 79

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1794 ... 81

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1795 ... 123

• Power or jurisdiction to the States on the land ceded by them to the United States for light-houses, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on granting concurrent, 1794 ... 114
• President of the United States--Notification to George Washington of his election as, 1789 ... 5
• President and Vice President of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on annexing titles to the offices of, 1789 ... 6

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1789 ... 8

• President, (See Vice President.)
• President of the United States to Congress on the relations between the United States and Rhode Island before its adoption of the constitution--Message from the, 1789 ... 9

  Announcing to Congress the death of the Dauphin of France--Message from the, 1789 ... 10

  On the subject of fugitives from Pennsylvania to Virginia, charged with forcing off a free negro and selling him--Message from the, 1791 ... 38

  With a letter from the Attorney General of the United States on the connexion of his office with the district attorneys--Message from the, 1791 ... 45

  Returns to Congress, with his objections, the bill "for an apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the first enumeration"--George Washington, 1792 ... 48

  With a letter from the judges of the district court of the United States in New York, objecting to the performance of certain duties prescribed by law--Message from the, 1792 ... 49

  Same in Pennsylvania, 1792 ... 50

  Same in North Carolina, 1792 ... 51

  With a letter from the judges of the Supreme Court recommending a change in the judiciary system of the United States, &c.--Message from the, 1792 ... 51

  Relative to the settlement of the boundary between Virginia, Kentucky, and the Territory south of the Ohio--Message from the, 1792 ... 53

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• President of the United States--On the subject of relief to General Lafayette, while a prisoner at Olmutz--Message from the, 1793 ... 70

  With a letter from the judges of the Supreme Court relative to defects in the judiciary system--Message from the, 1794 ... 77

  With a proclamation, &c. concerning the insurrection in Pennsylvania in opposition to the law of the United States laying a tax upon whiskey, &c.--Message from the, 1794 ... 83

  Proclamations of the, (See Proclamations.)

  With a letter from the French minister, communicating the standard of weights and measures adopted by France; and a letter from the Governor relative to defects in the judicial system of the Western Territory--Message from the, 1795 ... 115

  With a report of the commissioners for establishing the seat of Government, erecting the public buildings, &c. in the District of Columbia--Message from the, 1796 ... 133

  With proceedings of the convention of Tennessee for forming a constitution and State Government--Message from the, 1796 ... 147

  With opinions of the Attorney General of the United States and judge of the Pennsylvania district on the construction of the act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt--Message from the, 1798 ... 162

  With General George Washington's acceptance of the command of the army of the United States--Message from the, 1798 ... 181

  Relative to the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Documents transmitted to Congress on the 5th of December, 1799, by the, 1799 ... 185

  Announcing the death of General George Washington--Message from the, 1799 ... 189

  With a letter from Mrs. Martha Washington, consenting to the removal of the remains of General George Washington to the city of Washington--Message from the, 1800 ... 195

  With the complaint of John Randolph, a member, of the breach of privileges of the House of Representatives by two officers of the army or navy--Message from the, 1800 ... 195

• President and Vice President--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition to amend the constitution in relation to the election of the members of the House of Representatives, and the, 1801 ... 216
• President of the United States--With a statement from the commissioners of the affairs of the city of Washington--Message from the, 1801 ... 219

  With a statement relative to the condition of the city of Washington, debts due for its establishment, &c.--Message from the, 1802 ... 254

  Salary $25,000 per annum--Thomas Jefferson, 1802 ... 300

  With a list of suits decided and depending in the courts of the U. States--Message from the, 1802 ... 319

  Relative to the resale of lots in the city of Washington; building jail; salary to the superintendent, &c.--Message from the, 1803 ... 337

  With a statistical, geographical, and general description of Louisiana--Message from the, 1803 ... 344

  With statements relative to the arrest of Zachariah Cox, suspected of having designs upon the Indians' lands--Message from the, 1803 ... 358

  With a digest of the regulations, laws, &c. of Louisiana--Message from the, 1803 ... 362

  Relative to the late importation of slaves into Louisiana--Message from the, 1804 ... 390

  With documents relating to a military commission conferred upon a member of Congress, and its acceptance--Message from the, 1805 ... 421

  And Governor of Virginia, relative to land for colonization of people of color guilty of crimes, &c. from that State--Correspondence between the, 1807 ... 464

  With documents relative to the conspiracy of Aaron Burr--Message from the, 1807 ... 468

  With documents implicating others in the treasonable conspiracy of Aaron Burr--Message from the, 1807 ... 471

  With letters to General Andrew Jackson relative to the progress made by Aaron Burr-- Message from the, 1807 ... 473

  With a report of the commissioners for laying out the Cumberland road--Message from the, 1807 ... 474

  With a letter from Cowles Mead, Governor of the Mississippi Territory, relative to Aaron Burr--Message from the, 1807 ... 477

  With information from Cowles Mead of the surrender of Aaron Burr--Message from the, 1807 ... 478

  With the proceedings and evidence on the trial of Aaron Burr, at Richmond, Virginia--Message from the, 1807 ... 486

  To General Wilkinson, relative to the defeat of the treasonable designs of Aaron Burr-- Letter from Thomas Jefferson, 1807 ... 567

  Opinion of the court on the motion, in the case of Aaron Burr, for a writ of subpoena duces tecum to be directed to the, 1807 ... 613

  With documents relative to the treasonable designs for the separation of the Union, and the connexion of General Wilkinson and the Spanish Government in the same--Message from the, 1808 ... 705

  With a report of the commissioners for locating the Cumberland road--Message from the, 1808 ... 714

  With a report of the surveyor of public buildings in Washington, showing the progress and expense on the same--Message from the, 1808 ... 719

  Relative to letters from Matthew Nimmo and John Smith, concerning the conspiracy of Aaron Burr--Message from the, 1808 ... 921

  With a proclamation for the suppression of an all insurrection near Lake Champlain--Message from the, 1808 ... 940

  With a report from the commissioners of the Cumberland road--Message from the, 1808 ... 940

• Printed editions of the laws of the United States--On the manner of authenticating, 1791 ... 37
• Printing for Congress a report made from that Department-- From the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to errors made in, 1793 ... 68

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1793 ... 69

  Of a proportion of the laws of the United States in the German language--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on authorizing the, 1794 ... 81

  And promulgation of the laws of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on measures for the more general, 1794 ... 114

  And promulgation of the laws of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on further measures for, 1795 ... 122

  The Journals of Congress under the confederation, and other public documents--documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on, 1799 ... 185

  Of Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of printing the reports from the from the Departments, and of expediting the, 1801 ... 253

  The laws, journals, and other public documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting or 1803 ... 357

• Prisoners at Burlington, New Jersey--Report of the Secretary of the Navy relative to the treatment of the French officers, 1799 ... 191
• Privileges, by an attempt of Robert Randall and Charles Whitney to bribe its members--Proceedings of the House of Representatives in the case of a breach of, 1795 ... 123

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• Privileges in the House of Representatives by the disorderly conduct of Matthew Lyon towards Mr. G?? swold--Report of a committee on a breach of, 1798 ... 166

  Of the House of Representatives by officers of the army or navy--Message from the President, with the complaint of John Randolph, a member, of a breach of the, 1800 ... 195

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1800 ... 196

  Of that House by dethmatory defamatory publications in the "Aurora" newspaper--Report of a committee of the Senate on the charges against William Duane for a breach of the, 1800 ... 208

  Same, 1800 ... 209

  Same, 1800 ... 210

  Same, 1800 ... 211

  Same, 1800 ... 212

• Privileges, &c.--Remonstmnee Remonstrance of the citizens of Philadelphia on the proceedings against William Duane for a breach of 1800 ... 215
• Privileges of that House, by warrant from a magistrate for the imprisonment of the sergeant-at-arms, while arresting an individual for disorderly conduct in the gallery--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a breach of, 1801 ... 216
• Proclamations of the President of the United States for the suppression of the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania, 1794 ... 85, 97

  Same, 1799 ... 187

• Proclamation of the President of the United States for the suppression of an insurrection near Lake Champlain, 1808 ... 940
• Public buildings at the seat of Government--Message of the President, with a report of the commissioners relative to the erection of the, 1796 ... 133

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1796 ... 136

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the progress made on the, 1796 ... 142

• Public lands. (See Lands.)
• Public documents--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reprinting the journals of Congress under the confederation and other, 1799 ... 185
• Public buildings in Washington--Report of the surveyor of the 1807 ... 482

  Message from the President, with a report of the surveyor of the progress and expenses of the, 1808 ... 719

• Purveyor of public supplies, and number of clerks in his office--Name of the, 1802 ... 305
• Purviance, a Representative from North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Duncan McFarland contesting the election of Samuel D., 1804 ... 389
• Putnam, judge of the of the Supreme Court of the Western Territory, also interested in the Ohio Land Company, &c.--General, 1794 ... 116
• Q
• Quakers for the abolition of slavery--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the, 1791 ... 12

  For the abolition of the slave trade--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the, ...... 1794 ... 76

  That certain free negroes had been sold as slaves under the laws of North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the, 1798 ... 163

• Quartermaster's department of the United States army--Names and pay of the officers in the, 1802 ... 312
• R
• Ramsay contesting the election of William Smith as a Representative in Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of David, 1789 ... 5, 8
• Randall for a breach of privileges, by an attempt to bribe its members--Proceedings of the House of Representatives against Robert, 1795 ... 125
• Randolph, Attorney General, on the plan of a judiciary system for the United States--Report from Edmund, 1790 ... 21

  Governor of Virginia, relative to fugitives from justice to that State from Pennsylvania-- From Beverly, 1791 ... 40

  Secretary of State, to the commissioners for suppressing the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Instructions from Edmund, 1794 ... 86

  A member, of the breach of the privileges of the House of Representatives by two officers of the army or navy--Message from the President, with the complaint of John, 1800 ... 195

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1800 ... 196

  Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives or on, the memorial of Samuel J. Cabell contesting the election of Thomas Mann, 1804 ... 392

• Rawle, attorney of the district, sent with the army for suppressing the insurrection in Pennsylvania--William, 1794 ... 113
• Real estate sold under execution by the United States, the title proving, defective--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the propriety of reimbursing, the purchasers of, 1808 ... 713
• Receivers of the land offices of the United States--Names and compensation of the Registers and, 1802 ... 261
• Records and papers--Report, of Secretary of War, with an account of the destruction of the War Office by fire, with its, 1801 ... 232

  Destroyed by fire in that Department--Report from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the, 1801 ... 241

  Red river and the Arkansas in Louisiana--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of exploring the, 1804 ... 390

• Red river by Mr. Freeman--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the exploration of the, 1806 ... 463
• Register of the Treasury, and the clerks and messengers in his office--Names and salaries of the, 1793 ... 58

  Relative to tim the books destroyed by fire in the Treasury Department--Report of Joseph Nourse, 1801 ... 242

• Registers and Receivers of the land offices of the United States--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 261
• Register of the Treasury, with the number and compensation of the clerks in his office--Name of the, 1802 ... 301
• Representatives in Congress, (See Election,)--Contested elections of. Reporters of debates as officers of that House--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of appointing, 1795 ... 123
• Reporter of debates in the House of Representatives--Report of a committee, with a resolution for the appointment of a stenographer, or, 1796 ... 140
• Reports of the debates in Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition of Thomas Carpenter to publish the, 1797 ... 159
• Representatives in Congress according to the first census-- The President returns, with objections, the bill for the apportionment of the, 1792 ... 48
• Representatives--Names and salaries of the clerk and officers of the House of, 1793 ... 59

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• Representatives, (See House of Representatives.)
• Revenue, and of the clerks and messengers in his office--Names and salaries of the Commissioner of the, 1793 ... 58
• Revenue cutters--Names and compensation of the officers of the, 1793 ... 62
• Revenue--Names and emoluments of the supervisors and inspectors of the, 1793 ... 67

  Laws--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the revision of the act for mitigating forfeitures, &c. under the, 1798 ... 80

  Relative to papers destroyed to papers destroyed by fire in the Treasury Office--Report from William Miller, Commissioner of the, 1801 ... 243

  Names and emoluments of the officers engaged in the collection of the, 1793 ... 60

  And their compensation--Names and emoluments of the officers engaged in the collection of the external, 1802 ... 261

  Cutters--Names and compensation of the officers of the, 1802 ... 261

  And their compensation--Names of the officers engaged in the collection of the internal, 1802 ... 261

  (See Internal revenue.)

  With the number and compensation of the clerks in his office--Name of the Commissioner of the, 1802 ... 304

  Laws--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on vesting in the judges of the State courts, so far as regards the northern frontiers, authority to mitigate forfeitures and penalties arising under the, 1806 ... 435

• Revolutionary war--Engagement of Baron De Kalb, Marquis de la Fayette, and other French officers, to serve the United States in the, 1776 ... 71
• Revolutionary army, and documents relating to claims growing out of that war--Report of the Secretary of War with an account of the destruction of the War Office by fire, and of the musterrolls and records of the, 1801 ... 232
• Reynolds, of the marine corps, accused of or insulting John Randolph for words spoken in debate in the House of Representatives--Lieutenant Michael, 1800 ... 196
• Rhode Island before its adoption of the constitution--Relations between the United States and, 1789 ... 10
• Rhode Island on land ceded by that State to the United States for light-houses, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on granting concurrent jurisdiction to, 1794 ... 114
• Rhode Island--Turnpike roads of, 1808 ... 867
• Rhode Island bridge--Statement relative to the, 1808 ... 868
• Richards, contesting the election of James Morris, a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of John, 1796 ... 134
• Rittenhouse, Director of the Mint, salary $2,000--David, 1793 ... 59

  To be discharged from imprisonment for debt at suit of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Joseph, 1797 ... 157

• Rivers in Louisiana--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of exploring certain, 1804 ... 390
• Rivers in the United States, between the Atlantic and the western waters--Report from Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement relative to the improvement of navigable, (See Gallatin,) 1808 ... 729

  1. Santee, 1808 ... 729, 789

  2. The Lower or Great Falls of Roanoke, ... 730, 791

  3. James river, ... 730, 797

  4. Potomac. ... 731, 808

  5. Susquehannah, ... 731, 819, 835

  6. Ohio, ... 732, 821

• Rivers and the river St. Lawrence, and the great lakes--Communications between the Atlantic, 1808 ... 733, 765

  1. Hudson and Champlain, or northern navigation, ... 733, 765

  2. Mohawk and Ontario, or western navigation, ... 734

  3. Niagara, ... 735

• Rivers, (See Canals--Gallatin,)--For connecting rivers by canals, and improving Report of a committee of the of House of Representatives on the expediency of improving the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree, 1809 ... 946
• Road Company--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the application for subscription to the stock of the Allegany Turnpike, 1803 ... 344
• Road--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the application of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in Ohio; progress in the construction of roads by several States; and the location of the Cumberland, 1805 ... 432

  Company in New York for subscription to stock, --c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the Highland Turnpike, 1806 ... 463

  Message from the President, with a report of the commissioners for laying out the Cumberland, 1807 ... 474

  Message from the President, with a report of the commissioners for the location of the Cumberland, 1808 ... 714

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury showing the amount of the five per cent. fund in Ohio, and the expenses of, and estimate for, the Cumberland, 1808 ... 718

• Roads and canals, &c.--Report from Albert Gallatin, with a general view of internal improvements by, (See Gallatin.) 1808 ... 724
• Roads--Turnpike or artificial, same, ... 737

  General queries respecting artificial, ... 742

  And inland navigation--Plan submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania for the improvement of, ... 841

  And waters--Grants of public money by the Legislature of Pennsylvania for improvements of, ... 863

  Of Massachusetts--Turnpike, ... 866

  Of Rhode Island--Turnpike, ... 867

  Of Connecticut--Turnpike, ... 869

  Of New York--Turnpike, ... 873

  Of New York, with capital stock, length of roads, &c.--List of turnpike, ... 875

  Of New Jersey--Turnpike, ... 878

  Of Pennsylvania--Turnpike, ... 883

  Company--Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to incorporate a certain turnpike, 1801 ... 886, 894

  Companies--Statement of the concerns of the Susquehannah and Lehigh, and the Susquehannah and Tioga, 1807 ... 890

  Company--Statement respecting the concerns of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, 1807 ... 893

  Company--Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania incorporating the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, 1792 ... 894, 898

  In Maryland--Turnpike, 1807 ... 900

  Company--Statement relative to the Baltimore and Reistertown, 1807 ... 901

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• Roads through Baltimore county--Act of the Legislature of Maryland to incorporate several turnpike companies to make, 1805 ... 901
• Roads in Virginia--Turnpike, 1808 ... 910
• Roads--Statement from B. H. Latrobe relative to the construction of rail, 1808 ... 916

  And canals--Statement from Robert Fulton on the subject of, 1808 ... 917

• Road--Message from the President, with a report from the commissioners fir laying out the Cumberland, 1808 ... 940

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury with a statement of the expenditures on the Cumberland, 1809 ... 947

• Robertson be appointed stenographer to report the debates of the House of Representatives--Report of a committee, with a resolution that David, 1796 ... 140
• Rodney, Attorney General of the United States, on the propriety of reimbursing the purchasers of real estate sold under an execution by the United States, the title to which proved defective--Report of Caesar A., 1808 ... 713
• Roosevelt and Mark to be permitted to work the mines on the public lands--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of, 1796 ... 140
• Ross and others for the suppression of the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Commission to James, 1794 ... 87
• Rutherford, contesting the election of David Morgan, Representative in Congress from Virginia-- Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Robert, 1797 ... 158
• S.
• St. Clair, Governor of the Northwestern Territory, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs--Arthur, 1793 ... 59

  Governor, relative to defects in the judiciary system of the Western or Northwestern Territory--From Arthur, 1795 ... 115

  Governor of the Northwestern Territory, salary $2,000--Arthur, ... 305

• Salaries, fees, and emoluments--List of the civil officers of the United States, and their, 1793 ... 57

  Same,- 1802 ... 260

• Salaries of certain officers therein named--Report of a committee of conference on the part of the House of Representatives on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the bill fixing the, 1803 ... 385
• Salt water into fresh--Report of the Secretary of State on the petition of Jacob Isaacs, proposing a plan for converting, 1791 ... 44
• Sargent, Secretary of o the Northwestern Territory--Winthrop, 1793 ... 59

  Governor of the Mississippi Territory--Charges of misconduct against Winthrop, 1800 ... 205

  Governor of the Mississippi Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the official conduct of Winthrop, 1801 ... 233

• Scott and other commissioners for establishing the seat of Government--Report of Gustavus, 1796 ... 133
• Search in violation of the rights of the United States-- Declaration of the people of Washington county, Mississippi, relative to the exercise by the British of the right of, 1807 ... 481
• Seat of Government in the District of Columbia--Message from the President, with a report of the commissioners for establishing the, 1796 ... 133

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1796 ... 136

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the property, expenditures, &c. of the United States at the, 1796 ... 142

  (See Washington city,)--Establishment of the public buildings, &c. at the,

• Sebastian, judge of that State, as a pensioner of the Spanish Government--Report of a committee of the Legislature of Kentucky, with testimony implicating Benjamin, 1806 ... 924
• Sedition laws--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petitions for the repeal of the alien and, 1799 ... 181
• Senate of the U. States--Names of the Secretary, with his salary and that of the other officers of the, 1793 ... 59

  On the contested election of Albert Gallatin as a Senator-- Reports of committees of the, 1793 ... 73

  On the illegality of the appointment of Kensey Johns as a Senator from Delaware--Report of a committee of the, 1794 ... 80

  On charges against William Duane for a breach of the privileges of that House, by defamatory publications in the "Aurora" newspaper--Report of a committee of the, 1800 ... 208

  Same, 1800 ... 209

  Same, 1800 ... 210

  Same, 1800 ... 211

  Same, 1800 ... 212

  Remonstrance of the citizens of Philadelphia on the proceedings against William Duane for a breach of the privileges of the, 1800 ... 215

  In 1802--Names of the members and officers of the, 1802 ... 300

• Senator from that State, with fraud and perjury-- Memorial of the Legislature of Kentucky, charging Humphrey Marshall, a, 1796 ... 141

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1796 ... 144

• Senator," to contain the debates in Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition of Thomas Carpenter to publish a work called "The, 1797 ... 159
• Senator, on account of his participation in the conspiracy of Aaron Burr--Report of a committee of the Senate on expelling John Smith, a, 1807 ... 801
• Shelby, Governor of Kentucky, to the Senate with charges against Humphrey Marshall, a Senator from that State, of fraud and perjury--From Isaac, 1796 ... 141
• Short, resident minister of the United States at the Hague-- William, 1793 ... 57
• Simmons, Accountant of the War Department, salary $2,000--William, 1802 ... 304
• Slave--Message from the President, relative to fugitives from Pennsylvania to Virginia, charged with forcing off a free negro and selling him as a, 1791 ... 38
• Slavery--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the Quakers for the abolition of, 1791 ... 12

  For the liberation of a free negro kidnapped and sold--Memorial of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of, 1791 ... 39

  In Indiana Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of, 1804 ... 387

  That additional provisions be made to abolish the slave trade--Memorial of the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of, 1806 ... 449

  For a limited time in Indiana Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for the admission of, 1806 ... 450

• Slavery, &c.--Resolution of the Legislative Council of Indiana Territory to obtain the suspension of the ordinance of Congress of 1787, prohibiting the introduction of, 1807 ... 467

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1807 ... 477

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1807 ... 484

• Slaves, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of kidnapping negroes and mulattoes being, 1797 ... 155

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• Slaves under the laws of North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the Quakers that certain free negroes had been sold as, 1798 ... 163

  To bring them into the Mississippi Territory in certain cases--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on permitting the owners of, 1800 ... 213

  Into Louisiana be prohibited--Memorial of the American Convention for the Abolition of Slavery that the importation of, 1804 ... 386

  Into Louisiana--Message from the President relative to an importation of, 1804 ... 390

  Into the Territories of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives against the importation of, 1806 ... 451

  Into the United States--Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio to prohibit the importation of, 1806 ... 464

  Guilty of crimes, &c. from that State--Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia relative to land for colonization of, 1807 ... 464

• Slave trade--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a petition for the abolition of the, 1794 ... 76

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to obtain an amendment of the constitution for the abolition of the, 1808 ... 716

• Smith, a Representative in Congress from South Carolina--Report of a committee on the contested election of William, 1789 ... 5, 8

  Secretary of the Territory south of the Ohio--Daniel, 1793 ... 59

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Matthew Lyon,

  Representative from Vermont, contesting the election of Israel, 1796 ... 139

  Further report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1796 ... 152

  Concerned in the conspiracy of Aaron Burr--Evidence on the motion in court for an attachment against Israel, 1807 ... 491

  A Senator from Ohio, on account of his participation in the conspiracy of Aaron Burr--Report of a committee of the Senate on the subject of expelling John, 1807 ... 701

  Message from the President relative to the letters relating to Burr's conspiracy, from Matthew Nimmo and John, 1808 ... 921

• Smith and Gates, purchasers of real estate under an execution by the United States, the title to which proved defective--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the propriety of reimbursing, 1808 ... 713
• Society for the Promotion of Agriculture--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of establishing a National, 1797 ... 154
• South Carolina--Contested election of William Smith, a Representative in Congress from, 1789 ... 5, 8

  Act of North Carolina to extend the boundary line between that State and, 1803 ... 441

  To establish a company for opening the navigation of the Catawba and Wateree rivers--Acts of the Legislature of, 1787 ... 792

  To enable the United States to purchase a quantity of land in that State, not exceeding two thousand acres, for arsenals and magazines--Act of, 1788 ... 794

• Southwestern Territory, (See Territory.)
• Spalding contesting the election of Cowles Mead, a Representative from Georgia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Samuel, 1805 ... 431
• Spanish forces--General orders from General Wilkinson to the army for operations in defence of the frontier limits against the, 1806 ... 565
• Spanish Government--Statement of Daniel Clark relative to an illicit connexion between General James Wilkinson and the, 1808 ... 704, 936

  Message from the President relative to the same, 1808 ... 705

  Same, 1808 ... 712

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with testimony, implicating Benjamin Sebastian and Harry Innis, judges, &c. as pensioners of the, 1808 ... 923, 924

  Of Louisiana offering the free trade of the Mississippi to the western people, and assistance in separating themselves from the United States--Propositions from the, 1795 ... 926

• Spanish troops on the Mississippi, &c.--Letters from General James Wilkinson to the Secretary of War, &c. relative to the operations of the army in observing the movements of the, 1806 ... 562
• Spirits on the human system, and praying for prohibitory duties--Memorial of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia on the deleterious effects of distilled, 1791 ... 20
• Stakage, &c.--Names and compensation of the superintendents of buoys, 1793 ... 67
• Stamp Office, relative to the papers destroyed by fire in the Treasury Office--Report from Joshua Johnson, Superintendent of, 1801 ... 243
• State to another--Message from the President relative to fugitives from justice from one, 1791 ... 38
• State and General Governments prior to the adoption of the constitution--Remonstrance of the Legislature of New Hampshire concerning the relative powers of the, 1794 ... 79

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1794 ... 81

• State and General Governments in suppressing violence against the laws of the United States--Discussion between the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Secretary of State concerning the relative powers of the, 1794 ... 97
• State Government--Message from the President, with proceedings of the convention of Tennessee for forming a constitution and, 1796 ... 146

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with a resolution for the admission of Tennessee to a, 1796 ... 147

  Report of a committee of the Senate providing for taking the census with a view to the admission of Tennessee to a, 1796 ... 150

• State of Pennsylvania, (See Pennsylvania.)--Whiskey insurrection in the.
• State Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on enabling the people of the Territory northwest of the Ohio to form a, 1802 ... 325
• State and South Carolina--Act of North Carolina to extend the boundary line between that, 1803 ... 441
• State, not exceeding two thousand acres, for arsenals and magazines--Act of South Carolina to enable the United States to purchase a quantity of land in that, 1788 ... 794
• States according to the first census--The President returns to Congress, with objections, the bill for the apportionment of Representatives among the several, 1792 ... 48
• States, the clerks and messengers in their office--Names and salaries of the commissioners for settling accounts between the United States and the individual, 1793 ... 59
• States--Balances of accounts between the United States and the, 1793 ... 69

  To the United States with certain reservations for light-houses--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the cessions of land by the, 1794 ... 81

  On land ceded by them to the United States for the erection of light-houses, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on granting concurrent jurisdiction to the, 1794 ... 114

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the ratification of the amendments to the constitution respecting the suability of the, 1797 ... 156

  Of Georgia and North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the disputed boundary between the, 1806 ... 439

• State, on a plan for uniformity in coinage, weights, and measures--Report from Thomas Jefferson, 1790 ... 13

  Secretary of,
  123 w 1791 ... 36

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• State, on the manner of authenticating printed editions of the laws of the United States--Report from the Secretary of, 1791 ... 37

  On the petition of Jacob Isaacs, with a plan for converting salt water into fresh--Report of the Secretary of, 1791 ... 44

• State Department--List of officers in the foreign and domestic branches of the, 1793 ... 57
• State, and authority to the commissioners for suppressing the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Instructions from Edmund Randolph, Secretary of, 1794 ... 86

  To the Governor of Pennsylvania, in answer to his views of the measures proper to be pursued for the suppression of the whiskey insurrection in that State--From the Secretary of, 1794 ... 99

• State Department--Names and compensation of James Madison, the Secretary, and clerks of the, 1802 ... 304
• State, with a list of suits decided and depending in the courts of the United States--Report from James Madison, Secretary of, 1802 ... 319

  With a list of patents issued for new and useful arts, machines, manufactures, or composition of matter, or improvements therein--Report from the Secretary of, 1805 ... 423

• Steam to navigation--Memorial of John Fitch for the exclusive right in the application of, 1791 ... 12
• Steele, Comptroller of the Treasury, relative to books destroyed by fire in the Treasury Office--Report from John, 1801 ... 241
• Stenographers to report the debates, as officers of that House--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of appointing, 1795 ... 123
• Stenographer to report the debates in the House of Representatives--Report of a committee, with a resolution for the appointment of a, 1796 ... 140
• Stenographers, to furnish the debates in Congress to that House--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition of Lloyd and Carpenter, 1796 ... 153
• Stenographer, to furnish the debates in Congress to that House--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition of Thomas Carpenter, 1797 ... 159
• Stock in the Allegany Turnpike Road Company--Report of a committee of the of Representatives on the application for subscription to the, 1803 ... 344
• Stock, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives adverse to the petition of the Highland Turnpike Road Company of New York for subscription to, 1806 ... 463
• Stock in certain canal companies--Act of the Legislature of Virginia vesting in General Washington, 1784 ... 802
• Storekeepers in the service of the Ordnance Department--Names and pay of the, 1793 ... 58
• Suability of the States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to ratification of the amendments to the constitution respecting the, 1797 ... 156
• Suffrage in the Mississippi Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on extending the right of, 1805 ... 422
• Suffrage in the Indiana Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the right of, 1806 ... 450
• Suits decided and depending in the courts of the United States--Message from the President, with a list of, 1802 ... 319
• Superintendents of light-houses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and stakage--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 67

  Same, 1802 ... 306

• Supervisors of the revenue--Names and emoluments of the, 1793 ... 67
• Supervisors and other officers of the revenue--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 261
• Supreme Court, and certain associate justices as district judges, object to the performance of certain duties prescribed by law--John Jay, Chief Justice of the, 1792 ... 49, 50, 52
• Supreme and district courts of the United States--Names and compensation of the clerks of the, 1793 ... 60
• Supreme Court, recommending a change in the judiciary system of the United States--Message from the President, with a letter from the judges of the, 1794 ... 77

  And stating certain personal difficulties to which they are subjected--Message from the President, with a letter from the judges of the, 1794 ... 77

  On the validity of adjudications made by certain judges, acting as commissioners, on claims to invalid pensions--Decision of the, 1794 ... 78

  Draught of a bill to establish the fees of the clerk of the, 1795 ... 121

• Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States--Names and compensation of the judges and officers of the, 1802 ... 302
• Supreme Court of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for regulation of courts in the Territories, and adverse to appeals from said courts to the, 1803 ... 384
• Surveyor General of the United States, &c.--Rufus Putnam, 1802 ... 306
• Surveyors of the customs--List of names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 261

  Same, 1793 ... 62

• Surveys, &c. for the War Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition of William Tatham to furnish maps of topographical, 1806 ... 456
• Symmes, judge of the Supreme Court of the Western Territory, also interested in the Miami Land Company--John Cleves, 1794 ... 116
• Symmes and his associates in Ohio--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, Secretary of the Treasury, &c. relative to the purchase by, and donations of public lands to, John C. 1803 ... 341
• T.
• Tatham to dispose of his collection of books, draughts, and models for the War Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition from William, 1806 ... 456
• Tax upon whiskey, &c.--Message from the President relative to the insurrection in Pennsylvania in opposition to the law of the United States laying a, 1794 ... 83
• Tax upon stills--Report of the Attorney General on the application of James Mackey for discharge from imprisonment for debt arising on a, 1796 ... 138
• Tennessee, or Territory of the United States south of the Ohio, for forming a constitution and State Government--Message from the President, with the proceedings of the convention of the people of, 1796 ... 146
• Tennessee, or Territory of the United States south of the Ohio, into the Union--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with a resolution for the admission of, 1796 ... 147
• Tennessee into the Union--Report of a committee of the Senate providing for taking the census with a view to the admission of, 1796 ... 150
• Territories--Names and compensation of the officers of the governments of the, 1802 ... 261, 305

  And adverse to appeals from said courts to the Supreme Court of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for regulation of courts in the, 1803 ... 384

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives against the importation of slaves into the, 1806 ... 451

• Territory south of the Ohio river--Message from the President relative to the boundary between Virginia, Kentucky, and the, 1792 ... 53

  Names of the Governor and Secretary of the, 1793 ... 59

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• Territory south of the Ohio--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the legality of the election of James White as Delegate to Congress from the, 1794 ... 83

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the boundary between Virginia and the, 1794 ... 113

  For forming a constitution and State Government--Message from the President, with the proceedings of a convention of the people of the, 1796 ... 146

  Into the Union--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with a resolution for the admission of Tennessee, or, 1796 ... 147

  Into the Union--Report of a committee of the Senate providing for taking the census, with a view to the admission of the, 1796 ... 150

• Territory--Names, &c. of the Governor and Secretary of the Northwestern, 1793 ... 59

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives disapproving of certain laws passed by the Governor and judges of the Northwestern, 1794 ... 82

  Message from the President, with a letter from the Governor, relative to defects in the judicial system of the Northwestern or Western, 1795 ... 115

  Report of a committee of the Senate in favor of granting land to E. Zane for establishing ferries in the Northwestern, 1796 ... 145

  Report of the Attorney General on the misconduct of George Turner, a judge of the United States in the Northwestern, 1796 ... 151

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1797 ... 157

  Into two governments--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the Judiciary, and on the expediency of dividing the Northwestern, 1800 ... 206

  Northwest of the Ohio into a State Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on erecting the, 1802 ... 325

  Northwest of the river Ohio, and application of the proceeds of the sales of public lands to roads, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the terms of admission of the, 1805 ... 432

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the application for alterations in the political system established for the government of the Mississippi, 1800 ... 203, 207

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the credentials of Nasworthy Hunter, a Delegate to Congress from the Mississippi, 1801 ... 252

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on extending the right of suffrage, and increasing the members in the General Assembly of the Mississippi, 1805 ... 422

  Relative to British aggression--Declaration of the people of the Mississippi, 1807 ... 481

  Impeaching Peter B. Bruin, presiding judge therein--Resolutions of the Legislative Council of the Mississippi, 1808 ... 921

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to slavery, elective franchise, public lands, and other subjects relating to the Indiana, 1804 ... 384

  Of Indiana--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the right of suffrage, slavery, &c. in the, 1806 ... 450

  To obtain a suspension of the ordinance of Congress of 1787 to prohibit the introduction of slaves, &c.--Resolutions of the Legislative Council of Indiana, 1807 ... 464

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in favor of the suspension of said ordinance in the Indiana, 1807 ... 477

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives adverse to a division of the Indiana, 1808 ... 922

  Agreeably to an ordinance of Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of dividing the Indiana, 1808 ... 945

  Or District of Columbia, (See District, &c.)

• Thompson, messenger to notify George Washington of his election as President of the United States--Return of Charles, 1789 ... 5
• Thornton and others, commissioners for establishing the seat of Government--Report from William, 1796 ... 133, 143

  Same, 1801 ... 219

• Titles to the offices of President and Vice President of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on annexing, 1789 ... 6

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1789 ... 8

• Topographical surveys, books, draughts, and models for the War Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition of William Tatham to furnish plats of, 1806 ... 456
• Travels by Lewis and Clarke and Pike and Freeman--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the exploration of the western waters, and, 1806 ... 463
• Trade of the Mississippi--Negotiations between Spain and the people of the western country for the, 1795 ... 926
• Treasonable conspiracy against the U. S. by Aaron Burr--(See Burr.)--Documents relating to the, 1807 ... 468
• Treasonable designs for the separation of the western country from the United States--Statement of Daniel Clark relative to the connexion of General James Wilkinson and the Spanish Government with, 1808 ... 704

  Message from the President, with documents, relative to the same, 1808 ... 705

  Same, 1808 ... 712

• Treasonable conspiracy of Aaron Burr--Message from the President implicating others in the, 1807 ... 471
• Treason, at Richmond, Virginia--Message from the President, with the proceedings and evidence on the trial of Aaron Burr for, 1807 ... 567
• Treason against the United States--Opinion of the Attorney General on the expediency of passing a law for the punishment of conspiracy or, 1808 ... 717
• Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks in his office--Names and salaries of the, 1793 ... 58
• Treasurer of the United States, relative to the books and papers destroyed by fire in the Treasury Office--Report of Samuel Meredith, 1801 ... 242
• Treasurer of the U. S., with the number and compensation of the clerks in his office--Name of the, 1802 ... 304
• Treasury of the United States--Memorial of Robert Morris for an inquiry into his conduct as Superintendent of the Finances or of the, 1790 ... 11

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1791 ... 38

• Treasury and War Departments--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the alterations necessary in the acts for the establishment of the, 1792 ... 46
• Treasury Department--Names and salaries of the Secretary, clerks, and messengers in the, 1793 ... 57
• Treasury--Names of the Comptroller of the, and clerks and messengers in his office, 1793 ... 57

  And clerks and messengers in his office--Names and salaries of the Auditor of the, 1793 ... 58

  And clerks and messengers in his office--Names and salaries of the Register of the, 1793 ... 58

  Relative to errors made in printing, for Congress, a report made from that Department--Report from the Secretary of the, 1793 ... 68

  Requesting an inquiry into his official conduct--Report from Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the, 1793 ... 70

  With a statement of the proceedings connected with the whiskey insurrection or opposition to the United States excise law in Pennsylvania, and of the conduct of the Executive of the United States on the subject--Report from the Secretary of the, 1794 ... 106

  Relative to books and papers destroyed by fire in that Department--Report from Samuel Dexter, Secretary of the, 1801 ... 241

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• Treasury and War Offices in 1800--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with statements as to the causes that led to the fires in the, 1801 ... 247
• Treasury--Relative to the payment of debts due for the establishment of the seat of Government at Washington city--Report of the Secretary of the, 1802 ... 258

  Department--Names and compensation of Albert Gallatin, the Secretary, and clerks of the, 1802 ... 304

  Relative to the disposition of the public lands, military tracts, &c., conditional to the admission of Ohio into the Union--Letter from the Secretary of the, 1802 ... 327

  Same, 1803 ... 341

  With statements showing the compensation made to district attorneys and assistant counsel for legal advice and services rendered the United States--Report of the Secretary of the, 1804 ... 392

  With statements showing the compensation made by the collectors of the customs and supervisors of the revenue to district attorneys and assistant counsel--Report from the Secretary of the, 1805 ... 406

  On the expediency of vesting in judges of State courts power to remit forfeitures and penalties under the revenue laws on the northern frontiers of the United States--Report of the Secretary of the, 1805 ... 436

  On the propriety of reimbursing purchasers of real estate sold under an execution by the United States, the title being defective--Report of the Secretary of the, 1808 ... 713

  Stating the amount of the five per cent fund from the sales of public lands in Ohio, and the expenses of and estimates for the Cumberland road--Report of the Secretary of the, 1808 ... 718

  With a general view of internal improvements by roads and canals, &c.--Report from Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the, 1808 ... 724

  With a statement of the expenditures on the Cumberland road--Report from the Secretary of the, 1809 ... 947

• Tucker, Treasurer of the United States, salary $3,000--Thomas Tudor, 1802 ... 304
• Turner, a judge of the United States in the Northwestern Territory--Report of the Attorney General on the misconduct of George, 1796 ... 151

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1797 ... 157

  Accountant of the Navy Department, salary $2,000--Thomas, 1802 ... 304

  Governor of North Carolina, relative to the disputed boundary between that State and Georgia--From James, 1804 ... 441

• Turnpike roads, (See Roads.)
• U.
• University at the seat of Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the establishment of a national, 1796 ... 153
• University of Vincennes for aid--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the trustees of the, 1807 ... 654
• V.
• Van Allen as a Representative in Congress from New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Henry K. Van Rensselaer contesting the election of John E. 1793 ... 70
• Van Ness had forfeited his seat in Congress as a Representative from New York by accepting the appointment of major in the militia of the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives that John P., 1802 ... 336
• Van Rensselaer contesting the election of John E. Van Allen, a Representative in Congress from New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Henry K. 1793 ... 70
• Varnum, Representative from Massachusetts--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the contested election of Joseph Bradley, 1796 ... 145
• Veto power by returning to Congress, with objections, the bill for the apportionment of Representatives according to the first census--George Washington, President of the United States, exercises the, 1792 ... 48
• Vice President of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on annexing titles to the offices of President and, 1789 ... 6

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1789 ... 8

• Vice President, and members of the House of Representatives--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on proposition to amend the constitution in relation to election of President, 1801 ... 216
• Vice President of the United States, salary $5,000--Aaron Burr, 1802 ... 300
• Vincennes for aid--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the trustees of the University of, 1807 ... 654
• Virginia for a convention to amend the constitution of the United States--Application of, 1788 ... 6

  Charged with forcing off a free negro and selling him as a slave--Message from the President relative to fugitives from Pennsylvania to, 1791 ... 38

  Kentucky and the Territory south of the Ohio river--Message from the President relative to the settlement of the boundary between, 1792 ... 53

  Confirming the boundary line between that State and North Carolina--Act of, 1791 ... 56

  Appointed commander-in-chief of the militia embodied for the suppression of the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--The Governor of, 1794 ... 84

  For the execution of said command--Instructions to the Governor of, 1794 ... 112

  For the erection of public buildings at the seat of Government--Message of the President, with a report of the commissioners, relative to grants of money by Maryland and, 1796 ... 133

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1796 ... 136

  Is considered in connexion with the admission of Tennessee into the Union--Report of a committee of the Senate in which the cession from, 1796 ... 150

  With the correspondence between the Governor and the President of the United States relative to land for the colonization of people of color from that State--Resolution of the Legislature of, 1807 ... 464

  For clearing and improving the navigation of James river--Act of the Legislature of, 1784 ... 798

  Turnpike roads in, 1808 ... 910

• W.
• Walker's and Henderson's lines, or boundary between Virginia and the Southwestern Territory--Message from the President relative to, 1792 ... 53

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for the establishment of, 1794 ... 113

• War Departments--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the alterations necessary in the acts for the establishment of the Treasury and, 1792 ... 46
• War Department--Names and salaries of the clerks and messengers in the, 1793 ... 58
• War, with the decision of the Supreme Court on the validity of the adjudications by certain judges, acting as commissioners, on claims to invalid pensions--Report from Henry Knox, Secretary of, 1794 ... 78

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• War, relative to the suppression of the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Letter, instructions, &c. from the Secretary of, 1799 ... 188
• War Office in 1800--Report of the Secretary of War relative to the books and papers destroyed by fire in the, 1801 ... 232
• War Offices in 1800--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with testimony as to the causes which led to the fires in the Treasury and, 1801 ... 247
• War Department--Names and compensation of the Secretary and clerks of the, 1802 ... 304

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the proposition of William Tatham to dispose of his books, draughts, models, maps of topographical surveys, &c. to the, 1806 ... 456

  That the records of courts-martial had been destroyed by fire, in 1801--Testimony of John Smith, chief clerk of the, 1807 ... 603

• War, detailing a court of inquiry on the conduct of General Wilkinson, charged with being a pensioner of the Spanish Government--Letter from the Secretary of, 1808 ... 706
• War, with documents, relative to the exploring expedition to the source of the Mississippi--From the Secretary of, 1808 ... 942
• Washington of his election as President of the United States--Notification to George, 1789 ... 5
• Washington, President of the United States--(See President.)--Messages, &c. from George.

  With a salary of $25,000--George, 1793 ... 57

• Washington's acceptance of the command of the army of the United States--General George, 1798 ... 181
• Washington--Message from the President announcing the death of General George, 1799 ... 189

  Address from the Senate and House of Representatives, in answer to said message, and reply from the President on the same, 1799 ... 190

  Joint resolutions of the Senate and House of Representatives for the obsequies, erection of a monument, &c. to the memory of, 1799 ... 191

  By Major General Henry Lee--Oration on the death of General George, 1799 ... 192

  Consenting to the removal of the remains of General George Washington to the city of Washington--Message from the President, with a letter from Mrs. Martha, 1800 ... 195

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, with resolutions for the erection of a statue and monument in memory of General, 1800 ... 214

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of adhering to the resolutions of Congress for the erection of a monument and statue to the memory of General, 1800 ... 215

  Late President of the United States, relative to alterations in the original plan of the city of Washington--From George, 1799 ... 336

  Stock in certain canal companies--Act of Legislature of Virginia vesting in Gen. George, 1784 ... 802

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the progress made in the public buildings in the city of, 1808 ... 935

  In the District of Columbia--Message from the President, with a report of the commissioners for establishing the seat of Government at the federal city, or city of, 1796 ... 133

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1796 ... 136

  And progress made in the public buildings, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the public property and expenditures in the city of, 1796 ... 142

  Relative to the affairs of said city, progress in the erection of the public buildings, loans for their completion, sale of property, &c.--Message from the President, with a statement from the commissioners of the city of, 1801 ... 219

  Documents transmitted with the above, viz:

  Deed of trust from Abraham Young for land to lay out part of the city, ... 221

  Order from the President to sell lots at private sale, ... 223

  Morris and Greenleaf's contract with the commissioners, ... 223

  Minutes of the commissioners relative to the contract of Morris and Greenleaf, ... 224

  Resolutions of Maryland in 1796 and 1797 for loans to the city, &c., ... 224, 225

  Resolution of Maryland in 1799, for the same, ... 225

  Letter from Uriah Forrest and James M. Lingan to the commissioners, ... 225

  Answer from the commissioners to the same, ... 225

  Schedule of public property in the city, ... 226

  List of balances due to the commissioners of the city, ... 226

  List of notes given for lots purchased, &c., ... 228

  List of debts due by the commissioners of the city, ... 228

  List of balances due to the commissioners in 1801, ... 229

  Acts passed by the State of Maryland concerning the Territory of Columbia and the city of Washington, ... 299

  With an account of the receipts and expenditures for the same up to 1796--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the accounts and management of the affairs of the city of, 1801 ... 243

  Message from the President, with a statement from the commissioners concerning the condition of, and debts due for the establishment of the seat of Government at the city of, 1802 ... 254

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the payment of the debts due for the establishment of the seat of Government at the city of, 1802 ... 258

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the application for an act of incorporation to a company for making a canal in the city of, 1802 ... 258

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to lots, debts of the city, and to discontinuing the offices of commissioners of the city of, 1802 ... 260

  And injuries to individuals thereby--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of certain alterations in the plan of the city of, 1802 ... 330

  Salary to the superintendent, &c.--Message from the President relative to a resale of lots, building a jail in the city of, 1803 ... 337

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives adverse to concentrating the public offices in the city of, 1803 ... 344

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for incorporating a company to erect of a bridge across over the Potomac river at, 1805 ... 422

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of authorizing the erection of a bridge over the Potomac river at, 1806 ... 437

  Report of the surveyor of the public buildings in the city of, 1807 ... 482

  Relating to the progress and expenditures on the same--Message from the President, with a report of the surveyor of the public buildings in, 1808 ... 719

• Water into fresh--Report of the Secretary of State on the petition of Jacob Isaacs proposing a plan for converting salt, 1791 ... 44
• Wateree rivers--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the improvement of the Catawba and, 1809 ... 946
• Wayne, a Representative in Congress from Georgia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the contested election of Anthony, 1791 ... 43

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• Weighers employed by the collectors of the customs--Names and compensation of the, 1793 ... 63
• Weighers and other officers of the customs--Names and compensation of the, 1802 ... 261
• Weights, and measures for the United States--Report of the Secretary of State on uniformity in 1790 ... 13
  coinage, 1791 ... 36

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1791 ... 38

  Report of a committee of the Senate on establishing a uniform standard of, 1792 ... 48

• Weights and measures adopted by France--Message from the President, with a letter from the French minister communicating the standard of, 1795 ... 115
• Weights and measures--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of, 1796 ... 148

  Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to obtain a law fixing the standard of, 1804 ... 388

• Wells charged with forcing off a free negro and selling him as a slave--Absalom, 1791 ... 38
• Western Territory, (See Territory.)
• Wheaton, sergeant-at-arms, while engaged in arresting an individual for disorderly conduct in the gallery--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a breach of the privileges of that House by the imprisonment, under a warrant from a magistrate, of Joseph, 1801 ... 216
• White as a Delegate to Congress from the Territory south of the Ohio--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the legality of the election of James, 1794 ... 83
• White and other commissioners for establishing the seat of Government--Report of Alexander, 1796 ... 133
• White, commissioner, &c. relative to the progress on the public buildings, expenditures, &c.--Report of Alexander, 1796 ... 143
• White and other commissioners relative to the affairs of the city of Washington--Report from Alexander, 1801 ... 219
• Whiskey--Message from the President relative to the insurrection in Pennsylvania, in opposition to the law of the United States laying a tax upon, 1794 ... 83
• Whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Letter from Governor Mifflin relative to the suppression of the, 1799 ... 97

  Documents transmitted to Congress by the President relative to the,--(See Pennsylvania,) 1799 ... 185

• Whitney for a breach of privileges, by an attempt to bribe its members--Proceedings of the House of Representatives against Charles, 1795 ... 125
• Wilkinson in relation to the treasonable designs of Aaron Burr--(See Burr,)--Letters, testimony, orders, &c. of General James, 1807 ... 469, 578

  And the Spanish Government--Statement of Daniel Clark relative to an illicit intercourse between General James, 1808 ... 704

  Message from the President, with documents, relative to the same, 1808 ... 705

  On charges of being a pensioner of the Spanish Government--Letter from the Secretary of War detailing a court of inquiry on the conduct of General James, 1808 ... 706

  And the Spanish Government for a separation of the Union--Message from the President, with documents, relative to the illicit connexion between General, 1808 ... 712

• Wilkinson's receipt of money from the Spaniards--Documents, submitted by Daniel Clark, relating to General James, 1808 ... 936
• Wilson and other judges of the Supreme Court, relative to defects in the judiciary system--From James. 1794 ... 77
• Witnesses in the courts of the United States--Draught of a bill to establish the pay of, 1795 ... 121
• Wolcott, jun., Comptroller of the Treasury, with a salary of $2,400--Oliver, 1793 ... 57
• Wright, as Governor of Georgia and West Florida--Commission from George III. King of Great Britain to James, 1798 ... 178
• Y.
• Yeates and others for suppressing the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania--Commission to Jasper, 1794 ... 87
• Z.
• Zane for establishing ferries in the Northwestern Territory--Report of a committee of the Senate in favor of granting land to E., 1796 ... 145

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