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

American State Papers [Miscellaneous: Volume 2] : Index
INDEX TO MISCELLANEOUS. VOLUME II.

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• A.
• Year.
• No.
• Page.
• Abolition Society, relative to colonizing free people of color on the public lands--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on memorial of the Kentucky, Year 1816, No. 395 ... 278
• Abolition of Slavery, that it be prohibited in new States to be admitted into the Union--Memorial of the American Convention for promoting the, Year 1819, No. 470 ... 547
• Accountabality, and a plan for enforcing the speedy payment of money due from individuals and corporate bodies to the United States--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the subject of, Year 1820, No. 483 ... 575
• Accountant of the Navy Department relative to papers destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 248
• Accountant of the War Department relative to papers destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 251
• Accountants of the War and Navy Departments--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to increasing the salaries of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Accountant and additional accountant of the War Department--Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 310
• Accountant of the Navy Department--Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 311
• Accounts of Patrick Magruder, Clerk of the House of Representatives--Report of a committee of the House relative to the incorrect state of the, Year 1814, No. 377 ... 253
• Accounts--Explanatory statement of P. Magruder, Clerk, &c. relative to his, Year 1814, No. 378 ... 258

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1815, No. 380 ... 263

  Report from the heads of the several Departments, with a plan to secure the accountability of public officers, and for the prompt settlement of public, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 396

  Same, Year 1817, No. 424 ... 417

• Accounts, &c.--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the progress made under the act to provide for the prompt settlement of public. Year 1818, No. 442 ... 460
• Adams, as envoy for negotiating peace with Great Britain--Message from the President, with a copy of a commission, issued in the recess of the Senate, to John Quincy, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240
• Adams, as a Representative from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Erastus Root contesting the election of John, Year 1815, No. 390 ... 275
• Adams, relative to the inadequacy of his salary as minister of the United States at London--Letter from John Quincy, Year 1816, No. 409 ... 306
• Adams to Jonathan Russell's account of the proceedings of the American ministers who negotiated a treaty of peace with Great Britain at Ghent--Reply of John Quincy, Year 1822, No. 528 ... 947
• Adjutant and Inspector General of the United States army, relative to the papers belonging to his office, destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 252
• Adjutant and Inspector General's office--Biennial register of clerks in the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 335
• Africans into the United States, by D. B. Mitchell, Indian agent of the United States, contrary to law--Message from the President, with documents relative to an alleged importation of, Year 1822, No. 529 ... 957
• Agents of the United States, communicated by the Secretary of State--"Blue Book," or biennial register of officers and, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Agents for the settlement of claims against the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the misconduct of certain clerks in the executive offices in acting as, 1818 452 ... 495
• Agriculture, by introducing the tea plant to the notice of Congress--Letter from John S. Grimes, evincing his zeal in the cause of, Year 1812, No. 323 ... 185
• Agriculture--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, recommending the establishment of a national board of, Year 1817, No. 433 ... 442
• Alabama for aid from the United States in the construction of a canal between the Alabama and Highwassee rivers--Memorial of the Legislature of, Year 1822, No. 512 ... 798
• Alabama--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on complaint of Edwin Lewis against Charles Tait, judge of the United States for the district of, Year 1823, No. 537 ... 1014
• Alexandria, in the District of Columbia"--President Madison's objections to the bill entitled "An act for incorporating the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of, Year 1811, No. 294 ... 152
• Algiers--Expenses of intercourse with, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 23

  And the United States--Account between the Regency of, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 32

• Aliens--Message from the President of the United States returning, with objections, the bill entitled "An act supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of a uniform rule of naturalization," and recommending that provision be made in favor of, Year 1812, No. 329 ... 195
• Alien, for citizenship and a patent right--Memorial of Thomas Owen, an, Year 1814, No. 369 ... 241
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• Aliens to become settlers and citizens of the United States--Memorial of the New York Irish Emigrant Association that encouragement be extended to, Year 1818, No. 449 ... 489
• Aliens to become citizens in certain cases, without making a declaration of their intention three years before--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a resolution to admit, Year 1822, No. 522 ... 929
• Ambassador, (See Minister.)
• Amelia Island--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the illicit introduction of slaves into the United States from, Year 1818, No. 441 ... 458
• Amendments, (See Constitution.)
• Appointment of two subordinate officers in the War Department--Message from the President on the propriety of the, Year 1812, No. 320 ... 184
• Appointment of Wm. Jones, as Secretary of the Treasury, in the place of Albert Gallatin, appointed envoy to treat with Great Britain and Russia, without resigning as Secretary of the Treasury--Message from the President relative to the temporary, Year 1813, No. 341 ... 206

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, Year 1813, No. 344 ... 209

• Appointment as minister to Sweden--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the nomination of Jonathan Russell for, Year 1813, No. 342 ... 206

  Message from the President, declining a conference with a committee of the Senate on the nomination of Jonathan Russell for the, Year 1813, No. 347 ... 215

• Appointment as envoy, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate that the President declined conferring with them in relation to Albert Gallatin's, Year 1813, No. 350 ... 217
• Appointments made during the recess of the Senate--Message from the President, with copies of commissions issued for, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240
• Appointments of ministers and consuls, made by the President in the recess of the Senate, from the commencement of the Government to 1814--Message from the President, with a list of the, Year 1814, No. 370 ... 242
• Appointments to office after their election as members of Congress--Message from the President, with a list of persons who have held, Year 1817, No. 437 ... 448

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1818, No. 438 ... 448

  Same, Year 1818, No. 439 ... 457

  Same, Year 1818, No. 445 ... 473

• Appropriations from one object to another--Letter from Wm. H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject of the transfer of, Year 1817, No. 420 ... 413
• Architect of the public buildings--Letter from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, vindicating his official conduct as surveyor or, Year 1818, No. 461 ... 531
• Archives destroyed by the enemy in 1814. (See Documents.)
• Archives of Florida from José Callava, late Governor of that province--Proceedings of Andrew Jackson, Governor, to recover a certain part of the public, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 799
• Army of the United States, regarding certain corrupt and treasonable proceedings against the Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on an inquiry into the conduct of Brigadier General James Wilkinson, of the, Year 1810, No. 280 ... 79
• Army of the United States--Biennial register of the officers of the, viz: Year 1816, No. 410 ... 326

  General staff, ... 326

  Ordnance Department, ... 326

  Medical Department, ... 326

  Corps of engineers, ... 327

  Light artillery, ... 328

  Corps of artillery, ... 328

  First regiment of infantry, ... 330

  Second regiment of infantry, ... 331

  Third regiment of infantry, ... 331

  Fourth regiment of infantry, ... 332

  Fifth regiment of infantry, ... 332

  Sixth regiment of infantry, ... 332

  Seventh regiment of infantry, ... 333

  Eighth regiment of infantry, ... 333

  Rifle regiment, ... 334

  Pay of the officers and soldiers of the, ... 334

  Officers of the Military Academy, ... 336

  Cadets, ... 336

• Army, of the United States relative to the progress on military roads, made under the authority of the Government--Reports from sundry officers of the, Year 1819, No. 462 ... 537
• Army, relative to the progress made on the military road from Plattsburg to Sackett's Harbor, in New York--Report from Major General Brown, commander-in-chief of the, Year 1822, No. 534 ... 987
• Army, relative to taking possession of the Floridas, under the treaty with Spain, and the recovery of certain archives from the late Spanish Governor--Proceedings of Major General Andrew Jackson, and other officers of the, (See Florida,) Year 1822, No. 513 ... 799
• Arts--(See Patents)--Encouragement of inventions for useful.

  (See Fine Arts)--Encouragement of fine.

• Assistant counsel to the Attorney General of the United States--Allowance made to individuals as, Year 1816, No. 407 ... 303
• Astor, relative to a settlement made by him as a fur trader, &c. at the mouth of the Columbia river, in 1811--Letter from John J., Year 1823, No. 536 ... 1009
• Attorney General of the United States--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to increasing the salary of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Message from the President, with a statement of allowances to counsel appointed to assist the, Year 1816, No. 407 ... 302

  Statement by James Monroe, Secretary of State, relative to the rank and duties of the, Year 1817, No. 424 ... 418

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of extra compensation for services in the courts of the United States to the, Year 1819, No. 469 ... 546

  To the House of Representatives, declining to make a report on a claim of Major Wheaton, referred to him by that House, and stating his duties as Attorney General--Report from the, Year 1820, No. 482 ... 574

  Relative to his official duties, compensation, clerks, records of office, &c.--Letters from the, Year 1820, No. 489 ... 590

  Report of a commitee of the House of Representatives on the message of the President relative to the regular duties and allowances made for extra duties to the, Year 1822, No. 524 ... 930

  Relative to an alleged importation of negro slaves from Africa contrary to law, by D. B. Mitchell, Indian agent--Reports from the, Year 1822, No. 529 ... 957

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• Attorney for the southern district of New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to fees charged by the, Year 1818, No. 457 ... 518
• Attorneys for extra services--Statement of compensation made to United States district, Year 1822, No. 524 ... 932
• Auditor of the Treasury, relative to the papers destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 249
• Auditor of the Treasury--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to increasing the salary of the, Year 1816, No 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 308

  Relative to the progress of business in his office, under the act for the prompt settlement of public accounts--Report from the First, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 463

  Report from the Second Auditor of the Treasury on the same, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 463

  Report from the Third Auditor of the Treasury on the same, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 464

  Report from the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury on the same, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 465

  Report from the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury on the same, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 465

• Auditors of the Treasury, relative to the number of clerks and messengers in those offices, and stating the cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Reports from the several, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 980
• B.
• Bankrupt--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of releasing William Smith, an insolvent debtor of the United States, and a, Year 1817, No. 425 ... 419
• Bankruptcy--Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia, for the adoption of a uniform system of, Year 1817, No. 422 ... 415

  Memorial of the merchants and traders of Boston, for the adoption of a uniform system of, Year 1819, No. 472 ... 548

  Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, for the adoption of a uniform system of, Year 1820, No. 478 ... 567

  Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of Baltimore, for the adoption a uniform system of, Year 1822, No. 509 ... 796

  In the United States," passed in 1800--Message from the President of the United States, with statements of the number of cases settled, &c. in the States and Territories under the "Act to establish a uniform system of, Year 1822, No. 514 ... 914

  Memorial of the citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, for the adoption of a uniform system of, Year 1822, No. 515 ... 915

• Bank of the United States within the same--Proceedings of the Legislature of Ohio relative to the power of that State to tax the branch of the Year 1821, No. 500 ... 643
• Banks in the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of rechartering certain, Year 1810, No. 274 ... 45

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on sundry bills to incorporate certain, Year 1811, No. 289 ... 147

• Banks in the Western country and the Treasury Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the official conduct of Gales and Seaton as printers, and to the suppression of parts of certain papers concerning transactions between certain, Year 1822, No. 538 ... 1015
• Baptist Church, at Salem, Mississippi, for a donation of land--Petition from the, Year 1809, No. 267 ... 11

  President Madison's objections to the act granting land to the, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154

• Barbary Powers--Statement from the Treasury Department, of the expenses of intercourse with the, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 20
• Barlow, relative to the inadequacy of the salary of the United States minister at Paris--Letter from Joel, Year 1816, No. 409 ... 306
• Bassett, contesting the election of Thomas M. Bayley as a Representative from Virginia--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Burwell, Year 1814, No. 360 ... 233
• Bayard, as envoy to negotiate peace with Great Britain--Message from the President with a copy of the commission issued in the recess of the Senate to James A. Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240
• Bayley, as a Representative from Virginia--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Burwell Bassett, contesting the election of Thomas M. Year 1814, No. 360 ... 233
• Baylies, as a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts--Report of committee on the petition in favor of Charles Turner, against the election of William, Year 1809, No. 264 ... 1

  Same, No. 266 ... 7

• Berlin and Milan decrees--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to a declaration of the Duke of Bassano to Mr. Barlow, relative to a repeal of the, Year 1813, No. 342 ... 206
• Bills of credit and other printing under resolves of the Revolutionary Congress--Account of, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 47
• Bills of exchange under same--Account of Year 1810, No. 275 ... 50
• "Blue Book," or register of officers and agents of the United States, communicated to Congress by the Secretary of State, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Blydenburg and Peter Augustus Jay, contesting the elections of Ebenezer Sage and John Lefferts--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petitions of Benjamin B. Year 1813, No. 349 ... 217
• Bond for faithfully accounting for the contingent fund of that House--Report of a committee on the expediency of requiring the Clerk of the House of Representatives to give, Year 1812, No. 314 ... 180
• Books and papers. (See Documents--See Library.)
• Boundary between North Carolina and Georgia--Proceedings of the Legislature and documents relating to the, Year 1810, No. 279 ... 72

  Between that State and Tennessee--Memorial of the Legislature of Kentucky to obtain a settlement of the, Year 1818, No. 451 ... 490

  With Great Britain--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of the disputed, Year 1818, No. 456 ... 512

  Between Kentucky and Tennessee--Articles of agreement between the commissioners for the settlement of the, Year 1820, No. 490 ... 591

  Between that State and the States of New York and Delaware--Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey to obtain the passage of a law for the establishment of the, Year 1822, No. 510 ... 797

• Bowers, as Representative from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Isaac Williams, jun. contesting the election of John M. Year 1813, No. 351 ... 218
• Bridges suitable for military purposes--Report of the Secretary of War recommending the purchase of the patent right of Benjamin Conner to make and construct, Year 1813, No. 338 ... 204
• Brown, for a change of venue for the prosecution of certain German redemptioners who had absconded from him--Memorial of James, Year 1819, No. 473 ... 550
• Buildings. (See Washington City.) Public.
• Burch and J. T. Frost, relative to the conflagration of the Capitol and destruction of the books and papers of the Clerk's office and Library of Congress--Letter from Samuel, Year 1814, No. 371 ... 245

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• Burr, and other improprieties--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on an inquiry into the conduct of Brigadier General James Wilkinson, as regards a corrupt connexion with Aaron, Year 1810, No. 280 ... 79
• C.
• Callava, late Governor, and Andrew Jackson, as Governor of Florida--Proceedings between Colonel José Year 1822, No. 512 ... 799
• Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, for remission of penalty incurred by their agent in violating the act prohibiting the introduction of slaves--Petition of Harry, Year 1809, No. 269 ... 13
• Canal in Massachusetts, for aid from the United States--Memorial of the proprietors of the Middlesex, Year 1811, No. 285 ... 142
• Canal in Pennsylvania, for aid from the United States--Memorial of the Company of the Union, Year 1811, No. 299 ... 161
• Canals in that State--Memorial from the Commissioners of the State of New York, for aid from the United States in the construction of, Year 1811, No. 303 ... 165
• Canals in New York to connect the great lakes with the Hudson river--Message from the President, with copy of an act of The Legislature of New York "to provide, for the improvement of the internal navigation of the State," and for the construction of, Year 1811, No. 304 ... 166
• Canal from Hudson river to the great lakes in New York ought to be provided for by the United States--Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio that the expense of a, Year 1812, No. 312 ... 178
• Canal Company, the Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania and the Commissioners of the New York Canal from the great lakes to the Hudson river--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on memorials from the Chesapeake and Delaware, Year 1812, No. 313 ... 178
• Canals--Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to means to be afforded by the General Government by sales of the public lands for making, Year 1812, No. 313 ... 179
• Canal--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of subscribing to the stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware, Year 1813, No. 348 ... 215
• Canal Company--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of subscribing to the stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware, Year 1813, No. 352 ... 222
• Canals--Report of a committee of the Senate on so much of the message from the President of the United States as relates to effecting internal improvements by roads and, Year 1816, No. 398 ... 283
• Canal--Report of a committee of the Senate concerning the utility and importance of canals generally, and more especially of the Chesapeake and Delaware, Year 1816, No. 399 ... 285
• Canal Commissioners of New York soliciting aid from the United States in constructing canals to connect the Hudson river with lakes Erie and Champlain--Memorial of the, Year 1816, No. 412 ... 399
• Canals under charge of a Home Department--Relative to placing the subject of roads and, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 398
• Canals--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on so much of the President's message as relates to the subject of roads and, Year 1817, No. 427 ... 420
• Canals--Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, Year 1817, No. 429 ... 424
• Canal Company for aid--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on memorial of the Chesapeake and Delaware, Year 1817, No. 432 ... 433
• Canal Company--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of affording aid to the Dismal Swamp, Year 1817, No. 423 ... 433
• Canal, &c.--Report of Major J. Kearney, topographical engineer, to the Secretary of War, relating to a survey, &c. of the Dismal Swamp, Year 1817, No. 433 ... 433
• Canals--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on so much of the President's message as relates to the subject of roads and, Year 1817, No. 435 ... 443
• Canals--Report of John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, on a general plan for opening and constructing roads and, Year 1819, No. 462 ... 533
• Canal to connect the Illinois river with lake Michigan--Report from the Secretary of War with Engineer's report on the subject of a, Year 1819, No. 474 ... 555
• Canal between the Alabama and Hiwassee rivers--Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama for aid of the United States in constructing a, Year 1822, No. 512 ... 798
• Canals, and referring to sundry works in particular--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the general subject of the internal improvement of the country by means of roads and, Year 1822, No. 526 ... 934

  Objects referred to in said report, viz:

  A canal to connect the waters of Boston with Ipswich bay.

  To improve the navigation of the Hudson river.

  The Delaware and Raritan canal.

  The Chesapeake and Delaware canal.

  A canal to connect the Potomac and Youghiogeny rivers.

  A cannal to connect the tide waters of the Potomac with the Western waters.

  To improve the navigation and connect the waters of the Alabama and Tennessee rivers.

  A canal to connect the Pensacola and Mobile bays.

  The canal Carondelet from Lake Ponchartrain to New Orleans.

• Canal--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the condition of the Potomac Company, and to the improvement of the Potomac river above tide water by means of a, Year 1822, No. 530 ... 975
• Canals--Resolution of the Legislature of Maryland in favor of the navy and of a system of internal improvements by roads and, Year 1822, No. 533 ... 985
• Canal to improve the navigation of the Potomac river and to connect its waters with those of the Ohio--Report of the commissioners appointed by Maryland and Virginia on the condition of the Potomac Company and the importance of a, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 988
• Canal, &c. to improve the navigation of the Potomac, and, in connexion with roads, to open a communication with the Western country--Report of Gen. Washington, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and others, commissioners of Virginia and Maryland in 1785, on the importance of a, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 1006
• Canary Islands said to be suffering from famine--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on an inquiry into the necessity for affording relief to the people of the, Year 1812, No. 321 ... 184
• Capitol in 1814--Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives relative to the destruction of the books and papers of that office and of the Library of Congress by the conflagration of the, Year 1814, No. 371 ... 245
• Capitol and other public buildings that were destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on reconstructing the, Year 1814, No. 375 ... 252
• Capitol. (See Washington.)
• Carroll of Carrollton and others, commissioners of Maryland and Virginia in 1785, on the subject of opening and improving the navigation of the Potomac river, and, in connexion with roads, to open a communication with the Western country--Report of George Washington, Charles, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 1006

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• Causes. (See Courts.) Trial of.
• Census of Indiana Territory in 1816, Year 1816, No. 392 ... 277

  of Mississippi Territory in 1816, Year 1816, No. 416 ... 408

• Chaplains of the Senate and House of Representatives--Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salaries of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Chargés des Affaires--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to increasing the salaries of, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Chesapeake and Delaware canal--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of subscribing to the stock of the, Year 1813, No. 318, ... 215

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1813, No. 352 ... 222

  Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the, Year 1816, No. 399 ... 285

• Chesapeake and Ohio canal--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to improving the navigation of the Potomac river, or to the, Year 1822, No. 530 ... 975

  Report of the commissioners appointed by Maryland and Virginia on the condition of the Potomac Company, and on the importance of a canal to connect the waters of the Potomac with those of the Ohio river, or the, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 988

  Report of commissioners of Virginia and Maryland in 1785, on improvements in anticipation of the, ... 1006

• Church at Salem, Mississippi, for a donation of land--Petition of the Baptist, Year 1809, No. 267 ... 11
• Church in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia--President Madison's objections to the bill entitled "An act for incorporating the Protestant Episcopal, Year 1811, No. 294 ... 152
• Church at Salem, Mississippi, &c.--President Madison's objections to the bill granting land to the Baptist, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154
• Civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States--Biennial register of officers, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Claims against the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the misconduct of certain officers and clerks in the executive offices and the navy, in acting as agents for the settlement of, Year 1818, No. 452 ... 495
• Claim of Major Wheaton, referred to him by that House, &c.--Report from the Attorney General of the United States to the House of Representatives, declining to make a report on the, Year 1820, No. 492 ... 574
• Clay, on the subject of the compensation proper to be allowed to the ministers of the United States in foreign countries--Letter from Henry, Year 1816, No. 409 ... 306
• Clerk of the House of Representatives a commission for disbursing the contingent fund--Report of the Committee of Accounts on the expediency of allowing the, Year 1812, No. 314 ... 180
• Clerk of the House of Representatives--With a statement of the destruction of books and papers of his office, his vouchers of expenditures from the contingent fund, and Library of Congress by the conflagration of the Capitol, in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1812, No. 371 ... 245

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the destruction, by the enemy, of the books and papers, and of the Library of Congress; also, in relation to the accounts of disbursements from the contingent fund by the, Year 1814, No. 377 ... 253

  With documents relative to the same, from the; explanatory letter from Patrick Magruder, Year 1814, No. 378 ... 253

  Documents with said letter, viz:

  Certificate from Captain Benjamin Burch, ... 259

  Certificate from Captain Harvey Bestor, ... 260

  Order from Brigadier General Walter Smith, ... 260

  Letter from John T. Frost, ... 260

  Letter from George Magruder, ... 260

  Certificate from General W. Smith, ... 260

  Certificate from Washington Bowie, ... 261

  Certificate from George N. Thomas, ... 261

  Letter from A. & G. Way, ... 261

  Account of A. & G. Way, ... 261

  Letter from R. C. Weightman, ... 262

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the explanatory statement of the, Year 1815, No. 379 ... 263

  Documents with the same, viz:

  Letter from Wm. Barnett, chairman of the Committee of Accounts, ... 265

  Letter from Joseph Pearson, chairman of the committee, to George Magruder, ... 265

  Answer from George Magruder to J. Pearson, ... 265

  Statement from R. C. Weightman, ... 265

  Testimony of P. Ferrall, ... 266

  Continuation account of P. Magruder, ... 266

  Resignation of Patrick Magruder as, Year 1815, No. 382 ... 267

• Clerk of the House of Representatives and the clerks in his office--Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salaries of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Clerk in the court of the southern district of New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the official misconduct of Theorun Rudd, Year 1819, No. 464 ... 542
• Clerks in the executive offices acting as agents for the settlement of claims against the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the misconduct of certain officers and, Year 1818, No. 452 ... 495
• Clerks, officers, and agents in the service of the United States--Biennial register of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Clerks and others acting as agents for claims against the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the misconduct of certain, Year 1818, No. 452 ... 495
• Clerks in the Legislative and Executive Departments of the Government--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the compensation of the officers and, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 637
• Clerks and messengers employed in those Departments, and stating cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Reports from the several Executive Departments of the number of, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 978
• Clinton, president of the Canal Commissioners of New York, to solicit aid from the United States--Memorial of De Witt, Year 1816, No. 412 ... 399
• Coins--Note with report of the Seceretary of State relative to the value of various, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 712
• Colden, contesting the election of Peter Sharpe as Representative from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections on the memorial of Cadwalader D. Year 1821, No. 505 ... 751
• Cole and others, contesting the patent right of Oliver Evans--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of William, Year 1814, No. 354 ... 224
• Coleman and others--President Madison's objections to the bill for the relief of William, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154
• Coles upon General Roger Nelson, a member thereof--Report of a committee in case of a breach of the privileges of the House of Representatives in an assault by J. A. Year 1809, No. 272 ... 18

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• Collectors of the customs, on defects in the system of gauging as practised at the custom-houses of the United States--Letters from certain, Year 1811, No. 290 ... 147
• Collectors and other officers of the customs--Biennial register of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 316
• Collectors of the direct tax--Biennial register of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 319
• College in Mississippi Territory, by means of escheated estates--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives against the endowment of Jefferson, Year 1814, No. 367 ... 239
• Colonization of free persons of color on the public lands of the United States--of a committee of the House of Representatives on memorial of Kentucky Abolition Society for the, Year 1816, No. 395 ... 278
• Columbia. (See District of Columbia.)
• Columbia river, emptying into the Pacific ocean--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of occupying the, Year 1821, No. 497 ... 629

  Message from the President with a report from J. B. Prevost, relative to the establishment of the United States at the mouth of the, Year 1823, No. 536 ... 1007

• Commissary General of Prisoners and clerks in his office--Biennial register of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 337

  Report of Fifth Auditor, relative to the settlement of the accounts of, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 466

• Commissioners of the Revenue and of the General Land Office--Report of a committee of the Senate, relative to increasing the salaries of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of the officers and clerks in the offices of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 309

• Commissioner of Claims, &c. same, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 311
• Commissioners of Boundaries, &c. same, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 316
• Commissioners of Loans of the United States--Biennial register of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 316
• Commissioner of the Public Buildings and clerks--Same, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 396
• Commissioner of the Public Buildings in Washington--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the duty and compensation of the, Year 1822, No. 523 ... 929

  Reports from the. (See Washington.)

• Commissioners for settling the boundary with Great Britain under the treaty of Ghent--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to expenditures and duties of the, Year 1818, No. 456 ... 512
• Commissioners of Maryland and Virginia, on the condition of the Potomac Company and the importance of a canal to connect the Potomac river with the Ohio--Report of the, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 988
• Commissions issued for appointments by the President made during the recess of the Senate--Message from the President with copies of, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240
• Compensation of certain civil, diplomatic, legislative, executive, and judicial officers of the United States--Report of a committee of the Senate, on the expediency of increasing the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Compensation made to assistant counsel appointed to aid the Attorney General of the United States--Message from the President with a statement of, Year 1816, No. 407 ... 302
• Compensation of the Ministers and Consuls of the United States--Letter from the Secretary of State on the propriety of increasing the, Year 1816, No. 409 ... 303
• Compensatin allowed to each, &c.--Biennial register of the officers and agents, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States, and the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Compensation to Members of Congress, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of repealing the law making, Year 1816, No. 414 ... 402
• Compensation to William Johnson, Judge of the sixth circuit United States, for extra services in the district court of South Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on allowing, Year 1817, No. 428 ... 424
• Compensation to the Attorney General, for services in the courts of the United States--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury with statement of extra, Year 1819, No. 469 ... 546
• Compensation of the officers, clerks, &c. of the Legislative and Executive Departments of the Government--Report of a committee of the Senate on an inquiry into the propriety of reducing the, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 637
• Comptroller of the Treasury, relative to papers destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 248

  Report of a committee of the Senate, relative to increasing the salary of, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 308

  Relative to the arrangement of business in his office under the act for the prompt settlement of public accounts, &c.--Report from Joseph Anderson, First, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 462

  Same--Report from Richard Cutts, Second, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 463

• Comptrollers of the Treasury, relative to the number of clerks in those offices, and stating those engaged in other pursuits--Report from the First and Second, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 980
• Conference with a committee of the Senate on the nomination of Jonathan Russell--The President of the United States declines a, Year 1813, No. 347 ... 215
• Conference with a committee of the Senate, relative to the nomination of Albert Gallatin, as Envoy, &c.--The President of the United States declines a, Year 1813, No. 350 ... 217
• Congress. (See Senate and House of Representatives.)

  (See Election.) Contested elections of members of.

  (See Privileges.) Breach of privileges of members of.

  Account of bills of credit and other printing executed under resolves of the Revolutionary, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 47

  By the conflagration of the Capitol in 1814, as also his vouchers for expenditures from the contingent fund of that House--Report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives on the destruction of books and papers and of the library of, Year 1814, No. 371 ... 245

  Report of the Committee on the library of the Senate, relative to the purchase of the library of Thomas Jefferson for the use of, Year 1814, No. 372 ... 246

  Report of a committee of the Senate, with resolution for the purchase of the library of Thomas Jefferson for the use of, Year 1814, No. 376 ... 253

  By the enemy in 1814, and the accounts of said Clerk--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, relative to the destruction of books and papers and the library of, Year 1814, No. 377 ... 253

  Purchased from Thomas Jefferson--Report of a committee of the Senate, recommending that provision be made for a room, and for the transportation of the library, Year 1815, No. 386 ... 274

  Accounts, purchase of books, appointment of Librarian, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to a room for accommodating the library of, Year 1816, No. 396 ... 279

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the expediency of repealing the law making compensation to members of, Year 1816, No. 414 ... 402

  And extending the use of books to the Heads of Departments--Report of a committee of the Senate, relative to the purchase of books for the library of, Year 1816, No. 419 ... 412

  Message from the President, with a list of persons who have held offices after their election as members of, Year 1817, No. 437 ... 448

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• Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives respecting persons who have held offices after their election as members of, Year 1818, No. 438 ... 448

  Same, Year 1818, No. 439 ... 457

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of an individual retaining his office under the Government of the United States after his election as a member of, Year 1818, No. 445 ... 473

  Proposed to be published by Gales and Seaton--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of authorizing a subscription to the History of Debates and Proceedings in, Year 1818, No. 453 ... 510

  Report of the Secretary of State relative to the distribution of the laws, journals, and documents of, Year 1818, No. 455 ... 513

  Report of a committee of the Senate, relative to the prompt execution of the printing of, Year 1818, No. 460 ... 531

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the propriety of establishing an efficient and certain plan for executing the printing for, Year 1819, No. 466 ... 544

  Report of a committee of the Senate, relative to compensation to officers, &c. of, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 637

• Connecticut--Resolutions of Ohio rejecting certain amendments to the constitution proposed by Massachusetts and, Year 1816, No. 397 ... 282

  Asylum for tile instruction of the deaf and dumb, for aid--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of the, Year 1819, No. 467 ... 545

  For the prohibition of slavery in Missouri, as a condition for its admission into the Union--Memorial from the people of Hartford, Year 1820, No. 481 ... 572

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 691, 728

• Conner, to make and use bridges suitable for military purposes--Report of the Secretary of War, recommending the purchase of the patent-right of Benjamin, Year 1813, No. 338 ... 204
• Constitution of the United States, proposed by Massachusetts and Connecticut--Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio rejecting certain amendments to the, Year 1816, No. 397 ... 282

  Viz. 1. As respects taxation and representation.

  2. As respects the admission of States into the Union.

  3. As respects the laying of embargoes.

  4. As respects the interdiction of commercial intercourse.

  5. As respects the power to declare war.

  6. As respects eligibility to the office of President of the United States.

  7. As respects re-election to the office of President of the United States.

  Of the United States, to prohibit titles of nobility or presents being received by citizens of the United States from foreign Powers--Message from the President of the United States, relative to the ratification by the States of an amendment to the, Year 1818, No. 446 ... 477

  Message from the President relative to the publication of the journal, acts, and proceedings of the Fedral Convention which formed the, Year 1819, No. 471 ... 548

• Constitutional objections to the establishment of a national university in the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on, Year 1811, No. 293 ... 151

  Objections to the bill entitled "An act for incorporating the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia,"--Message from President Madison stating, Year 1811, No. 294 ... 152

  Objections to the bill granting land to the Baptist meeting-house at Salem, Mississippi, &c.--Message from President Madison with, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 151

• Consuls made by the President in the recess of the Senate, from the commencement of the Government to 1814--List of appointments of Ministers and, Year 1814, No. 370 ... 242

  United States--Letter from the Secretary of State, relative to increasing the compensation of the Ministers and, Year 1816, No. 409 ... 303

  United States--Biennial register of the Ministers and, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 314

• Contested elections. (See Elections.)
• Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives and expediency of allowing the Clerk a commission for its disbursement--Report of the Committee of Accounts on subject of the, Year 1812, No. 314 ... 180
• Contingent fund of the House of Representatives--Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives relative to the loss of his vouchers for disbursements from the, Year 1814, No. 371 ... 245

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the state of the accounts, same, Year 1814, No. 377 ... 253

• Contingent fund of that House--Explanatory statement of the Clerk of the House of Representatives relative to his accounts for disbursements from the, Year 1814, No. 378 ... 258

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, Year 1815, No. 380 ... 263

• Contractors for carrying the mail of the United States--Biennial register of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 392
• Controversy between States--Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, to obtain the passage of a law for the settlement of, Year 1822, No. 510 ... 797
• Cook, on the subject of an alleged suppression of certain parts of documents ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives, relating to deposites in banks in the Western country--Testimony of Daniel P. (See Printers.) Year 1823, No. 538 ... 1020, 1022
• Coppinger, late Governor of St. Augustine, East Florida, for the delivery of that province to the United States--Proceedings of José, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 876, 890
• Cosden, as Representative from Maryland--of the Committee of Elections of the House of Representatives on the petition of Philip Reed, contesting, the election of Jeremiah, Year 1822, No. 519 ... 922
• Cotton gin--Memorial of Eli Whitney for an adequate remuneration for his invention of the, Year 1812, No. 319 ... 183
• Counsel appointed to assist the Attorney General of the United States--Message from the President with statement of allowances made to, Year 1816, No. 407 ... 302
• Court, in case of Gideon Olmstead--Protest of Pennsylvania against the proceedings of the Supreme, Year 1809, No. 265 ... 2

  Further proceedings of Pennsylvania relative to, No. 268 ... 11

• Courts of the United States, in case of the absence or disability of the district judges, and imposing that duty on the circuit judges of the Supreme Court--The President returns, with objections, to the House of Representatives the bill providing for the trial of causes in the district, Year 1812, No. 315 ... 180

  Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salaries of the judges of the several, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

• Court of the United States--from J. Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, on the expediency of providing for the reports of the decisions of the Supreme, Year 1817, No. 426 ... 419
• Court of South Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of the Representatives, on the expediency of compensating William Johnson, jun. circuit judge of the United States, for extra duties in the district, Year 1817, No. 428 ... 424

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• Courts of other States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, relative to the effect which the judicial proceedings of one State have in the, 1817 436 ... 447
• Courts of the United States in the southern district of New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, relative to fees charged by the district attorney in the, 1818 457 ... 518
• Court of the southern district of New York--Official misconduct of the judge and dishonesty of the clerk of the, 1819 464 ... 542
• Courts of Ohio to another State, for the prosecution of certain German redemptioners who had absconded from him--Memorial of James Brown for a change of venue from the, 1819 463 ... 550
• Courts of the United States in the District of Columbia, from 1801 to 1819--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury with a statement of the expenses of the Supreme and District, 1820 485 ... 581
• Courts of the United States from 1801 to 1819--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of the expenses of the Supreme, 1820 485 ... 581
• Courts of the United States in the several States, &c.--Statement from the judges with schedules of the fees charged and proper to be charged in the, (See Fees.) 1820 492 ... 598
• Court as Governor, &c. of Florida--Proceedings of Andrew Jackson in his, 1822 513 ... 808, 814, 852, 867
• Courts in that Territory--Ordinances of Governor Jackson for the division of the Floridas into counties and for the regulation of the, ... 905, '6
• Courts of the United States under the act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy, passed in 1800--Statement of the number of cases settled in the, 1822 514 ... 914
• Courts of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of a reorganization of the, 1823 542 ... 1042
• Coxe, chargé d'affaires at Tunis--Account of Charles D. 1810 273 ... 34
• Crawford, relative to the compensation to ministers of the United States and allowances made to ambassadors by France--Letter from William H. 1816 409 ... 305
• Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury, relative to an alleged suppression of certain parts of documents, ordered to be printed, relating to deposites in banks in the Western country, &c.--Testimony of William H., (See Printers.) 1823 538 ... 1019
• Crime of piracy--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the mode of punishing the, 1821 501 ... 654
• Cumberland, in Maryland, to the State of Ohio--Message from the President, with a statement of the proceedings under the act for laying out and making a road from, 1812 311 ... 175
• Cumberland road from Cumberland to Brownsville--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on making provision for extending the, 1812 317 ... 182
• Cumberland road--Message from the President, transmitting a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of proceedings under the act for laying out and making the, 1813 339 ... 205

  Message from the President on the same, 1814 356 ... 226

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1814 357 ... 227

  Message from the President on the same, 1815 379 ... 262

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1815 381 ... 266

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the appropriations, expenditures, and progress made, &c. on the, 1815 384 ... 272

  Message from the President, with a statement of the progress made on the, 1816 403 ... 296

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1816 406 ... 300

  To Wheeling--Estimate of the amount for the completion of the, 1818 443 ... 469

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the rates of wages and expenditures on the, 1818 458 ... 523

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the conduct of Josiah Thompson, late superintendent, and to the funds for the continuation of the, 1820 486 ... 585

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a report of a survey, &c. of the commissioners appointed to view and inspect the, 1822 511 ... 797

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of the total amount appropriated and expended for the, 1823 542 ... 1042

• Custom-houses in the United States--Report of the Secretary of the treasury on the defects in the system of gauging as practised at the, 1811 290 ... 147
• Customs--Biennial register of the collectors and other officers of the, 1816 410 ... 316
• D.
• Dallas, as assistant counsel to the Attorney General of the United States--Statement of compensation to Alexander J., 1816 407 ... 303
• Davis, chargé des affaires at Tunis--Account of George, 1810 273 ... 33, 34
• Deaf and dumb for assistance from the Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of the Connecticut asylum for the education of the, 1819 467 ... 545
• Debates and Proceedings in Congress, by Gales & Seaton--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of authorizing a subscription to the History of the, 1818 453 ... 510
• Debtor of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of releasing William Smith, an insolvent, 1817 425 ... 419
• Debts due to the United States--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a plan for enforcing the speedy payment by individuals and corporate bodies of, 1820 483 ... 575
• Debt--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of abolishing imprisonment for, 1821 504 ... 750
• Delaware on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, 1821 503 ... 693, 734
• Delaware--Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey for the passage of a law, with a a view to the establishment of the boundary between that State and the States of New York and, 1822 510 ... 797
• Departments of the Government, (See State, Treasury, War, Navy, Post Office, and Home Department, proposed.)
• Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives proposing the establishment of a Home, 1812 326 ... 187
• Departments of the Government--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of increasing the salaries of certain officers in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, 1816 405 ... 299

  With a plan to ensure the prompt settlement of accounts, and a more certain accountability for the public expenditures; and proposing a new organization of those Departments--Report from the heads of the several, 1816 411 ... 396

  Report of a committee of the Senate recommending that the use of the Library of Congress be extended to the heads of, 1817 419 ... 413

  Biennial register of officers in the several Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, 1816 410 ... 307

  Relative to the books and papers destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the several Executive, 1814 374 ... 248

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• Departments of the Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of erecting additional buildings for the several Executive, 1818 444 ... 470

  Report of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings concerning the location of the buildings for the Executive, 1818 447 ... 479

  Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the compensation of the officers and clerks in the Legislative and Executive, 1821 499 ... 637

  Of the number of clerks and messengers employed in those Departments, and stating cases in which they have been engaged in other pursuits--Reports from the several Executive, 1822 531 ... 978

• Deposites in sundry banks in the Western country, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to an alleged suppression of certain parts of documents, ordered to be printed, concerning, (See Printers,) 1823 538 ... 1015, 1021
• Dey and James McDonald--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition for a renewal of the patent right of Anthony, 1822 521 ... 928

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the remonstrance of David Melville, and on the foregoing report in the case of, 1822 527 ... 937

• Diplomatic officers of the United States--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of increasing the salaries of the civil and, 1816 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of the, 1816 410 ... 314

• Direct tax--Biennial register of the collectors, &c. of the, 1816 410 ... 319
• Disbursement of the contingent fund--Report of the Committee of Accounts on the expediency of allowing a commission to the Clerk of the House of Representatives for the, 1812 314 ... 180
• Disbursements by public officers, (See Accountability.)
• Distribution of the laws, journals, and documents of Congress--Report of the Secretary of State relative to the, 1818 455 ... 512
• Distribution of the journal, acts, and proceedings of the federal convention, which formed the constitution of the United States--Message from the President relative to the, 1819 471 ... 548
• District attorneys, (See Attorneys.)
• District courts of the United States, (See Courts.)
• District judges, (See Judges.)
• District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of chartering certain banks in the, 1810 274 ... 45

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on sundry bills to incorporate certain banks in the, 1811 289 ... 147

  President Madison's objections to the bill entitled "An act for incorporating the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria, in the, 1811 294 ... 152

  For authority to raise money by lottery--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives adverse to a petition from a masonic society in the, 1816 394 ... 278

  Public buildings, public lots, &c. in, (See Washington.) From 1801 to 1809--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of the expenses of the judiciary in the, 1820 485 ... 581

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the manner of executing the power conferred on the corporation of Washington to raise money by lottery in the, 1821 498 ... 634

  Report of the Secretary of State relative to the weights and measures used in the, 1821 503 ... 698, 710

• Documents of the House of Representatives destroyed by the conflagration of the Capitol, in 1814--Letter from the Clerk relative to books, papers, or, 1814 371 ... 246
• Documents destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letters from the heads of the several Departments relative to the, 1814 374 ... 248
• Documents of Congress destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to, 1814 377 ... 253

  Explanatory statement of the Clerk of the House of Representatives relative to the same, 1814 378 ... 258

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1815 380 ... 263

• Documents of Congress--Report of the Secretary of State relative to the distribution of the journals, laws, and, 1818 455 ... 512
• Documents ordered to be printed, and to the official conduct of Gales & Seaton, printers to the House of Representatives--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the suppression of parts of the, 1823 538 ... 1015, 1021
• Dodge, chargé, des affaires of the United States at Tunis--Account of Dr. James, 1810 273 ... 34
• E.
• Earle, as a Representative from South Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the contested election of Elias, 1818 439 ... 457
• Easton, contesting the election of John Scott, as delegate from Missouri--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Rufus, 1816 417 ... 408

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, 1817 421 ... 414

• Edwards on the subject of an alleged suppression of certain parts of documents, ordered to be printed, relating to deposites in sundry banks in the Western country--Testimony of Ninian, (See Printers,) 1823 538 ... 1023
• Election as President and Vice President of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the mode of notifying the individuals of their, 1817 430 ... 425
• Election of--William Baylies, as a Representative from Massachusetts, and in favor of Charles Turner--Report of a committee on petitions contesting the, 1809 264 ... 1

  Same, 1809 266 ... 7

  Jonathan Jennings, as Delegate from the Indiana Territory--Report of a committee on the petition of Thomas Randolph, contesting the, 1809 270 ... 15

  John P. Hungerford, as a Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee on the petition of John Taliaferro, contesting the, 1811 297 ... 156

  Thomas K. Harris, as a Representative from Tennessee--Report of a committee on the petition of William Kelly, contesting the, 1813 340 ... 205

  John P. Hungerford, as a Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee on the petition of John Taliaferro, contesting the, 1813 343 ... 206

  Same, 1813 345 ... 210

  Ebenezer Sage and John Lefferts, as Representatives from New York--Report of a committee on the petitions of Benjamin Blydenburgh and Peter Augustus Jay, contesting the, 1813 349 ... 217

  John M. Bowers, as a Representative from New York--Report of a committee on the petition of Isaac Williams, jun., contesting the, 1813 351 ... 218

  Thomas K. Harris, as a Representative from Tennessee--Report of a committee on the petition of William Kelly, contesting the, 1814 353 ... 223
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• Election of--John P. Hungerford, as a Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee on the petition of John Taliaferro, contesting the, 1814 355 ... 226

  Thomas M. Bayley. as a Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee on the petition of Burwell Bassett contesting the, 1814 360 ... 233

  William S. Smith, as a Representative from New York--Report of a committee on the petition of Westel Willoughby, jun., contesting the, 1815 389 ... 275

  John Adams, as a Representative from New York--Report of a committee on the petition of Erastus Root, contesting the, 1815 390 ... 275

  William McCoy, as a Representative from New York--Report of a committee on the petition of Robert Potterfield, contesting the, 1816 400 ... 291

  John Scott, as Delegate from Missouri--Report of a committee on the petition of Rufus Easton, contesting the, 1816 417 ... 408

  Same, 1817 421 ... 414

  Samuel Herrick, as a Representative from Ohio--Report of a committee on the memorial of C. Hammond, contesting the, 1818 438 ... 448

  Elias Earle, as a Representative from South Carolina--Report of a committee on the contested, 1818 439 ... 457

  George Mumford, as a Representative from North Carolina--Report of a committee on the contested, 1818 445 ... 473

  Orsamus C. Merrill, as a Representative from Vermont--Report of a committee on the petition of Rollin C. Mallary, contesting the, 1820 476 ... 558

  Ebenezer Sage, as a Representative from New York--Report of a committee on the petition of James Guyon, contesting the, 1820 480 ... 570

  Peter Sharpe, as a Representative from New York--Report of a committee on the memorial of Cadwallader D. Colden, contesting the, 1821 505 ... 751

  Jeremiah Cosden, as a Representative from Maryland--Report of a committee on the petition of Philip Reed, contesting the, 1822 519 ... 922

• Embargo, (See Government Measures,)--Approval and disapproval by the States of the,
• Emigrants from Ireland to become settlers and citizens of the United States--Memorial of the New York Irish Emigrant Association that encouragement be extended to, 1818 449 ... 489
• Emigrants, who had absconded from him--Memorial of James Brown, for change of venue to prosecute certain German redemptioners, or, 1819 473 ... 550
• Engineers, relative to a reconnoissance, &c. of the Dismal Swamp Canal--Report from James Kearney, major of Topographical, 1816 432 ... 440
• Engines for the public buildings at Washington--Statement relative to the purchase of fire, 1820 494 ... 626
• Envoy to Great Britain and Russia--Message from the President relative to the appointment of Albert Gallatin as, 1813 341 ... 206

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, 1813 344 ... 209

• Envoy to Sweden--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the nomination of Jonathan Russell as, 1813 342 ... 206

  Message from the President declining a conference with a committee of the Senate on the nomination of Jonathan Russell as, 1813 347 ... 215

  Report of a committee of the Senate that the President declined conferring with them relative to the appointment of Albert Gallatin as, 1813 350 ... 217

• Erving, minister of the United States in Spain, stating the necessity for an increase of his salary--Letter from George W., 1816 409 ... 306

  And lost at sea--Report of a Joint Committee on the Library relative to a collection of medals presented to Congress by G. W., 1822 518 ... 921

  Being a duplicate of the collection before sent and lost at sea--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives acknowledging the reception of a box of medals presented to Congress by George W., 1822 532 ... 985

• Escheated estates in the Mississippi Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives against the endowment of Jefferson College by means of, 1814 367 ... 239
• Evans for improvements in the flour mill--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial from John Brumbach and others to amend the acts continuing certain patent rights to Oliver, 1811 287 ... 145

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the memorial of John Worthington and others to amend the act continuing certain patent rights to Oliver, 1813 337 ... 204

  To the patent right continued to him--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of William Cole and others contesting the right of Oliver, 1814 354 ... 224

  Report of a committee of the Senate proposing the act to amend certain patent rights to Oliver, 1814 364 ... 237

• Executive Departments, relative to the books and papers destroyed by the enemy in 1814-- Letters from the several, 1814 374 ... 248
• Executive Departments of the Government--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of increasing the salaries of the diplomatic officers and those of the several, 1816 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of the officers in the, 1816 410 ... 307

  Report of a committee of the Senate to extend the use of the books in the Library to the heads of the several, 1817 419 ... 413

  With a plan for a more certain accountability of public expenditures--Reports from the several, 1816 411 ... 396

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of erecting additional buildings for the several, 1818 444 ... 470

  Report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings respecting the location of the buildings for the several, 1818 447 ... 479

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the misconduct of certain officers and clerks in acting as agents for the settlement of claims against the United States in the, 1818 452 ... 495

  Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the compensation of the officers and clerks in the legislative and, 1821 499 ... 637

• Executive office to be called the Home Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives proposing the establishment of an, 1812 326 ... 187
• Expedition illegally fitted out in the United States against the Spanish island of Porto Rico--Message from the President, with documents relating to an, 1823 540 ... 1028
• Expenditures--Reports from the heads of the several Departments, with a plan for a more certain accountability of public, 1816 411 ... 396

  Under the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh articles of the treaty of Ghent relating to the boundary with Great Britain--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the, 1818 456 ... 512

  For the Cumberland road--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with the total amount of, 1823 542 ... 1042

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• F.
• Famine, occasioned by the ravages of the locusts--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the necessity for affording relief to the people of the Canary Islands, said to be suffering from, 1812 321 ... 184
• Federal convention, which formed the constitution--Message from the President relative to the publication of the journal, acts, and proceedings of the, 1819 471 ... 548
• Fees charged by the district attorney of the southern district of New York on prosecutions against retailers of spirits without license--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of, 1818 457 ... 518
• Fees charged, and proper to be charged, in the courts of the United States in the several States--Statements from the several judges, with schedules of, 1820, 492 ... 598

  In the district court for Maine, ... 598

  Vermont, ... 599

  New York, ... 601

  New Jersey, ... 601

  In the eastern district of Pennsylvania, ... 603

  In the western district of Pennsylvania, ... 605

  In the district of Delaware, ... 608

  Virginia, ... 610

  North Carolina, ... 613

  South Carolina, ... 616

  Georgia, ... 619

  Louisiana, ... 620

  Indiana, ... 622

  Mississippi, ... 624

• Fine arts, and on petition of Julia Plantou, offering her allegorical painting of the treaty of Ghent--Report of a committee of House of Representatives relative to encouraging the, 1821 496 ... 628
• Fines, penalties, and forfeitures laid and collected by the courts of the United States in the District of Columbia, from 1801 to 1819--Statement of, 1820 485 ... 581
• Fire engines for the public buildings in Washington city--Statements relative to, 1820 494 ... 626
• First meridian for the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on memorial of William Lambert, for the establishment of a, 1810 277 ... 53

  At the seat of Government--Report of the Secretary of State on the expediency of establishing a, 1812 328 ... 194

  Or national observatory, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, 1813 332 ... 197

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, 1815 386 ... 273

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on memorial of Wilham Lambert, on the subject of ascertaining the longitude of the Capitol, with a view to make it a, 1819 468 ... 546

  Message from the President with calculations of William Lambert to determine the longitude of the Capitol, with a view to the establishment of a, 1822 508 ... 753

  Message from the President, with a supplemental report on same, 1822 ... 794

• Fisheries, &c.--Message from the President of the United States with Jonathan Russell's account and John Quincy Adams's reply, relative to the proceedings of a majority of the American ministers for negotiating a treaty of peace with Great Britain, respecting the subject of the Newfoundland, 1822 528 ... 938
• Fisk, district attorney of the United States for the southern district of New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to fees received by Jonathan, 1818 357 ... 518
• Flag of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the expediency of altering the, 1817 418 ... 412

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, 1818 440 ... 457

• Florida to be annexed to the Mississippi Territory--Memorial of the people of West, 1811 296 ... 155
• Floridas, his misunderstanding with Eligius Fromentin, judge, &c.--Message from the President with documents relating to proceedings in Florida under the act to carry into effect the treaty with Spain, for the cession of that Territory, and to acts of Andrew Jackson as Governor of the, 1822 513 ... 799

  Documents communicated with the above, viz:

  Letter from Andrew Jackson to J. Q. Adams, Secretary of State, ... 801

  H. M. Brackenridge, alcalde, to Andrew Jackson, ... 802

  Andrew Jackson to Messrs. Walton, Brackenridge, and Miller, ... 802

  Messrs. Walton, Brackenridge, and Miller to Andrew Jackson, ... 802

  Same to Domingo Sousa, ... 803

  Domingo Sousa to Messrs. Walton, Brackenridge, and Miller, ... 803

  Messrs. Walton, Brackenridge, and Miller to Domingo Sousa, ... 803

  Andrew Jackson to Messrs. Butler and Miller, ... 804

  Return from Colonels Butler and Miller to Andrew Jackson, ... 804

  Examination of Domingo Sousa, ... 804

  Order from Andrew Jackson to Colonel Brooke, ... 805

  Andrew Jackson to Lieutenant Mountz, ... 805

  Andrew Jackson to Colonel Butler and Doctor Bronaugh, ... 805

  Report of Colonel Butler and Doctor Bronaugh to Andrew Jackson, ... 806

  Memorandum referred to in said report, ... 806

  Minutes of the examination of Colonel Callava and Fullarat, ... 806

  Order of Andrew Jackson for imprisonment of Domingo Sousa, Colonel José Callava, and Antoine Fullarat, ... 807

  Letter from H. M. Brackenridge, alcalde, to Andrew Jackson, ... 807

  Affidavit of Mercedes Vidal, ... 808

  Search warrant for papers in the house of José Callava, ... 808

  Return of Messrs. Walton, Miller, Shannon, and Brownjohn on said warrant, ... 808

  Order for the discharge of Domingo Sousa, Colonel José Callava, and Antoine Fullarat, ... 809

  Return of Captain Wager on the above order, ... 809

  Receipt from H. M. Brackenridge to Colonel Walton for said papers ... 809

  Writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Fromentin in case of Callava, ... 810

  Letter from Lieutenant Mountz to Andrew Jackson with said writ, ... 810

  Summons for judge Fromentin to appear before Governor Jackson, and return, ... 810, 822

  Letter from H. M. Brackenridge to Andrew Jackson, ... 811

  Memorandum from record book of Andrew Jackson, ... 813

  Letter from Andrew Jackson to J. Q. Adams, Secretary of State, ... 813

  Proclamation of Andrew Jackson, Governor of Florida, warning sundry Spanish officers to leave Florida, ... 814

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• Floridas--Judicial opinion by Judge Mitchell and Governor Jackson, in case of the heirs of Vidal vs. John Innerarity, 1822 513 ... 814

  Appointment of auditors to settle said case, ... 818

  Letter from J. Q. Adams, Secretary of State, to Andrew Jackson, Governor, ... 818

  Andrew Jackson, Governor, to J. Q. Adams, Secretary of State, ... 819

  Two letters from Judge Fromentin to Governor Jackson, ... 820

  Governor Jackson to Judge Fromentin, ... 820

  Certificates of Doctor Bronaugh, R. Butler, and E. A. Rutledge, ... 821

  Certificate of Lieutenant Andrew J. Donelson, ... 822

  Statement of Lieutenant G. W. Mountz to Governor Jackson, relative to the arrest of Callava, &c. ... 823

  Captain F. L. Dade to Governor Jackson, on same ... 824

  Affidavits of Alexander Scott, jun. and J. C. Mitchell, ... 824

  John Coppinger Conner, ... 825

  Letter from Governor Jackson to the Secretary of State, ... 826

  Affidavit of H. M. Breckenridge, ... 828

  Certificate of Hannum, Miller, and Nisbet, ... 831

  Letter from the Secretary of State to Governor Jackson, ... 832

  Documents with President's message of 28th January, 1822, viz:

  Letter from the Secretary of State to Judge Fromentin, with his commission, ... 833

  Three letters from Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, with his proceedings, &c. relative to his writ of habeas corpus for Callava, ... 833, 834

  Letter from Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, with an enclosure of a letter to Governor Jackson, ... 837

  Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, with sundry enclosures, ... 838

  Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, ... 843

  Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, ... 843

  Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, with copies of strictures on the conduct of General Jackson, ... 844

  Secretary of State to Judge Fromentin, ... 848

  Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, ... 848

  Decree of Hernandez, auditor in the case of Innerarity, &c. ... 849

  Opinion of N. S. Suares, in case of Vidal vs. Innerarity, Forbes, &c. ... 849

  Four petitions from Mercedes Vidal, ... 850

  Proceedings of Governor Jackson's court against Innerarity, &c. ... 852

  Petition of John Innerarity and plea of same, ... 853

  For same, by Samuel Acre, his attorney, ... 854

  Order to auditors to settle said case, and postponement of trial, ... 854

  Statement of Messrs. Brackenridge and Call, attorneys of the heirs of N. M. Vidal vs. John Innerarity, ... 855

  Statement by J. Innerarity to the auditors, ... 856

  Two statements by same to same, ... 857

  Petition of John Forbes & Co. vs. heirs of N. M. Vidal, court in New Orleans, ... 858

  Accounts of the sales of Vidal's estate, ... 859

  Report of the auditors--Vidal vs. Innerarity, ... 861

  Plea and petition of John Innerarity, ... 865

  Exceptions of Innerarity to the auditors' report, ... 866

  Plea of Innerarity, ... 866

  Decree of Governor Jackson in said case, ... 867

  Extract from the Spanish record, same, ... 868

  Letter from Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, ... 868

  Judge Fromentin to Captain Henley, relative to want of jurisdiction to try pirates, &c. ... 869

  Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, ... 869

  Exposition by Judge Fromentin of his objections to the proceedings of Governor Jackson, ... 870

  Letter from Judge Fromentin to the Secretary of State, ... 873

  Opinion of Samuel Acre, attorney of John Innerarity, ... 873

  Documents also communicated with message 28th January, 1822, viz:

  Correspondence between Robert Butler, adjutant general, and José Coppinger, Governor of St. Augustine, ... 875

  to ... 890

  Order to Major T. Cross and Lieutenant T. J. Baird, to receive the archives of East Florida, &c. from Governor Coppinger, ... 883

  Act of cession or delivery of East Florida from Spain to the United States, ... 890

  Documents communicated with message 28th January, 1822, viz:

  Letters from W. G. D. Worthington, Secretary of East Florida, to the Secretary of State, ... 890, 895

  Correspondence between W. G. D. Worthington and Juan De Entralgo, ... 890, 891

  Commission to Messrs. Bell, Forbes, and Law, to receive the archives of East Florida, ... 893

  Report of the commissioners, ... 894

  Appointment of secretaries to the commissioners and their instructions, ... 894, 895

  Correspondence between W. G. D. Worthington and the commissioners, ... 895

  Letter from Geo. Walton, Secretary of West Florida, to the Secretary of State, ... 896

  Additional documents communicated by the Secretary of State, viz:

  Letter from Andrew Jackson to the Secretary of State, relative to his proceedings, ... 896

  Report of H. M. Brackenridge, alcalde, to Governor Jackson, ... 902

  Ordinance of Governor Jackson for the government and preservation of order in Pensacola, ... 904

  Of same, for the preservation of health in Pensacola, ... 905

  Of same, for carrying into effect 6th article of treaty with Spain, &c. ... 905

  Of same, for the division of the Floridas in counties and establishment of courts, ... 906

  Of same, explanatory of proceedings in county courts, ... 907

  Letter from Governor Jackson to the Secretary of State, ... 908

  Same to J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, ... 911

  Captain J. R. Bell to Governor Jackson, ... 912

  Proceedings of H. S Dexter and E. Wanton with the Seminole Indians, ... 912

  Representing the condition of that Territory and suggesting means for its improvement--Message from the President with memorial from the Legislative Council of, 1823 539 ... 1025

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• Forbes & Co. were concerned--Judicial decrees and proceedings of Andrew Jackson as Governor of Florida, in the case of the heirs of N. M. Vidal vs. John Innerarity, in which, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 814, 849, 852, 867
• Foreign affairs--Resolution of the State of Pennsylvania, approving the measures of the General Government in relation to, Year 1810, No. 281 ... 128

  Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, same, Year 1811, No. 292 ... 151

  Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, same, Year 1811, No 305 ... 167

  Resolution of the Legislative Council of Mississippi Terrritory, same, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 168

  Resolution of the Legislature of North Carolina, same, Year 1811, No. 307 ... 168

  Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, same, Year 1812, No. 309 ... 172

  Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia, same, Year 1812, No. 310 ... 174

  Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island, disapproving the measures of the General Government regarding its, Year 1812, No. 324 ... 185

  Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts, same, Year 1812, No. 325 ... 186

  In favor of the war, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, approving the measures of the General Government relating to its, Year 1813, No. 331 ... 196

  War, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, same, Year 1813, No. 335 ... 203

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of Massachusetts, disapproving of measures relating to, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of Maryland, same, Year 1814, No. 359 ... 231

  Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approving of the measures relative to, Year 1814, No. 362 ... 235

  Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, same, Year 1814, No. 362 ... 235

  In opposition to other States--Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approving of measures relating to, Year 1814, No. 366 ... 238

• Foreign Intercourse with the Barbary Powers--Statement from the Treasury Department, of the expenses of Year 1810, No. 273 ... 20
• Foreign minister. (See Minister.)
• Foreign Powers--Ratification of amendments to the constitution to prohibit the reception by citizens of the United States of titles of nobility or presents from, Year 1818, No. 446 ... 477
• France, &c.--Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving the measures of the General Government towards, Year 1810, No. 281 ... 128

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio on the same, Year 1811, No. 291 ... 151

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania on the same, Year 1811, No. 305 ... 167

  Resolutions of the Legislative Council of Mississippi Territory on the same, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 168

  Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina on the same, Year 1811, No. 307 ... 168

  Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey on the same, Year 1812, No. 309 ... 172

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia on the same, Year 1812, No. 310 ... 174

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island disapproving the measures of the General Government relative to the affairs with, Year 1812, No. 324 ... 185

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts on the same, Year 1812, No. 325 ... 186

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio approving the measures of the General Government towards, Year 1813, No. 331 ... 196

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of Massachusetts, disapproving of the measures of the General Government relative to, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of Maryland on the same, Year 1814, No. 359 ... 231

  Letter from W. H. Crawford, with a statement of compensation made to ambassadors by, Year 1816, No. 409 ... 305

• French inhabitants of Michigan Territory that the laws of the United States may be published in that Territory in the French language--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of sundry, Year 1810, No. 278 ... 71
• Fromentin, as judge of the Floridas, &c.--Message from the President, with documents relating to a misunderstanding between Andrew Jackson, as Governor, and Eligius, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 799

  Writ of habeas corpus for the release of Colonel José Callava from Judge, ... 810

  To appear before Governor Jackson, to answer for said writ, &c.--Summons to Judge, ... 810, 822

  With Governor Jackson, relative to their respective powers--Correspondence of Judge, ... 820

  With the Secretary of State--Correspondence of Judge, ... 833, 868

  On the conduct of Governor Jackson--Strictures of Judge, ... 844, 870

  To Captain Henley, of the United States navy, stating his want of jurisdiction to try pirates, &c.--Letter from Judge, ... 869

• Frost, relative to the conflagration of the Capitol, and destruction of books and papers of Congress in 1814--Letter from S. Burch and J. T., Year 1814 No. 371 ... 245
• Fugitive slaves from that State--Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland, complaining that the people of Pennsylvania prevent the recovery of, Year 1821 No. 506 ... 752
• Fulton, for the invention of a steam engine for propelling vessels on water--Remonstrance against the renewal of the patent right to Robert, Year 1811 No. 302 ... 164

  For applying steam to purposes of navigation, &c.--Memorial of Harriet Fulton for the extension of the patent right acquired by her late husband, Robert, Year 1816 No. 401 ... 292

• Fur Company, for the sale of the furs and property belonging to the said John J. Astor, under the name of the Pacific Fur Company, at the mouth of the Columbia river--Agreement between the agent of J. J. Astor and the agents of the Northwest, Year 1823 No. 536 ... 1011
• G.
• Gales & Seaton--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of authorizing a subscription to a History of the Debates and Proceedings in Congress by, Year 1818, No. 453 ... 510

  Printers of the House of Representatives--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the suppression of certain parts of original documents, ordered to be printed, and to the official conduct of, (See Printers,) Year 1823, No. 538 ... 1015, 1021

• Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, (See Treasury,)--Reports from Albert, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 20
• Appointed envoy to treat with Great Britain and Russia, without resigning as Secretary of the Treasury--Message from the President relative to the temporary appointment of W. Jones, as Secretary of the Treasury, in place of Albert, Year 1813, No. 341 ... 206

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, Year 1813, No. 344 ... 209

  As envoy, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate that the President had declined conferring with them relative to the appointment of Albert, Year 1813, No. 350 ... 217

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• Gallatin, as envoy for negotiating peace with Great Britain-- Mesasage from the President, with a copy of a commission, issued in the recess of the Senate, to Albert, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240

  Minister of the United States at Paris, on the subject of weights and measures-- Letter from Albert, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 746

• Gauging, as practised at the custom-houses of the United States--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the defects in the system of, Year 1811, No. 290 ... 147
• Georgia--Proceedings of the Legislatures, and documents relating to the boundary between North Carolina and, Year 1810, No. 279 ... 72

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 696, ... 739

• German redemptioners, who had absconded from him--Memorial of James Brown for change of venue to prosecute certain, Year 1819, No. 473 ... 550
• Ghent, (See Treaty,)--Proceedings relating to the treaty of, Year 1822, No. 528 ... 938
• Government--Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio approving of the measures of the General, Year 1811, No. 292 ... 151

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania on the same, Year 1810, No. 281 ... 128

  Same, Year 1811, No. 305 ... 167

  Resolutions of the Legislative Council of Mississippi Territory on the same, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 168

  Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina on the same, Year 1811, No. 307 ... 168

  Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey on the same, Year 1812, No. 309 ... 172

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia on the same, Year 1812, No. 310 ... 174

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island disapproving of the measures of the General, Year 1812, No. 324 ... 185

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts on the same, Year 1812, No. 325 ... 186

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio approving of the measures of the General, Year 1813, No. 331 ... 196

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania on the same, Year 1813, No. 325 ... 203

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of Massachusetts disapproving of the measures of the General, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

  Remonstrance of Maryland on the same, Year 1814, No. 359 ... 231

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving the measures of the General, 1814 362 ... 235

  Resolutions -of the Legislature of Kentucky on the same, Year 1814, No. 363 ... 235

  In opposition to certain proceedings in other States--Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in support of the laws of the General, Year 1814, No. 366 ... 238

• Governors of the several Territories--Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salaries of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Governors and Secretaries of the several Territories of the United States--Biennial register of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 312
• Grand jury, with articles of complaint against Harry Toulmin, judge of the United States for the Mississippi Territory--Presentment of the, Year 1811, No. 300 ... 162

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1812, No. 322 ... 184

• Great Britain--Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving of the measures of the General Government towards, Year 1810, No. 281 ... 128

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio on the same, Year 1811, No. 292 ... 151

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania on the same, Year 1811, No. 305 ... 167

  Resolutions of the Legislative Council of Mississippi Territory on the same, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 168

  Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina on the same, Year 1811, No. 307 ... 168

  Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey on the same, Year 1812, No. 309 ... 172

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia on the same, Year 1812, No. 310 ... 174

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island disapproving of the measures of the General Government regarding its affairs with, Year 1812, No. 324 ... 185

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts on the same, Year 1812, No. 325 ... 186

  And other measures of the General Government--Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio approving of the war with, Year 1813, No. 331 ... 196

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving of the war with, Year 1813, No. 335 ... 203

  And Russia--Message from the President relative to the appointment of Albert Gallatin as envoy to, Year 1813, No. 341 ... 206

  Report of a committee of the Senate on the same, Year 1813, No. 344 ... 209

• Great Britain, &c.--Remonstrance of the Legislature of Massachusetts disapproving of the war with, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of Maryland on the same, Year 1814, No. 359 ... 231

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving of the war and measures of retaliation against, Year 1814, No. 362 ... 235

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky approving of the war and other measures against, Year 1814, No. 363 ... 235

• Great Britain--Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in support of the General Government, and in opposition to the proceedings of certain States relative to the war with, Year 1814, No. 366 ... 238

  To ambassadors, &c.--Letter from the Secretary of State relative to allowances made by, Year 1816, No. 409 ... 304

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of the disputed boundary with, Year 1818, No. 456 ... 512

  At Ghent--Message from the President, with Jonathan Russell's account, and John Q. Adams's answer relating to certain proceedings of a majority of the American ministers who negotiated a treaty of peace with, Year 1822, No. 528 ... 938

• Grimes, introducing the tea plant to the notice of Congress--Letter from John S., Year 1812, No. 323 ... 185
• Guyon, jun., contesting the election of Ebenezer Sage, as a Representative from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of James, Year 1820, No. 480 ... 570
• H.
• Habeas corpus ineffectually issued by Judge Fromentin to release Colonel José Callava, late Governor of Florida, from imprisonment under orders from Governor Jackson--Documents on the subject of the, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 810, 833'4
• Hall and Sellers, for bills of credit and other printing executed under resolves of the Revolutionary Congress--Account of, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 47
• Hammond, contesting the election of Samuel Herricks as a Representative from Ohio--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of C. Year 1818, No. 438 ... 448
• Harris, as a Representative from Tennessee--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of William Kelly, contesting the election of Thomas K. Year 1813, No. 340 ... 205

  Same, Year 1813, No. 353 ... 223

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• Heads of Departments. (See Departments.)

  Herrick, as a Representative from Ohio--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of C. Hammond, contesting the election of Samuel, Year 1818, No. 438 ... 448

  Hillegas, as Treasurer of the United States during the revolutionary war--Reference to Michael, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 47

  History of debates and proceedings in Congress, by Gales and Seaton--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on propriety of authorizing a subscription to a, Year 1818, No. 453 ... 510

  Home Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the state and condition of the Patent Office, and proposing the establishment of a, Year 1812, No. 326 ... 187

  Report from the Heads of the several Departments, recommending the establishment of a, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 398

  Should embrace the following objects, viz.--Same, recommending that,

  1. The Territorial Governments,

  2. The national highways and canals,

  3. The General Post Office,

  4. The Patent Office,

  5. The Indian Department, Year 1816 No. 411 ... 398

  Report of the Heads of Departments, on the utility of a, Year 1817, No. 424 ... 418

  House of Representatives. (See Election.) Contested elections of members of the, Appointed to office by the President. (See Congress.) Members of the. In an assault made upon one of its members--Report of a committee in case of a breach of the privileges of the, Year 1809, No. 272 ... 18

  And expediency of allowing the Clerk a commission for its disbursement--Report of the Committee of Accounts on the subject of the contingent expenses of the, Year 1812, No. 314 ... 180

  Report of a committee on a violation of secrecy as to certain proceedings of the, Year 1812, No. 316 ... 181

  Relative to the destruction of the books and papers of his office, and of the library of Congress, by the conflagration of the Capitol in 1814--Letter from Patrick Magruder, Clerk of the, Year 1814, No. 371 ... 245

  Relative to the destruction, by the enemy, of the library and of the books and papers of that House; as also, on the state of the accounts of the Clerk, &c.--Report of a committee of the. (See Clerk.) Year 1814, No. 377 ... 253

  Same--Explanatory statement of Patrick Magruder, Clerk of the, Year 1814, No. 378 ... 258

  Same--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, 1815 380 ... 263

  Resignation of Patrick Magruder, as Clerk of the, Year 1815, No. 382 ... 267

  Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salaries of the Clerk and his assistants, and the Chaplain of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of the officers and clerks of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 310

  Report of a committee of the Senate, relative to compensation to officers of the, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 639

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, relative to the suppression of certain parts of documents ordered to be printed, and to the official conduct of Gales and Seaton, as printers to the. (See Printers.) Year 1823, No. 538 ... 1015, 1021

  Hungerford, as Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee on the petition of John Taliaferro, contesting the election of John P. Year 1811, No. 297 ... 156

  Same, Year 1813, No. 343 ... 206

  Same, Year 1813, No. 345 ... 210

  Same, Year 1814, No. 355 ... 226

  I.

  Illinois Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the right of suffrage in the, Year 1813, No. 336 ... 204

  Illinois river with Lake Michigan--Report of the Secretary of War relative to a canal to connect the, Year 1819, No. 474 ... 555

  Illinois on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 697, 745

  Impeachment against Harry Toulmin, judge of the United States for the superior court of Mississippi Territory--Presentment of the grand jury, with articles of complaint or, Year 1811, No. 300 ... 162

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the presentment of the grand jury, with articles of complaint, or, year 1812, No. 322 ... 184

  Imprisonment as an insolvent debtor--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of releasing William Smith from, Year 1817, No. 425 ... 419

  Imprisonment for debt--Report of a committee of House of Representatives on abolishing, Year 1821, No. 504 ... 750

  Incorporating the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia"--President Madison's objections to the bill entitled "An act for, Year 1811, No. 294 ... 152

  Indiana Territory for an alteration in the judiciary system of that Territory--Memorial of, Year 1814, No. 373 ... 247

  Indiana into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the preparatory measures for the admission of the Territory of, Year 1816, No. 392 ... 277

  Indiana on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 697, 744

  Indiana on the subject of a reorganization of the courts of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the Legislature of, Year 1823, No. 543 ... 1042

  Indians--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of the roads designated by the treaty of Brownstown with the, Year 1811, No. 282 ... 128

  Indians, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on making provision for roads designated by the treaty of Brownstown with the, Year 1811, No. 298 ... 160

  Indian village, on the river Thames, by the United States army--Memorial of the Moravian Society of United Brethren that indemnity be made for the destruction of the, Year 1814, No. 364 ... 236

  Indians through their country--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the right of way obtained by treaties with the Choctaws and Creek, Year 1815, No. 385 ... 273

  Indian trade--Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of superintendent of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 312

  Indian agents of the United States--Biennial register of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 338

  Indian affairs to a Home Department--On the subject of assigning the duties relating to, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 398

  Indians--Report of the Secretary of War relative to a road from Reynoldsburg, on the Tennessee, through the country of the Chickasaw, Year 1816, No. 413 ... 401

  Indian affairs--Report of the Fifth Auditor relative to the progress in settling accounts respecting, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 466

  Indians--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the construction of roads contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown with the, Year 1820, No. 491 ... 593

  In that Territory, and stating the unauthorized proceedings of H. S. Dexter and E. Wanton with said Indians--Letter from Andrew Jackson, as Governor of Florida, to the Secretary of War, suggesting a policy as proper to be pursued regarding the Seminole, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 911

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• Indians--Message from the President, with documents relating to an alleged importation of African slaves into the United States contrary to law, by D. B. Mitchell, agent for Creek, Year 1822, No. 529 ... 957
• Innerarity--Judicial proceedings and decrees of Andrew Jackson, as Governor of Florida, on the case of the heirs of N. M. Vidal vs. John, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 814, 849, 852, 867
• Insolvent debtor of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on releasing William Smith, as an, Year 1817, No. 425 ... 419
• Inspector General of the United States army, relative to the papers of his office destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the Adjutant and, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 252
• Internal improvements by the United States--Memorial of the proprietors of the Middle-sex canal in Massachusetts suggesting that aid be extended for, Year 1811, No. 285 ... 142
• Internal improvements, (See Roads--Canals--Rivers.)
• Internal improvements, &c.--Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, recommends that a portion of the public lands be set apart for effecting, Year 1812, No. 312 ... 179
• Internal improvements by roads and canals--Report of a committee of the Senate on so much of the President's message as relates to effecting, Year 1816, No. 398 ... 283
• Internal improvements be assigned to the proposed Home Department--Report from the heads of the several Departments recommending that the subject of executing, Year 1816, No. 412 ... 398
• Internal navigation of this State"--An act of the Legislature of New York "to provide for the improvement of the, year 1816, No. 412 ... 400
• Internal improvements--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on so much of the President's message as relates to, Year 1817, No. 427 ... 420

  Report of a committee of the Senate on so much of the President's message as relates to, Year 1817, No. 429 ... 424

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1817, No. 435 ... 443

  By roads, under the authority of the United States--Message from the President of the United States relative to the progress made on, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 466

  By roads and canals--Report from John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, on a general plan for effecting, Year 1818, No. 462 ... 533

• Internal improvement by the General Government--Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland in favor of the navy, and of a system of, Year 1822, No. 533 ... 987
• Internal improvement for opening a communication with the Western country--Report of the commissioners of Maryland and Virginia, in 1822, for the improvement of the navigation of the Potomac river, and of George Washington and others, commissioners of Virginia and Maryland, in 1785, recommending a system of, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 988, 1006
• Inventions, (See Patents.)
• Inventions for a revision and extension of the patent laws--Memorial of the Massachusetts Society for the encouragement of useful, Year 1811, No. 291 ... 149
• Irish Emigrant Association that encouragement be extended to emigrants to become settlers and citizens of the United States--Memorial of the, Year 1818 No. 449 ... 489
• J.
• Jackson, Governor of the Floridas, his misunderstanding with Eligius Fromentin, judge, &c.--Message from the President, with documents relating to the proceedings in Florida, under the act to carry into effect the treaty with Spain, and to the acts of Andrew, (See Florida,) Year 1822, No. 513 ... 799
• Jay, contesting the elections of Ebenezer Sage and John Lefferts, as Representatives from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections of the House of Representatives, on the petition of Benjamin B. Blydenburgh and Peter Augustus, Year 1813, No. 349 ... 217
• Jefferson for the use of Congress, and letter from T. Jefferson on the subject--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to purchasing the library of Thomas, Year 1814, No. 372 ... 246

  Report of a committee of the Senate, with a resolution to authorize the purchase of the library of Thomas, Year 1814, No. 376 ... 253

• Jennings, as a Delegate from Indiana--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Thomas Randolph, contesting the election of Jonathan, Year 1809, No. 270 ... 15
• Johnson, jun., judge of the sixth circuit court of the United States, for extra services in the district court of South Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on allowing compensation to William, Year 1817, No. 428 ... 424
• Jones, Secretary of the Navy, acting Secretary of the Treasury during the continuance of Albert Gallatin as envoy to Great Britain and Russia--Message from the President relative to the temporary appointment of William, Year 1813, No. 341 ... 206
• Jones, as assistant counsel to the Attorney General of the United States--Compensation made to Walter, Year 1816 No. 407 ... 203
• Journals and documents of Congress--Report of the Secretary of State relative to the distribution of the laws, Year 1818, No. 455 ... 512
• Journal, acts, and proceedings of the federal convention, which formed the constitution of the United States--Message of the President of the United States relative to the publication of the, Year 1819, No. 471 ... 548
• Judge of the United States for the superior court of Mississippi Territory--Presentment of the grand jury, with articles of complaint against Harry Toulmin, Year 1811, No. 300 ... 162
• Judge Toulmin--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the presentment of the grand jury against, Year 1812, No. 322 ... 184
• Judge of the sixth circuit court of the United States for extra services in the district court of South Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on making compensation to William Johnson, jun., Year 1817, No. 428 ... 424
• Judge Toulmin--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives in relation to certain charges against, Year 1817, No. 434 ... 443
• Judge of the United States for Alabama district--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the complaint of Edwin Lewis against Charles Tait, district, Year 1823, No. 537 ... 1014
• Judges, and imposing that duty on the circuit judges of the Supreme Court--The President returns, with objections, the bill providing for the trial of causes in the district courts in the absence or disability of the district, Year 1812, No. 315 ... 180
• Judges of the several courts of the United States--Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salaries of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Judges of the northern and southern districts of New York, and of the district of Georgia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the official misconduct of the, Year 1819, No. 464 ... 542
• Judges of the courts of the United States in the several States, transmitting schedules of fees proper to be charged in said courts--Statements from the, Year 1820, No. 492 ... 598
• Judicial officers of the Government--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of increasing the salaries of certain Legislative, Executive, and, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

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• Judicial proceedings of one State have in the courts of other States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the effect which the, Year 1817, No. 436 ... 447
• Judicial proceedings of Andrew Jackson, as Governor of the Floridas, &c., Year 1822, No. 513 ... 808, 814
• Judiciary system of that Territory--Memorial of the Legislature of Indiana Territory for an alteration in the, Year 1814, No. 373 ... 247
• Judiciary of the United States--Biennial register of judges and other officers belonging to the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 312
• Judiciary of the United States, or the Supreme and District Courts in the District of Columbia, from 1801 to 1819--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of the expenses of the, Year 1820, No. 485 ... 581
• Judiciary system--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of a reorganization of the, Year 1823, No. 543 ... 1042
• K.
• Kelly, contesting the election of Thomas K. Harris, as a Representative from Tennessee--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of William, Year 1813, No. 340 ... 205

  Same, Year 1813, No. 353 ... 223

• Kentucky, approving of the war, embargo, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of, Year 1814, No. 363 ... 235

  Abolition Society for the colonization of free negroes on the public lands of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the, year 1816, No. 395 ... 278

  To obtain the settlement of the boundary between that State and Tennessee, with copies of the acts of Kentucky on the subject--Memorial of the Legislature of, Year 1818, No. 451 ... 490

  And Tennessee--Articles of agreement between the commissioners for the settlement of the boundary line between, Year 1820, No. 490 ... 591

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 696, 740

• L.
• Lambert, for the establishment of a first meridian for the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of William, Year 1810, No. 277 ... 53

  And recommending the establishment of a first meridian at the seat of Government--Report of the Secretary of State on the memorial of William, Year 1812, No. 328 ... 194

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of William, Year 1813, No. 332 ... 197

  On the subject of ascertaining the longitude of the Capitol, with a view to make it a first meridian for the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of William, Year 1819, No. 468 ... 546

  To determine the longitude of the Capitol, with a view to the establishment of a first meridian for the United States at Washington--Calculations of Wm. Year 1822, No. 508 ... 753

  Same, supplementary calculation, same, Year 1822 ... 794

• Land on which the church stands--Petition of the Baptist church at Salem, Mississippi, for a donation of the public, Year 1809, No. 267 ... 11

  Ceded by North Carolina to the United States, and exchanged by the latter with Georgia, had been covered by grants from North Carolina to individuals, &c.--The State of Georgia complains that a tract of, Year 1810, No. 279 ... 72

  In the Mississippi Territory--President Madison returns with objections the bill confirming certain pre-emption and donation claims to, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154

  Obtained by escheated estates in the Mississippi Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, against the endowment of Jefferson college by means of, Year 1814, No. 367 ... 239

• Land Office, relative to papers destroyed by the enemy in 1814--From the Commissioner of the General, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 250

  Report of a committee of the Senate, on increasing the salary of the Commissioner of the General, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of the officers and clerks in the General, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 309

  With statement of the number of clerks and messengers in that office, and stating the cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Report from the Commissioner of the General, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 981

• Land sold in the Mississippi Territory from 1807 to 1816--Statement of public, Year 1817, No. 423 ... 417
• Lands acquired by treaty with the Indians at Brownstown--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the disposition of the, Year 1811, No. 282 ... 128

  Acquired from the Indians to make roads contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown in 1808--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to, Year 1822, No. 491 ... 393

  Letter from Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, recommending that means be afforded for making canals by sales of the public, Year 1812, No. 313 ... 179

  Not within the original limits of the United States--Remonstrance of the Legislature of Massachusetts against the war with Great Britain, and against the formation of new States from, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

• Lands of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a memorial of the Kentucky Abolition Society, that free persons of color be colonized on the public, Year 1816, No. 395 ... 278

  Memorial of the Irish Emigrant Association, that encouragement be extended to emigrants from Ireland to become settlers on the public, Year 1818, No. 449 ... 489

  Biennial register of the registers, receivers, and surveyors of the public, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 325

  In Ohio and Indiana, sold in 1816 and 1817, upon which amount two per cent. was appropriated for roads leading to those States--Estimate of moneys received for, Year 1818, No. 443 ... 469

  As applicable to the construction or roads by the States and the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of the proceeds of the sales of public, Year 1822, No. 526 ... 934

• Latrobe, surveyor of the public buildings, relative to the progress made thereon--Report from Benjamin Henry, Year 1809, No. 271 ... 16

  Vindicating his official conduct as surveyor or architect of the public buildings in Washington--Letter from Benjamin Henry, Year 1818, No. 461 ... 531

• Law, as assistant counsel to the Attorney General of the United States--Allowance made to John, Year 1816, No. 407 ... 303

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• Laws of the United States be published in that Territory in the French language--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a petition of inhabitants of Michigan that the, Year 1810, No. 278 ... 71

  In opposition to proceedings in certain States--Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to support the, Year 1814, No. 366 ... 238

  In newspapers--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the publication of the, Year 1820, No. 487 ... 587

• Laws, journals, and documents of Congress--Report of the Secretary of State relative to the distribution of the, Year 1818, No. 455 ... 512
• Lear, Consul General at Algiers, for expenses of intercourse, &c.--Account of Tobias, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 23, 42
• Lefferts, as Representative from New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the petition of Benjamin B. Blydenburgh and Peter Augustus Jay, contesting the elections of Ebenezer Sage and John, Year 1813, No. 349 ... 217
• Legislative Departments of the Government--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of increasing the salaries of certain officers in the Executive, Judicial, and, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Report of a committee of the Senate relative to compensation allowed to officers, clerks, &c. in the Executive, &c. Year 1821, No. 499 ... 637

• Legislature.--(See Congress.)--National.
• Lewis and others--President Madison's objections to the bill for the relief of Edwin, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154
• Lewis, against the conduct of Charles Tait, district judge of the United States for Alabama--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on complaint of Edwin, Year 1823, No. 537 ... 1014
• Library of Congress by the conflagration of the Capitol in 1814--Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives relative to the destruction of the books and papers of that office, and the, Year 1814, No. 371 ... 245
• Library of Thomas Jefferson for the use of Congress--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the purchase of the, Year 1814, No. 372 ... 246

  Report of a committee of the Senate, with a resolution to authorize the purchase of the, Year 1814, No. 376 ... 253

• Library by the enemy in 1814--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the destruction of the, Year 1814, No. 377 ... 253

  Explanatory statement from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, same, Year 1814, No. 378 ... 285

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, Year 1815, No. 380 ... 263

• Library room and for transporting the library purchased of Thomas Jefferson to the seat of Government--Report of a committee of the Senate, recommending that provision be made for a, Year 1815, No. 387 ... 274
• Library of Congress, accounts, purchase of books, appointment of Librarian, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to accommodations for the, Year 1816, No. 396 ... 279

  And extending the use of the books to the Heads of Departments--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the purchase of books for the, Year 1816, No. 419 ... 412

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to a collection of medals presented by George W. Erving, to be placed in the, Year 1822, No. 518 532 ... 921 985

• Light-houses--Biennial register of superintendents and keepers of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 324
• Loan-office certificates printed under resolves of the revolutionary Congress--Account of, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 50
• Loans of the United States--Biennial register of the commissioners of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 316
• Locusts--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on necessity of affording relief to the people of the Canary islands from famine occasioned by the ravages of, Year 1812, No. 321 ... 184
• Longitude of the Capitol, with a view to the establishment of a first meridian for the United States at Washington--Calculations by William Lambert to determine the-- (See First Meridian.) Year 1822, No. 508 ... 753, 794
• Lotteries in the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the manner of executing the power conferred on the Corporation of Washington to raise money by, Year 1821, No. 498 ... 634

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives adverse to the petition of the Masonic Society in Alexandria for authority to raise money by, Year 1816, No. 394 ... 278

• Louisiana to be admitted into the Union--Memorial of the inhabitants of the Territory of Orleans on, Year 1810, No. 276 ... 51

  Under act to provide for the government of Missouri--Proclamation of Benjamin Howard, Governor of, Year 1813, No. 334 ... 202

  On subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 697, 741

• M.
• McCoy, as Representative from Virginia--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Robert Porterfield, contesting the election of William, Year 1816, No. 400 ... 291
• Macdonald--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the extension of the patent right of Anthony Dey and James, Year 1822, No. 521 ... 928

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the remonstrance of David Melville, and on said report in case of Dey and, Year 1822, No. 527 ... 937

• McKinley, for making a part of the Cumberland road--Agreement between the Secretary of the Treasury and Henry, Year 1812, No. 311 ... 175

  Madison, President of the United States. (See President.) Messages from James.

• Magruder, Clerk of the House of Representatives, relative to the destruction of the books and papers of his office, his vouchers for disbursements from the contingent fund, and of the books of the library--Letter from Patrick, Year 1814, No. 371 ... 245

  For want of care in failing to secure the books and papers of the House of Representatives and library of Congress from destruction by the enemy in 1814, and, also, in relation to the incorrect state of his accounts--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives censuring Patrick, Year 1814, No. 377 ... 253

  With documents relative to same--Explanatory letter from Patrick, Year 1814, No. 378 ... 258

  Same--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, Year 1815, No. 380 ... 263

  As Clerk of the House of Representatives--Resignation of Patrick, Year 1815, No. 382 ... 267

• Mails on Sunday--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on memorial of the "General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States," for the discontinuance of the, Year 1812, No. 327 ... 194
• Mails, biennial register of contractors for carrying the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 392
• Mallary, contesting the election of Orsamus C. Merrill, as Representative from Vermont--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Rollin C. Year 1820, No. 476 ... 558
• Marine Corps--Biennial register of the United States, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 350
• Maryland, against the war and other measures of the General Government--Remonstrance of the Legislature of, Year 1814, No. 359 ... 231

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• Maryland, on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of Year 1821, No. 503 ... 693, 736

  To obtain the passage of a law to enable the people of that State to recover slaves escaping into the State of Pennsylvania, &c.--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1821, No. 506 ... 752

  In favor of the navy, and the adoption of a general system of internal improvement by the General Government--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1822, No. 533 ... 987

• Maryland and Virginia, on the condition of the Potomac Company and the importance of a canal to improve the navigation of the Potomac river, and to connect its waters with those of the Ohio--Report of the commissioners appointed by, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 988

  Relative to the Potomac Company--Abstract of the laws of, ... 998

  On the subject of opening and improving the navigation of the Potomac river in 1785--Report of George Washington, Charles Carroll of Carollton, and other commissioners of ... 1006

• Masonic Society of Alexandria, District of Columbia, for authority to raise money by lottery--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of a, Year 1816, No. 394 ... 278
• Massachusetts, for aid from the United States--Memorial of the proprietors of the Middlesex canal, in, Year 1811, No. 285 ... 142

  Adverse to the war and to measures of the General Government, regarding its foreign relations--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1812, No. 325 ... 142

  Against the war, and against the formation of new States from lands not within the original States, and protest of the minority against the same--Remonstrance of the Legislature of, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 690, 726

• Massachusetts and Connecticut--Resolution of Ohio rejecting certain amendments to the constitution proposed by, Year 1816, No. 397 ... 282
• Measures of the General Government--Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving the, Year 1810, No. 281 ... 128

  Regarding its foreign affairs--Resolution of Legislature of Ohio approving the, Year 1811, No. 292 ... 151

  Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving the, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 167

  Resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi Territory approving the, Year 1811, No. 305 ... 168

• Resolution of the Legislature of North Carolina approving the, Year 1811, No. 307 ... 168

  Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey approving the, Year 1812, No. 309 ... 172

  Resolution of the Legislature of Virginia approving the, Year 1812, No. 310 ... 174

  Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island opposed to the, Year 1812, No. 324 ... 185

  Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts opposed to the, Year 1812, No. 325 ... 186

  Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio approving the war with Great Britain and other, Year 1813, No. 331 ... 196

  Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving the, Year 1813, No. 335 ... 203

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of Massachusetts disapproving the, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

  Remonstrance of the Legislature of Maryland disapproving the, Year 1814, No. 359 ... 231

  Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving the, Year 1814, No. 362 ... 235

  Resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky approving the, Year 1814, No. 363 ... 235

  In opposition to certain proceedings in other States--Resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in favor of the, Year 1814, No. 366 ... 238

• Measures the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the establishment of a standard of weights and, Year 1819, No. 463 ... 538

  Report of the Secretary of State on the subject of a uniform standard of weights and, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 656

  Of Massachusetts--Same, relative to the weights and, ... 690

  Of New Hampshire and Vermont--Same, ... 691, 722 '5

  Of Rhode Island and Connecticut--Same, ... 691

  Of New York and New Jersey--Same, ... 692

  Of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland--Same, ... 693

  Of Virginia--Same, ... 695

  Of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee--Same, ... 696

  Of Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, and Alabama--Report of the Secretary of State, same, ... 697

  Of Missouri and District of Columbia--Same, ... 698

  Documents with said report relating to weights and, ... 705

  Used in the custom-houses of the United States--Tables of weights and, ... 706, 707

  Of Great Britain--Table showing the ancient and modern standard of, ... 711

  By F. R. Hassler--Comparison of French and English, ... 716

  Of Sweden, compared with those of France and England--Letter from Jonathan Russell, with statement of, ... 747

  From the Secretary of State, and recommending the establishment of certain standards for the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the report from the Secretary of State on subject of weights and, Year 1822, No. 520 ... 927

• Medals of events in France, and of the American Revolution, presented by G. W. Erving, to be placed in the library of Congress, but which were lost at sea, and recommending that provision be made for coining medals at the Mint of the United States--Report of the Joint Library Committee relative to a number of, Year 1822, No. 518 ... 921

  Before sent by him and lost at sea--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives acknowledging the reception of a box of medals, with a list of the same, from George W. Erving, being a duplicate of the, Year 1822, No. 532 ... 985

• Melville, remonstrating against the renewal of patent right to Dey and Macdonald--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the remonstrance of David, Year 1822, No. 527 ... 937
• Members of Congress--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on expediency of repealing the law relative to the compensation of, Year 1816, No. 415 ... 403
• Message from the President, with a list of persons who have held offices after their election as, Year 1817, No. 437 ... 448

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on same subject, Year 1818, No. 438 ... 448

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on same, Year 1818, No. 439 ... 457

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on same, Year 1818, No. 445 ... 473

• Meridian of the United States at Washington--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on memorial of William Lambert, for the establishment of a first, Year 1810, No. 277 ... 53

  Report of the Secretary of State on the expediency of establishing a first, Year 1812, No. 328 ... 194

  National observatory, &c. at the seat of Government --Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of establishing a first, Year 1813, No. 332 ... 197

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of establishing a first, Year 1815, No. 386 ... 270

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• Meridian for the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of ascertaining the longitude of the Capitol, with a view of making it a first, Year 1819, No. 468 ... 546

  Message from the President, with calculations of William Lambert to determine the longitude of the Capitol, with a view to the establishment of a first, Year 1822, No. 508 ... 753

  Supplementary calculation, same, Year 1822 ... 794

• Merrill, as Representative from Vermont--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of Rollin C. Mallary, contesting the election of Orsamus C. Year 1820, No. 476 ... 558
• Messengers in the several Departments--Biennial register of officers, clerks, and, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Michigan, that the laws of the United States in that Territory be published in the French language--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of inhabitants of, Year 1810, No. 278 ... 71

  Relative to the roads contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown with the Indians--Letter from Lewis Cass, Governor of, Year 1820, No. 491 ... 596

• Middlesex canal, Massachusetts, for aid from the United States--Memorial of the proprietors of the, Year 1811, No. 285 ... 142
• Military purposes--Report of the Secretary of War, recommending the purchase of the patent right of Benjamin Conner for making bridges suitable for, Year 1813, No. 338 ... 204
• Military, and naval, in the service of the United States--Biennial register of officers, civil, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Military roads under the authority of the United States--Report from several officers of the army relative to the progress made on, Year 1819, No. 462 ... 537
• Military road from Plattsburg to Sackett's harbor--Report of the Secretary of War relative to the progress made on the, Year 1822, No. 534 ... 987
• Mims and others--President Madison's objections to the bill for the relief of Samuel, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154
• Minister plenipotentiary to treat with Great Britain and Russia--Message from the President relative to the appointment of Albert Gallatin as, Year 1813, No. 341 ... 206

  Report of a committee of the Senate on same, Year 1813, No. 344 ... 209

  To Sweden--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the nomination of Jonathan Russell, to be, Year 1813, No. 342 ... 206

  Message from the President of the United States, declining a conference with a committee of the Senate relative to the appointment of Jonathan Russell as, Year 1813, No. 347 ... 215

  To Great Britain and Russia--Report of a committee of the Senate that the President declined conferring with them relative to the appointment of Albert Gallatin as, Year 1813, No. 350 ... 217

• Ministers to treat with Great Britain--Message from the President, with copies of commissions issued during the recess of the Senate to J. Q. Adams, James A. Bayard, and Albert Gallatin as, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240

  And consuls appointed by the President during the recess of the Senate, from the commencement of the Government to 1814--Message from the President with a list of, Year 1814, No. 370 ... 242

  Of the United States in foreign countries, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of increasing the compensation of, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  And consuls of the United States--Letter from the Secretary of State relative to compensation by other nations to their ministers, and the propriety of increasing the compensation of, Year 1816 No. 409 ... 303

  And consuls of the United States--Biennial register of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 314

• Mint of the United States--Biennial register of the officers and others in the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 316
• Missionaries, that indemnity be made for the destruction of an Indian village on the river Thames by the army of the United States--Memorial of the Moravian Society of the United Brethren, acting as, Year 1814, No. 364 ... 236
• Mississippi Territory into the Union--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of allowing the preliminary measures for the admission of, Year 1811, No. 283 ... 129

  President Madison returns with objection the bill confirming certain pre-emption and donation claims to land in the, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154

  Memorial of the people of West Florida to be annexed to the, Year 1811, No. 296 ... 155

  Presentment of the grand jury, with articles of complaint against Harry Toulmin, judge of the superior court of the United States for the, Year 1811, No. 300 ... 162

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the,admission of the, Year 1811, No. 301 ... 163

  Approving of the measures of the General Government--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 168

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the Senate on the bill from the House of Representatives for the admission of, Year 1812, No. 318 ... 182

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on presentment of the grand jury against Judge Toulmin, of the, Year 1812, No. 322 ... 184

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives against the endowment of Jefferson college, by means of escheated estates in the, Year 1814, No. 367 ... 239

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to preparatory measures for the admission of the, Year 1815, No. 388 ... 274

  Into the Union--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of, Year 1815, No. 391 ... 276

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of the, Year 1816, No. 416 ... 407

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of the Territory of, Year 1817, No. 423 ... 416

  Statement of the quantity of land sold from the opening of the land offices to the 30th September, 1816, in the, Year 1817, No. 423 ... 417

• Mississippi on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 697, 744

  River, &c.--Message from the President with account of Jonathan Russell, and answer of John Quincy Adams, relative to proceedings of a majority of the American ministers who negotiated a treaty of peace with Great Britain, respecting the navigation of the, Year 1822, No. 528 ... 938

• Missouri, with proclamation of Benjamin Howard, Governor of Louisiana, under said act--Report of the House of Representatives relative to a revision of the act providing for the Government of the Territory of Year 1813, No. 334 ... 201

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of Rufus Easton, on contesting the election of John Scott, as Delegate from, Year 1816, No. 417 ... 408

  To be admitted into the Union as a State--Memorial of the people of the Territory of, Year 1819, No. 475 ... 557

  Memorial of the American Convention for the Abolition of Slavery, that slavery be prohibited in, Year 1819, No. 471 ... 547

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• Missouri, memorial of the people of Newport, Rhode Island, for the prohibition of slavery in, Year 1820, No. 479 ... 568

  Memorial of people of Hartford, Connecticut, for the prohibition of slavery in, Year 1820, No. 481 ... 572

  Into the Union--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, approving the constitution, and recommending the admission of, Year 1820, No. 493 ... 635

  Into the Union--Report of a select committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of, Year 1821, No. 502 ... 655

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 698, 745

• Mitchell, Indian agent--Message from the President of the United States, with documents relative to an alleged importation of African slaves into the United States, contrary to law, by David B. Year 1822, No. 529 ... 957
• Monument to the memory of General Washington--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the erection of a, Year 1816, No. 404 ... 298
• Moravian Society of United Brethren, that indemnity be made for the destruction of the Indian village at the river Thames--Memorial of the, Year 1814, No. 364 ... 236
• Mamlord, as a Representative from North Carolina--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the contested election of George, Year 1818, No. 445 ... 473
• Muscle shoals--Resolutions of the Legislature of Tennessee, for the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee river at the, Year 1814, No. 361 ... 234
• N.
• National university--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the establishment of a, Year 1811, No. 293 ... 151
• National observatory at the seat of Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the establishment of a first meridian and a, Year 1813, No. 332 ... 197

  Report of a committee of House of Representatives on the establishment of a, Year 1815, No. 386 ... 273

  National university--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives for the erection and endowment of a, Year 1816, No. 414 ... 402

• Naturalization"--Message from the President, returning, with objections, the bill entitled "An act supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of a uniform rule of, Year 1812, No. 329 ... 195
• Naturalized as a citizen, and for a patent right--Memorial of Thomas Owen, to be, Year 1814, No. 369 ... 241
• Naturalization so far as to admit certain persons as citizens, without making a declaration of their intention to become such three years before--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the resolution to modify the act establishing a uniform rule of, Year 1822, No. 522 ... 929
• Naval, in the service of the United States--Biennial register of officers, civil, military, and, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Navigation of the Tennessee river at the Muscle shoals--Resolution of the Legislature of Tennessee to obtain an appropriation for improving the, Year 1814, No. 361 ... 234
• Navigation of rivers by means of canals, &c. (See Canals.) Improving the,
• Navigation of the Mississippi river, and to use the Newfoundland fisheries--Message from the President, with Jonathan Russell's account, and J. Q. Adams's answer, relative to the proceedings of a majority of the American ministers who negotiated a treaty of peace with Great Britain concerning a right to the, Year 1822, No. 528 ... 938
• Navigation of the Potomac river above tide water--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the improvement of the, Year 1822, No. 530 ... 975

  Report of the commissioners of Maryland and Virginia on the same, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 988

• Navigation of the Potomac river in 1785--Report of the commissioners of Maryland and Virginia on the subject of opening and improving the, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 1006
• Navy, stating that all the books and papers belonging to that Department were preserved? Year 1814, No. 374 ... 248 from destruction by the enemy, except certain settled accounts--Letter from the Section of the, Year 1814, No. 377 ... 255
• Navy, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to increasing the salary of the Secretary of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Navy Department and Navy Commissioners' office--Biennial register of officers and clerks in the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 310
• Navy of the United States--Biennial register of the officers of the, viz: Year 1816, No. 410 ... 338

  Captains, ... 338

  Masters commandant, ... 339

  Lieutenants, ... 339

  Surgeons and surgeons' mates, ... 341

  Pursers, ... 342

  Chaplains, ... 343

  Midshipmen, ... 343

  Sailingmasters, ... 347

  Boatswains, ... 348

  Gunners, ... 349

  Carpenters, ... 349

  Sailmakers, ... 349

  Masters' mates, ... 350

  Navy agents, ... 351

  Naval storekeepers, ... 351

  Naval constructors, ... 351

  Inspector and measurer of timber and mechanics, ... 351

  Biennial register of the vessels belonging to the, ... 351

• Navy and other Departments--Report from the heads of the several Departments, with a plan for the prompt settlement of public accounts, and proposing a new organization of the, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 396

  Same, Year 1817, No. 424 ... 417

• Navy, stating the necessity for additional room for the accommodation of his Department--Letter from the Secretary of the, Year 1818, No. 444 ... 471
• Navy Department--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to compensation to officers and clerks in the, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 640
• Navy, relative to his want of jurisdiction to try certain pirates captured by the United States ship Hornet--Letter from Judge Fromentin to Captain Henley, of the, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 869
• Navy, with a statement of the number of clerks and messengers in that Department and the Navy Commissioners' office, and the cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 943
• Navy, and system of internal improvement--Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland in favor of the enlargement of the, Year 1822, No. 533 ... 987
• Negroes on the public lands of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the Kentucky Abolition Society for the colonization of free, Year 1816, No. 395 ... 278

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• Negroes into the United States, without any intention of evading the laws--Petition for remission of penalty for the introduction of, Year 1809, No. 269 ... 13
• Negroes into the United States from Amelia Island--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of the illicit introduction of, Year 1811, No. 441 ... 458
• Negro slavery be prohibited in the new States to be admitted into the Union--Memorial of the American Convention for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, that, Year 1819, No. 470 ... 547
• Negro and other slavery in Missouri--Memorial of the people of Hartford, Connecticut, for the prohibition of, Year 1820, No. 481 ... 572
• Negro slaves escaping from that State to Pennsylvania--Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland to obtain the passage of a law for the recovery of, Year 1821, No. 506 ... 752
• Negro slaves into the United States contrary to law, by D. B. Mitchell, Indian agent--Message from President, with documents relating to an alleged importation of African, Year 1822, No. 529 ... 957
• Nelson, a member thereof--Report of a committee in the case of a breach of the privileges of the House of Representatives, in an assault by J. A. Coles upon General Roger, Year 1809, No. 272 ... 18
• Nelson, in 1789, as, attorney for the Virginia district, in the recess of the Senate--Message from the President, with a copy of the appointment of William, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240
• New Hampshire on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 691, 722
• New Jersey approving the measures of the General Government regarding its foreign relations--Resolution of the Legislature of, Year 1812, No. 309 ... 172
• New Jersey on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 692, 734
• New Jersey to obtain the passage of a law for the settlement of controversies between States, with a view to the establishment of the boundary between that State and New York and Delaware--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1822, No. 510 ... 797
• Newspapers--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the publication of the laws of the United States in the, Year 1820, No. 487 ... 587
• New York for aid from the United States in constructing canals in that State--Memorial of the Commissioners from the State of, Year 1811, No. 303 ... 165

  "To provide for the improvement of the internal navigation of the State," and for the construction of canals between the great lakes and the Hudson river--Message from the President of the United States, with a copy of the act of the Legislature of, Year 1811, No. 204 ... 166

  Ought to be provided for by the United States--Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio that the expense of making a canal from the great lakes to the Hudson river, in Year 1812, No. 312 ... 178

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of aiding in the construction of said canal, Year 1812, No. 313 ... 178

  Highland Turnpike Road Company for aid from the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the, Year 1812, No. 330 ... 196

  Soliciting aid from the United States in constructing canals to connect the Hudson river with Lake Erie--Memorial of the Canal Commissioners of, Year 1816, No. 412 ... 399

  "To provide for the improvement of the internal navigation of this State"--An act of the Legislature of, Year 1816, No. 412 ... 400

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 692, 723

  Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey to obtain the passage of a law with a view to the establishment of the boundary between that State and the States of Delaware and, Year 1822, No. 510 ... 797

• Nomination of Jonathan Russell to be minister to Sweden--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the, Year 1813, No. 342 ... 206
• Nomination of Albert Gallatin to be envoy to Great Britain and Russia, without resigning as Secretary of the Treasury--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the, Year 1813, No. 344 ... 209
• Nomination of Jonathan Russell, &c.--The President declines a conference with a committee of the Senate on the, Year 1813, No. 347 ... 215
• Nomination of Albert Gallatin as envoy, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate that the President declined conferring with them relative to the, Year 1813, No. 350 ... 217
• North Carolina and Georgia--Proceedings of the Legislatures, and documents relating to the boundary between, Year 1810, No. 279 ... 72
• North Carolina approving of the measures of the General Government regarding its foreign relations--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1811, No. 307 ... 168
• North Carolina on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 696, 738
• O.
• Observatory at the seat of Government--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on establishing a first meridian and a national, 1813 332 ... 197

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1815, No. 386 ... 273

• Officers of the United States--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of increasing the salaries of certain civil and diplomatic. Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Officers and agents of the United States, communicated by the Secretary of State--Biennial register of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Officers--(See Accountability--Appointment--Compensation.)--Public. Acting as agents for the settlement of claims against the United States--Report of committee of the House of Representatives on the misconduct of certain clerks and, Year 1818, No. 452 ... 495
• Offices after their election as members of Congress--Message from the President, with a list of persons who have held, Year 1817, No. 437 ... 448

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1818, No. 438 ... 448

  Same, Year 1818, No. 439 ... 457

  Same, Year 1818, No. 445 ... 473

• Ogden, remonstrating against the renewal of the patent to Robert Fulton for a steam engine for propelling vessels--Memorial of Aaron, Year 1811, No. 302 ... 164
• Ohio approving the measures of the General Government--Resolutions of Legislature of, Year 1811, No. 292 ... 151
• Ohio, that the expense of making a canal from the great lakes to the Hudson river, in New York, ought to be provided for by the United States--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1812, No. 312 ... 178

  Approving of the war with Great Britain, and other measures of the General Government--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1812, No. 331 ... 196

  Rejecting certain amendments to the constitution, proposed by Massachusetts and Connecticut--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1816, NO. 397 ... 282

  To obtain the opening or the roads contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown with the Indians--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1820, No. 491 ... 595

  On the subject of the controversy between that State and the Bank of the United States, relative to the right of said State to tax that bank, &c.--Proceedings of the Legislature of, Year 1821, No. 500 ... 643

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• Ohio on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 697, 741
• Olmstead--Message of the President, with the resolutions of Pennsylvania protesting against the proceedings of the Supreme Court in the case of Gideon, Year 1809, No. 265 ... 2

  Message, with further proceedings of Pennsylvania relative to, Year 1809, No. 268 ... 11

• Ordinances of Andrew Jackson, as Governor, for the regulation of courts in Florida, and for the preservation of order, health, &c. in Pensacola, &c., Year 1822, No. 513 ... 904, 907
• Ordnance Department, relative to the books and papers belonging to that office, destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the chief of the, Year 1814, No. 274 ... 252
• Orleans, to be admitted into the Union as a State--Memorial of the inhabitants of the Territory of, Year 1810, No. 276 ... 51
• Oregon, or Columbia river, on the Pacific ocean--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of occupying the, (See Columbia river,) Year 1821, No. 467 ... 629
• Outfit. (See Minister.)
• Owens, an alien, for citizenship, and a patent right--Memorial of Thomas, Year 1814, No. 369 ... 241
• P.
• Paca, in 1789, judge of the Maryland district, in the recess of the Senate--Message of the President, with a copy of the appointment of William, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240
• Papers belonging to that House and the library of Congress, destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives relative to the books and, Year 1814, No. 371 ... 245

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1814, No. 377 ... 253

  Destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the heads of the several Executive Departments of the Government relative to, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 248

  Destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Explanatory statement from the Clerk of the House of Representatives relative to, Year 1814, No. 378 ... 258

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the same, Year 1815, No. 380 ... 263

• Patent laws--Memorial of the Massachusetts Association for the Encouragement of Useful Inventions for a revision and extension of the, Year 1811, No. 291 ... 149
• Patent office, and proposing the establishment of a Home Department--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the condition and organization of the, Year 1812, No. 326 ... 187

  To a Home Department--On the subject of assigning the, Year 1816 411 ... 398

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the expediency of employing an artist to preserve and repair the models in the, Year 1823, No. 541 ... 1040

  List of models on the 21st of January, 1823, in the, Year 1823, No. 541 ... 1041

  From 1793 to 1821--Statement of annual receipts and expenditures of the, Year 1823, No. 541 ... 1041

• Patent right to Robert Fulton for the invention of a steam engine for propelling vessels on water--Remonstrances against the renewal of the, Year 1811, No. 302 ... 164
• Patent rights to Oliver Evans for improvements in the flour mill--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial from John Brumback and others to amend the act continuing certain, Year 1811, No. 287 ... 145
• Patent for a mill--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Benjamin Tyler, jun., and John Tyler, for renewal of their, Year 1811, No. 288 ... 146
• Patent right, or an adequate remuneration for his invention of the cotton gin--Memorial of Eli Whitney for a renewal of his, Year 1812, No. 319 ... 183
• Patent rights to Oliver Evans--Report of a committee of the Senate on the memorial of John Worthington and others to amend the act continuing certain, Year 1813, No. 337 ... 204
• Patent right of Oliver Evans--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of William Cole and others, contesting the, Year 1814, No. 354 ... 224
• Patent rights to Oliver Evans--Report of a committee of the Senate proposing to amend the act to continue the, Year 1814, No. 365 ... 237
• Patent right and citizenship--Memorial of Thomas Owens, an alien, for a, Year 1814, No. 369 ... 241
• Patent right to Benjamin Tyler, jun., and John Tyler--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition for an extension of a, Year 1816, No. 393 ... 278
• Patent right, acquired by her late husband, Robert Fulton, for applying steam to navigation, &c.--Memorial of Harriet Fulton for the renewal of the, Year 1816, No. 401 ... 292
• Patent rights--Message from President, recommending alterations in the laws granting, Year 1816, No. 408 ... 303
• Patent right to Daniel Pettibone and others--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition for an extension of a Year 1818, No. 450 ... 490

  To Benjamin and John Tyler--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition for an extension of a, Year 1820, No. 495 ... 627

  To Abel Pratt--Report of a committee of the Senate on the petition for an extension of a, Year 1822, No. 516 ... 917

  To Anthony Dey and James McDonald--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition for an extension of a, Year 1822, No. 521 ... 928

  To Dey and McDonald--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the remonstrance of David Melville against the renewal of a, Year 1822, No. 527 ... 937

• Patents issued under the authority of the United States for new and useful inventions, &c.--Report from the Secretary of State, with a list of, Year 1811, No. 284 ... 130

  Issued in 1811--Report from the Secretary of State, with a list of, Year 1812, No. 308 ... 169

  Issued in 1812--Report from the Secretary of State, with a list of, Year 1813, No. 333 ... 197

  Issued in 1813--Report from the Secretary of State, with a list of, Year 1814, No. 358 ... 228

  Issued in 1814--Report from the Secretary of State, with a list of, Year 1815, No. 383 ... 268

• Paymaster General, relative to the papers of his office destroyed by tile enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 251
• Paymaster General of the United States army--Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salary of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of the officers and clerks in the office of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 310

• Peace with Great Britain--Report of a committee of the Senate on the nomination of Albert Gallatin, as envoy, to negotiate a treaty of, Year 1813, No. 344 ... 209
• Penitentiary--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to punishing the crime of piracy by confinement in the, Year 1821, No. 501 ... 654
• Pennsylvania against the proceedings of the Supreme Court in the case of Gideon Olmstead--Protest of the Legislature of, Year 1809 265 ... 2

  Further proceedings of, Year 1809, No. 268 ... 11

  Relative to certain proceedings in the case of the prize sloop Active against the representatives of David Rittenhouse, deceased--Act of the Legislature of, Year 1809, No. 268 ... 12

  Approving of the measures of the General Government in relation to foreign affairs--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1810, No. 281 ... 128

  For aid from the United States--Memorial of the Union Canal Company of, Year 1811, No. 299 ... 161

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• Pennsylvania, approving of the measures of the General Government regarding its foreign relations--Message of the President, with resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1811, No. 305 ... 167

  Approving of the war with Great Britain, &c.--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1813, No. 335 ... 203

  Approving of the war, and measures of retaliation against Great Britain--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1814, No. 362 ... 235

  In opposition to proceedings in certain States against the authority of the General Government--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1814, No. 366 ... 238

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 693, 734

  Where they are harbored by the people--Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland to obtain the passage of a law for the recovery of slaves escaping into the State of, Year 1821, No. 506 ... 752

• Pensacola, in Florida--Ordinances of Andrew Jackson, as Governor, for the municipal regulations, the preservation of health and order in, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 904
• Pettibone and others--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on a petition for an extension of the patent right of Daniel, Year 1818, No. 450 ... 490
• Pinckney, as assistant counsel to the Attorney General of the United States--Compensation made to William, Year 1816, No. 407 ... 302
• Piracy--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the manner of punishing the crime of, Year 1821, No. 501 ... 654
• Pirates sent in by Captain Henley, of the United States ship Hornet--Statement by Judge Fromentin, at Pensacola, Florida, of his want of jurisdiction to try a large number of, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 869
• Plantou, offering her allegorical painting of the treaty of Ghent--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Julia, Year 1821, No. 496 ... 628
• Porterfield, contesting the election of William McCoy, as a Representative from Virginia--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Robert, Year 1816, No. 400 ... 291
• Porto Rico--Message from the President, with documents relating to an expedition illegally fitted out from the United States against the Spanish island of, Year 1823, No. 540 ... 1028

  Documents accompanying said Message, viz:

  Letter from the Secretary of State on said subject, ... 1028

  Letter from C. J. Ingersoll, United States district attorney, ... 1028, 1031

  Agreement between Thomas Wattson, merchant, of Philadelphia, and General H. V. Decoudray Holstein, ... 1028

  Policy of insurance for brig Mary, Aaron Burns, master, ... 1029

  Letters from Aaron Burns to Thomas Wattson, ... 1030

  Letter from J. Reid to Thomas Wattson, ... 1031

  Letter from Robert Tillotson to the Secretary of State, ... 1032

  Letter from Robert M. Harrison to the Secretary of State, ... 1033

  Letter from C. L. Parker, consul at Curaçoa, to the Secretary of State, ... 1033, 1038

  Proclamation, declaration of independence, instructions, &c. intended by General Holstein for promulgation in the event of his success at, ... 1034

  Letter from R. W. Meade to the Secretary of State, ... 1038

  Letters from the Secretary of the Treasury, and collectors of the customs at Philadelphia and New York, ... 1039

• Postmaster General, stating that no official books or papers, belonging to that Department, were destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 248

  Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salary of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 298

• Post Office Department, so as to prohibit the transportation of the mail on Sundays--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the "General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States" for an alteration in the regulations of the, Year 1812, No. 327 ... 194
• Post Office--Biennial register of officers and clerks in the General, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 311
• Post Offices and postmasters of the United States--Biennial register of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 353
• Post Offices, &c.--Biennial register of clerks or assistants in, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 391
• Post Office Department--Biennial register of contractors for carrying the mail for the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 392
• Post Office to a Home Department--On the subject of assigning the duties of the General, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 398
• Post Office--Report of the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury Department respecting the progress made in the settlement of accounts of the General, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 466

  And stating the cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Report of the Postmaster General, with a statement of the number of clerks in the General, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 984

• Potomac Company, &c.,--(See Canals)--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to improving the navigation of the Potomac river, and to the affairs and condition of the, Year 1822, No. 530 ... 975
• Potomac Company, and the importance of a canal to improve the navigation of the Potomac river, and to connect its waters with those of the Ohio--Report of the commissioners appointed by the States of Maryland and Virginia on the condition and prospects of the, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 988, 996

  Abstract of the laws of Maryland and Virginia relative to the, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 998

• Potomac river, in 1785--Report of George Washington, C. Carroll, and others, commissioners of Maryland and Virginia, on the subject of opening and improving the, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 1006
• Pratt--Report of a committee of the Senate on the petition for an extension of a patent right to Abel, Year 1822, No. 516 ... 917
• Presbyterian Church in the United States" for a discontinuance of the mails on Sundays--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the "General Assembly of the, Year 1812, No. 327 ... 194
• Presents from foreign Powers--Ratification of the amendments to the constitution to prohibit the reception by citizens of the United States of titles of nobility or, Year 1818, No. 446 ... 477
• President of the United States, with protest of the Legislature of Pennsylvania against the proceedings of the Supreme Court in case of Gideon Olmstead--Message of James Madison, Year 1809, No. 265 ... 2

  With correspondence relative to same--Message from, No. 268 ... 11

  Relative to progress in the work on the public buildings in the City of Washington--Message from, Year 1809, No. 271 ... 16

  With a statement of the expenses of the intercourse with the Barbary Powers--Message from, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 20

  Returning, with objections, the bill entitled "An act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia"--Message from the, Year 1811, No. 294 ... 152

  Returning, with objections, the bill entitled "An act for the relief of Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem meeting-house, in the Mississippi Territory"--Message from the, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154

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• President, with copy of an act of the Legislature of New York "to provide for the improvement of the internal navigation of the State," and for constructing canals between the great lakes and the Hudson river--Message from the, Year 1811, No. 304 ... 166

  With resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approving the measures of the General Government regarding its foreign relations--Message from the, Year 1811, No. 305 ... 167

  With resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, same--Message from the, Year 1812, No. 309 ... 172

  With a statement of proceedings under the "act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio--Message from the, Year 1812, No. 311 ... 175

  Returning with objections the bill entitled "An act providing for the trial of causes pending in the respective district courts of the United States in case of the absence or disability of the judges thereof"--Message from the, Year 1812, No. 315 ... 180

  On the expediency of appointing two subordinate officers in the War Department--Message from the, Year 1812, No. 320 ... 184

  Returning with objections the bill entitled "An act supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of a uniform rule of naturalization"Message from the, Year 1812, No. 329 ... 195

  With statement of the proceedings under the act for laying out and making a road from Cumberland to Ohio--Message from the, Year 1813, No. 339 ... 205

  Relative to the temporary appointment of William Jones as Secretary of the Treasury, in place of Albert Gallatin, appointed envoy to Great Britain and Russia, whithout resigning as Secretary of the Treasury--Message from the, Year 1813, No. 341 ... 206

  Declining a conference with a committee of the Senate, on the nomination of Jonathan Russell, as minister to Sweden--Message from the, Year 1813, No. 347 ... 215

  Declining a conference with a committee of the Senate, relative to the nomination of Albert Gallatin, as envoy, &c.--Note from the, Year 1813, No. 350 ... 218

  With statement of proceedings under the act for laying out and making a road from Cumberland to Ohio--Message from the, Year 1814, No. 356 ... 226

  With resolution of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approving of the measures of the General Government--Message from the, Year 1814, No. 362 ... 235

  With declaration from the Legislature of Pennsylvania, for supporting the General Government--Message from the, Year 1814, No. 366 ... 238

  With copies of commissions for certain appointments made by the President during the recess of the Senate--Message from the, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240

  With lists of appointments made by the President of the United States during the recess of the Senate, from the commencement of the Government to 1814--Message from the, Year 1814, No. 370 ... 242

  With statement of the proceedings under the act for laying out and making the Cumberland road--Message from the, Year 1815, No. 379 ... 262

  With total amount of appropriations and expenditures on the Cumberland road--Message from the, Year 1815, No. 384 ... 272

  With statement of the expenditures on the public buildings in Washington city--Message from the, Year 1816, No. 402 ... 294

  With a statement of proceedings under the act for laying out and making the Cumberland road--Message from the, Year 1816, No. 403 ... 296

  With a statement of compensation made to assistant counsel to aid the Attorney General of the United States--Message from the, Year 1816, No. 407 ... 302

  Recommending alterations in laws granting patent rights--Message from the, Year 1816, No. 408 ... 303

  To transfer appropriations from one object to another--Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to a repeal of the power of the, Year 1817, No. 420 ... 413

  And Vice President of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on mode of notifying the individuals of their election as, Year 1817, No. 430 ... 425

  With list of persons holding office after their election to Congress--Message from the, Year 1817, No. 437 ... 448

  Relative to the progress in making roads by authority of the United States--Year 1818, No. 443 ... 466

  With notice of the ratification by the States of the amendment to the constitution, to prohibit the reception by citizens of the United States of titles of nobility or presents from foreign Powers--Message from the, Year 1818, No. 446 ... 477

  With statement of the progress made in rebuilding the public edifices in the city of Washington--Message from the, Year 1818, No. 448 ... 484

  With annual statement of the expenditures for, and progress on, the public buildings in the city of Washington--Message from the, Year 1818, No. 459 ... 528

  Relative to the publication of the journal, acts, and proceedings of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States--Message from the, Year 1819, No. 471 ... 648

  Relative to the purchase of fire engines for the public buildings in the city of Washington--Message from the, Year 1820, No. 494 ... 626

  With a calculation of William Lambert to determine the longitude of the Capitol, with a view to the establishment of a first meridian for the United States at Washington--Message from the, Year 1822, No. 508 ... 753

  With a supplementary calculation, same--Message from the, Year 1822 ... 794

  With documents relative to the misunderstanding between Andrew Jackson, as Governor, and Eligius Fromentin, as judge, of the Floridas; also, correspondence concerning certain proceedings in that Territory under the act to carry into effect the treaty with Spain for the cession of the Floridas--Message from the, (See Florida.) Year 1822, No. 513 ... 799 to 913

  With report from the Secretary of State, relative to the number of cases settled under commissions in the several States, in pursuance of the "act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy in the United States"--Message from the, Year 1822, No. 514 ... 914

  Relative to the regular duties, and allowances made for extra duties to the Attorney General and district attorneys of the United States--Message from the, Year 1822, No. 524 ... 930

  With Jonathan Russell's account and John Quincy Adams's reply, relative to certain proceedings of a majority of the American ministers who negotiated the treaty of peace with Great Britain at Ghent--Message from the Year 1822, No. 528 ... 938

  With documents relating to an alleged importation of African slaves into the United States contrary to law, by D. B. Mitchell, Indian agent--Message from the, Year 1822, No. 529 ... 957

  With documents relative to the establishment of the United States at the mouth of the Columbia river--Message from the, Year 1823, No. 536 ... 1007

  With a memorial from the Legislative Council of Florida, representing the condition of that Territory, and suggesting measures for its improvement--Message from the, Year 1823, No. 539 ... 1025

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• President, with documents relating to an expedition illegally fitted out in the United States against the Spanish island of Porto Rico--Message from the, Year 1823, No. 540 ... 1028
• Prevost to the Secretary of State, relative to the establishment of the United States at the mouth of the Columbia river on the Pacific ocean--Report from J. B. Year 1823, No. 536 ... 1008
• Printed journal, acts, and proceedings of the federal convention which formed the constitution of the United States--Message from the President relative to the distribution of the, Year 1819, No. 471 ... 548
• Printers to the House of Representatives--Reports of committees of the House of Representatives relative to the suppression of certain parts of documents ordered to be printed, and to the official conduct of Gales & Seaton as, Year 1823, No. 538 ... 1015, 1021

  Documents with said report, viz:

  Letter from Gales & Seaton requesting an investigation, ... 1016

  An anonymous communication, signed A. B. ... 1017

  Deposition of George M. Grouard, ... 1017

  William Kerr, jun. ... 1017

  Testimony of Samuel Burch, ... 1018, 1024

  James Barron, ... 1018

  Deposition of Asbury Dickens, ... 1018, 1024

  Testimony of William H. Crawford, ... 1019

  Daniel P. Cook, ... 1020, 1022 1024

  Mr. Edwards of Connecticut, ... 1021

  R. C. Weightman, ... 1021

  Colonel Moore, ... 1021

  Matthew St. Clair Clarke, ... 1021

  Ninian Edwards, ... 1023

  Letter from W. R. Dickinson, ... 1025

• Printing executed under resolves of the revolutionary Congress--Account of Hall and Sellers, for bills of credit and other, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 47

  For Congress--Report of a committee of the Senate, on the prompt execution of the, Year 1818, No. 460 ... 531

  Report of a committee of the Senate, on the propriety of establishing an efficient and certain plan for executing the, Year 1819, No. 466 ... 544

  The laws of the United States in newspapers--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the, Year 1820, No. 487 ... 587

• Prisoners, and clerks in his office--Biennial register of the Commissary General of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 337

  Report of the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, relative to the progress in the settlement of the accounts of the Commissary General of, Year 1818, No. 422 ... 466

• Privileges of the House of Representatives in an assault made by J. A. Coles upon General Roger Nelson, one of its members--Report of a committee in case of a breach of the,, Year 1809, No. 272 ... 18

  By violating the injunction of secrecy as to certain proceedings of that House--Report of a committee relative to a breach of the, Year 1812, No. 316 ... 181

• Prize captured at sea--Protest of Pennsylvania against the decision of the Supreme Court in case of Gideon Olmstead, claimant of proceeds of a, Year 1809, No. 265 ... 2
• Proclamation of Andrew Jackson, as Governor of Florida, warning sundry Spanish officers to leave that Territory, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 814
• Prompt settlement of public accounts--Plan for the, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 396
• Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia"--

  The President returns to Congress, with objections, the bill entitled "an act for incorporating the, Year 1811, No. 294 ... 152

• Public accounts. (See Accounts.)
• Publication of the laws of the United States in newspapers--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the, Year 1820, No. 487 ... 587
• Public buildings. (See Washington City.)
• R.
• Randolph, contesting the election of Jonathan Jennings, as Delegate from Indiana--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Thomas, Year 1809, No. 270 ... 15
• Redemptioners, who had absconded from him--Memorial of James Brown, to obtain a change of venue from the courts of Ohio, for the prosecution of certain German, Year 1819, No. 473 ... 550
• Reed, contesting the election of Jeremiah Cosden, as a Representative from Maryland--

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Philip, Year 1822, No. 519 ... 922

• Register of the Treasury, relative to the papers of his office destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 249

  Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salary of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 308

  With a statement of the number of clerks in that office, and the cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Report from the, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 982

  With a statement of the annual receipts and expenditures of the Patent office, from 1793 to 1821--Reports from the, Year 1823, No. 541 ... 1041

• Register of the officers and agents of the United States, communicated by the Secretary of State--"Blue Book," or biennial, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307
• Registers and receivers of public moneys, and surveyors of public lands--Biennial register of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 325
• Religious establishments by the Government, and returns, with objections, the bill entitled "An act for incorporating the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia"--James Madison, President of the United States, refuses to sanction, Year 1811, No. 294 ... 152
• Religious Society, called "The Moravian Society of United Brethren," that indemnity be made for the destruction of the Indian village, on the river Thames, by the army of the United States--Memorial of a, Year 1814, No. 364 ... 236
• Representatives in Congress. (See Elections.) Contested elections of.
• Representatives. (See House of Congress.)
• Representatives in Congress holding offices under the United States after their election--

  List of. Year 1817, No. 437 ... 448

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of, Year 1818, No. 438 ... 448

• Retaliation adopted by the General Government in the war with Great Britain--Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania approving the measures of, Year 1814, No. 362 ... 235
• Revenue, relative to the papers of his office destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the Commissioner of the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 249

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• Revenue--Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salary of the Commissioner of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of the Commissioner of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 309

• Revenue or direct tax--Biennial register of officers of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 319
• Revolutionary Congress--Account of Hall & Sellers for bills of credit and other printing, executed under the resolves of the, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 47
• Revolutionary war, presented by George W. Erving--Medals of the events of the, Year 1822 1822, No. 518 532 ... 921 985
• Rhode Island, disapproving of the war and other measures of the General Government regarding its foreign relations--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1812, No. 324 ... 185

  For the prohibition of slavery in Missouri and other Territories on their admission into the Union--Memorial of the people of Newport, Year 1820, No. 479 ... 568

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 691, 728

• Ridgely, chargé des affaires of the United States at Tripoli--Account of Dr. John, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 33
• Rittenhouse, deceased--Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania relative to certain proceedings in the case of the prize sloop Active against the representatives of David, Year 1809, NO. 268 ... 12
• River, at the Muscle Shoals--Resolutions of the Legislature of Tennessee to obtain an appropriation for improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Year 1814, No. 361 ... 234
• Rivers. (See Canals--Potomac.) Canals connected with.
• Road from Vincennes, Indiana, towards Dayton, Ohio--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of opening a, Year 1811, No. 286 ... 145

  From Cumberland, in Maryland, to the State of Ohio--Message from the President, with a statement of proceedings under the act for laying out and making the, Year 1811, No. 311 ... 175

  From Cumberland to Brownsville--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on making provision for extending the Cumberland, Year 1812, No. 317 ... 188

  Message from the President, with a statement of proceedings under the act for laying out and making the Cumberland, Year 1813, No. 339 ... 205

  Message from the President on same, Year 1814, No. 356 ... 226

  Report of a committee of the Senate on same, Year 1814, No. 357 ... 227

  Message from the President on same, Year 1815, No. 379 ... 262

  Report of a committee of the Senate on same, Year 1815, No. 381 ... 266

  Report of Secretary of the Treasury relative to appropriations, expenditures, progress made, &c. on the Cumberland, Year 1815, No. 384 ... 278

  Message from the President, with a statement of the progress on the Cumberland, Year 1816, No. 403 ... 296

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, Year 1816, No. 406 ... 300

  To Wheeling--Estimate of amount for the completion of the Cumberland, Year 1818, No. 443 ... 469

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the rate of wages and expenditures on the Cumberland, Year 1818, No. 458 ... 523

  Report of Secretary of the Treasury relative to the conduct of Josiah Thompson, late superintendent, and to funds for the continuation of the Cumberland, Year 1820, No. 486 ... 585

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with report, survey, &c. of the commissioners appointed to view and inspect the Cumberland, Year 1822, No. 511 ... 797

  Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of the total amount appropriated and expended for the Cumberland, Year 1823, No. 542 ... 1042

  From Reynoldsburg, on the Tennessee river, through the country of the Chickasaw Indians--Report from the Secretary of War relative to the survey of a, Year 1816, No. 413 ... 401

  From Plattsburg to Sackett's Harbor, in New York--Report from the Secretary of War relative to the progress made on the military, Year 1822, No. 534 ... 987

• Road Company for aid from the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the memorial of the New York Highland Turnpike, Year 1812, No. 330 ... 196
• Roads, designated by the treaty with the Indians at Brownstown, and lying in Ohio and Michigan--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of laying out certain, Year 1811, No. 282 ... 128

  Designated by the treaty of Brownstown, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of making provision for laying out, Year 1811, No. 298 ... 160

  Contemplated by the treaty of Brownstown with the Indians--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of, Year 1820, No. 491 ... 593

  Documents with the same, viz:

  Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, and letter from R. J. Meigs, jun. ... 595

  Letters from Lewis Cass, Governor, and General Duncan McArthur to the Secretary of War, ... 596

  Letter from the Secretary of Michigan Territory to the President of the United States, ... 597

  From Nashville to Natchez, and from Fort Hawkins to St. Stephen's--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of repairing, and keeping in repair, the, Year 1815, No. 385 ... 273

  By authority of the United States--Message from the President relative to the progress in making various, Year 1818, No. 443 ... 466

  Leading to those States--Estimate of moneys received for the lands in Ohio and Indiana, sold in 1816 and 1817, upon which two per cent was appropriated for, Year 1818, No. 443 ... 469

  Under the authority of the United States--Report from sundry officers of the army relative to the progress made on military, Year 1819, No. 462 ... 537

• Roads and canals--Report of a committee of the Senate on so much of the President's message as relates to effecting internal improvements by, Year 1816, No. 398 ... 283

  Under charge of a Home Department--Relative to placing the subject of, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 398

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on so much of the President's message as relates to the subject of a general system for the construction of, Year 1817, No. 427 ... 420

  Report of a committee of the Senate on same, Year 1817, No. 429 ... 424

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on same, Year 1817, No. 435 ... 443

  Report from John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, on a general plan for opening and constructing, Year 1818, No. 462 ... 533

  And referring to sundry works in particular--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the general subject of the internal improvement of the country by means of, Year 1822, No. 526 ... 934

  Objects referred to in said report, viz: (See Canals,) also.

  A road from Penobscot river to a point in the eastern boundary of Maine.

  A road from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi.

  The Cumberland road.

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• Roads and canals--Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland in favor of the navy, and of a system of internal improvement by, Year 1822, No. 533 ... 987
• Rudd, clerk of the southern district court of New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relating to the official misconduct of Theoron, Year 1819, No. 464 ... 542
• Russell, to be minister to Sweden--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the nomination of Jonathan, 1813 242 ... 206

  Minister to Sweden, on the subject, of weights and measures--Letter from Jonathan, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 747

• Russell's account, and John Q. Adams's answer relating to, certain proceedings of a majority of the American ministers who negotiated the treaty of peace with Great Britain at Ghent--Message from the President, with Jonathan, Year 1822, No. 528 ... 938
• Russia--Message from the President relative to the appointment of Albert Gallatin as envoy to Great Britain and, 1813 341 ... 206

  Report of a committee of the Senate on same, Year 1813, No. 344 ... 209

• Rutledge, in 1795, as Chief Justice of the United States, in the recess of the Senate-- Message from the President, with a copy of the appointment of John, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240
• S.
• Sage and John Lefferts, as Representatives from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Benj. B. Blydenburgh and Peter Augustus Jay, contesting the election of Ebenezer, Year 1813, No. 349 ... 217
• Sage, as a Representative from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of James Guyon, jun. contesting the election of Ebenezer, Year 1820, No. 480 ... 570
• Salaries of civil and diplomatic, or legislative, executive, and judicial officers of the United States--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to increasing the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Scarcity and famine occasioned by the ravages of locusts--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on necessity for affording relief to the inhabitants of the Canary islands from, Year 1812, No. 321 ... 184
• Scott, as Delegate from Missouri--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on petition of Rufus Easton, contesting the election of John, Year 1816, No. 417 ... 408

  Same, Year 1817, No. 421 ... 414

• Seat of Government of the United States--Report of the Secretary of State on the expediency of establishing a first meridian at the, (See First Meridian--Washington.) Year 1812, No. 328 ... 194
• Seaton--Report of a committee ot the House of Representatives, on propriety of authorizing a subscription to a history of the debates and proceedings in Congress, by Gales and, Year 1823, No. 453 ... 510

  Printers to the House of Representatives--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, relative to the suppression of certain parts of original documents ordered to be printed, and to the official conduct of Gales and, Year 1823, No. 538 ... 1015

• Secrecy, as to certain proceedings of the House of Representatives--Report of a committee relative to a violation of the injunction of, Year 1812, No. 316 ... 181
• Secretaries of Legation--Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salary of, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Sellers, for bills of credit and other printing executed under resolves Revolutionary Congress-Account of Hall and, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 47
• Senate of the United States, relative to the appointment of Albert Gallatin as envoy on a foreign mission while holding the office of Secretary of the Treasury--Resolutions of the, Year 1813, No. 350 ... 218

  Message from the President, with copies of commissions granted for appointments made by that officer during the recess of the, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240

  From the commencement of the Government to 1814--Message from the President, with a list of appointments made by the President of the United States during the recess of the, Year 1814, No. 370 ... 242

  Report of a committee of the Senate, on increasing the salaries of the chaplain, secretary, and clerks of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of the officers and clerks of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 311

  Report of a committee of the Senate, relative to the compensation of the secretary, clerks, and other officers of the, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 637

• Settlers. (See Public Lands.)
• Sharp, as Representative from New York--Report of a committee on memorial of Cadwallader D. Colden, contesting the election of Peter, Year 1821, No. 505 ... 751
• Shriver, relative to progress made on the Cumberland road--Report from David, Year 1812, No. 311 ... 177
• Slavery, relative to colonizing free people of color on the public lands of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on memorial of the Kentucky Society for the Abolition of, Year 1816, No. 395 ... 278

  That slavery be prohibited in the new States to be admitted into the Union-- Memorial of the American Convention for promoting the Abolition of, Year 1819, No. 471 ... 547

  In Missouri and other Territories, on their admission into the Union--Memorial of the people of Newport, Rhode Island, for the prohibition of, Year 1820, No. 479 ... 568

  In Missouri, &c.--Memorial of the people of Hartford, Connecticut, for the prohibition of, Year 1820, No. 481 ... 572

• Slaves, the persons introducing them not intending to evade the law--Petition for remission of the penalty incurred under the act prohibiting the introduction of domestics or, Year 1809, No. 269 ... 13

  Into the United States from Amelia island--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the subject of the illicit introduction of, Year 1818, No. 441 ... 458

  Or redemptioners--Memorial of James Brown, to obtain a change of venue from the courts of Ohio, for the recovery of certain German, Year 1819, No. 473 ... 550

  Escaping into the State of Pennsylvania and harbored there by the people--Resolution of the Legislature of Maryland, to obtain the passage of a law for the recovery of, Year 1821, No. 506 ... 752

  Into the United States contrary to law, by D. B. Mitchell, Indian agent-- Message from the President, with documents relating to an alleged importation of African, Year 1822, No. 629 ... 957

• Smith, as agent for Thomas Jefferson, offering his library to Congress-Letter from Samuel H. Year 1814, No. 372 ... 246

  As Representative from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections, on the petition of Westal Willoughby, jun. contesting the election of Wm. S. Year 1815, No. 389 ... 275

  As an insolvent debtor of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the expediency of releasing William, Year 1817, No. 425 ... 419

  And others, for the establishment of a national vaccine institution--Memorial from James, Year 1820, No. 477 ... 565

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• Smith, relative to a repeal of the law to encourage vaccination--Letter from James, Year 822, No. 517 ... 919
• Solicitor of the Treasury--Report from the Heads of the several Departments, recommending the establishment of the office of, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 398
• South Carolina, on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 696, 739
• Spain, to dismember the Union, and other improperties--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on an inquiry into the conduct of Brigadier General James Wilkinson, respecting the corrupt receipt of money from the Spanish Government, and his connexion with agents of. (See Wilkinson.) Year 1810, No. 280 ... 79

  In relation to the dispute between the United States and that Government, as to the possession of West Florida--Presentment of the grand jury against Harry Toulmin, judge of the United States, complaining of improper intercourse by him with the agents of, Year 1811, No. 300 ... 162

  For cession and delivery of Florida to the United States; to acts of Andrew Jackson, as Governor, and to his misunderstanding with Judge Fromentin respecting their relative powers, &c.--Message from the President with documents relative to correspondence and to transactions in Florida, under the act to carry into effect the treaty with, (See Florida.) Year 1822, No. 513 ... 799

• Spanish island of Porto Rico--Message from the President, with documents relating to an expedition illegally fitted out from the United States against the, (See Porto Rico.) Year 1823, No. 540 ... 1028
• State of Pennsylvania, against proceedings of the Supreme Court, in the case of Gideon Olmstead--Protest of the, Year 1809, No. 265 ... 2

  Further proceedings of, No. 268 ... 11

  Approving the measures of the General Government relating to foreign affairs--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1810, No. 281 ... 128

  Ohio, approving the measures of the General Government--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1811, No. 292 ... 151

  Pennsylvania, approving of the measures of the General Government, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1811, No. 305 ... 167

  North Carolina, same--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 168

  New Jersey, same--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1811, No. 309 ... 172

  Virginia, same--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1812, No. 310 ... 174

  Massachusetts, against the war with Great Britain, and against the formation of new States from lands not within the original limits of the United States, and protest of the minority against the same--Remonstrance of the Legislature of the, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

  Rhode Island, disapproving of the war, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1812, No. 324 ... 185

  Massachusetts, disapproving of the war, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1812, No. 325 ... 186

  Ohio, approving of the war, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1813, No. 331 ... 196

  Pennsylvania, same, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1813, No. 335 ... 203

  Maryland, disapproving the war, &c.--Remonstrance of the Legislature of the, Year 1814, No. 359 ... 231

  Pennsylvania, approving of the war, and opposed to the proceedings in other States, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of the, Year 1814, No. 362 366 ... 235 ... 238

  Kentucky, approving of the war, &c.--Resolution of the Legislature of the. Year 1814, No. 363 ... 235

  Tennessee, to obtain an appropriation for improving the navigation of the Tennessee river--Resolutions of the Legislature of the, Year 1814, No. 361 ... 234

• States, &c. of the amendment to the constitution to prohibit the reception by citizens of the United States of titles of nobility or presents from foreign Powers--Message from the President of the United States, with information of the ratification by certain, Year 1818, No. 446 ... 477
• State to tax the Bank of the United States--Proceedings of the Legislature of Ohio, relative to the power of a, Year 1821, No. 500 ... 643
• States, on the subject of weights and measures--Report of the Secretary of State, and documents relating to proceedings of the, Year 1821, No. 500 ... 690, 722
• State into another--Resolution of the Legislature of Maryland, to obtain the passage of a law for the recovery of slaves escaping from one, Year 1821, No. 506 ... 752
• States of North Carolina and Georgia--Proceedings of the Legislatures and documents relating to the boundary between the, Year 1810, No. 279 ... 72
• State and Tennessee, and acts of Kentucky relating thereto--Memorial of the Legislature of Kentucky to obtain the settlement of the boundary line between that, Year 1818, No. 451 ... 490
• States of Kentucky and Tennessee--Articles of agreement for the settlement of the boundary between the, Year 1820, No. 490 ... 591

  In order to fix the boundary between that State and New York and Delaware--Resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey, to obtain the passage of a law for the settlement of controversies between, Year 1822, No. 510 ... 797

• State have in the courts of other States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the effect which the judicial proceedings of one, Year 1817, No. 436 ... 447

  Memorial of inhabitants of Orleans Territory or Louisiana, to be admitted into the Union as a, Year 1810, No. 276 ... 51

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the expediency of authorizing the preliminary measures for the admission of Mississippi Terriry as a, Year 1811, No. 283 ... 129

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the expediency of admitting the Territory of Mississippi into the Union as a, Year 1811, No. 301 ... 163

  Report of a committee of the Senate on a bill from the House of Representatives, for the admission of Mississippi into the Union as a, Year 1812, No. 318 ... 182

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, relative to preparatory measures for the admission of the Mississippi Territory into the Union as a, Year 1815, No. 388 ... 274

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of Mississippi into the Union as a, Year 1815, No. 391 ... 276

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the admission of the Mississippi Territory into the Union as a, Year 1816, No. 416 ... 407

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, same, Year 1817, No. 423 ... 416

  Same, relative to preparatory measures for the admission of the Indiana Territory into the Union as a, Year 1816, No. 392 ... 277

  Memorial of the people of Missouri Territory to be admitted into the Union as a, Year 1819, No. 475 ... 557

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives approving the constitution, and recommending the admission of Missouri into the Union as a, Year 1820, No. 493 ... 625

  Report of a select committee of the House of Representatives, on admission of Missouri into the Union as a, Year 1821, No. 502 ... 655

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• States to be admitted into the Union--Memorial of the American Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, that slavery be prohibited in the new, Year 1819, No. 470 ... 547
• State, with a list of patents issued under the authority of the United States for new and useful inventions--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1811, No. 284 ... 130

  With a list of patents issued in 1811--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1812, No. 308 ... 169

  With statements relating to the organization and condition of the Patent office of the United States--Letter from the Secretary of, Year 1812, No. 326 ... 192

  With a list of patents issued in 1812--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1813, No. 333 ... 197

  With a list of patents issued in 1813--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1814, No. 358 ... 228

  With a list of patents issued in 1814--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1815, No. 383 ... 268

  With copies of commissions for appointments made during the recess of the Senate--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1814, No. 368 ... 240

  With lists of appointments of ministers and consuls made during the recess of the Senate--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1814, No. 370 ... 242

  With a list of persons appointed to office after their election as members of Congress--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1817, No. 437 ... 448

  On the expediency of establishing a first meridian for the United States at the seat of Government--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1812, No. 328 ... 194

  Relative to the books and papers of that Department destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the Secretary of, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 252

  Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salary of the Secretary of, Year 1816 No. 405 ... 299

  Relative to the propriety of increasing the compensation of ministers and consuls of the United States, and stating that allowed by other nations, &c.-- Letter from the Secretary of, Year 1816, No. 409 ... 303

  "Blue Book" or biennial register of officers and agents of the United States, communicated to Congress by the Secretary of, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 307

  On the necessity for additional room for the accommodation of his Department--Letter from the Secretary of, Year 1818, No. 444 ... 470

  With notice of ratifications by States of the amendment to the constitution, to prohibit the reception of titles of nobility or presents from foreign Powers--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1818, No. 446 ... 477

  On the subject of distributing the laws, journals, and documents of Congress to the several States--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1818, No. 455 ... 512

  On the subject of a uniform standard of weights and measures for the United States--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 656

  Same--Documents accompanying said report, ... 705

  With documents relating to correspondence concerning transactions in Florida, under the act to carry into effect the treaty with Spain, for the cession of that province, to acts of Andrew Jackson, as Governor, and to his misunderstanding with Judge Fromentin--Report from the Secretary of, (See Florida.) Year 1822, No. 513 ... 799

  With statements of the number of cases settled under commissions in the several States, in pursuance of the "act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy in the United States" Report from the Secretary of, Year 1822, No. 514 ... 914

  In answer to Jonathan Russell's account of the proceedings of a majority of the American ministers who negotiated a treaty of peace with Great Britain at Ghent--Message from the President with a communication from John Quincy Adams, Secretary of, Year 1822, No. 528 ... 938

  With a statement of the number of clerks in that department, and stating cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 978

  With documents relative to the establishment of the United States at the mouth of the Columbia river--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1823, No. 536 ... 1008

  With documents relating to an expedition illegally fitted out in the United States against the Spanish island of Porto Rico--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1823, No. 540 ... 1028

• State Department--Biennial register of officers and clerks in the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 308
• State and other Departments--Report from the Heads of the several Departments, with a plan for the prompt settlement of public accounts, and proposing a new organization of the, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 396

  Report from same, on same subject, Year 1817, No. 424 ... 417

• State Department--Report from Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, relative to progress in the settlement of accounts under the, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 466

  Report of a committee of the Senate, relative to compensation to officers and clerks in the, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 640

• Steam engine for propelling vessels on water--Remonstrances from sundry individuals from New York and New Jersey, against the renewal of the patent to Robert Fulton for the invention of a, Year 1811, No. 302 ... 164
• Steam to purposes of navigation, &c.--Memorial of Harriet Fulton for renewal of patent right acquired by her late husband, Robert Fulton, for applying, Year 1816, No. 401 ... 292
• Stock in the Chesapeake and Delaware canal--Report of a committee of the Senate on the expediency of subscribing to the, Year 1813, No. 348 ... 215

  Same--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on same, Year 1813, No. 352 ... 222

• Suffrage in the Illinois Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the right of Year 1813, No. 336 ... 204
• Sunday mails--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the memorial of the "General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States" for the discontinuance of, Year 1812, No. 327 ... 194
• Supplies, relative to the papers of his office destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the Superintendent General of military, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 251

  Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of Commissary General of military, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 310

• Suppression of certain parts of documents ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives--Reports of committees of the House of Representatives, relative to an alleged, Year 1823, No. 538 ... 1015, 1021
• Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Gideon Olmstead--Protest of Pennsylvania against the proceedings of the, (See Court.) Year 1809, No. 265 ... 2

  Further proceedings of Pennsylvania, same, No. 268 ... 11

  Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salaries of judges of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Letter from J. Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, on the expediency of providing for reports of decisions of the, Year 1817, No. 426 ... 419

  From 1801 to 1819--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with a statement of the expenses of the, Year 1820, No. 485 ... 581

• Supreme and other Courts of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives, on the subject of a reorganization of the, Year 1823, No. 543 ... 1042
• Surveyors of the public lands--Biennial register of the registers, receivers, and, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 325

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• Sweden--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to the nomination of Jonathan Russell to be minister to, Year 1813, No. 342 ... 206

  Message from the President declining a conference with a committee of the Senate on the nomination of Jonathan Russell, as minister to, Year 1813, No. 347 ... 215

• T.
• Tait, district judge of the United States for Alabama--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on complaint of Edwin Lewis against the conduct of Charles, Year 1823, No. 537 ... 1014
• Taliaferro, contesting the election of John P. Hungerford, as Representative from Virginia--Report of a committee on the petition of John, Year 1811, No. 297 ... 156

  Same, Year 1813, No. 343 ... 206

  Same, Year 1813, No. 345 ... 210

  Same, Year 1814, No. 355 ... 226

• Tallmadge, judge of the northern district of New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the official conduct of Matthias B. Year 1819, No. 465 ... 543
• Tax--Biennial register of the collectors and assessors of the direct, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 319
• Tax the Bank of the United States--Proceedings of the Legislature of Ohio relative to the power of a State to, Year 1821, No. 500 ... 643
• Tea-plant to the notice of Congress--From John S. Grimes, introducing the, Year 1812, No. 323 ... 185
• Tennessee, to obtain an appropriation for improving the navigation of the Tennessee river--Resolution of the Legislature of, Year 1814, No. 361 ... 234

  Memorial of the Legislature of Kentucky to obtain the settlement of the boundary between that State and, Year 1818, No. 451 ... 490

  Articles of agreement between the commissioners for the settlement of the boundary between Kentucky and, Year 1820, No. 490 ... 591

  On subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 696, 741

• Territorial Governments under charge of a Home Department--Relative to placing the, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 398
• Territories--Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salaries of the Governors and Secretaries of, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299
• Territories of the United States--Biennial register of the Governors and Secretaries of the several, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 312
• Territory of Orleans, or Louisiana, to be admitted into the Union as a State--Memorial of inhabitants of the, Year 1810, No. 276 ... 51
• Territory in the French language--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of the inhabitants of Michigan that the laws of the United States be published in that, Year 1810, No. 278 ... 71
• Territory, relative to roads under the treaty of Brownstown--Letter from Lewis Cass, Governor of Michigan, Year 1820, No. 491 ... 596

  Into the Union--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of allowing preliminary measures for the admission of tile Mississippi, Year 1811, No. 283 ... 129

  President Madison returns with objections the bill confirming certain donation and pre-emption claims to land in the Mississippi, Year 1811, No. 293 ... 154

  Memorial of the people of West Florida to be annexed to the Mississippi, Year 1811, No. 296 ... 155

  Presentment of the grand jury, with articles of complaint against Harry Toulmin, judge of the United States for the Mississippi, Year 1811, No. 300 ... 162

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the expediency of admitting the Mississippi, Year 1811, No. 301 ... 163

  Approving the measures of the General Government--Resolution of the Legislative Council of the Mississippi, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 168

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on said complaint against Harry Toulmin, judge of the Mississippi, Year 1812, No. 322 ... 184

  Into the Union--Report of a committee of the Senate on the bill for the admission of the Mississippi, Year 1812, No. 318 ... 182

  Entitled "An act concerning escheats"--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives against the principle contained in an act of the Mississippi, Year 1814, No. 367 ... 239

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on preparatory measures for the admission of the Mississippi, Year 1815, No. 388 ... 274

  Into the Union--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of the Mississippi, Year 1815, No. 391 ... 276

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of the Mississippi, Year 1816, No. 416 ... 407

  Into the Union as a State; and statement of public lands sold therein from 1807 to 1816--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of the Mississippi, Year 1817, No. 423 ... 416

• Territory of Missouri--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to a revision of the act for the government of the, Year 1813, No. 334 ... 201

  Proclamation of Benjamin Howard, Governor of Louisiana, under the act providing for the government of the, Year 1813, No. 334 ... 202

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on petition of Rufus Easton, contesting the election of John Scott as Delegate from the, Year 1816, No. 417 ... 408

  To be admitted into the Union as a State--Memorial of the people of the, Year 1819, No. 475 ... 557

  Same--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives approving of the constitution and recommending that the, Year 1820, No. 493 ... 625

  Same--Report of a select committee of the House of Representatives on the admission of the, Year 1821, No. 502 ... 655

  Before its admission as a State--(See Missouri)--Relative to prohibition of slavery in the.

• Territory--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the right of suffrage in the Illinois, Year 1813, No. 336 ... 204

  For an alteration of the judiciary system of that Territory--Memorial of the Legislature of the Indiana, Year 1814, No. 373 ... 247

  Into the Union as a State--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on preparatory measures for the admission of the Indiana, Year 1816, No. 392 ... 277

  Of the Floridas, his misunderstanding with Eligius Fromentin, judge, &c.-- Message from the President, with documents relating to proceedings in Florida under the act to carry into effect the treaty with Spain, and to acts of Andrew Jackson as Governor of the Province or, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 799

  Of Florida, representing the condition of that Territory, and suggesting measures for its improvement--Message from the President, with memorial from the Legislative Council of the, Year 1823, No. 539 ... 1025

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• Tervin and others--President Madison's objections to the bill for the relief of Richard, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154
• Thompson, as superintendent of the Cumberland road, &c.--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to conduct of Josias, Year 1820, No. 486 ... 585
• Thornton, superintendent or principal clerk of the Patent office, with statement of receipts and salaries paid in that office--Affidavit of William, Year 1812, No. 326 ... 192
• Titles of nobility and presents being received by citizens of the United States from foreign Powers--Message from the President of the United States relative to the ratification of the amendment to the constitution to prevent, Year 1818, No. 446 ... 477
• Toulmin, judge of the United States for the Mississippi Territory--Presentment of the grand jury, with articles of complaint against Harry, Year 1811, No. 300 ... 162

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the presentment of the grand jury against Judge, Year 1812, No. 322 ... 184

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on certain charges against Judge, Year 1817, No. 434 ... 443

• Townsend and others, remonstrating against the renewal of the patent of Robert Fulton for a steam engine for propelling vessels--Memorial of Isaiah, Year 1811, No. 302 ... 164
• Transfer of appropriations from one object to another--Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of the, Year 1817, No. 420 ... 413
• Treasurer of the United States, during the revolutionary war--Reference to Michael Hillegas, as, Year 1810, No. 275 ... 47

  Relative to papers destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 249

  Report of a committee of the Senate on increasing the salary of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

  Biennial register of officers and clerks in the office of the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 309

• Treasury, with a statement of the expenses of the intercourse with the Barbary Powers--Report of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 20

  On the defects in the system of gauging, as practised at the custom-houses in the United States--Report from the Secretary of the, Year 1811, No. 290 ... 147

  With a statement of the proceedings under the "Act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio--Report from the Secretary of the, Year 1812, No. 311 ... 175

  With a statement of proceedings under the act for laying out and making the Cumberland road--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1813, No. 339 ... 205

  With a statement relative to the Cumberland road, &c.--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1814, No. 356 ... 226

  With a statement relative to the Cumberland road, &c.--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1815, No. 379 ... 262

  Relative to appropriations, expenditures, progress made, &c. on the Cumberland road--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1815, No. 384 ... 272

  With statements relative to the progress on the Cumberland road--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1816, No. 403 ... 296

  Relative to the rate of wages and expenditures on the Cumberland road--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1818, No. 458 ... 523

  Relative to a continuation of the Cumberland road, and to the conduct of Josias Thompson, late superintendent thereof--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1820, No. 486 ... 585

  With report, survey, &c. of the commissioners appointed to view and inspect the Cumberland road--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1822, No. 511 ... 797

  With a statement of the total amount appropriated and expended for the Cumberland road--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1823, No. 542 ... 1042

  Recommending that a portion of the public lands be set apart for effecting certain internal improvements, &c.--Letter from the Secretary of the, Year 1812, No. 312 ... 179

  Relative to funds applicable to a system of internal improvements--Letter from the Secretary of the, Year 1816, No. 398 ... 285

  Relative to the progress in making roads by authority of the United States--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1818, No. 443 ... 466

  Relative to the books and papers, belonging to that Department, that were destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the Secretary of the, Year 1814, No. 374 ... 248

  Letter from the Comptroller on same, ... 248

  Letter from the Auditor on same, ... 249

  Letter from the Treasurer on same, ... 249

  Letter from the Register on same, ... 249

  Letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue on same, ... 249

  Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office on same, ... 250

  Relative to the expenditures on the public buildings in Washington city--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1816, No. 402 ... 294

  With a statement of the expenses of the judiciary in the District of Columbia--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1820, No. 485 ... 581

  Relative to compensation to assistant counsel, appointed to aid the Attorney General of the United States--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1816, No. 407 ... 302

  On the subject of transferring appropriations from one object to another--Letter from Wm. H. Crawford, Secretary of the, Year 1817, No. 420 ... 413

  And other Departments--Reports from the heads of the several Departments, with a plan for the prompt settlement of public accounts, and proposing a new organization of the, Year 1816, No. 411 ... 396

  Same, Year 1817, No. 424 ... 417

  Relative to the organization of that Department, and to the progress made under the act to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts, with reports from the Comptrollers and Auditors--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 460

  With a plan for enforcing the speedy payment of debts due from individuals and corporate bodies to United States--Report from the Secretary of the, Year 1820, No. 483 ... 375

  Stating the necessity for additional room for the accommodation of that Department--Letter from the Secretary of the, Year 1818, No. 444 ... 471

  With a statement of extra compensation to the Attorney General for services in the courts of the United States--Report of the Secretary of the, Year 1819, No. 469 ... 546

  Relative to an expedition, illegally fitted out in the United States, against the Spanish island of Porto Rico--Letter from the Secretary of the, (See Porto Rico,) Year 1823, No. 540 ... 1039

  Message from the President relative to the temporary appointment of William Jones, Secretary of the Navy, as acting Secretary of the Treasury, in place of Albert Gallatin, appointed envoy to Great Britain and Russia, without resigning as Secretary of the, Year 1813, No. 341 ... 206

  Report of a committee of the Senate on same, Year 1813, No. 344 ... 209

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• Treasury--Report of a committee of the Senate that the President declined conferring with them on the nomination of Albert Gallatin as envoy, &c., while holding the office of Secretary of the, Year 1813, No. 350 ... 217

  Report of a committee of the Senate relative to increasing the salary of the Secretary of the, Year 1816, No. 405 ... 299

• Treasury Department, and subordinate offices--Biennial register of officers and clerks in the, Year 1816, No. 410 ... 308

  Report of a committee of the Senate relative to compensation to officers and clerks in the, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 640

  And its subordinate offices, and stating cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Report from the Secretary, stating the number of clerks and messengers engaged in the, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 979

  With testimony of the Secretary on the subject--Reports of committees of the House of Representatives relative to the suppression of certain parts of documents ordered to be printed, concerning transactions between sundry banks in the Western country and the, (See Printers,) Year 1823, No. 538 ... 1015, 1021

• Treaty of Brownstown with the Indians--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of a road designated by the, Year 1811, No. 282 ... 128
• Treaty of Brownstown, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on providing for roads designated by the, Year 1811, No. 298 ... 160
• Treaty of Brownstown with the Indians--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to establishing the roads contemplated by the, Year 1820, No. 491 ... 593
• Treaty with the Choctaw and Creek Indians--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the right of way through their country, obtained by, Year 1815, No. 385 ... 273
• Treaty of Ghent--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Julia Plantou, offering her allegorical painting of the, Year 1820, No. 496 ... 628
• Treaty of peace with Great Britain at Ghent--Message from the President, with Jonathan Russell's account, and John Q. Adams's answer, relating to certain proceedings of a majority of the American ministers who negotiated the, Year 1822, No. 528 ... 938
• Trial of causes. (See Courts.)
• Triplett, for services at Tunis--Account of Thomas, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 34
• Tripoli--Expenses of intercourse with, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 20
• Tunis--Expenses of intercourse with, Year 1810, No. 273 ... 20
• Turner, contesting the election of William Baylies, as a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts--Report of a committee on a petition in favor of Charles, Year 1809, No. 264 ... 1

  Same, Year 1809, No. 264 ... 7

• Tyler, for a renewal of their patent right for a mill--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Benjamin Tyler, jun. and John, Year 1811, No. 288 ... 146

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on extending patent right to Benjamin Tyler, jun. and John, Year 1816, No. 393 ... 278

  Same, Year 1820, No. 495 ... 627

• U.
• Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania for aid from the United States--Memorial of the, Year 1811, No. 299 ... 161
• University--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the establishment of a national, Year 1811, No. 293 ... 151

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the erection and endowment of a national, Year 1816, No. 414 ... 402

• Useful inventions. (See Patents.)
• V.
• Vaccine institution--Memorial of James Smith and others for the establishment of a national, Year 1820, No. 477 ... 565
• Vaccination, and letters from James Smith on the subject--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to a modification of the law to encourage, Year 1822, No. 517 ... 918
• Vaccine agent, &c.--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives recommending the repeat of the act providing for the appointment of a general, Year 1822, No. 525 ... 934
• Van Ness, judge of the southern district of New York--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the official misconduct of William P. Year 1819, No. 464 ... 542
• Venue for the prosecution of certain German redemptioners who had absconded from him-- Memorial of James Brown for a change of, Year 1819, No. 473 ... 550
• Vermont on the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 691, 725
• Veto power by President Madison in returning to the House of Representatives, with his objections, the bill entitled "An act for incorporating the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia"--Exercise of the, Year 1811, No. 294 ... 152
• Veto power by returning to the House of Representatives, with objections, the bill entitled an act for the relief of Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims. Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting-house, in the Mississippi Territory"--President Madison exercises the, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154
• Veto power by returning to the House of Representatives, with objections, the bill entitled "An act providing for the trial of causes pending in the respective district courts of the United States in case of the absence or disability of the judges thereof"--President Madison exercises the, Year 1812, No. 315 ... 180
• Veto power by returning to Congress, with objections, the bill entitled "An act supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of a uniform rule of naturalization"--President Madison exercises the, Year 1812, No. 329 ... 195
• Vice President of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the mode of notifying the individuals of their election as President and, Year 1817, No. 430 ... 425
• Vidal vs. Innerarity--Judicial proceedings and decrees of Andrew Jackson, as Governor of Florida, on the case of the heirs of N. M., Year 1822, No. 513 ... 814, 849, 852, 867
• Virginia approving the measures of the General Government regarding its foreign relations--Resolutions of the Legislature of, Year 1812, No. 310 ... 174

  On the subject of weights and measures--Proceedings of the State of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 695, 737

  On the condition of the Potomac Company, and the importance of a canal to improve the navigation of the Potomac river, and to connect its waters with those of the Ohio--Report of the commissioners appointed by Maryland and, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 988

  Relative to the Potomac Company--Abstract of the laws of Maryland and, Year 1822, No. 536 ... 998
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• Virginia on the subject of opening and improving the navigation of the Potomac river, in 1785--Report of George Washington and Charles Carroll of Carrollton, commissioners of Maryland and, Year 1822 No. 536 ... 1006
• W.
• War Department--Message from the President on the expediency of appointing two subordinate officers in the, Year 1812 No. 320 ... 184
• War, recommending the purchase of the patent right of Benjamin Conner, for making and using bridges suitable for military purposes--Report from John Armstrong, Secretary of, Year 1813 No. 338 ... 204

  Relative to the papers belonging to that office that were destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Letter from the Secretary of, Year 1814 No. 374 ... 250
  377 ... 255

• War, Department. same--Letter from the Accountant of the, ... 251

  Same--Letter from the Paymaster General, ... 251

  Same--Letter from the Superintendent General of Military Supplies, ... 251

  Same--Letter from the Adjutant and Inspector General, ... 252

  Same--Letter from the Commissary of Ordnance ... 252

• War, &c.--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to increasing the salary of the Secretary of, 1816 405 ... 299
• War--Biennial register of the officers and clerks in the Department of, Year 1816 No. 410 ... 309
• War and other Departments--Report from the Heads of the several Departments, with a plan for the prompt settlement of public accounts, and proposing a new organization or the, Year 1816 No. 411 ... 396

  Same, Year 1817, No. 424 ... 417

• War, relative to the survey of a road from Reynoldsburg, on the Tennessee river, through the country of the Chickasaw Indians--Report of the Secretary of, Year 1816, No. 413 ... 401
• War and other Departments--Report from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the progress made under the act for the prompt settlement of public accounts with the, Year 1818, No. 442 ... 460
• War, stating the necessity for additional room for the accommodation of his Department-- Letter from the Secretary of, Year 1818, No. 444 ... 471

  On a general plan for opening and constructing roads and canals--Report from John C. Calhoun, Secretary of, Year 1819, No. 462 ... 533

  With engineer's report relative to a canal to connect the Illinois river with Lake Michigan--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1819, No. 474 ... 555

• War Department--Report of a committee of the Senate relative to compensation to officers and clerks in the, Year 1821, No. 499 ... 640
• War, in relation to the Seminole Indians in Florida--Letter from Andrew Jackson to J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of, Year 1822, No. 513 ... 911
• With number of clerks and messengers in that Department, and stating cases in which they are engaged in other pursuits--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1822, No. 531 ... 983
• Relative to progress made on the military road from Plattsburg to Sackett's Harbor--Report from the Secretary of, Year 1822, No. 534 ... 987
• War and other measures of the General Government regarding its foreign relations-- Proceedings of Legislatures of States on the subject of the, viz:

  Of Pennsylvania in favor of the, Year 1810, No. 281 ... 128

• Ohio same, 1811 292 ... 151

  Pennsylvania same, Year 1811, No. 305 ... 167

  Mississippi Territory same, Year 1811, No. 306 ... 168

  North Carolina same, 1811 307 ... 168

  New Jersey same, 1812 309 ... 172

  Virginia same, Year 1812, No. 310 ... 174

  Rhode Island against, 1812 324 ... 185

  Massachusetts same, Year 1812, No. 325 ... 186

  Ohio in favor of, Year 1813, No. 331 ... 196

  Pennsylvania same, Year 1813, No. 335 ... 203

  Massachusetts against the, Year 1813, No. 346 ... 210

  Maryland same, Year 1814, No. 359 ... 231

  Pennsylvania in favor of, Year 1814, No. 362 ... 235

  Kentucky same, Year 1814, No. 363 ... 235

  Pennsylvania same, Year 1814, No. 366 ... 238

• Washington city--Message from the President of the United States relative to the progress made on the public buildings in, Year 1809, No. 271 ... 16

  That were destroyed by the enemy in 1814--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of reconstructing the public buildings in, Year 1814, No. 375 ... 252

  Message from the President, with report from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to expenditures on account of the public buildings in the city of, Year 1816, No. 402 ... 294

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the progress made in rebuilding the public edifices in the city of, Year 1817, No. 431 ... 426

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the propriety of erecting additional buildings for the executive offices in the city of, Year 1818, No. 444 ... 470

  Report of the commissioner of the public builings, with documents concerning the location of the several public edifices in, Year 1818, No. 447 ... 479

  Message from the President of the United States with statement of expenditures for, and progress made on the public buildings in the city of, Year 1818, No. 448 ... 484

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on subject of expenditures in rebuilding the public edifices in the city of, Year 1818, No. 454 ... 510

  Message from the President of the United States, with annual statement of the expenditures for, and progress made on the public buildings in the city of, Year 1818, No. 459 ... 528

  Letter from Benjamin Henry Latrobe vindicating his official conduct as late surveyor or architect of the public buildings in, Year 1819, No. 461 ... 531

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to progress on, and completion of several of the public buildings, and to an appropriation for continuing the work on the centre building of the Capitol in, Year 1820, No. 484 ... 577

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of expenditures for the public buildings in, Year 1820, No. 488 ... 587

  Message from the President of the United States, with statements relative to the purchase of fire engines for the public buildings in the city of, Year 1820, No. 494 ... 626

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the petition of Julia Plantou, offering her allegorical painting of the treaty of Ghent for ornamenting the Capitol in, year 1821, No. 496 ... 628

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• Washington--Report of the commissioner of the public buildings, with a statement of the value of the public lots in the city of, Year 1821, No. 507 ... 752

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the duty and compensation of the commissioner of the public buildings in Year 1822, No. 523 ... 929

  Be set apart for the improvement of the navigation of the Potomac river--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives recommending that the proceeds of sales of the public lots in, Year 1822, No. 530 ... 975

  Report of a committee on expediency of chartering the Bank of, Year 1810, No. 274 ... 45

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on expediency of chartering certain banks in the city of, Year 1811, No. 289 ... 147

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to carrying into effect a resolution of a former Congress for erecting a monument to the memory of General, Year 1816, No. 404 ... 298

  With an estimate of the value of lots belonging to the United States in said city--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the erection and endowment of a national university in the city of, Year 1816, No. 414 ... 402

  To raise money by lottery in the District of Columbia--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives relative to the manner of executing the power conferred on the corporation of, Year 1821, No. 498 ... 634

  Charles Carroll of Carrollton and others, commissioners of Maryland and Virginia in 1785, on the subject of opening and improving the navigation of the Potomac river; and, in connexion with roads, to open a communication with the Western country--Report of George, Year 1822, No. 535 ... 1006

  Report of a committee on the memorial of William Lambert for the establishment of a first meridian at the city of, Year 1810, No. 277 ... 53

  Report of the Secretary of State on the establishment of a first meridian at the city of, Year 1812, No. 328 ... 194

  Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the establishment of a national observatory at, Year 1813, No. 332 ... 197

  Same, and a first meridian at, Year 1815, No. 386 ... 273

  With a view of making it a first meridian for the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of ascertaining the longitude of the Capitol in, Year 1819, No. 468 ... 546

  Message from the President, with a calculation of William Lambert for determining the longitude of the Capitol, with a view to the establishment of a first meridian for the United States at, Year 1822, No. 508 ... 753

  Message from the President, with a supplementary calculation of same, Year 1892 ... 794

• Weights and measures--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the establishment of standards of, Year 1819, No. 463 ... 538

  For the United States--Report of the Secretary of State on the subject of a uniform standard of, Year 1821, No. 503 ... 656

  Of the several States and District of Columbia--Report of the Secretary of State on same, 690, 698

  Documents with said report relating to, ... 705

  Used in the custon-houses of the United States--Tables of, ... 706 '7

  Of the District of Columbia--Note on the, ... 710

  Proceedings of the several States on the subject of, ... 722

  From the Secretary of State, and recommending the establishment of certain standards for the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on the report from the Secretary of State on the subject of, Year 1822, No. 520 ... 927

• West Florida to be annexed to the Mississippi Territory--Memorial of the people of, Year 1811, No. 296 ... 155
• Wheaton, referred to him by the House of Representatives--Report of the Attorney General of the United States, declining to make report on the claim of Major, Year 1820, No. 482 ... 574
• Whitney, for a renewal of his patent right, or an adequate remuneration for his invention of the cotton gin--Memorial of Eli, Year 1812, No. 319 ... 183
• Wilkinson: Ist, As respects the corrupt receipt of money from the Spanish Government; 2d, Regarding his connexion with agents of Spain, to dismember the Union; 3d, Concerning his connexion with Aaron Burr; and, 4th, His conduct as brigadier general of the army of the United States--Report of a committee of the House of Representatives on an inquiry into the conduct of Brigadier General James, Year 1810, No. 280 ... 79

  1. Documents relative to receipt of money by General Wilkinson from Spain, viz:

  No. 5. Deposition of John Ballinger, ... 80

  6. Letter from Evan Jones to Daniel Clarke, ... 81

  7. Evidence of F. Langlois, ... 81

  Letters from Le Baron de Carondelet to F. Langlois, ... 82

  13. Letters from General Wilkinson to John Adair, ... 82

  8. Deposition of D. Bouligny, ... 83

  9. Deposition of Thomas Power relative to the murder of Henry Owens, ... 83

  10. Deposition of Win. Miller relative to Joseph Collins, ... 84

  14. Le Baron Carondelet's instructions to Thomas Portell, ... 84

  15. Letter from Thomas Power to Thomas Portell, ... 85

  16. Letter from Thomas Portell to Thomas Power, ... 86

  17. Deposition of Thomas Power relative to the payment to General Wilkinson, ... 87

  Interrogatories for A. Ellicott, ... 87

  19. Deposition of Andrew Ellicott, ... 89

  Deposition of Thomas Power relative to the correspondence with Gayoso, Carondelet, and Don Andreo Armesto, ... 90

  20. To Le Baron de Carondelet, ... 92

  21. To Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, ... 93

  22. To Le Baron de Carondelet, ... 93

  23. To Le Baron de Carondelet, ... 94

  Deposition of Elisha Winters, ... 95

  25. Deposition of James M. Bradford, ... 95

  Deposition of Isaac Briggs, ... 95

• 2. Documents respecting the connexion of General Wilkinson with agents of Spain to dismember the Union, viz:

  No. 34. Narrative and deposition of Thomas Power, ... 96

  Letter from General Wilkinson to Governor Gayoso, ... 97

  35. Instructions from General Wilkinson to Thomas Power, ... 98

  36. Letter from Thomas Power to Le Baron de Carondelet, ... 98, 99

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• Wilkinson--Documents respecting, &c. No. 37. Letter from Le Baron de Carondelet to Thomas Power, ... 99, 100

  38. Letter from Le Baron de Carondelet to Thomas Power, ... 101

  40. Letter from Thomas Power to Le Baron de Carondelet, ... 104

  42. Letter from General Wilkinson to Thomas Power, ... 105

  43. Letter from Thomas Power to Governor Gayoso, ... 105

  70. Letter from General Wilkinson to Thomas Power, ... 109

  44. Letter (rom Le Baron de Carondelet to Thomas Power, ... 109

  45. Deposition of Daniel Clarke, ... 111

  3. Documents concerning the connexion of General Wilkinson with Aaron Burr, viz:

  No. 45. Deposition of Daniel Clarke, ... 111

  78. Letter from General Wilkinson to General Adair, ... 112

  Evidence of General Wilkinson, as communicated to Congress, November 23, 1807, (Miscellaneous, vol. 1, page 539,) ... 112

  General Wilkinson's introduction of A. Burr to D. Clarke, ... 113

  4. Documents relating to the conduct of James Wilkinson as brigadier general of the United States army, viz:

  Deposition of William Simmons, ... 113

  Deposition of George Peter, ... 115

  Deposition of William E. Williams, ... 115

  Deposition of John Smith, ... 115

  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department, with copies of sundry accounts, ... 116

  Papers relative to tobacco and other commercial transactions, in which General Wilkinson was concerned, ... 119

  Articles of agreement between Wilkinson and Dunn and Daniel Clarke, ... 124

  Deposition of Walter Jones, ... 124

  Deposition of Daniel W. Cox, ... 127

• Williams, jun. contesting the election of John M. Bowers, as a Representative from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Isaac, Year 1813, No. 351 ... 213
• Willoughby, jun. contesting the election of William S. Smith, as a Representative from New York--Report of the Committee of Elections on the petition of Westel, Year 1815, No. 389 ... 275
• Wilson and others--President Madison's objections to the bill for the relief of Joseph, Year 1811, No. 295 ... 154
• Worthington, as Secretary and acting Governor of East Florida--Proceedings, correspondence, &c. of W. G. D. Year 1822, No. 513 ... 890, 896

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