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Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 26th Congress

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Agreed to in Committee: Ordered to be printed by the House. Amendment Offered in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, by Mr. Jacob Thompson. Strike the following from the eighteenth and nineteenth pages of the bill: (H.R. 601)

Amendments proposed in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Amendments. Proposed by Mr. Atherton, and agreed to Add to end of section two: (H.R. 6)

Amendments. Proposed to the bill to ensure the more faithful execution of the laws relating to the collection of duties on imports (House bill, No. 100). (H.R. 100)

As amended in Committee of the Whole, and reported to the House. The parts stricken out are in [brackets]; the insertions in italics. A Bill To ensure the more faithful execution of the laws relating to the collection of duties on imports. (H.R. 100)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, to which the said bill is committed. Mr. C. H. Williams submitted the following, which, when the bill to provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year eighteen hundred and forty shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an Amendment. Strike out all ... (H.R. 26)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which the said bill is committed. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following, which, when the bill H.R. No. 9 (to authorize the President of the United States to raise a force of sixteen hundred men to serve against the Florida Indians) is taken up for ... (H.R. 9)

Introduced by Mr. Bell, on leave. It was read the first time and objected to. It was debated at various times until May 20, 1840, when it was rejected. A Bill To secure the freedom of elections, and to provide more effectually for the faithful administration of Executive patronage. (H.R. 15)

Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, to which was referred the amendments of the Senate to the bill of this House, No. 100, reported the following amendments to the same: Amendments. The Committee on Manufactures, to whom was referred the bill of the House, No. 100, ''to ensure the more faithful execution of the laws relating to the ... (H.R. 100)

Mr. Curtis, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Hoffman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill without amendment, and it was committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow: A Bill For the relief of certain debtors of the United States, and ... (H.R. 17)

Mr. John W. Davis submitted the following, which, when the bill (No. 580) ''making appropriations for the support of the army for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one,'' is taken up, he intends offering as an amendment. Amendment. (H.R. 580)

Mr. Stanly sent to the Clerk's table the following bill, of which he gave notice on the 21st ultimo, and which he will hereafter ask leave to introduce, and moved that it be printed for information; which motion was agreed to. A Bill To pay the fourth instalment to the States. (H.R. 597)

Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 5) ''making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty,'' reported the same with the following amendments which were ordered to be printed. Amendments. (H.R. 5)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Hubbard, to the bill (H.R. 465) ''to continue the corporate existence of certain banks in the District of Columbia.'' (H.R. 465)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Stanly submitted the following; which he will, when in order, move as amendments to the bill ''To authorize the issuing of Treasury notes.'' Amendments. (H.R. 598)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 6) ''making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty,'' reported the same with the following amendments: Amendments. (H.R. 6)

Printed as amended by the Senate. Note.--Parts stricken out are printed within [brackets]; insertions in italics. An Act To ensure the more faithful execution of the laws relating to the collection of duties on imports. (H.R. 100)

Read the first and second times, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the enrolment or register of the schooner Amistad. (H.R. 593)

Read the first and second times, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Further to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States. (H.R. 679)

Read the first and second times, laid upon the table. Mr. Tillinghast, from the Committee on the Library, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill In addition to the acts now in force for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies ... (H.R. 447)

Read the first and second times. Mr. Williams, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Mileage, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a uniform rule of computing the mileage of members of Congress. (H.R. 448)

Read the first time, and motion to recommit to the Committee on Commerce. Consideration postponed till to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. A Bill To repeal an act passed March second, eighteen hundred thirty-seven, concerning pilots. (H.R. 442)

Read twice and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary, and the other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty. (H.R. 3)

Read twice and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hastings, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hugh Riddle, of the State of New York. (H.R. 459)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the House to-morrow. Mr. Atherton, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James W. Osborne, of Baltimore. (H.R. 21)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief and protection of the paymasters of the army. (H.R. 101)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain expenditures of the War Department in surging the Cumberland road from Vandalia to Jefferson City. (H.R. 102)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain fortifications. (H.R. 103)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable the Commissary General of Subsistence to employ two additional clerks in his office for two years. (H.R. 105)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the better protection of the northern frontier. (H.R. 104)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Corwin, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of bounty land warrants granted for military services in the army of the United States, in the late war between the United States and Great ... (H.R. 88)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Corwin, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the legislature of the State of Tennessee to sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in that State. (H.R. 87)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Eastman, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To extend, for five years, the act, approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, ''granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows.'' (H.R. 611)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. G. Davis, from the Committee on the Territories, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish and define the northern boundary of the State of Missouri. (H.R. 11)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Graves, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the purchase of the stock held by individuals in the Louisville and Portland canal, and to make the navigation thereof free. (H.R. 13)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Grinnell, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a dry dock for the naval service. (H.R. 108)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To annex a certain tract of land to the Coosa land district, and for other purposes. (H.R. 68)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. Thompson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To remove the land office from Chocchuma to Grenada, in the State of Mississippi. (H.R. 72)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Additional to the act on the subject of Treasury notes. (H.R. 18)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for ... (H.R. 4)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the Naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty. (H.R. 6)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty. (H.R. 5)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pickens, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To refund certain duties collected from the ship Alexandre twenty-third June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 110)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pope, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Legislative Council of Iowa to increase the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in said Territory. (H.R. 114)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Sargeant, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable the United States to discharge liens and encumbrances upon certain real estate. (H.R. 78)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Sergeant, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act ''to provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,'' approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 7)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Sergeant, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm to the State of Indiana the land selected for that portion of the Wabash and Erie canal which lies between the mouth of the Tippecanoe river and Terre Haute, and for ... (H.R. 79)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Thompson, of South Carolina, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to raise a force of sixteen hundred men to serve against the Florida Indians. (H.R. 9)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Tillinghast, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of the act entitled ''An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,'' approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as ... (H.R. 610)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Vanderpoel, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year eighteen hundred and forty. (H.R. 26)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin Price, of New Jersey. (H.R. 154)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Phelps. (H.R. 124)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. Habersham, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elliot Smith and Nathan Farnsworth. (H.R. 55)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gideon Sheldon. (H.R. 207)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John H. Lincoln. (H.R. 196)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-day. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ogle, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of roads through the public lands in Wiskonsin. (H.R. 516)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-day. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Ogle, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the improvement of the navigation of certain rivers in Wiskonsin. (H.R. 517)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the importation, free of duty, of the iron materials for certain iron vessels. (H.R. 365)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Anderson, of Maine, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Fixing the pay of officers in the revenue cutter service, when co-operating with the naval service of the United States. (H.R. 462)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Chapman. (H.R. 472)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Freelove. (H.R. 437)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Francher. (H.R. 159)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Parker. (H.R. 470)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Leah Munday, of the State of Maryland. (H.R. 471)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Moore, of the State of Maryland. (H.R. 325)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the administrator and heirs of John Lindsey, deceased. (H.R. 151)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel Story. (H.R. 542)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elizabeth Case, widow of James Case, deceased. (H.R. 150)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James J. Coffin, of Massachusetts. (H.R. 156)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Martha Strong. (H.R. 153)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Thruston Cornell. (H.R. 152)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Restoring the name of John Davis to the pension-roll. (H.R. 158)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Banks, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cornelius Tiers. (H.R. 40)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Beatty, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the patent heretofore granted to Daniel Pettibone. (H.R. 672)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Beirne, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Washington City Benevolent Society. (H.R. 76)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Beirne, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue the corporate existence of the banks in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 297)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Beirne, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the ''Washington Building and Improvement Company.'' (H.R. 299)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Beirne, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Lafayette Beneficial Society of the City of Washington. (H.R. 301)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Beirne, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Navy Yard Beneficial Society of the City of Washington. (H.R. 298)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Beirne, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Washington City Benevolent Society. (H.R. 300)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Biddle, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lewis H. Bates and William Lacon. (H.R. 20)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Boardman, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Rees Bowen Ward. (H.R. 628)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brockway, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth French. (H.R. 136)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brockway, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Ripley. (H.R. 636)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brockway, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Phillis Tatton. (H.R. 640)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brockway, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William A. Cuddeback. (H.R. 134)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brockway, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elijah Foochee. (H.R. 135)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, from the Select Committee appointed on the petition of David W. Haley, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David W. Haley. (H.R. 579)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gilbert A. Smith, and Nathan Stark. (H.R. 62)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John L. Bowman, and Enoch J. Noyes. (H.R. 61)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah Holmes. (H.R. 276)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan Smith and others. (H.R. 277)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owner and crew of the schooner Success. (H.R. 278)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owner and legal representatives of the crew of the schooner Industry. (H.R. 279)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of the schooner Three Brothers. (H.R. 60)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Butler, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain settlers on the salt-lick reservation in the western district of Tennessee. (H.R. 95)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Butler, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Chilton Allan, and others. (H.R. 94)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Butler, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Henry Brearly, of Pope county, in the State of Arkansas. (H.R. 396)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Butler, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas W. Chinn, of Louisiana. (H.R. 395)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the repairs of the Potomac Bridge. (H.R. 427)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the Island Fire Company. (H.R. 613)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the Vigilance Fire Company of Georgetown, District of Columbia. (H.R. 353)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the benefit of the Northern Liberty Fire Company. (H.R. 586)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, form the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Lucas. (H.R. 240)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Dunham. (H.R. 654)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Justice. (H.R. 595)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Euler. (H.R. 596)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Simon Knight of New York. (H.R. 239)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wilfred Knott. (H.R. 242)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wilfred Knott. (H.R. 655)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Glover. (H.R. 243)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William R. Joynes. (H.R. 653)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Brown. (H.R. 241)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill. A Bill For the relief of Obed P. Lacey. (H.R. 625)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, of Massachusetts, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a bounty in land to such soldiers of the old fourth regiment of United States infantry as served during any part of the war with Great Britain. (H.R. 245)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ann Bloomfield. (H.R. 163)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Asenath Campbell. (H.R. 179)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Erastus Pierson. (H.R. 176)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Frances Green, widow of Robert Green. (H.R. 381)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Bush. (H.R. 164)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Austin. (H.R. 169)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Hogg. (H.R. 649)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Lybrook. (H.R. 161)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Lybrook. (H.R. 590)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Campbell, widow of John Campbell. (H.R. 382)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, deceased. (H.R. 326)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Wolfe, of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 383)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Matthew Wiley. (H.R. 167)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mercy Lord. (H.R. 652)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Michael Seas. (H.R. 589)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Michael Seitsinger. (H.R. 177)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Hedrick, of the State of North Carolina. (H.R. 175)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Hutchinson. (H.R. 328)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Adams, formerly widow of John Green. (H.R. 650)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Woodard. (H.R. 651)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Elnathan Sears, deceased. (H.R. 327)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel John H. Stone, deceased. (H.R. 417)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Bennett. (H.R. 160)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Andrews, of the State of New York. (H.R. 173)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Neel. (H.R. 178)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William York. (H.R. 168)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Christian Brougher, of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 174)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to David Mellen. (H.R. 162)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Helen Miller, of New York. (H.R. 171)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Israel Parsons. (H.R. 165)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Black, of the State of Georgia. (H.R. 648)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Philip Hartman, of Virginia. (H.R. 166)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Stephen Olney. (H.R. 172)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the provisions of an act entitled ''An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the ... (H.R. 384)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Mayfield. (H.R. 455)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George H. Slaughter. (H.R. 585)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jeremiah Field. (H.R. 545)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amaziah Goodwin. (H.R. 334)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Hunt. (H.R. 666)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin McCulloch. (H.R. 229)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Beriah Wright (H.R. 591)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Betsey H. Hartwell and Zapharine D. Snow. (H.R. 331)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Wilson. (H.R. 224)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Hommill. (H.R. 222)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Boyd. (H.R. 227)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Euler. (H.R. 223)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Jackson. (H.R. 574)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Godfrey. (H.R. 477)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Piper. (H.R. 664)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph M. Rhea. (H.R. 576)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lois Fisher, the widow of Hermon Fisher, deceased. (H.R. 333)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Brown. (H.R. 225)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Bowman. (H.R. 228)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Emanuel Shrofe. (H.R. 575)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Emanuel Srofe. (H.R. 226)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Lyman N. Cook. (H.R. 220)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William Butterfield. (H.R. 221)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William Butterfield. (H.R. 665)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chittenden, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting pensions to George Barkley and John Weaver. (H.R. 332)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Conner, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John B. Lasala, of New York. (H.R. 259)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Corwin, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a township of land to the Territory of Florida for the endowment of the Dade Institute. (H.R. 89)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Corwin, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Prescribing the future mode of selling the public lands in certain land districts in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 282)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Corwin, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend certain land districts. (H.R. 343)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Corwin, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant a quantity of land to aid in opening a communication by water from Dekorra to Marquette. (H.R. 400)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half-pay, due on account of the death of Captain William Gregory, to the person or persons entitled to the same. (H.R. 85)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cranston, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to the Friendship Fire Company of Alexandria. (H.R. 350)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cranston, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the city of Washington and District of Columbia. (H.R. 349)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Crary, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Saunders and William R. Porter, sureties of William Estis, late paymaster of the fourth regiment of Virginia troops, stationed at Norfolk during the late war. (H.R. 84)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Crary, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To create an additional land office in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes. (H.R. 348)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cross, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for running and marking the northern boundary line of a tract of land reserved for the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox tribes of Indians. (H.R. 366)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the protection of Commerce on Lake Michigan. (H.R. 446)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Boggs and Thompson, Robert and Thomas Hutchinson, and others. (H.R. 49)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Harvey and Stagg. (H.R. 272)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac and Thomas S. Winslow. (H.R. 270)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John M. Jacquelin. (H.R. 52)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Meigs D. Benjamin and Company. (H.R. 50)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of S. and F. Dow and Company. (H.R. 271)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of J. Porter Felt, deceased. (H.R. 584)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Wickham. (H.R. 51)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize debenture bonds to be cancelled in certain cases. (H.R. 273)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of entry at St. Joseph, in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 444)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William D. Jones. (H.R. 464)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Sherer, of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 475)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edward Putnam. (H.R. 436)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Davidson, widow of John Davidson. (H.R. 119)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Patch. (H.R. 644)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Joseph Plumb. (H.R. 645)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of General Duncan L. Clinch. (H.R. 265)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Cocke, of East Tennessee. (H.R. 266)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Underwood. (H.R. 41)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A bill To provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-five and eighteen hundred thirty-six. (H.R. 491)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dellet, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Confirming the claim of Augustine Lacoste to a certain tract of land therein named. (H.R. 91)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dellet, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Shields. (H.R. 363)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dellet, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Pratt, or his legal representative. (H.R. 364)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dellet, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Oliver Welch. (H.R. 90)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dellet, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Norris. (H.R. 310)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dellet, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Louis Duret, deceased. (H.R. 460)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dellet, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Valerian Allain. (H.R. 627)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dellet, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To relinquish to William Weller the interest of the United States in a certain tract of land therein named. (H.R. 568)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel W. Going. (H.R. 194)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hiram Saul. (H.R. 195)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hugh Wallace Wormley. (H.R. 663)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Maria C. Bell. (H.R. 337)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Dicy. (H.R. 662)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Stephen Appleby. (H.R. 193)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Collins. (H.R. 562)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Wilson. (H.R. 577)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Kerns. (H.R. 335)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William S. Merrel. (H.R. 336)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Joseph Nimblett. (H.R. 420)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee of Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Hewins. (H.R. 476)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Desire Merriam, widow of Ichabod Merriam, late of New York. (H.R. 474)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Effe Van Ness. (H.R. 386)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jabez Collins. (H.R. 122)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jabez Collins. (H.R. 560)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Becker. (H.R. 121)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Phebe Dickman, widow of John Dickman. (H.R. 123)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Seth Chapin. (H.R. 385)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. Davis, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John H. Genther of Pennsylvania. (H.R. 118)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Fielding Pratt. (H.R. 660)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Burnett Burdsall. (H.R. 423)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Hommill. (H.R. 661)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jonathan Bean. (H.R. 659)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Hildreth. (H.R. 424)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel Pratt. (H.R. 422)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Jacob Shade. (H.R. 421)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Edwards, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Randolph Carter. (H.R. 600)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ely, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Rignald, alias Nick Hillary. (H.R. 621)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ely, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel Irish, deceased. (H.R. 622)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ely, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill In addition to an act for the relief of the heirs and representatives of John Campbell, late of the city of New York, deceased. (H.R. 359)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fletcher, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the further promotion of the arts. (H.R. 391)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Garland, of Louisiana, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm the heirs and legal representatives of John Brown, deceased, in their title to a tract of land. (H.R. 456)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Gentry, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Alexander. (H.R. 439)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin C. Roberts. (H.R. 48)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin C. Roberts. (H.R. 567)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain John Downes. (H.R. 47)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Randall and others. (H.R. 488)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James S. Calhoun. (H.R. 490)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John T. Addoms, executor of John Addoms. (H.R. 46)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Presley Scott. (H.R. 489)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sylvester Phelps and the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, deceased. (H.R. 45)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sylvester Phelps and the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, deceased. (H.R. 555)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Doctor John Gray, deceased. (H.R. 268)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Springfield Manufacturing Company. (H.R. 267)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Fillebrown, jun. (H.R. 44)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Giddings, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill; A Bill For the relief of Benjamin C. Roberts. (H.R. 554)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Goggin, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Allowing rations to Brigadier General John E. Wool, Inspector General United States army. (H.R. 312)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Goggin, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of General Daniel Parker. (H.R. 107)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Goggin, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of General Daniel Parker. (H.R. 629)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Graham, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to limit the right of appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia.'' (H.R. 351)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Graham, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the sixth section of the act of Maryland, passed the nineteenth December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in force in the county of Washington, in the ... (H.R. 352)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Granger, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles G. Ridgely. (H.R. 399)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Graves obtained leave to introduce the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Hunter. (H.R. 557)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Grinnell, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Harriet Barney, widow of Commodore Joshua Barney. (H.R. 434)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Grinnell, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Allen Rogers, of the State of Maine. (H.R. 433)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Grinnell, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Fabre. (H.R. 316)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Grinnell, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable the Secretary of the Navy to purchase from the widow of the late Captain M. P. Mix the right of using a certain patent machine on board ships of war or other public vessels. (H.R. 390)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Habersham, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Willis. (H.R. 54)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Habersham, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend ''An act to extend the limits of the port of New Orleans,'' passed on the ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. (H.R. 606)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Habersham, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to remit duties upon certain goods destroyed by fire at the late conflagration in the city of New York, in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,'' passed ... (H.R. 53)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Habersham, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To make an appropriation for the completion of the marine hospital, at Mobile, and for furnishing the same. (H.R. 445)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Habersham, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the vestry and church wardens of the Protestant Episcopal church of the parish of St. Philip's, in Charleston, in South Carolina. (H.R. 269)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Betsey Ingalls, widow of Israel Ingalls, late of Ohio. (H.R. 379)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Bishop, of the State of New York. (H.R. 641)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George M. Bedinger, of the State of Kentucky. (H.R. 378)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ichabod Beardsley, of New York. (H.R. 148)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Adams, of Massachusetts. (H.R. 149)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Keith, of New York. (H.R. 380)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Porter. (H.R. 561)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Johnson, widow of David Johnson. (H.R. 401)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Reed, formerly widow of Francis Ryan. (H.R. 643)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nancy Terry, formerly widow of John Davis. (H.R. 402)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan Baldwin, of New York. (H.R. 146)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan Baldwin, of New York. (H.R. 642)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah Oakley, of New York. (H.R. 147)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hand, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Leonard Smith. (H.R. 145)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hastings, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Casey, of the State of New-York. (H.R. 362)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hastings, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Joseph Erwin. (H.R. 458)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hastings, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of William Trask. (H.R. 361)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hastings, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Rebecca Dudley, wife of Abraham Dudley, of the State of New York. (H.R. 416)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hastings, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Ebenezer Moore. (H.R. 415)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hastings, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Marbury, of Louisiana. (H.R. 96)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hill, of N. C., from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Bailey, survivor of Bailey and Delord. (H.R. 43)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hoffman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gorham A. Worth, one of the sureties of Samuel Edmonds, deceased. (H.R. 292)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Holleman, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the sureties and heirs and representatives of Melancton W. Bostwick, deceased. (H.R. 109)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander H. Everett. (H.R. 111)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Burr and Smith, of Rhode Island. (H.R. 677)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting rights of pre-emption to persons who had settled upon sixteenth sections previous to their survey. (H.R. 288)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of way through the public lands to the different internal improvement companies within the States of Alabama and Mississippi. (H.R. 287)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis. (H.R. 450)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John S. Wilson. (H.R. 457)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sutten Stephens. (H.R. 69)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Villinave Leblane. (H.R. 347)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To be entitled ''An act for the relief of James Hudson.'' (H.R. 409)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish an additional land district in the State of Alabama. (H.R. 70)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hugh J. Anderson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Champney. (H.R. 431)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hugh J. Anderson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Hambleton, a purser in the navy of the United States. (H.R. 432)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. W. Allen, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of John H. Hall. (H.R. 367)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. W. Jones, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes' for the year one thousand ... (H.R. 543)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. W. Williams, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Pearson Cogswell, late marshal of the district of New Hampshire. (H.R. 678)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. White, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William Williams, senior, deceased. (H.R. 73)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James Garland, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant a township of land to the State of Virginia for the use of the ''Virginia institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, and the blind.'' (H.R. 281)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James Garland, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Tucker. (H.R. 74)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James Garland, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Grimball, senior, deceased. (H.R. 75)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jameson, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Henry Wilson. (H.R. 305)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jameson, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm Marguerite Adelaide Muse in her claim to a certain tract of land in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 626)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jameson, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant a special pre-emption for the benefit of James Shinalt. (H.R. 304)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Kemble, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the enlistment of boys in the Army of the United States. (H.R. 630)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Kemble, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the enlistment of militia in Florida for one year. (H.R. 632)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Kemble, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To reimburse the State of Vermont for services of her militia. (H.R. 631)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawrence, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew Low, senior partner and assignee of Low, Taylor, and company, of Savannah, Georgia. (H.R. 22)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawrence, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Bejamin Adams and company, and others. (H.R. 23)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawrence, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel D. Walker, of Baltimore. (H.R. 24)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lawrence, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Zachariah Jellison. (H.R. 25)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Leonard, from the Committee on the Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hugh Stewart. (H.R. 673)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Newingham. (H.R. 452)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Brewer, of Ohio. (H.R. 65)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a right of pre-emption to certain lots in the town of Perrysburg in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 66)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a right of pre-emption to certain lots in the town of Perrysburg, in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 535)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting to the county of Johnson, in the Territory of Iowa, the right of pre-emption to a tract of land for a seat of justice for said county, and repealing the second section of an act ... (H.R. 406)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, State of Ohio, for the loss of school lands. (H.R. 285)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable certain townships in Ohio to obtain their school lands, and for other purposes. (H.R. 286)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. M. A. Cooper, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John B. Rodgers. (H.R. 397)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Conrad House. (H.R. 404)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Marvin, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peters, Moore, and Company. (H.R. 289)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Marvin, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Walker, Caruthers, and Company. (H.R. 290)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Allspach. (H.R. 294)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cadwalader Wallace. (H.R. 408)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Deardurff. (H.R. 407)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Ohio, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To augment the salaries of the district judges in the districts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, respectively. (H.R. 355)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. McCarty, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the sale of the real estate of infants in certain cases. (H.R. 614)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Montanya, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Morrell. (H.R. 634)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Montgomery, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Richard Shubrick. (H.R. 624)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the inhabitants of West Florida. (H.R. 639)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable the Legislative Council of Florida to alter, by law, the time of their annual sessions. (H.R. 638)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David A. Baldwin. (H.R. 230)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David A. Baldwin. (H.R. 569)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Wells. (H.R. 426)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James C. Hallock. (H.R. 425)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jehoshaphat Briggs. (H.R. 237)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah Strong. (H.R. 234)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi Colmus. (H.R. 232)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi Colmus. (H.R. 592)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant John Allison. (H.R. 231)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter W. Short, of Woodstock, Ulster county, New York. (H.R. 236)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Seneca Rider. (H.R. 235)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Poole. (H.R. 233)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Palen, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of the act entitled ''An act for the relief of certain invalid pensioners therein named,'' passed second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, as grants a pension to ... (H.R. 238)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Parmenter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half-pay due on account of the services of Thomas Knowlton, deceased, in the war of the revolution. (H.R. 623)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Peck, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Sarah Decker, widow of Samuel Decker, deceased. (H.R. 647)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Peck, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Lydia Hoard, widow of David Hoard. (H.R. 646)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pickens, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the allowance for extra services rendered by Secretaries of Legation and Consuls. (H.R. 317)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pope, of Kentucky, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To aid the Territory of Iowa in completing a penitentiary therein partly erected. (H.R. 251)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. R. Garland, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Don Carlos de Vilemont. (H.R. 93)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ramsey, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill In relation to the navigation of the Neenah and Wiskonsin rivers. (H.R. 321)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ramsey, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the erection of a penitentiary in Wiskonsin. (H.R. 322)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Horace B. Abbey. (H.R. 329)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Plumer. (H.R. 330)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Smith. (H.R. 215)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph W. Knipe. (H.R. 218)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi M. Roberts. (H.R. 219)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Pamela Brown. (H.R. 213)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Whittel. (H.R. 217)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sylvester Tiffany. (H.R. 214)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Sloan. (H.R. 216)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to George Armstrong. (H.R. 387)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Wright, junior. (H.R. 388)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John W. Cox. (H.R. 389)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Seth Willey. (H.R. 478)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to William H. Wilson. (H.R. 479)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John H. Kelly. (H.R. 453)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Apollos Cooper, deceased. (H.R. 411)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Captain David Noble, deceased. (H.R. 578)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Jane Fertinburgh, late widow of Captain Hawkins Boon. (H.R. 454)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and legal representatives of Lot Hall deceased. (H.R. 412)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Park. (H.R. 413)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randolph, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half-pay due on account of the Revolutionary services of Francis Eppes, deceased. (H.R. 414)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Hagie. (H.R. 473)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the construction of a direct communication between the waters of Albemarle sound and the Atlantic ocean, on the coast of North Carolina. (H.R. 481)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Boyd Reilly. (H.R. 398)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Commodore Isaac Hull. (H.R. 315)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Glynn and others. (H.R. 635)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of James Anderson, of the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 283)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Michael Glass. (H.R. 284)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a section of land for the use of schools in St. Clair county, State of Illinois. (H.R. 67)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting two townships of land for the use of a university in the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 63)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act approved June first, one thousand eight hundred and forty, entitled ''An act supplemental to an act entitled 'An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the ... (H.R. 493)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to grant a quantity of land to the Territory of Wiskonsin, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those ... (H.R. 344)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize James Alexander to relinquish certain land and to locate other land in lieu thereof. (H.R. 64)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the selection of school lands in lieu of those granted to the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox Indians. (H.R. 320)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant one township of land for an Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 394)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rhett, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Latham. (H.R. 262)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the sureties of H.H.B Hays, deceased, late a postmaster at Claiborne, Alabama. A Bill For the relief of the sureties of H.H.B. Hays, deceased, late a postmaster at Claiftorne, ... (H.R. 264)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ebenezer A. Lester. (H.R. 28)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ebenezer A. Lester. (H.R. 551)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ebenezer Lobdell. (H.R. 30)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gamaliel E. Smith. (H.R. 37)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Garret Vleit. (H.R. 38)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Garret Vleit. (H.R. 548)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Cox. (H.R. 35)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Cox. (H.R. 550)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Howe. (H.R. 32)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Howe. (H.R. 552)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lieutenant John L. Cline. (H.R. 564)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel Goddard and others. (H.R. 39)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nicholas Hedges. (H.R. 549)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Richard Booker and others. (H.R. 31)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of James Maglenen, late of the city of Baltimore, deceased. (H.R. 565)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased. (H.R. 263)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Wilkinson, deceased. (H.R. 33)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Wilkinson, deceased. (H.R. 553)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William D. Cheever, deceased. (H.R. 563)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas W. Taylor. (H.R. 34)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Bailey, survivor of Bailey and Delord. (H.R. 566)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William P. Rathbone. (H.R. 547)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled ''An act for the relief of Chauncy Calhoun,'' passed March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 36)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled ''An act for the relief of Chauncy Calhoun,'' passed March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 546)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Barton Hooper. (H.R. 205)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Risley. (H.R. 212)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Dennis Dygert. (H.R. 340)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Mayfield. (H.R. 339)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Justice. (H.R. 206)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Flood. (H.R. 480)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Jorden. (H.R. 418)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi Johnston. (H.R. 204)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Levi M. Roberts. (H.R. 668)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lyman Bristol. (H.R. 211)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Medad Cook. (H.R. 210)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Frazier. (H.R. 208)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Scott, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 338)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a Pension to Lyman N. Cook. (H.R. 670)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Neil Shannon. (H.R. 667)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting arrears of pension to Josiah Westlake. (H.R. 669)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Fielding Pratt. (H.R. 185)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elijah Blodget. (H.R. 189)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Job Wood. (H.R. 182)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Keeler. (H.R. 184)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Piper. (H.R. 181)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Hunter. (H.R. 183)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter A. Myers. (H.R. 180)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel M. Asbury. (H.R. 187)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Williams, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To restore to certain invalid and other pensioners, the amount of pensions by them relinquished. (H.R. 191)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Samuels, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Sarah H. B. Stith, and her children. (H.R. 83)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Samuels, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William J. Roberts and William Detherage. (H.R. 617)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Samuels, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a bill introduced on leave by Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, ''to regulate the fees of the clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the northern and southern districts of the State of Mississippi,'' reported the ... (H.R. 249)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sergeant, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and representatives of Thomas Atkinson. deceased. (H.R. 77)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Morris. (H.R. 138)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Baugh. (H.R. 341)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Bailey. (H.R. 137)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wealthy Barker, widow of Isaac Barker, deceased. (H.R. 142)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Benjamin Mitchell. (H.R. 140)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to James Boylan. (H.R. 143)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Job Halsey, of New York. (H.R. 144)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Reuben Murray, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 141)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Restoring the name of John Lathram to the pension-roll. (H.R. 139)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Select Committee to which was referred the petition of Peter Yarnall and others, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Yarnall and others. (H.R. 393)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Storrs, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the judicial adjustment of the claim of the municipality number one, of the city of New Orleans, to certain lands within said municipality, and now in the occupation of the United ... (H.R. 451)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Chase. (H.R. 656)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Allen. (H.R. 419)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Cummings. (H.R. 200)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Wright. (H.R. 201)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Hicks. (H.R. 657)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel Davis. (H.R. 198)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel B. Hugo. (H.R. 203)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Wilson. (H.R. 202)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions; reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel B. Hugo. (H.R. 658)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stuart, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jeremiah Smith, jr. (H.R. 117)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stuart, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act establishing the Territorial Government of Wisconsin. (H.R. 116)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stuart, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To construct public buildings in Florida for the courts of justice. (H.R. 324)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Huldah Farlow. (H.R. 571)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair, daughters and heirs of Israel Pearce. (H.R. 358)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Jett, William T. Smith, William Wright, Anthony W. White, Thomas Glascock, Nathaniel Tracy, Thomas Gordon, and Thomas Glascock. (H.R. 302)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Sumpter, late of South Carolina, deceased. (H.R. 303)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Presly Gray, of Kentucky. (H.R. 375)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eleanor Clark. (H.R. 376)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham. (H.R. 373)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Jones and others. (H.R. 126)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hugh Davis. (H.R. 131)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Deatley. (H.R. 130)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Deatley. (H.R. 541)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Job Hawkins. (H.R. 372)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John England. (H.R. 129)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John England. (H.R. 540)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Magoon. (H.R. 468)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary McCurdy, daughter and heir of Barbara Mudd. (H.R. 371)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nancy Wilson, widow of Captain William Wilson. (H.R. 370)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Charles Fitzgerald, deceased. (H.R. 369)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thompson Hutchinson. (H.R. 127)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Fitzgerald. (H.R. 377)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Harper. (H.R. 435)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Catharine Allen, widow of Henry Allen. (H.R. 128)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Catharine Allen, widow of Henry Allen. (H.R. 573)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Chauncey Rice. (H.R. 132)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Cotton Evans. (H.R. 374)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Ebenezer Dewey. (H.R. 570)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill In favor of Ellen Turney. (H.R. 572)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend and explain the acts passed the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and on the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to ... (H.R. 133)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Talliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill; A Bill To authorize the payment of seven years' half pay of a lieutenant, due on account of the death of Lieutenant Jonathan Dye, an officer in the Virginia continental line, and who was ... (H.R. 538)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Taylor, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Conrad Widrig. (H.R. 157)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Thompson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James L. Cochran. (H.R. 71)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm certain purchases of the public lands under the act of the nineteenth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. (H.R. 346)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Champlin and others, owners, officers, and crew of the schooner Buffalo, of Stonington, in the State of Connecticut. (H.R. 56)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan Levy. (H.R. 59)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Rebecca Guest. (H.R. 680)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Milnor and John Thompson. (H.R. 57)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Toland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Milnor, late gauger in the custom-house at Philadelphia. (H.R. 58)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry J. Defrees and Stephen Jenny. (H.R. 620)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Johnston. (H.R. 619)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Turkey, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Morrow and Jonathan Tipton. (H.R. 291)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Turney, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Wallis, and the heirs and legal representatives of Robert Leckie and of Jeremiah D. Hayden, deceased. (H.R. 81)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Turney, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To refund a fine imposed on the late Matthew Lyon, under the sedition law, to his legal heirs and representatives. (H.R. 80)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Turney, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To refund to Charles Holt a fine imposed on him under the sedition law. (H.R. 618)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of James Rumsey, deceased. (H.R. 483)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Vanderpoel, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Chastelain and Ponvert. (H.R. 27)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. W. C. Johnson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Casper W. Wever. (H.R. 616)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. W. C. Johnson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 536)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. W. O. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel William Pratt. (H.R. 430)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. W. O. Butler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Boone Steele, of Boone county, Kentucky. (H.R. 306)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. W. O. Butler, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jacob Haas. (H.R. 307)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Weller, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John McColgan. (H.R. 275)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Weller, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners and crew of the schooner Martha. (H.R. 274)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wick, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hyacinth Lassel. (H.R. 97)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wick, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Sroufe. (H.R. 98)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wick, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Stephen Johnston, deceased. (H.R. 99)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wick, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of John Thomas, late of Marion county, Indiana, deceased, and others. (H.R. 308)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wick, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and heirs of David Kenney, deceased. (H.R. 309)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Thomas Collins. (H.R. 190)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Fleming. (H.R. 186)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Neil Shannon. (H.R. 188)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Williams, of New Hampshire, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John M. Brodhead. (H.R. 492)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Winthrop, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of the schooner Joseph, of Wareham. (H.R. 605)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Winthrop, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of the ship Lexington, of Nantucket. (H.R. 604)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Winthrop, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Eldridge. (H.R. 603)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to David W. Sleeth, of the State of Virginia. (H.R. 155)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. Carr, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to John Black, of the State of Georgia. (H.R. 170)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josias Thompson, superintendent of the Cumberland road, between Brownsville and Wheeling. (H.R. 42)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. Doan, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Bailey. (H.R. 192)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of William Lomax. (H.R. 120)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. R. Garland, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Pierre Molaison, the widow Pierre Richoux, Alexander Comeau, Alice L. Foley, widow of John Foley, and Francois Martin, of the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 92)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. S. W. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Myron Chapin. (H.R. 209)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. Storrs, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin Fry. (H.R. 82)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of seven years' half-pay of a lieutenant, due on account of the death of Lieutenant Jonathan Dye, an officer in the Virginia continental line, and who was ... (H.R. 86)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed bill number 133, in relation to pensions to widows, &c. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Esther Parrott. (H.R. 469)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole to-morrow. Mr. E. Davies, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William B. Winston. (H.R. 125)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole. Mr. Russell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nicholas Hedges. (H.R. 29)

Read twice, and committed to Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. Morbis, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Wright (H.R. 594)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill To ensure the more faithful execution of the laws relating to the collection of duties on imports. (H.R. 100)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill To ensure the more faithful execution of the laws relating to the collection of duties on imports. (H.R. 556)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Manufactures, reported the following bill: A Bill To increase the duties upon imported manufactures of silk. (H.R. 311)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Select Committee, to which the bill introduced by him on leave on the thirtieth day of December last was referred, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill To provide for the disposal and management of the fund bequeathed by James ... (H.R. 1)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Anderson, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To make new provisions respecting navy pensions, and to repeal certain acts relating to navy pensions. (H.R. 559)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To abolish public executions. (H.R. 357)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States. (H.R. 602)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the temporary support of certain destitute Kickapoo Indians, and to defray the expense of removing and subsisting the Swan Creek and Black River ... (H.R. 685)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bell, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to defray the expense of a delegation of the Seminole Indians west of the Mississippi to Florida, and for other purposes. (H.R. 684)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of bounty-land warrants granted for military services in the army of the United States, in the late war between the United States and Great Britain. (H.R. 534)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Clifford, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To make further provision for the expenses of an exploration and survey of that part of the northeastern boundary line of the United States which separates the States of ... (H.R. 637)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Curtis, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to the ''Act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,'' passed twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 246)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the erection of a custom-house in the city of Richmond, State of Virginia. (H.R. 443)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Curtis, from, the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize and provide for the purchase of a lot of land adjoining the custom-house at New York. (H.R. 583)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To carry into effect a convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic. (H.R. 403)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the satisfaction of claims due to certain American citizens for spoliations committed on their commerce prior to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand ... (H.R. 319)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following: A Bill Concerning the tonnage duty on Spanish vessels. (H.R. 463)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Deberry, from the Committee on Agriculture, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ann F. Perrine, and her children. (H.R. 587)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. E. D. White, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish ports of entry in the States of Arkansas and Missouri, and to allow debenture on foreign goods conveyed overland from such ports to Mexico. (H.R. 441)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Evans, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for surveys, and other purposes. (H.R. 261)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Evans, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To revive ad continue in force ''An act authorizing the payment of certain certificates,'' approved May seventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. (H.R. 487)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. F. Thomas, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Concerning navy pensions and half-pay. (H.R. 539)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Elections, reported the following bill: A Bill Regulating the taking testimony in cases of contested elections, and for other purposes. (H.R. 675)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Hoffman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the legal proceedings and to provide for the more speedy trial of causes in the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Missouri. (H.R. 293)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Hopkins, (for Mr. Garland, of Virginia,) from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue in force the first section of an act entitled ''An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and ... (H.R. 671)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. W. Jones, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the employment of additional clerks, and increase of compensation to messengers in certain departments. (H.R. 360)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. W. Jones, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 612)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. W. Jones, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty. (H.R. 260)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. W. Jones, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 580)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. James Garland, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the time of issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary army. (H.R. 280)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 601)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty. (H.R. 8)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 544)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 529)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the issuing of Treasury notes. (H.R. 598)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, from the Committee of Ways and Means, submitted the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 525)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Kemble, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Respecting enlistments in the army and navy. (H.R. 313)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Kemble, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To equalize the pay of the army, and for other purposes. (H.R. 106)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Leonard, from the Committee on Mileage, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a more uniform rule of computing the mileage and per diem compensation of members of Congress. (H.R. 674)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Buildings, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain repairs and improvements upon the public buildings and grounds, and for other purposes. (H.R. 244)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill Relative to the transportation of the mail in steamboats, and for other purposes. (H.R. 410)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKay, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to which this bill was referred, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill For the establishment of certain post-routes in the Territory of Iowa, and to discontinue certain other routes ... (H.R. 258)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Monroe, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the construction of a steam vessel under the direction of the Secretary of War. (H.R. 438)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Monroe, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To found a military asylum, for the relief and support of invalid soldiers of the army of the United States. (H.R. 588)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Petriken, from the Committee on the Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the erection of an additional building for the accommodation of the War Department. (H.R. 482)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pickens, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the expenses of making an exploration and survey of that part of the northeastern boundary line of the United States which separates the States of Maine and ... (H.R. 467)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Pope, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the people of Middle and West Florida to form a constitution and State Government, and to provide for the admission of said State into the Union. (H.R. 112)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pope, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To enable the people of Iowa to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union. (H.R. 113)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Ramsay, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Concerning the judiciary of Wisconsin. (H.R. 115)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To alter and regulate the navy ration. (H.R. 254)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Reed, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the pay and emoluments of pursers in the navy. (H.R. 253)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Reynolds, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant a quantity of land to the State of Indiana, for the purpose of aiding in constructing a railroad, from New Albany, in the State of Indiana, to Mount Carmel, in ... (H.R. 449)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Storrs, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill In approval and confirmation of an act of the Territorial Legislature of the Territory of Iowa, entitled ''An act to incorporate the Burlington and Des Moines Transportation ... (H.R. 356)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Amendatory to the act entitled ''An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States, in regard ... (H.R. 345)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Toland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the erection of custom-houses and public store-houses. (H.R. 440)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Underwood, from the Select Committee to which the subject was referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the act entitled ''An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by ... (H.R. 486)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Underwood, from the Select Committee to whom the subject was referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to employ persons to construct apparatus, with a view to extinguish fires on board steamboats, and to ... (H.R. 485)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Underwood, from the Select Committee to whom the subject was referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for purchasing the patent for Raub's self-acting safety-valve. (H.R. 484)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Vanderpoel, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 676)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. O. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the purchase of additional ground at the Newport barracks, in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes. (H.R. 633)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. Thompson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for paying the claims of the militia of Vermont, called out by the Governor of that State to prevent an unlawful incursion into Canada. (H.R. 461)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. Thompson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and for other purposes. (H.R. 683)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. Thompson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making provision to pay a company of volunteers for guarding the emigrating Indians. (H.R. 314)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Wm. Cost Johnson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To revive and continue the corporate existence of the banks in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 537)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Recommitted to the Select Committee appointed on the subject. Reported without amendment; and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and made the special order for the 25th instant. Mr. Underwood, from the Select Committee to ... (H.R. 484)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Recommitted to the Select Committee appointed on the subject. Reported without amendment; and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and made the special order of the day for the 25th instant. Mr. Underwood, from the Select ... (H.R. 485)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill (H.R. 39) for the relief of Nathaniel Goddard et al. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee of Claims, to which was recommitted the bill for the relief of General Duncan L. Clinch, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill Amendatory of the bill for the ... (H.R. 265)

Read twice, and commuted to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Clifford, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Alexander Hammett. (H.R. 318)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time today. Mr. Samuels, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William J. Roberts and William Detherage. (H.R. 295)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Mason, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue in force the first section of an act entitled ''An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land ... (H.R. 494)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and heirs-at-law of the late Lewis Grant Davidson, deceased. (H.R. 354)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Fletcher, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John J. Roane. (H.R. 429)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Fletcher, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John W. Faunce and Oliver Perrin. (H.R. 428)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading this day. Mr. Samuels, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Roberts. (H.R. 296)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time this day; and being engrossed, was read the third time and passed. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: An Act Confirming to the Territory of Iowa a tract of land for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon. (H.R. 405)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Reported from the Committee on Military Affairs, by Mr. Thompson. Amended, and Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Clifford, by leave of the House, introduced the following bill: A Bill To provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of ... (H.R. 527)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Reported from the Committee on Naval Affairs, by Mr. Anderson, without amendment, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lowell, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Ramsay. (H.R. 248)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Mr. Chapman, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill For the establishment of certain post-routes in and to the Territory of Iowa, and to discontinue certain other routes therein named. (H.R. 258)

Read twice, and the further consideration postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm land patents. (H.R. 682)

Read twice, and the motion to commit to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, pending, with proposition of Mr. Montgomery to amend. Mr. Crary, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to ... (H.R. 607)

Read twice; no further action. Mr. Hand, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal all acts heretofore passed on that subject. (H.R. 247)

Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House this day. Committee of the Whole House discharged, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Ogle, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the improvement of the ... (H.R. 499)

Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. William O. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Littlejohn Wilkins, John Lynch, William P. Ford, and Alexander H. Patrick. (H.R. 599)

Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Ordered to be printed. Mr. James Garland, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill In relation to illegal and fraudulent purchases of the public lands in the Wiskonsin land district. (H.R. 495)

Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, to which the said bill is committed. Mr. Evans, from the Committee of Ways and Means, submitted the following; which, when the bill H.R. No. 100 shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an amendment: Amendment. (H.R. 100)

Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Recommitted to the Select Committee appointed on the subject. Reported without amendment; and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and made the special order of the day for the 25th instant. Mr. Underwood, from the Select Committee ... (H.R. 486)

Read, and laid upon the table. Mr. Downing, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill More effectually to protect the lives and property of the people of Florida, and to bring the Seminole war to an end. (H.R. 466)

Read, and referred to the Committee of Elections. Mr. Fillmore, by leave of the House, introduced the following bill: A Bill Regulating the taking of testimony in cases of contested elections, and for other purposes. (H.R. 581)

Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Dellet, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To complete the improvements in the harbor of Mobile. (H.R. 533)

Read, and referred to the Committee on Manufactures. Mr. Doty, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill Concerning lead imported into the United States. (H.R. 252)

Read, and referred to the Committee on Manufactures. Reported without amendment, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. Petrikin, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To repeal ''An act to release from duty iron prepared for and actually laid on railways or inclined planes, approved ... (H.R. 10)

Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Albert Smith, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill In addition to ''An act to regulate the pay of the navy of the United States,'' approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-five. (H.R. 530)

Read, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Mr. Crockett, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described; and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same,'' ... (H.R. 528)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Garrett Davis, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To regulate the forms and modes of proceeding in the courts of the United States, to regulate the fee-bills, and to limit the emoluments of certain officers. (H.R. 532)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Hand, by leave of the House, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal all acts heretofore passed on that subject. (H.R. 526)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Lane, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To confirm to the State of Indiana the land selected by her for that portion of the Wabash and Erie canal which lies between the mouth of Tippecanoe river and Terre Haute, and for other purposes. (H.R. 558)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Monroe, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases. (H.R. 531)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Chinn by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To unite ''the southeastern land district'' and that of the ''district west of Pearl river and east of the island of New Orleans,'' and to form a new district thereof, and for other purposes. (H.R. 609)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Chinn, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To revive an act entitled ''An act to authorize the inhabitants of the State of Louisiana to enter the back lands.'' (H.R. 608)

Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To revive and continue in force, for a limited time, an act approved on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled ''An act for the appointment of commissioners to adjust the claims to ... (H.R. 582)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. McCarty, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the arrest and detention of and demand of fugitives from justice. (H.R. 615)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported without amendment; read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Bell, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To repeal the first and second sections of the act entitled ''An act to limit the term of office of certain officers therein ... (H.R. 16)

Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Chapman, of Iowa, from the Committee on the Public Lands, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to cause the mineral lands of the United States to be sold. (H.R. 250)