Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 27th Congress: Keywords

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Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 27th Congress
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Amended, the amendments ordered to be engrossed, and the bill to be printed as amended. An Act For the relief of Charles F. Sibbald. (H.R. 323)

Amendment Offered by Mr. Cross, to the foregoing bill, to come in at the end thereof. (H.R. 434)

Amendment Offered in Committee of the Whole, by Mr. Fillmore, to be inserted between items Nos. 217 and 218. (H.R. 74)

Amendment Proposed by Mr. Everett. That, from and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members elected agreeably to the ratio that shall, in each State, approximate nearest to the ratio of one Representative for every seventy thousand six hundred and eighty persons in each ... (H.R. 73)

Amendment Reported by the Committee on Public Lands to the bill H.R. 625, ''for the relief of the heirs or the assignees of the heirs of Isaac Todd and James McGill,'' viz: Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert: (H.R. 625)

Amendment. Mr. J. P. Kennedy submitted the following, which he intends offering as an amendment to the bill relating to duties and drawbacks. Strike out all after the enacting clause in the first section and insert: (H.R. 12)

Amendment. Mr. Randall, of Maryland, submitted the following, to be proposed as a substitute to bill No. 482, when the same shall be taken up for consideration. A Bill To authorize the sale of the stock held by the United States in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. (H.R. 482)

Amendments Of the Senate, with the recommendations of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives thereon. Note.--These amendments refer to the manuscript engrossed. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. (H.R. 539)

Amendments Of the Senate, with the report of the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives thereon. (H.R. 659)

As amended by the Senate, showing the action of the two Houses on the amendments, with the report of the conferees. Note.--The parts proposed to be stricken out are printed within [brackets,] those to be inserted in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy for the year one thousand eight hundred ... (H.R. 75)

A Bill Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two. Ordered that the pending amendments be printed. Amendments. Parts proposed to be stricken out, in [brackets;] parts proposed to be inserted, in italics. The following proviso was, on motion of Mr. Fillmore, adopted as an ... (H.R. 74)

A Bill Making appropriations for various fortifications, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities. Senate Amendments Page 3 of the engrossed bill, after line 21, insert (H.R. 8)

Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which had been recommitted House bill No. 76, ''making appropriations for the naval service for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two,'' reported the same with amendments. Note.--Parts to be stricken out printed within ... (H.R. 76)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to which the bill H.R. No. 73 is committed. Mr. Pearce, of Maryland, submitted the following, which, when the bill (H.R. No. 73) for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census, shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as ... (H.R. 73)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to which the said bill is committed. Mr. Triplett submitted the following as an amendment to the bill (H.R. No. 472) ''to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes:'' Amendment, To come in between the ... (H.R. 472)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives, entitled ''An act making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms, and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar ... (H.R. 645)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. Resolved, That the bill from the House of representatives, entitled ''An act making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms, and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar ... (H.R. 645)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to which was referred the amendments of the Senate to this bill, reported concurrence in amendments Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, and 13, without, and No. 9 with an amendment, and non-concurrence in Nos. 6, 7, 10, and 14. ... (H.R. 75)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Halsted, from the Committee of Elections, to which was referred bill No. 210, ''regulating the taking of testimony in cases of contested elections, and for other purposes,'' which had been introduced on leave, and referred to that committee, reported the following ... (H.R. 210)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Mr. Arnold, from the Select Committee to which this bill was referred, reported the same with amendments. Note.--Parts to be stricken out are printed within [brackets,] insertions in italics. A Bill To reduce the compensation to the members of the Senate, members of the House of ... (H.R. 548)

Committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Ordered to be reprinted. Mr. Arnold, from the Select Committee to which this bill was referred, reported the same with amendments. Note.--Parts to be stricken out are printed within [brackets,] insertions in italics. A Bill To reduce the compensation to the members of the Senate, ... (H.R. 548)

Laid upon the table. Mr. Garrett Davis, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject of the removal from office of Henry H. Sylvester, reported the following bill: A Bill To prescribe the mode of removing certain officers of Government, and for other purposes. (H.R. 549)

Mr. Evans, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 472) ''to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws in imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes,'' reported the same, with the following Amendments: (H.R. 472)

Mr. Levy, by unanimous consent, submitted the following' bill: A Bill Making further provision for the suppression of Indian hostilities in Florida. (H.R. 18)

Mr. Mallory, from the Select Committee on the Coast Survey, reported the following, which he is directed by said committee to offer as an amendment to the general appropriation bill when it shall be taken up for consideration: Amendment To be proposed to the general appropriation bill. (H.R. 644)

Mr. Underwood, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill To modify the act entitled ''An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or part by steam,'' approved July seventh, one thousand eight hundred and ... (H.R. 602)

Mr. Wise, by instruction of the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following amendment to bill No. 253, to regulate the appointment, rank, and pay, of engineers for war steamers in the navy of the United States, which he will offer when the said bill is taken up for consideration. Amendment. The Committee on Naval Affairs beg leave to ... (H.R. 253)

Mr. Wise, by instructions of the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following amendments to bill No. 130, ''to reorganize the Navy Department of the United States,'' which he will offer when the said bill is taken up for consideration. Amendments. (H.R. 130)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Benton to the bill (H.R. 67), ''to authorize an issue of Treasury notes,'' viz: add the following additional sections: (H.R. 67)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Linn, to the bill (H.R. 4,) ''to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,'' viz: Strike out the whole bill after the enacting clause, and insert: (H.R. 4)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Intended to be proposed by Mr. Tappan to the bill (H.R. 472) ''to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes,'' viz.: add the following new section: (H.R. 472)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Choate to the bill (H.R. 402) making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the navy pension fund, viz.: add the following to the second section: Provided, That all widows or children of all naval officers, seamen, or marines, now deceased, who, on the 16th day of August, 1841, were entitled, ... (H.R. 402)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Preston to the bill (H.R. 8,) ''making appropriations for various fortifications, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, viz: add the following: (H.R. 8)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Proposed by Mr. Walker to the amendments reported by the Committee on the Judiciary to the bill (H.R. 614) ''to repeal the bankrupt act,'' viz.: Add the following new section: (H.R. 614)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment Reported by the Committee on Public Lands to the bill (H.R. 331) ''to confirm the sale of public lands in certain cases,'' viz: add the following new section: (H.R. 331)

Ordered to be printed. Amendment To be offered by Mr. Benton, as separate sections to the bill to raise revenue by laying duties on imports now free of duty, or paying less than twenty per centum on the value, viz: (H.R. 3)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Intended to be proposed by Mr. Wright to the bill (H.R. 74 ''making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two,'' viz: Page 22, line 511. At the end of the line, insert: (H.R. 74)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Reported by Mr. Smith, of Indiana, from the Committee on Public Lands, to the bill (H.R. 4,) ''to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,'' viz.: Line 7. After the word ''acres,'' insert: (H.R. 4)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Reported by the Committee on Commerce to the bill (H.R. 409), ''to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district,'' viz: (H.R. 409)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Reported by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H.R. 539), ''legalizing, and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the Departments and offices of the ... (H.R. 539)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Reported by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H.R. 547) ''to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes,'' viz: (H.R. 547)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Reported by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H.R. 74), ''making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two,'' viz: (H.R. 74)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Reported by the Committee on Public Lands to the bill (H.R. 335) to compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, Ohio, for the loss of school lands,'' viz.: (H.R. 335)

Ordered to be printed. Amendments Reported by the Committee on the Judiciary to the bill (H.R. 73) ''for the apportionment of Representatives among the several. States, according to the Sixth Census,'' viz: (H.R. 73)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bates, from the Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 665), ''granting a pension to certain revolutionary soldiers,'' reported the same with the following Amendments. Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: That the widow of any person who served in the war of the ... (H.R. 655)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 645), making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ... (H.R. 645)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 659) ''making appropriations for the naval service for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of ... (H.R. 659)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 699) ''making an appropriation for completing the public buildings in Florida,'' reported the same with the following Amendments. Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert: (H.R. 699)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 782) ''authorizing the reissue of Treasury notes, and for other purposes,'' reported the same with the following Amendment. Add the following section: (H.R. 782)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Huntington, from the Committee on Commerce, to whom was recommitted the bill (H.R. 722), ''to reduce the number and compensation of the officers and others employed at the port of New York,'' reported the same with the following Amendment. Strike out the preamble, and all the bill after the enacting clause, and insert the ... (H.R. 722)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morehead, from the Committee on Retrenchment, to whom was referred the bill H.R. 548, ''to reduce the compensation to the members of the Senate, members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and to the delegates of the Territories, and other officers, and repealing all other laws on the subject,'' ... (H.R. 548)

Ordered to be printed. Mr. Smith, of Indiana, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 334) in relation to the exemplifications of the records of land patents, and other evidences of title, and amendatory of the act entitled ''An act to re-organize the General Land Office,'' reported the same with the following ... (H.R. 334)

Ordered to be printed. Substitute to be offered by Mr. Gwin: A Bill To retrench the expenditures of the Government of the United States. (H.R. 548)

Ordered to be printed. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the bill from the House of Representatives, entitled, ''An act relating to duties and drawbacks,'' report the same to the Senate, with the following Amendments: (H.R. 12)

Ordered, That the amendments of the Senate be referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and that the bill be printed as amended. Note.--The parts proposed, to be stricken out are in brackets, []-insertions and additions in italics. An Act To appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights. (H.R. 4)

Printed as amended in Committee of the Whole, and reported to the House. Note.--Parts stricken out are printed within [brackets,] insertions in italics; Mr. Fillmore's amendment at the end. A Bill For the extension of the loan of eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five million dollars thereto. (H.R. 39)

Printed as amended in Committee of the Whole. Note.--Parts stricken out are printed within [brackets,] insertions in italics. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of the Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Army and of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. (H.R. 75)

Printed as amended in Committee of the Whole. Note.--Parts to be stricken out printed within [brackets;] insertions in italics. A Bill To provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes. (H.R. 472)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Amendment Submitted by Mr. Beeson, to the 25th section of the bill (H.R. No. 472) ''to provide revenue from imports,'' &c. Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: (H.R. 472)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. Barnard submitted the following amended bill, as a substitute to the bill (H.R. No. 206) ''amendatory of the several acts establishing the Treasury Department:'' A Bill To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow a sum of money, not exceeding fifteen millions of dollars, of State banks, ... (H.R. 206)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. Birdseye, from the minority of the Committee on Private Land Claims, submitted the following, as a substitute to the bill (No. 692) ''to enable claimants to land within the limits of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,'' &c. Strike out ... (H.R. 692)

Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Submitted by Mr. Saltonstall, as an amendment to the bill (H.R. 472) ''to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes.'' Amendment. (H.R. 472)

Read first and second time, and further consideration postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To suspend for a limited time the operation of a part of an act entitled ''An act to revive and extend the charters of certain banks in the District of Columbia.'' (H.R. 112)

Read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of twelve millions of dollars. (H.R. 5)

Read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 644)

Read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ... (H.R. 804)

Read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred ... (H.R. 615)

Read the first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. William Cost Johnson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, to which was recommitted the bill of this number, reported the following bill: A Bill To appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption ... (H.R. 4)

Read the first and second time, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. M. Brown, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the several acts establishing a district court of the United States at Jackson, in the district of West Tennessee. (H.R. 307)

Read the first and second time, ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time and passed. Mr. Cave Johnson, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To suspend the operation of the act of the eighth July, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled ''An act authorizing a patent to be issued to Bartholomew Pellerin, his heirs and ... (H.R. 609)

Read the first and second time--on Speaker's table. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Postmaster General to make contracts with railroad companies for transporting the mail of the United States, subject to the approval of Congress. (H.R. 231)

Read the first time. Read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed for the third reading. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal the act establishing a uniform system of bankruptcy. (H.R. 72)

Read three times, and passed. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress. (H.R. 569)

Read three times, and passed. Mr. G. Davis, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the grant of two lots of ground in the city of St. Augustine to the corporation of said city, for the purposes of a Catholic church. (H.R. 560)

Read three times, and passed. Mr. M. Brown, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To change the times of holding the circuit and district courts for the district of East Tennessee. (H.R. 824)

Read three times, and passed. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of delivery at the city of Lafayette, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 820)

Read three times, engrossed, and passed. Mr. Garrett Davis, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill Directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians, by the treaty of fourth of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. (H.R. 806)

Read three times, engrossed, and passed. Mr. L. W. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Everly. (H.R. 811)

Read three times, engrossed, and passed. Mr. S. J. Andrews, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal an act entitled ''An act to extend the collection district of Wiscasset.'' (H.R. 775)

Read twice and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fornance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Mary Rhinevault, deceased. (H.R. 719)

Read twice and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish two additional military posts. (H.R. 465)

Read twice, and committed tea 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 Benjamin Truston. (H.R. 561)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the 29th of April instant. Mr. Hall, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia.'' (H.R. 341)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, 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-two. (H.R. 80)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Wise, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a Government office for printing and binding, and for other purposes. (H.R. 724)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Wood, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation for a floating dry dock at Pensacola. (H.R. 696)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. L. W. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Parker. (H.R. 364)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. Stratton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hugh Wallace Wormley. (H.R. 192)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin C. Roberts. (H.R. 297)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to morrow. Mr. William Smith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Giving Catharine Lehman the benefit of the act of the seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 278)

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 Ingolds by W. Crawford and Samuel Phillips. (H.R. 99)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow Mr. Sanford, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Patterson. (H.R. 713)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. H. Stuart, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Randolph Clay, late secretary of legation of the United States at the Court of Vienna: (H.R. 647)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. H. Stuart, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Brent, deceased, late consul of the United States at Paris. (H.R. 420)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. H. H. Stuart, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas W. Chinn. (H.R. 249)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. Kennedy, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Saltmarsh and Overton. (H.R. 791)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. Randall, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Respecting suits at law in the District of Columbia, to diminish the costs thereof, and for other purposes. (H.R. 735)

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

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. Young, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas King. (H.R. 601)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. Young, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Amaziah Groodwin. (H.R. 197)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. A. Young, from the Committee on the Public Buildings and Grounds, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief John Skinning. (H.R. 600)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the future intercourse between the United States and the Government of the Hawaiian or Sandwich islands. (H.R. 721)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners and crew of schooner Martha. (H.R. 390)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners of the schooner Three Brothers. (H.R. 391)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners, master, and crew of the schooner Joanna, of Ellsworth, Maine. (H.R. 327)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners, master, and crew, of the schooner Codhook, of Bluehill, Maine. (H.R. 228)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners, master, and crew, of the schooner Martha, of Eastport in the State of Maine. (H.R. 227)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the collection district of Wiscasset. (H.R. 229)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Barnabas Baker, jr., and others, owners of the fishing schooner Union, of Dennis, Massachusetts. (H.R. 595)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John H. Russell and others, as owners, master, and crew, of the fishing schooner Lucy Ann. (H.R. 592)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Knott Martin, 3d, and Arnold Martin, owners of the fishing schooner Only Son, and others. (H.R. 594)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Broadstreet, Amos Tappan, and others. (H.R. 593)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Allen, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Wm. Ellery, owner of the fishing schooners Sevo and Ida, both of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and others. (H.R. 591)

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 George M. Bedinger, of the State of Kentucky. (H.R. 201)

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 Catharine Allen, widow of Henry Allen. (H.R. 260)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Arnold, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John R. Delany. (H.R. 430)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Arnold, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Antonio Pacheco. (H.R. 322)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Atherton, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Burr and Smith. (H.R. 524)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of F. B. De Bellevue. (H.R. 282)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Hommill. (H.R. 283)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Gideon A. Perry. (H.R. 460)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Mains. (H.R. 813)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John F. Wiley. (H.R. 461)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lathrop Foster. (H.R. 812)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Aycrigg, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Scott, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania. (H.R. 189)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. B. Randall, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owner and crew of the schooner Dove, of Sippican. (H.R. 785)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. B. Randall, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill; A Bill For the relief of the owners and crew of the schooner Blooming Youth. (H.R. 784)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Babcock, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Esther Augur. (H.R. 531)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Babcock, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill; A Bill Granting a pension to Grace Sears. (H.R. 160)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Baker, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Major Thomas Harrison. (H.R. 288)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Baker, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Aquilla Goodwin. (H.R. 285)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Baker, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting an increase of pension to Isaac Plummer. (H.R. 286)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Barnard, 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. 395)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David Allspach. (H.R. 217)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry J. Defrees and Stephen Jenny. (H.R. 216)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Johnston. (H.R. 218)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John P. Skinner and the legal representatives of Isaac Green. (H.R. 575)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Randall and Charles York. (H.R. 236)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Barnard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for selling the lands granted to the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb. (H.R. 114)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Bayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation for the placing two additional buoys on the bar at the mouth of the St. John's river, in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 513)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Birdseye, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Garret Vleit. (H.R. 486)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brewster, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James B. Sullivan, of the county of Rapides, in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 554)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brewster, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Hover and Abelard Gruthrie. (H.R. 543)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brewster, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas H. Brown. (H.R. 731)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Brewster, 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. 109)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of J. D. Rose and others. (H.R. 489)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles H. Atherton. (H.R. 224)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Cornelius Wilson and James Carter. (H.R. 590)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson. (H.R. 225)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James S. Calhoun. (H.R. 588)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: For the relief of Charles Waldron. (H.R. 646)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Burke, from the Committee of Claims, reported, the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Johnson Patrick. (H.R. 589)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. A. Floyd, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for filling up the ground in the rear of the sea wall at St. Augustine. (H.R. 444)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for completing the public buildings in Florida. (H.R. 699)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary reported the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to the act of the twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to continue a copyright to John Rowlett. (H.R. 657)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Weaver and Jacob Heyberger, sureties of the Norristown and Valley Railroad Company. (H.R. 725)

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 John P. Schuyler. (H.R. 798)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. C. W. Williams, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for completing the public buildings in Florida. (H.R. 406)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin J. Totten. (H.R. 358)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Mount. (H.R. 442)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lloyd J. Bryan. (H.R. 356)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Crawford. (H.R. 359)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mrs. Anne W. Angus. (H.R. 664)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nancy Tompkins. (H.R. 357)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Silvia Underwood, mother of Lieutenant Underwood, deceased. (H.R. 441)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Susan Brum. (H.R. 443)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Allen. (H.R. 355)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting to James Lowe one thousand dollars and a section of land. (H.R. 360)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Campbell, of South Carolina, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To suppress the vending of lottery tickets in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 470)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Caruthers, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of James C. Watson, of Georgia. (H.R. 351)

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 establishment of an additional land office in the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 103)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wiskonsan. (H.R. 510)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting the right of pre-emption to certain settlers in Wisconsin. (H.R. 684)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting 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. 230)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Casey, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the sale of school lands in the State of Illinois, and to legalize such sales as have been made prior to the passage of this act. (H.R. 328)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis. (H.R. 487)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Regulating the mode of paying over to the State of Alabama the two per cent. fund relinquished to said State by the act approved on the day of one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 788)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend ''An act to establish a town at St. Mark's.'' (H.R. 815)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, 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. 211)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, 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. 239)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John H. Hodges. (H.R. 831)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Hoffman. (H.R. 708)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cooper, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the sale of lands, with the improvements thereon erected by the United States, for the use of their agents, teachers, farmers, mechanics, and other persons employed amongst the Indians. (H.R. 212)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cooper, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Milly, an Indian woman of the Creek nation. (H.R. 826)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cooper, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George C. Johnston. (H.R. 653)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowan, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Pacificus Ord. (H.R. 49)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Allen Rogers. (H.R. 388)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Benjamin F. Hard. (H.R. 200)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Captain Isaac Hull. (H.R. 87)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Homans. (H.R. 88)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Fessenden. (H.R. 89)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James M. Morgan. (H.R. 484)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Core. (H.R. 318)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Core. (H.R. 620)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Drysdale. (H.R. 485)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Hunt and others. (H.R. 86)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Jones. (H.R. 425)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Perkins, James Perkins, and John G. Perkins. (H.R. 50)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph R. Chandler. (H.R. 623)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Moses M. Strong. (H.R. 426)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Lionberger. (H.R. 429)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Davis. (H.R. 317)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel B. Tuck. (H.R. 621)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Hambleton. (H.R. 319)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the administrator of John Jackson. (H.R. 427)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Robert Fulton. (H.R. 387)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representative of Robert T. Spence. (H.R. 428)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William W. Street. (H.R. 707)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cranston, from the Committee on Public Buildings, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Skirving. (H.R. 733)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cross, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Mayfield. (H.R. 125)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cross, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of John Baker, deceased. (H.R. 825)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cross, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry M. Shreve, and to authorize the purchase of his patent for the snag-boat. (H.R. 348)

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 Alexander H. Everett. (H.R. 526)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dean, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the inhabitants of West Florida. (H.R. 398)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Dean, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a town on the Cedar Keys, in Florida. (H.R. 747)

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 Chase. (H.R. 190)

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 David Akenson. (H.R. 455)

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 James Sweetman. (H.R. 457)

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 John Javins. (H.R. 289)

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 Joseph J. Martin. (H.R. 191)

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 Neely. (H.R. 456)

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 Solomon Emerson. (H.R. 458)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. E. D. White, from the Select Committee to which the subject was referred, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of B. Gonon. (H.R. 296)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Everett, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the settlement of the claim of the legal representatives of Richard W. Meade. (H.R. 306)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ferris, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert T. Norris. (H.R. 404)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fessenden, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary Barry, widow and administratrix of Thomas Barry. (H.R. 672)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of claimants to indemnities received from the British Government for loss of slaves from on hoard the Comet and the Encomium, at Nassau, Bahamas. (H.R. 483)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Floyd, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Barent Stryker. (H.R. 490)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fornance from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amy Van Wart. (H.R. 272)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fornance, from the Committee of Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief Betsey Vreeland. (H.R. 150)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fornance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anna Jones. (H.R. 452)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fornance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Daniel Story. (H.R. 151)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fornance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill; A Bill For the relief of Mary Francis. (H.R. 148)

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 Asahel Lee, Harvey Lee, and Lemuel Lee. (H.R. 619)

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 John P. Campbell. (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 Asahel Lee, Harvey Lee, and Lemuel Lee. (H.R. 84)

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 Conrad House. (H.R. 634)

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 D. and J. Wilkinson. (H.R. 704)

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 Edwin H. Childers, administrator of John P. Hickman. (H.R. 223)

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 Gamaliel E. Smith. (H.R. 706)

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. 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 John B. Alexander. (H.R. 83)

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 B. Hunt and others. (H.R. 633)

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 Hodgkin. (H.R. 729)

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 P. Converse and Henry J. Rees. (H.R. 82)

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 Lieutenant John L. Cline. (H.R. 40)

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 James Maglenen, late of the city of Baltimore, deceased. (H.R. 81)

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 legal representatives of John Wilkinson, deceased. (H.R. 42)

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. 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 To amend the act entitled ''An act for the relief of Chauncy Calhoun,'' passed March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (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 the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased. (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 Francis G. McCauly. (H.R. 41)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Goode, of Ohio, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Directing warrants to issue for the bounty land due on account of the services of Major General Duportail, Brigadier General Armand, and Major De la Colombe. (H.R. 55)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Goode, of Ohio, 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 Hawking Boon. (H.R. 56)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Gordon, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel B. Hugo. (H.R. 185)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Gordon, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend and explain the act of the thirty-first of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled ''An act to amend the act entitled 'An act for the relief of certain surviving ... (H.R. 780)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Gordon, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To increase the revolutionary invalid pension of John Looney. (H.R. 187)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Gordon, 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. 188)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Gordon, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John E. Wright. (H.R. 281)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Gwin, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the president, directors, and company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi. (H.R. 345)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. H. Dodge, by leave of the House, report the following bill: A Bill For the protection of commerce on the western shores of Lake Michigan. (H.R. 678)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hall, 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. 119)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hopkins, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jabez L. and Asa White, of the State of Connecticut. (H.R. 203)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George H. Walker. (H.R. 332)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Obed P. Lacey. (H.R. 54)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of James L. May. (H.R. 333)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a quantity of land for the improvement of Grant river, at the town of Potosi, in Wisconsin Territory. (H.R. 686)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, 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. 106)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting to the Territory of Wisconsin a certain tract of land, for the benefit of the town of Fairplay, in said Territory. (H.R. 685)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting to the Territory of Wiskonsan a certain tract of land, for the benefit of the town of Fairplay, in said Territory. (H.R. 495)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill In relation to the exemplifications of the records of land patents and other evidences of title, and amendatory of the act entitled ''An act to reorganize the General Land Office.'' (H.R. 334)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To aid in the construction of a harbor at the town of Milwaukie, in the Territory of Wiskonsan. (H.R. 496)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the county commissioners of Linn county, in the Territory of Iowa, to enter by legal subdivisions a quarter section of land upon which the county seat has been located. (H.R. 108)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the President of the United States to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for the remainder of private land claim number twenty, at Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of ... (H.R. 105)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, Ohio, for the loss of school lands. (H.R. 335)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the Dubuque claim'' (so called) in the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 517)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant to Van Buren county, Missouri, the tract of land on which the seat of justice of said county has been located. (H.R. 107)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To remedy illegal and fraudulent purchases of public lands in the mineral districts in the State of Illinois and the Territories of Wiskonsan and Iowa. (H.R. 336)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubard, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill A Bill For the relief of Teakle Savage, administrator of Bolitha Laws. (H.R. 412)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubard, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Harrison. (H.R. 765)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubard, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John H. McIntosh. (H.R. 320)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubard, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and representatives of Josias Thompson. (H.R. 321)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Hubard, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William G. Sanders. (H.R. 389)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. I. D. Jones, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Josiah Westlake. (H.R. 536)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. B. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of S. Morris Waln. (H.R. 577)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. C. Clark, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing an examination and survey of the harbor of Memphis, Tennessee. (H.R. 574)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. K. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the rector, churchwardens, and vestrymen, of St. Peter's church, in Philadelphia: (H.R. 643)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. L. White, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting to miners or owners of mineral lots the right of preemption. (H.R. 506)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief Isaac and Thomas S. Winslow. (H.R. 522)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George P. Pollen and Robert Colgate. (H.R. 521)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Snow Y. Sears. (H.R. 567)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to David Watkinson and Company a part of the duties imposed on a certain quantity of tin and iron imported by them into the port of ... (H.R. 498)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Gerard Ford. (H.R. 568)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the extinguishment of an alleged title to the Pea Patch Island, in the river Delaware, and to make contingent appropriation for the same. (H.R. 585)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. T. Mason, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill Relating to the stock held by the United States in the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. (H.R. 482)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Thompson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Henry Gee. (H.R. 330)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Thompson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm the sale of public lands in certain cases. (H.R. 331)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Thompson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a new land district in the State of Mississippi. (H.R. 104)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Thompson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish an additional land office in Florida. (H.R. 329)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Thompson, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of David W. Haley. (H.R. 381)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Young, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John McGinnis, a soldier in the late war. (H.R. 739)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. J. Young, 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. 126)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James Cooper, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing persons to whom reservations of land have been or shall be made, under Indian treaties, to alienate the same in fee. (H.R. 349)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James Cooper, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of the act ''making an appropriation for the temporary support of certain destitute Kickapoo Indians,'' &c., as relates to the payment of clerks charged with the ... (H.R. 350)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James W. Williams, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Barnabas Palmer. (H.R. 92)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James W. Williams, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Tongue, John Scrivener, and the legal representatives of William Hodson, deceased. (H.R. 90)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James W. Williams, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of the passage of General Lafayette from France to the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four. (H.R. 91)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting seven years' half pay to children of Captain Daniel Mills, a revolutionary officer. (H.R. 240)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James, 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 William Gregory, deceased. (H.R. 241)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. James, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay on account of the revolutionary services of Captain William Kelly. (H.R. 69)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. John Young, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Philip Renaut. (H.R. 555)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Jones, of Maryland, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Robert Poindexter, of Kentucky. (H.R. 551)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Joseph L. Williams, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James H. Jenkins. (H.R. 790)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Keim, by leave of the House, reported the following bill; A Bill For the relief of Daniel Homans. (H.R. 727)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles B. Hall, of Cincinnati. (H.R. 205)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Kennedy, of Maryland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John McColgan. (H.R. 305)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. L. W. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Phelps. (H.R. 154)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. L. W. Andrews, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Asahel Kingsley. (H.R. 155)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lane, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to certain roads and rivers in the Territory of Wiskonsan. The committee to whom was referred the following memorials of the people of Wiskonsan Territory, to wit: ''A ... (H.R. 383)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lewis, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ferdinand Leibert. (H.R. 552)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Lewis, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To refund to the Grand Gulf Railroad Company certain duties upon railroad iron. (H.R. 586)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain officers of the late surveying and exploring expedition, and for other purposes. (H.R. 818)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the pay of the clerks of the navy yards at Boston, New York, and Gosport, Virginia. (H.R. 208)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mason, of Ohio, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To refund the balance due to Massachusetts for disbursements during the late war with Great Britain. (H.R. 757)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mathew, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Edgecomb. (H.R. 173)

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

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Mathiot, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to Elizabeth Fitch, widow of Dr. Wm. Fitch, deceased. (H.R. 170)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Maxwell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph W. Reckless. (H.R. 596)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Maynard, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William T. Smith. (H.R. 639)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Maynard, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of William T. Smith. (H.R. 120)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Medill, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John King. (H.R. 226)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Medill, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the assistants of the marshal of the United States for the district of Kentucky. (H.R. 202)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Milton Brown, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Morrow and Jonathan Tipton. (H.R. 238)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Philander Smith and James Young. (H.R. 691)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Confirming certain land claims in Louisiana. (H.R. 124)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eugene Borel. (H.R. 245)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, 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. 599)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Pepper and others. (H.R. 777)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Mary McGee and Susan Pierce, heirs at law of George Neilson. (H.R. 492)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm Antonio Cherino in his claim to a tract of land in the State of Louisiana. (H.R. 250)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm Elizabeth Burriss, her heirs or assigns, in their title to a tract of land. (H.R. 347)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm James Journey in his claim to a tract of land. (H.R. 346)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, 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. 247)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, 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. 123)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To confirm the widow and heirs of Emanuel Trichel in their claim to a tract of land. (H.R. 246)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To revive an act entitled ''An act for the relief of John Davlin.'' (H.R. 493)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To revive the act entitled ''An act to enable claimants to land within the limits of Missouri and the Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,'' ... (H.R. 692)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Asa Davis. (H.R. 454)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Daniel Dunham. (H.R. 629)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George Sheffler. (H.R. 174)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Flood. (H.R. 58)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morris, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Collins. (H.R. 175)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Morrow, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Further to extend the time for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army. (H.R. 53)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Osborne, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of George A. Winslow. (H.R. 667)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Osborne, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Underwood. (H.R. 95)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Osborne, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell. (H.R. 95)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Owsley, 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. 545)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. P. G. Goode, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs of Richard Shubrick. (H.R. 118)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. P. G. Goode, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Allowing to the children of Sergeant Major John Champe a sum equal to the commutation pay of an ensign of infantry. (H.R. 342)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Parmenter, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Hoffman. (H.R. 597)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pearce, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Langtree and Jenkins, and their assignees. (H.R. 807)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pearce, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the representatives of Alexander Macomb, Robert Jennings, and the heirs and legal representatives of James Roddy, deceased, sureties of Samuel Champlin, late a paymaster in the ... (H.R. 397)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pearce, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Markham. (H.R. 117)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pearce, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: For the relief of Richard Coke, jr., Robert Anderson, and George W. Southall. (H.R. 546)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Boyd Reilly. (H.R. 635)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pope, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Fixing the boundary line between Missouri and Iowa. (H.R. 716)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pope, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Relating to the Legislative Assembly of Wisconsin Territory. (H.R. 746)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Pope, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the election or appointment of officers in the Territory of Wisconsin. (H.R. 668)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Powell, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Orphan Asylum and Female Free School of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 339)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Powell, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide, in certain cases, for the sale of the real estate of infants within the District of Columbia. (H.R. 393)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. R. McClellan, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill. A Bill For the relief of Hazard Knowles. (H.R. 400)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. R. McClellan, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel K. Jennings. (H.R. 732)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. R. McClellan, from the Committee on Patents, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of William Gale. (H.R. 401)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. R. W. Thompson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the more speedy administration of justice in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 407)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. R. W. Thompson, from the Committee for the District of Columbia; reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 709)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Randall, of Maine, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners and crew of the boat Ann. (H.R. 821)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elliot Smith and Nathan Farnsworth. (H.R. 324)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Ferguson and Reid. (H.R. 819)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joshua Brew. (H.R. 511)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Lord. (H.R. 467)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the vestry and churchwardens of the Protestant Episcopal church of the parish of St. Philip, in Charleston, in South Carolina. (H.R. 325)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, in North Carolina. (H.R. 512)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a new collection district for the Territory of Florida, to be called the Suwannee district. (H.R. 466)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of delivery at Bucksville, South Carolina. (H.R. 497)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, 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. 514)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the erection of a marine hospital at Key West, in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 611)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rayner, from the Committee on Commerce, to which bill No. 689 (introduced on leave) was referred, reported the following amended bill: A Bill To extend further the right of debenture to the port of Appalachicola, and to define more clearly the extent of the district of ... (H.R. 689)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Reynolds, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant to the State of Illinois certain wet and refuse lands in said State. (H.R. 385)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rodney, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of Mary Congleton, widow of Moses Congleton, a soldier of the Revolution, deceased. (H.R. 171)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Rodney, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Abraham Vanhorn. (H.R. 533)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Roosevelt, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Eli Wheat and Stephen White. (H.R. 301)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Roosevelt, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To change the place of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Maine. (H.R. 199)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. J. Andrews, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain sites for marine hospitals therein mentioned. (H.R. 418)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. J. Andrews, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To create the collection district of Illinois, and to establish ports of entry at Chicago, in the State of Illinois, and Marietta, in the State of Ohio. (H.R. 419)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. Mason, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Seaburn. (H.R. 315)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. N. Clarke, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Edgecomb. (H.R. 702)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. S. N. Clarke, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to David Munn. (H.R. 701)

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

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

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

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sanford, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lyman N. Cook. (H.R. 459)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Sanford, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Hogg. (H.R. 378)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saunders, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James Williams. (H.R. 116)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saunders, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Wharry. (H.R. 491)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Saunders, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph and William Wilcox. (H.R. 805)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Public Expenditures, reported the following bill: A Bill To prevent the creation of new offices without authority of law. (H.R. 343)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain roads, and for the survey of a canal route, in the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 382)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stokely, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain companies of Michigan militia. (H.R. 743)

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

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stratton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jeremiah Kimball. (H.R. 674)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stratton, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Peter Sky, an Onondaga, Indian. (H.R. 59)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Stuart, of Virginia, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Edwin Bartlett, late consul of the United States at Lima, in Peru. (H.R. 422)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Summers, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Requiring one of the judges of the circuit court for the District of Columbia hereafter to reside in Alexandria. (H.R. 392)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Summers, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate a society in the District of Columbia, by the name of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science. (H.R. 384)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, report the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Abney Lowell and others, owners of the fishing schooner William. (H.R. 580)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Charles Gordon, owner of the schooner Two Sons, and the legal representatives of the crew of said vessel. (H.R. 413)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Isaac Champlin and others, owners of schooner Buffalo. (H.R. 415)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Patten, jr., owner of the fishing schooner Credit, and the master and crew of said vessel. (H.R. 579)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Sands. (H.R. 763)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joseph Holmes and others, owner and legal representatives of the crew of the schooner Industry. (H.R. 416)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Josiah Holmes. (H.R. 102)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Nathan Smith and others. (H.R. 101)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Orrin Prentiss, of Stonington, Connecticut, owner of the schooner Lilly, and the crew of said vessel. (H.R. 414)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Billings, owner of the fishing schooner Lurana. (H.R. 499)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a port of entry at Havre de Grace, in the State of Maryland. (H.R. 431)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To make the town and harbor of Cold Spring, on Long Island, in the State of New York, a port of delivery, and to appoint an assistant collector. (H.R. 578)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. T. W.Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Joshua Knowles, jr., and other owners and crew of the fishing schooner Garnet. (H.R. 605)

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 Maria Fowler. (H.R. 718)

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 Clarissa Turney. (H.R. 144)

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. 795)

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. 134)

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 allow a pension to Nancy Williams, widow of David Williams, who was one of the captors of Major Andre. (H.R. 761)

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. 63)

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

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Thomas J. Campbell, of Tennessee, 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. 68)

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. 734)

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 Benjamin Evans. (H.R. 508)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill. A Bill For the relief of Archibald McCallum. (H.R. 93)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief Charles F. Sibbald. (H.R. 323)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Andrew Fisher. (H.R. 705)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Conrad House. (H.R. 51)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Dexter Hungerford, of Watertown, Jefferson county, New York. (H.R. 541)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel Weller. (H.R. 749)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, 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. 52)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representative of Captain William Smallwood Tillard. (H.R. 772)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the widow and children of Benjamin W. Hopkins, deceased. (H.R. 94)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas D. Gilson. (H.R. 298)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Tomlinson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas D. Gilson. (H.R. 622)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Triplett, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the children of Apollos Cooper, deceased. (H.R. 121)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Triplett, 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. 122)

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 David Allspach. (H.R. 632)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Turney, by leave of the House, 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. 671)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Samuel M. Asberry. (H.R. 571)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the benefit of the clergy of the District of Columbia. (H.R. 423)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief Casper W. Wever. (H.R. 471)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the insane asylum in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 714)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To abolish imprisonment for debt in the District of Columbia, except in cases of fraud, and for other purposes. (H.R. 424)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the charter of the town of Alexandria. (H.R. 233)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Falls Bridge Turnpike Company to remove their toll-gate to a certain point within the District of Columbia, and to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of ... (H.R. 232)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a police for the protection of public and private property in the city of Washington, and for other purposes. (H.R. 468)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the charters of the District banks. (H.R. 676)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate the German Benevolent Society of the city of Washington. (H.R. 235)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for erecting and lighting lamps. (H.R. 469)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. W. O. Goode, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the heirs and representatives of William Vawters, deceased. (H.R. 598)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Ward, from the Committee on the Public Buildings, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Hugh Stewart. (H.R. 219)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Warren, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert G. Ford. (H.R. 638)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Warren, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant William S. Eveleth. (H.R. 683)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Washington, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the representatives of Major General Baron De Kalb, deceased. (H.R. 243)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. William B. Campbell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the payment of seven companies of Georgia militia, for services rendered in the years eighteen hundred and forty and eighteen hundred and forty-one. (H.R. 380)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. William O. Buttler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Thomas Copeland. (H.R. 518)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. William O. Goode, 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 James Conway, deceased. (H.R. 242)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. William Smith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Esther Sawyer. (H.R. 779)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. William Smith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Giving Sally Pratt the benefit of the act of the seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 279)

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 Eyre and Massey. (H.R. 97)

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 John B. Pierce. (H.R. 316)

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 Joshua Atwood, jr. (H.R. 98)

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. 96)

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 Making appropriation for the repair of the custom-house in Providence. (H.R. 100)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wm. O. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel William Piatt. (H.R. 127)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Wm. Smith, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Elizabeth Howe, of Avon, New York. (H.R. 164)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomorrow. Mr. Goggin, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled an act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States, approved April twenty-three, eighteen hundred and eight. (H.R. 128)

Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House, to-morrow. Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the owners, officers, and crew, of the armed brig Warrior, or their legal representatives. (H.R. 501)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing the means of future intercourse between the United States and the Government of China. (H.R. 720)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Adams, from the Select Committee appointed, on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the disposal and management of the fund bequeathed by James Smithson to the United States, for the establishment of an institution for the ... (H.R. 386)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Andrews, of Ohio, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the construction of marine hospitals on the Western waters. (H.R. 822)

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 For providing further remedial justice in the courts of the United States. (H.R. 115)

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 For the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 505)

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 In relation to compensation to the clerks and attorney of the courts of the United States and the marshal for the District of Columbia. (H.R. 394)

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 In relation to the salaries of several district judges. (H.R. 237)

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 amend the act of the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled ''An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of ... (H.R. 113)

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. 16)

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 supply a temporary defect or failure in the laws relating to the collection of duties on imports. (H.R. 547)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Black, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend ''An act to provide, for the settlement of certain accounts for the support of Government in the Territory of Wisconsin, and for other purposes.'' (H.R. 669)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Black, of Georgia, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend the several acts organizing the Governments of the several Territories of the United States. (H.R. 690)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Boardman, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to ascertain the longitude of the Capitol, and of other important places in the United States. (H.R. 410)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the Auditor's Office for the Post Office Department. (H.R. 25)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To make appropriations for the Post Office Department. (H.R. 30)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Burnell, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Lewis C. Sactori. (H.R. 827)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. C. H. Williams, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for a law library for the use of the court of appeals of the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 698)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of General Andrew Jackson. (H.R. 503)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a district court of the United States in the city of Wheeling. (H.R. 570)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend and consolidate the several acts concerning navy pensions, and for other purposes. (H.R. 354)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of Navy Pensions. (H.R. 6)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cave Johnson, by leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To prohibit extra allowances to any officer of the Government. (H.R. 630)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Chapman, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the appointment of a law agent in Florida. (H.R. 823)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Amos Kendall. (H.R. 764)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cowen, from the Committee of Claims, to which was referred bill No. 309, introduced, on leave, by Mr. M. A. Cooper, to provide for the payment of horses and horse equipage of volunteer soldiers in certain cases,'' reported the following amendatory bill: A ... (H.R. 309)

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 Concerning the tonnage duty on Spanish vessels. (H.R. 71)

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 Regulating commercial intercourse with the port of Cayenne, in the colony in French Guiana, and to remit certain duties. (H.R. 70)

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 carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred ... (H.R. 697)

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. 57)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Cushing, from the Select Committee on the Currency, reported the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of the several acts establishing the Treasury Department. (H.R. 206)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Dawson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations to purchase sites and to make certain surveys, and for other purposes. (H.R. 24)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Dean, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the payment of the Iowa militia called into service in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 519)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Dodge, of Wiskonsan, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill For the protection of commerce on the western shores of Lake Michigan. (H.R. 515)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Ferris, from the Committee on Commerce reported the following bill: A Bill To test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs by the United States. (H.R. 641)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fessenden, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To determine the rank of professors of mathematics in the United States naval service. (H.R. 214)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fessenden, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the augmentation of the marine corps, and for other purposes. (H.R. 204)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill For the extension of the loan of eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five million dollars thereto. (H.R. 39)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries. (H.R. 79)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the navy pension fund. (H.R. 402)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States for the half calendar year beginning on the first day of January and ending on the thirtieth day of ... (H.R. 670)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, for the half ... (H.R. 660)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for pensions for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ... (H.R. 661)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. (H.R. 78)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the Cumberland road in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and for certain harbors. (H.R. 538)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers, for continuing the Cumberland road, and for other purposes, for the half calendar year beginning the ... (H.R. 679)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the naval service for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred ... (H.R. 659)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, 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-two. (H.R. 76)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the payment of navy pensions due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and on the first day of January, one ... (H.R. 748)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the Army and of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. (H.R. 75)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ... (H.R. 645)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize an issue of Treasury notes. (H.R. 67)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To bring into the Treasury moneys received by certain public officers, before they can be disbursed, and for other purposes. (H.R. 770)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend, for a limited period, the present laws for laying and collecting duties on imports. (H.R. 477)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: Making appropriations for pensions for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; ... (H.R. 661)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill; A Bill Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year ... (H.R. 77)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore; from the Committee of Ways and Means reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomatic agents. (H.R. 17)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fornance, from the Committee on revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill Granting a pension to certain widows of Revolutionary soldiers. (H.R. 655)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. G. Davis, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill Fixing the boundary line between Missouri and Iowa. (H.R. 445)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. G. Davis, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To appropriate money to Thomas Allen and to Blair & Rives, for printing the compendium of the sixth census. (H.R. 584)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. G. Davis, on leave, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce the member and compensation of the officers and others employed at the port of New York. Whereas there were in the employment of the United States, and connected with the collection of the ... (H.R. 722)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Gates, from the Select Committee to which the subject was referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the provisions of an act entitled ''An act supplementary to the act for the relief certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,'' ... (H.R. 295)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Gentry, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To repeal the proviso to the sixth section of the act entitled ''An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,'' ... (H.R. 604)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Gilmer, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To abolish the offices of Recorder and Solicitor of the Land Office. (H.R. 658)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Gilmer, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject of retrenchment, reported the following bill: A Bill To abolish the franking privilege as to members and officers of Congress. (H.R. 292)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Gilmer, from the Select Committee on Retrenchment, reported the following bill: A Bill To prohibit the use of newspapers and periodicals at the public expense. (H.R. 293)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Gilmer, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the mileage of members of Congress. (H.R. 304)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Goggin, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To dispense with the office of superintendent of the national armories. (H.R. 251)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Goggin, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce the number of clerks in the Ordnance office, and to regulate the pay thereof. (H.R. 252)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Graham, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To protect the live oak and other timber on the public lands from trespass. (H.R. 361)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Green, from the Committee on Public Expenditures, reported the following bill: A Bill To abolish the branch mints. (H.R. 313)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. H. Everett, from the select committee to which the subject had been referred, reported, the following bill: A Bill For the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census. (H.R. 73)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Hall, for Mr. Briggs, of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce the postage on letters, to fix the same in decimal currency, to regulate the postage on newspapers, and to abolish the franking ... (H.R. 610)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Halstead, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill Regulating the taking of testimony in cases of contested elections, and for other purposes. (H.R. 651)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Halstead, from the Committee of Elections, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill To suspend the operation of the second section of the act entitled ''An act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth ... (H.R. 649)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Hays, from the Committee on the Territories, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the completion of the penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 446)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Hudson, from the Committee on Public Expenditures, submitted the following bill: A Bill To create a superintendent and architect of public buildings, and for other purposes. (H.R. 311)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. C. Clark, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the appointment of an additional inspector of light-houses and light-boats. (H.R. 432)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. C. Clark, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the erection of certain light-houses, and the establishment of certain buoys and beacon lights, and for other purposes. (H.R. 475)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. C. Clark, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the survey and examination of sites for light-houses and light-boats. (H.R. 476)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. C. Clark, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Reappropriating money for the erection of a light-house at Flynn's Knoll, New York, on iron screw piles, and for the rebuilding the Brandywine shoal light-house, in Delaware ... (H.R. 417)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. C. Clark, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing an examination and survey of the harbor of Memphis, in Tennessee. (H.R. 738)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. C. Clark, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Establishing additional ranks in the navy of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 207)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. C. Edwards, from the Select Committee appointed on the subject, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the purchase of water-rotted hemp for the use of the United States navy. (H.R. 799)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. Cooper, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the appointment of commissioners to ascertain the persons entitled to reservations of land under the fourteenth and nineteenth articles of the treaty made with the ... (H.R. 527)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors. (H.R. 758)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To alter the mode of admeasuring the tonnage of ships or vessels employed in the merchant service of the United States. (H.R. 481)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish reciprocity in the commercial regulations of the United States, in their intercourse with certain British colonial ports. (H.R. 473)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix ... (H.R. 539)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an additional appropriation for the expenses of the Territorial Government of Florida. (H.R. 500)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments and offices of the Government. (H.R. 399)

Read twice, and committed to the 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 legalize the sales of certain lands made at Chocchuma and Columbus, Mississippi. (H.R. 662)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. John P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Making provision for warehousing imported goods. (H.R. 730)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Kennedy, of Maryland, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To prevent the transportation of passengers or letters coastwise by foreign ships or vessels. (H.R. 344)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Mallory, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the construction of a depot for charts and instruments of the navy of the United States. (H.R. 303)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. McKennan, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize an experiment to test the utility of an invention of a snag-fender of Josiah W. Kirk's. (H.R. 829)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Meriwether, from the Committee on Public Expenditures, reported the following bill: A Bill For the better regulation of the navy, to repeal the act of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, providing for the more equal distribution of the navy ... (H.R. 438)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Meriwether, from the Committee on Public Expenditures, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce the military establishment of the United States, and for other purposes. (H.R. 439)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Meriwether, from the Committee on Public Expenditures, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce the pay of the officers of the Federal Government. (H.R. 437)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Milton Brown, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which bill No. 403, introduced on leave, by Mr. Underwood, was referred, reported the following amendatory bill: A Bill To divide the State of Kentucky into two judicial districts. (H.R. 403)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Morrow, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Allowing further time for completing the issuing of warrants for military land bounties to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the late war with Great Britain, and ... (H.R. 26)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pearce, 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. 396)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill A bill for the payment of Florida militia called into service in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hundred and forty. (H.R. 516)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To divide the United States into two military districts. (H.R. 792)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Smith, of Connecticut, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To grant a township of land to the president and visitors of the Virginia Institution for the education of the deaf and dumb and the blind. (H.R. 677)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the organization of a company of sappers, miners, and pontoniers. (H.R. 353)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the commencement of certain fortifications, and for other purposes. (H.R. 694)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To purchase a lot in St. Augustine. (H.R. 793)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the completion of the Cumberland road east of the State of Ohio. (H.R. 830)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Stokely, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for the protection of the people of Florida from Indian depredations, and for the occupation of that Territory. (H.R. 474)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Stuart, of Virginia, 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. 576)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. T. B. King, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriation for the pay, subsistence, &c. of a home squadron. (H.R. 10)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For constructing a wharf for the custom-house at the port of New London, Connecticut. (H.R. 810)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill In aid of the Nantucket Marine Camel Company. (H.R. 809)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district. (H.R. 409)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To fix the salary of the surveyor at Havre de Grace, in the State of Maryland. (H.R. 808)

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 appropriation for the erection of custom-houses and public store-houses. (H.R. 433)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill For repaving and repairing a portion of Pennsylvania avenue. (H.R. 23)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To provide for repairing the Potomac bridge. (H.R. 22)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: To continue the corporate existence of the Banks in the District of Columbia, upon certain conditions. (H.R. 15)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill Making further provision for the maintenance of pauper lunatics in the District of Columbia. Whereas it appears from the ... (H.R. 7)

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 had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To modify the act entitled ''An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or part ... (H.R. 602)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. C. Johnson, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following bill: A Bill To establish a national foundry for the fabrication of cannon for the use of the army and navy of the United States. (H.R. 817)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. W. Irwin from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for repairs and improvements of certain roads and other highways in the Territory of Florida. (H.R. 379)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. W. W. Irwin, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for continuing the improvement of the navigation of the Hudson, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Wabash, Arkansas, and Red rivers, and of the harbor ... (H.R. 537)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Weller, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Declaratory of the first and second articles in the treaty made with the Chippewa Indians at Saganaw, in the State of Michigan, on the twenty-third of January, Anno Domini one ... (H.R. 663)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. William O. Butler, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act respecting the organization of the army, and for other purposes,'' approved on the twenty-third of August, one thousand eight ... (H.R. 695)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Winthrop, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the erection of certain light-houses, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and for other purposes. (H.R. 801)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Winthrop, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the establishment of certain buoys, spindles, and fog bells, for the safety of navigation. (H.R. 800)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Winthrop, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the survey and examination of sites for light-houses and light-boats. (H.R. 802)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Wise, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes. (H.R. 9)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Wise, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the appointment, rank, and pay of engineers for war steamers in the navy of the United States. (H.R. 253)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Wood, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the purchase of land adjoining the navy yard at Brooklyn, in the State of New York. (H.R. 744)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr.T. J. Campbell, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplemental to an act entitled ''An act making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine,'' (Chap. ... (H.R. 478)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Ordered to be reprinted. Mr. Hall, for Mr. Briggs, of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce the postage on letters, to fix the same in decimal currency, to regulate the postage on newspapers, and to ... (H.R. 610)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Referred to Committee on Foreign Affairs. Reported from Committee on Foreign Affairs without amendment, and with recommendation that the bill do not pass. Mr. Reynolds, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, reported the following ... (H.R. 771)

Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Reprinted by order of the House of Representatives. Mr. Cashing, 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 ... (H.R. 57)

Read twice, and committed, to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. Mr. Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing the reissue of Treasury notes, and for other purposes. (H.R. 782)

Read twice, and committee to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Fornance, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Jonathan Britton. (H.R. 628)

Read twice, and further consideration postponed until Tuesday next, the 20th instant. Mr. Everett, by leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal the bankrupt act. (H.R. 614)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Postmaster General to require the postage on letters sent to any place within the republic of Texas to be prepaid. (H.R. 789)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. Bronson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the investigation of alleged frauds under the preemption laws, and for other purposes. (H.R. 740)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To abolish public executions in capital cases. (H.R. 760)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. J. P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the enrolment or register of the brig Neuva Granada. (H.R. 603)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. Levy, by consent of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill Concerning the payment of Florida militia. (H.R. 606)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. Mark A. Cooper, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of an act establishing the branch mint at Dahlonega Georgia, and defining the duties of assayer and coiner. (H.R. 767)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Antoine Vasques and others. (H.R. 803)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. Morrow, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Providing for the sale of certain lands in the States of Ohio and Michigan, ceded by the Wyandot tribe of Indians, and for other purposes. (H.R. 752)

Read twice, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. Pickens, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill: A Bill To extend the time for laying down iron actually imported for railroad companies. (H.R. 680)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time this day. Mr. Barnard, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to amend the act approved may thirteen, one thousand eight hundred, entitled an act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish the judicial courts of the United ... (H.R. 299)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time this day. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill Changing the time of holding the district court for the western district of Virginia, and for other purposes. (H.R. 556)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time this day. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Explanatory of an act entitled ''An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.'' (H.R. 572)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time to-day. Mr. John Young, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the legal representatives of Josiah Blakely. (H.R. 215)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time on Monday next. Mr. Morrow, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill Further to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office. (H.R. 21)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time on Monday next. Mr. Underwood, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To revive and continue in force for ten years an act entitled ''An act to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria.'' (H.R. 3)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Boardman, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To fix the compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. (H.R. 768)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the judge of the district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania to hold a special session of the said court. (H.R. 300)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Calhoun, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John Wolfenden. (H.R. 794)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. J. B. Thompson, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To transfer to the trustees of Centre College, in Kentucky, the lands heretofore granted to the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb. (H.R. 616)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Lane, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Harper's Ferry, to erect a bridge on the land of the United States at the town of Harper's Ferry. (H.R. 408)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Milton Brown, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill Changing the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the districts of East and West Tennessee. (H.R. 405)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day. Mr. Winthrop, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill Amendatory of ''An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.'' (H.R. 816)

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. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To reduce the salary of the surveyor of the port of Camden, New Jersey. (H.R. 774)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day; the said bill, being engrossed, was read the third time and passed. Mr. Gentry, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act for the relief of George Mayfield,'' approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and ... (H.R. 783)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day; the said bill, being engrossed, was read the third time and passed. Mr. Gentry, by leave of the House, reported the following bill; A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act for the relief of George Mayfield,'' approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and ... (H.R. 783)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time this day; which bill, being engrossed, was read the third time and passed. Mr. J. P. Kennedy, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore. (H.R. 773)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-day Mr. A. C. Dodge, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill Regulating the services of the several judges in the Territory of Iowa. (H.R. 566)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-day. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary reported the following bill: A Bill To amend ''An act for altering the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, at Williamsport,'' approved May eighth, eighteen ... (H.R. 523)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-day. Mr. E. D. White, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate arrests on mesne process in the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia. (H.R. 504)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-day. Mr. T. W. Williams, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the collector of the district of Fairfield to reside in either of the towns of Fairfield or Bridgeport. (H.R. 411)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-day.--Read the third time; and the question being on its passage, it was postponed to Wednesday next, the 1st June. Mr. J. Thompson, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend an act entitled ''An act to carry into effect, in the States of ... (H.R. 434)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Roosevelt, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following bill: A Bill To regulate the compensation of custom-house officers. (H.R. 340)

Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow. Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill To set aside certain reservations of lands, on account of live oak, in the southeastern district of Louisiana. (H.R. 717)

Read twice, and placed on the Speaker's table. Mr. Briggs, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of State to frank public and official documents sent from that office. (H.R. 544)

Read twice, and placed on the Speaker's table. Mr. Morrow, from the Committee on the Public Lands, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize certain persons to change the location of the lands they are entitled to by treaty stipulations. (H.R. 776)

Read twice, and placed on the Speaker's table. Mr. Stanly, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill In addition to ''An act for the payment of Florida militia called into service in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine and one thousand eight hundred and forty,'' approved August twenty-three, one ... (H.R. 693)

Read twice, and placed on the Speaker's table. Mr. Taliaferro, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A Bill To amend and explain the act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the act of the seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain ... (H.R. 627)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To amend an act entitled ''An act making an appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital at or near Ocracoke, North Carolina.'' (H.R. 762)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. An Act To authorize the collector of the district of Fairfield to reside in either of the towns of Fairfield or Bridgeport. (H.R. 411)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. W. W. Irwin, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill Making appropriations for the construction of marine hospitals on the Western waters. (H.R. 769)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, ... (H.R. 659)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the ... (H.R. 645)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To authorize an issue of Treasury Notes. (H.R. 67)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. An Act To repeal the sixth section of the act entitled, ''An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes,'' passed July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; and to prohibit the ... (H.R. 34)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported with amendments, and ordered to be printed. Note.--The parts proposed to be stricken out are printed within [brackets], those to be inserted in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the support of the army and of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and ... (H.R. 75)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets,] and insert those printed in italics. An Act Relating to Duties and Drawbacks. (H.R. 12)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported with amendments, viz: Strike out the words within [brackets] and insert those printed in italics. An Act To authorize an issue of Treasury Notes. (H.R. 67)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Finance. Reported without amendment. An Act Authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of twelve millions of dollars. (H.R. 5)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Cushing, by consent of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill Requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be annually laid before Congress. (H.R. 569)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To authorize the Shenandoah Bridge Company at Harper's Ferry to erect a bridge on the land of the United States, at the town of Harper's Ferry. (H.R. 408)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. An Act To provide for the payment of the Iowa militia called in to service in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. (H.R. 519)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Levy, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To provide for the relief an protection of the People of the United States against the Indian banditti, now infesting the Territory of Florida and State of Georgia. (H.R. 19)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Levy, by unanimous consent, submitted the following bill: A Bill Making further provision for the suppression of Indian hostilities in Florida. (H.R. 18)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act For the relief of William Fabre. (H.R. 654)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act In favor of Frances M. Lewis, widow of William Lewis. (H.R. 736)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An Act In favor of Mary Neale. (H.R. 737)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. An Act To relinquish to William Waller the interest of the United States in a certain tract of land therein named. (H.R. 436)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Lands. An Act To authorize the investigation of alleged frauds under the pre-emption laws, and for other purposes. (H.R. 740)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. An Act For the relief of the representatives of Major General Baron De Kalb, deceased. (H.R. 617)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. An Act Making an appropriation for the funeral expenses of William Henry Harrison, deceased, late President of the United States. (H.R. 31)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act Changing the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the districts of East and West Tennessee. (H.R. 405)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act For the apportionment of Representatives among the several States, according to the sixth census. (H.R. 73)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To authorize the election or appointment of officers in the Territory of Wisconsin. (H.R. 668)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To divide the State of Kentucky into two judicial districts. (H.R. 403)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To repeal the bankrupt act. (H.R. 614)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. An Act To transfer to the trustees of Centre College, in Kentucky, the lands heretofore granted to the Kentucky asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb. (H.R. 616)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reported with amendments, viz.: Strike out the parts within [brackets], and insert those printed within (parentheses), and accompanied by a special report, number 121. An Act [To repeal the bankrupt act.] (To amend the act entitled, ''An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy ... (H.R. 614)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Library. An Act To provide for placing Greenough's statue of Washington in the Rotundo of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned. (H.R. 29)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. An Act To make appropriations for the Post Office Department. (H.R. 30)

Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Chapman, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill Explanatory of ''An act supplemental to the act entitled 'An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,''' approved June twenty-two, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. (H.R. 745)

Read twice, and remains on the Speaker's table. Mr. Moore, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill: A Bill Authorizing a patent to be issued to Bartholomew Pellerin, his heirs or assigns. (H.R. 248)

Read twice, engrossed, read the third time, and passed. Mr. S. J. Andrews, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill To change the name of the port of Portland, in the State of Ohio, to Sandusky. (H.R. 542)

Read twice; and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Cross, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the Governor of the State of Arkansas to select six sections of land under the second proposition of the act for the admission of said State into the Union, approved the twenty-third June, one ... (H.R. 675)

Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to which the bill H.R. No. 206 is committed. Mr. Barnard submitted the following, which, when the bill H.R. No. 206, ''Amendatory of the several acts establishing the Treasury Department,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as amendments. A Bill To ... (H.R. 206)

Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to which the bill H.R. No. 73 is committed. Mr. Everett submitted the following, which, when the bill H.R. No. 73, ''for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census,'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as ... (H.R. 73)

Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which said bill is committed. Mr. Halsted submitted the following, which, when the ''bill for the relief of the president, directors, and company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi'' shall be taken up for consideration, he will move as an Amendment. Strike out all after the enacting ... (H.R. 345)

Read, and laid upon the Speaker's table. Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of the Stockridge tribe of Indians, in the Territory of Wiskonsan. (H.R. 559)

Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Edwards, by leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Allowing drawbacks on foreign merchandise exported in the original packages to Chihuahua and Sante Fe, in Mexico. (H.R. 626)

Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Cross, by leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To repeal so much of the act approved the twenty-third of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, as requires the second regiment of dragoons to be converted into a regiment of riflemen after the fourth day of March, one ... (H.R. 636)

Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Lowell, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Robert Ramsay. (H.R. 209)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Barnard, by consent of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill In relation to the district court for the northern district of New York. (H.R. 565)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Steenrod, by leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To amend the act establishing a district court of the United States at Wheeling, Virginia. (H.R. 631)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Underwood, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To divide the State of Kentucky into two judicial districts. (H.R. 403)

Read, and referred to the Committee on the Territories. Mr. Edwards, by leave, reported the following bill: A Bill Declaring what is the northern boundary of the State of Missouri. (H.R. 642)

Read, and referred, to the Committee on Elections. Mr. B. Randall, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill Regulating the taking of testimony in cases of contested elections, and for other purposes. (H.R. 210)

Read, three times, and passed. Mr. Cushing, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the following bill: A Bill Requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress. (H.R. 569)

Received. An Act For the relief of the representatives of Major General Baron De Kalb, deceased. (H.R. 243)

Received. An Act For the relief of William Selden, Treasurer of the United States. (H.R. 483)

Received. An Act Providing for the settlement of claims for supplies furnished the Florida militia. (H.R. 693)

Received. An Act To regulate arrests on mesne process, in the county of Washington, District of Columbia. (H.R. 504)

Referred to the Committee of Elections. Mr. Campbell, of South Carolina, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill To suspend the operation of the second section of the act entitled ''An act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census.'' (H.R. 649)

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed. Note.--Parts stricken out are printed within [brackets,] insertions in italics. An Act Making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two. (H.R. 74)

Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims. Mr. Mark A. Cooper, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of John H. Howard. (H.R. 652)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Cross, by leave of the House, submitted the following bill: A Bill To increase the jurisdiction of the district court of the United States for the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes. (H.R. 308)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Cross, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To establish a board of commissioners to hear and examine claims against the United States. (H.R. 553)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Levy, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of certain of the inhabitants of Florida. (H.R. 726)

Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Cross, by leave of the House, reported the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled ''An act to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas,'' approved eleventh of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two. (H.R. 650)

Submitted by Mr. Toland, and ordered to be printed. Amendment To bill H.R. 433, entitled ''A bill making appropriation for the erection of custom-houses and public store-houses.'' To be inserted after line twenty: (H.R. 433)

Substitute to be offered by Mr. Hunt. A Bill To change the mode of compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Delegates from Territories. (H.R. 548)

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