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SOUTHERN
RECORDER.
VOL. II.
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1822.
No. 43.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, I year 1822, or will be carried to the account of
_ „„ a\rntr 11 M flRMP. ,,ie ! ‘ l,r l l,us fundi there remains the sum of
BY S. GRAN PLAN , ' j $2,288,611 28, which is an existing charge up
Oo Hancock Street, opposite the Auction Store, on the revenue of 1821, and exceeds the bal
ance estimated to be in the Treasury on the 1st
AT THREE DOLLAR*' *N ADVANCE, OR FOUR
DOLLARS AT THE EXPIRATION OP THE
Advertisements conspicuously inserted
at the customary rates. Letters on business, in
all cases, must be post paid
“at^Taltbeahuky report.
Treasury Department, Dtc. 10,1821.
gl r i have the honor to transmit u report
nre-ia’red in obedience to the “ act supple
mentary to the act to establish the Treasu
ry Department.” I have the honor to be,
very respectfully, air, your obedient serv’t,
e y 1 J Wm H. CRAWFORD.
To the Hon. Philip P. Barbour,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
REPOUT.
In obedience to the directions of the “ act
Snpplrntary to the act to establish the Trea
sury Department,” the Secretary of the
Treasury respectfully submits the following
Report :
1. Of the Rerenut.
The nett revenue arising from imports and
tonnage, internal duties, direct tax, public lands,
postage, nnd other incidental receipts, during
tbe yeur 1818, amounted to
7 J 26,090,200 65
viz: Customs 21,828,451 48
Arrearscif Inter
nal duties 947,046 33
Do of direct lax 263,926 01
Fublic lands, exclu
sive of Mississippi
stock 2,464,527 90
Dividend on stock
in Bauk United
States 626,000 00
Postage &. other in
cidental receipts 65,348 99
That which accrued from the
ieme sources during the year
1819, amounted to 21,436,709 69
viz: Customs 17,116,702 96
Arrears of internal
duties 227,444 01
Do of direettax 80,860 61
Public lands, exclu
sive of Mississippi
stock 3,274,422 78
First instalment from
Bank U. S. and di
vidend on stock in
Ibal Bank 675,000 00
Postage ai other In
cidental receipts 61,280 33
% And that which accrued from
llfte same sources, during the year
; «820, amountedto 15,284,548 29
■riz: Customs 18,449,556 15
*v Arrears of internal
duties 104,172 07
fto of direct tkl 31,286 88
Public lands exclu
sive of,Mississippi
stock 1,636,871 61
Second and third in-
stalmenlsfrom the __ _
Ban It of U. Slut es 1,000,000 00
Postage h oilier in-
cidenlal receipt* 63,659 64
day o( January next, by $ 490,962 70.
2. OJ'the i'ublic Debt.
The funded debt which was contracted be
fore (he year 1812, and which was unredeemed
on the 30th Sept. 1820, amounted to
$ 20,570,627 12
And that contracted subse
quently to the 1st of January,
1812, and unredeemed on the
SOth Sept. 1820, amounted to 70,654,933 66
Making the aggregate am't of 91,226,560 77
'.Vbicli sum agrees with the
amount stated in the last an
nual report as unredeemed on
the 1st of October, 1820, ex
cepting the sum nf g 38 66,
which was then short estimat
ed, and which has been since
corrected by actual settlement.
In the fourth quarter of the
year, there was added to the
above, the sum of 467,747 96
viz;
In 6 ii 7 per cent,
stocks, for Trea
sury Notes bro’t
intotheTreasury
and cancelled 3280 29
In 6 preent stock,
under the act of
May 15, 1820, 464,567 66
Making
And there was paid in the 4lb
quarter the sum of
viz:
Deferred stock re
imbursed 240,401 68
Payments on ac
count of Louisi
ana stock 139,490 63
91,683,308 72
388,892 21
public lands, orof discharging debts contract
ed with the government by purchases ante
cedently made.
In the annual report of the Treasury at
the commencement of the last session ol
Congress, the receipts from the public lands
for the year 1821 were estimated at 1,800,000
dollars, if no change should he made by law
effecting the obligations which the purchas
ers were then under to be punctual m their
payments. But, at the close of that session,
an act was passed for the relief of the pur
chasers of public lands, which so far impair
ed that obligation as to induce the Commit
tee of Ways and Means to estimate the pro
ceeds of that source of revenue at only
800,000 dollars. It has been shown howe
ver, that receipts to Ihe SOth Sept, last have
exceeded 940,000 dollars, and those of the
whole year are now estimated at 1,S00,000
dollars. .
This result in relation to the public lauds,
and the improvement which lias taken place,
in the revenue arising from imports and ton
nage, indicate a favorable change in the con
dition of the nation ; from which a progres
sive increase of the public revenue may be
confidently anticipated.
Independently, however, of any such in
crease, the facts disclosed by the fiscal ope
rations of the year, some of which have been
enumerated, warrant the conclusion that
The receipts of the year 1822
may be estimated at
viz:
Customs 14,0(10,000 00
Public lands l,(iou,oo0 oO
Rank dividends 360,000 00
\rrcars of direct
g 16,110,000 00
Making the pub
lic debt, unre
deemed on tbe
1st of Jan. 1821,
From the 1st Ian.
to the 3<>tb of
Sept, inclusive,
there has been
added Hie sum of
viz :
Three per cent,
stock; for inter
est on registered
debt 26 01
Treasury note six
ki seven pr cent,
stock, 4,454 07
Loan authorized
by act of 3d of
March, 1821 4,735,296 30
91,294,416 51
4,739,776 38
Making
From wliicii is to
be deducted tbe
sum of
viz:
Reimbursement
of deferred stock
during tbe same
period, 876,737 16
Payments on ac
count of Louisi
ana stock 2,071,360 00
96,034,192 89
2,348,097 15
lax 4i internal
duties
Moneys recover
ed out ot ad
vances m'ole
in the Win oe-
pertinent, be
fore the 1st of
July, 1815
Incidental recks
75,000 00
60.000 00
26,i at’i 00 ■
The expendiunes of the year
1822 am estimated at
viz :
Civil, diplomatic
and miscella
neous 1,664,297 00
Pel-In: debt 6,722,857 0J
Military service
including for
tifications, ord
nance, Indian
department,
revolutionary
StinililHry pen.
sinus, arming
the militia, and
arrearages pri
or to I lie I it nf
January 1817 5,108,007 62
Naval service, in-
including the
gradual in
crease of til*
navy 2,462 410 27
The receipts of the year wll,
therefore, exceed the esti
mated expenditure by
g 14,947,661 80
It is estimated that Ihe gross amount of du
fies on merchandize and tonnage, winch ac
creed during tbe three first quarters of the pre-
•ent year, exceeds g 14,088,000.
Tbe payments into the Treasury, t» the SOth not*
Sent, last, have amounted to g 16,219,197 it)
viz: Custom* 10,068,394 85
Fublic lands 940,980 3o
Arrears of internal ^ M
105,000 00
21.68) 51
13,373 7*
6,000,000 09
Making the public ilebl which
was unredeemed on the 1st
of October, 1821,
To which will be added in
the fourth quarter, Trea-ury
note six per ceut. stock ii-
ed to he effected by the exchange of stock
in 1822 will be secured, to the extent or that
difference hy the latter process.
But, it is possible, that (lie progressive in
crease of the revenue, which lias been anti
cipated, and which is necessary to the lull
operation of the Sinking Fund, may not
be realized. In that event, the. public ex
penditure authorized by law may, after the
first of January 1020, exceed tile puolic re
venue.
The remedy in such case must lie—1st,
an increase of the public revenue liy an ad
dition to the existing impositions ; or, id, n
reduction of the Sinking Fund.
First. A general revision and correction
of the duties imposed upon foreign mer
chandize, seem to be required. Many ol
the articles which pay but fifteen per cent,
ad valorem, ought, in justice ns well as poli
cy, to be placed at twenty-five per cent,
which is the duty paid upon the principal
articles of woollen and cotton manufactures.
The same observation is applicable to some
of the articles which pay twenty per cent,
ad valorem. A correction of the existing
duties, with u view to an increase of the
public revenue, could hardly toil to rued
that object to tbe extent of nearly $1,000,060
annually. It is highly probable, however,
that an increasn of duty on some of those
articles might eventually cause, n reduction
of the revenue; but this can only take place
where similar articles are manufactured in
the country. In that event, domestic manu
factures will have been fostered, and tile ge
neral ability of the community to contribute
to the public exigencies will have been pro-
portionably Increased.
Second. If it should be dermrd expedi
ent to reduce the Sinking Fund, in prefer
ence to the imposi'ion of additional duties,
it may lie satisfactory to know that an annu
al appropriation for that object of 8,000,000
dollars, commencing on the (list of January,
1825, will extinguish the whole of the pub
lic debt, exclusive of the three per cent,
stock, in the year 1839- Should the Sulk
ing Fund be reduced to 8,000,000 dollars, an
exchange of .16,000,000 dollars of six per
til, for five per cent, stock may be effected
... the course of the year 1822, if the present
pi’jee of the latter stock should continue
without diminishing, in any degree, the ope-
l ion of that fond, in the redemption of tin
public debt. Such an exchange would re
(luce the interest annually 300,000 dollars.
The loan of 5,000,000 dollars, which was
authnrizi d by the act of ."Id March, 1821, has^
been obtained at an average premium of
nearly 5, 59 per cent, upon the issue of five
per cent stock, redeemable at the will of the
government, after Ihe 1st of January 1835,
All which is respectfully submitted.
1VH. H. CRAWFORD.
Tr easury Department,
December t nth, 1821.
That tbe number of representatives
shall not exceed two hundred.”
In offering this resolution, Mr. R.
made some remarks, which will be given
in our next.
The resolve was read a first lime und
passed to a second reading.
Mr. Williams, of Tennessee, moved
the following resolution :
Resolved, That the president of the
U. S. he requested to cause to be laid
before the Senute a report of the practi
cal operation of subsisting the arniv un
der the provisions of the act passed the
14th of April, 1818, together with a com
parative view of the present and former
mode of supplying the army.
In offering this resolve, Mr. W. re
marked, that many gentlemen present
wouldrccollectth.it the act comtnonlv
called Ihe staff bill had engaged the at
tentinn of Congress for several sessions,
and its passage for some time hud been
successfully resisted. The gentlemen
pposeil to it warned us against innova
tion ; they predicted that the troops
would not be well supplied, that each ra
lion would cost the government at least
60 cents and the public money would be
wasted. Others, who were not alarmed
at these predictions, contended that the
contract system was as wrong in princi
ple as it had bcon ruinous in practice ;
that all laws ought to be so framed that il
should be the. iviterest as well as the duty
of every one to execute them ; that il
lowing resolution, which lies also on ihe
luble of course for one day :
Resolved, That an additional standing
-ommiltee he appointed, consisting of seven
members, to lie denominated “ Tile com
mittee on Indian Affairs.”
Mr. Hill, of Ms me, presented the follow
ing resolution, which was likewise laid on
the table : \
Resolved, That the secretary of tbe Trea
sury be directed to report to this hens#
whether tile Indian title has been i xtinguish-
d by the United Slates to any lands. Him
iglit of soil in which has been, or is claimed
bv any particular slate, and, il so, ihe con
ditions upon which the same ha* been ex
tinguished.
Mr. Cook submitted the following reso
lution ; which, on motion of Mr. Scott, and
with tbe consent of the mover, was ordered
to be laid oil the table :
Resolved, That Hie committee on H e Judi
ciary he instructed to enquire whether any,
and, if any, vvliat alteration# are necessary
to be made in the organization of the courts
of the United Stules, so as more equally to
extend their advantages to the several states.
Mr. Giltner submitted the following re
solutions: f
Resolved, That the several treaties mad*
by lli« United States with the Indian tribes,
whit'll may furnish matters for legislation
or the consideration of congress, lie referred
to the committee appointed to enquire into
the expediency of occupying the Columbia
River ole. and of regulating the trade with
the Indian tribes. /
Resolved, That the articles of agreement
nnd cession between the U. &late* and ilia j
state of Georgia, entered into on the tilth /
of April, 1802, be referred to the same ront-f
g 1,162,339 20
93,686,095 74
390 40
duties fc direct tax
Bank dividends
Incidental receipts
fte-payinenUI
Loan
Making .
From which will be deducted
in the fourth quarter, Hie
sum of
And the payment* into llie lrea-
sury during tb« fourth quarter,
estimated at 3,596,X78 *4
Viz : Customs 8,000,000 0O
Fublic lands 360,000 09
Monies remov'd out
of advances made
in the War depart
ment before the ,_ / . ajv . aa
1st July 1816 130,000 09
Balance's of military
appropriations car
ried tolheaccount ;
of the surplus fund 90,-<8 14
Direct tax and in
ternal duties, Siia- wona
cidental receipts 2.),0W w
Making the total amount estimat
ed to be received i,,lo ,h “ lr *g 19 3,4 475 84
sury during the year 18-1 g >
Which added to the balance in the 2 1
T.....,rv on the 1st Jan. last, of 1,198,481 21
93,686,486 14
2,062,880 41
Treasury on the 1st J
Make Hie aggregate » mo ’ int qJ^yHarWil
The application of this sum to. lu }
h estimated ns follows, viz :
* WE 1 .’s' 5 ** 1 *’ ”
viz: Civil, diplomatic and ^
miscellaneous J’ 77 >
Military service,including
fortifications, ordnance,
Indian department, re
volutionary and milita
ry pensions, arming the
militia, nad arrearages
Reimbursement of
deferred stock 257,322 26
Residue of Louisi
ana stock, 6,569 15
Making the amount of the pub
lic debt, unredeemed on tho
1st oi Jan. 1822, as estimated
The Treasury notes yet out
standing aio estimated at
The awards rande by the Com
missioners, appointed under
the several acts ot Congress
for Ihe indemnification of
certain claimants of public
lands in the Mississippi ter
ritory, amount to
Of which there
have been re
ceived at the
Gen. Land office
instock 2,442,535 39
And there have
lie.eii paid at the
Treasury 1,734,490 85
Making together
4nd leaving outstanding on the
301 h September, 1821,
Which, after discharging the difference
between the balance in 1 lie treasury ou tlie 1st
of January, 1824, and the balance ot appro
priations chargeable upon it, will leave in
iin- treasury, on the 1st of January, 1823,
a balance estimated at $671,875 50.
Il is however proper to stale, that, in Ihe
estimate for Ihe naval serv ice, only $400,000
of the annual appropriation of $500,000 for
the gradual increase oft lie navy is included ;
but that, of the amount estimated by the
Secretary of War, a sum larger than tbe ba
lance of that appropriation is for arrearages,
for revolutionary pensions, and the Indian
department, which will not be embraced in
tbe estimates fur Ihe year 1823.
The expenditure of the two succeeding
y ears, it is believed, will not exceed that of
tbe year 1822, unless a further expenditure
shall, in the intermediate time, be authorised
by law. But, in tbe expenditure of the year
1822, and also of 1823 und 1824, 110 part of
tne annual appropriation of $10,000,000 con
stituting the sinking lurid is comprehended,
except vvliat is necessary to discharge the Dyke, Burton, and Bourdman.
interest of the public debt, and Ihu reim- ^ D
burseinent of the six per cent, deferred
4,292,151 12 stork. On tile 1st of January, 1823, and
93,423,605 73
28,495 00
Monday, Dtc. 17.
IN SENATE.
According to order, the Senate pro
ceetled to the appointment, by ballot, of
the several standing committees : and
the committees were composed as fol
lows :
On Foreign Relations—Me,ssr». King of
N. Y. Macon, Brown,^Barbour, and Elliott.
On Pinance—Messrs. Holmes of Maine,
Eaton. Maeon, Van Boren, and Lowrie.
On Commerce and Manufactures—Messrs.
Dickerson ; lluggles, D’Wolf, Lanman,and
Findlay.
On Military Affairs—Messrs. Williams of
Ten. Taylor, Johnson of Ky, Elliott, and
Chandler.
On the Militia—Messrs. Nobles, Stokes,
Lznman, Chandler, und Seymour.
On Naval Affairs—Messrs. Pleasants,
Parrott, Williams of Miss. Walker, and
Ware.
On the Public Lands—Messrs. Thomas,
Van Dyke, Lowrie, Eaton and Benton.
On Indian Affairs—Messrs. Johnson of
Lou. King of Alabama, Johnson of Ky, Ben
ton, and Holmes of Miss.
On Claims—Messrs. Ruggles, Morril, Van
. . mitte.e, with instructions to report whether
was the interest of the contractor to issue ,| )( . |,., V( . b,, en executed according to
the cheapest provisions which could be ihe terms thereof; and, also, the best means,
had, and at places where he made the I in tho opinion of the committee, of execut-
grealest protit ; his interest being in di- ing said articles of agreement,
reel collision will, the government, he Mr-Moore, of Pa moved Hint the sum.
, . /» • 1 * 4 „ •- . .r f • lie laid upon tue tabi**. Mr. Pi. »t*it«-d nwi
seldom failed to pursue it to the great id- () ,. (to ' 1)e t0 reftr lha object to a sebvet
jury of the country. 1 he contractors co J mm ; ttoe ,
being exempt from martial law, they a-1 qq„, motion was opposed by Messrs,
vailed themselves of this immunity, and 1 Gilmer, Cocke, and Mallarv, on the ground
did nt pleasure paralyze the operational that it was Inexpedient to multiply coninut-
ofthe army. The remedy provided by '««’*' especially when those already raised
law ofasuit on the contractor’s bond, U«n clothed with *
had proved ineffectual, because there Luted for reference. The subject p 'vvVug.
was no tribunal winch could at the fanie I was within tjie scope of duties ea-
time issue an injunction to stay the ap- peciully assigned to the select committee' to
petites of huugry soldiers. Most of the whom it was proposed to refer it; amt it
disappointments, vexation*, and defeats, was therefore improper to postpone 4 (nr
experienced during the progress of the 'he purpose of giv ing it a different direct ,no.
1 . , ■ 1 1 ,u„ I (I was also contended that the resolution
late war, could be traced directly to the ^ R|t|>raiM( . d hild nil relMlon th( . K ,,f e .
then defective staff; which seemed to he ra|su ,. l(|f jntem>ursp with the Indian
adhered to ill despite of experience, and tr ;b,, s . They were not parties to the objects
purely on account of its wretched dafor-| jt has in view ; but it refers to treaties wliit 1»
inity. 1 hazard but little whee I say, I have been made with them, involving the
that one third of the expense of the late interests of particular states, and more par.
war would have been saved to this nation Male mnf .
c 1 j. . , Mr. Tomlinson supported the motion,
ii we had had at its commencement well and< . pr „ ai l|ed that M0 ‘ pvi , c „ u | d revolt from
organized Commissariat & Quarter ALw-1 rnotjon before the House. It had been
ter’s departments. Independently of the I U8Uld heretofore t« raise a Committee on
great saving of national debt, we should I the subject of Indian Aff irs—but no such
have preserved the live* of at least one Committee hus as yet been raised during
half of those who perished by disease. Uita Session, and he understood the object
, . , • n ,, ; of the honorable mover to be, to have the
My object 10 otlering tins resolution reM | H t,«m laid on the (able, to be disposed
the early stage ol the season, 19 to ob- (> f hereafter as might be deemed expedient,
tain u faithful report from the proper de j r pbat a committee of the description alluded
part merit of the practical operation of the t0) should he raised for the purpose ol 1 ik-
commissari.il system, which will enable ing into consideration our intercourse with'
us to judge of ils merit*. This report the Indiuns—a* also the subjects of trada
will prove that all the anticipation, of the civilization, he could entertain no doubt;
e- j r .1 and he hoped the resolution would he. laid
friends of the new system have .e | un table, that suth a disposition may
mure than realized—that the troops have hereafter be made of it as propriety may r«-
been better fed at a little more Hun hall q U j ro .
the former expense. 1 am desirous, if The (ptestion wa v thereupon taken, and
there should have been any abuses uuder the motion of Mr. Moore prevailed.—Ayes
the new system, that they will be ex-1 67 Noes 52.
posed; and 1 invite gentlemen to u strict Mr. Whitman submitted the following
•rutiny of every thing connected with resolution, which was reud a first time and
iis subject, as I intend to introduce a ordered to he printed :
4,177,026 24
prior
to the 1st January
1817
(aval service, 3
the gradual increase ot^
4,872,866 78
,hel, 7ebt. including
2,603,592 75
' fU ^',6G 3°of Missis- i^^
, ,»ippi stock 1
During the 4th q 0 »f‘* r , ^J 1 C,t, ‘ n 3 %o,000 00
ad H>*‘Jhe l m 5 iuel,t ?. am , ‘
viz: Civil, diplomatic and
106,124 88
J tni»-
690.000 00
290.000 00
700,000 00
1,900,000 00
jUllaneou*
Military service
Naval service
Fublic debt
SSS , £h5E55S5JS-"i»
loav
uf $19,236,288 47
jay of Jan next, a
paled at
1,777,648 58
SWr TTSSSSfE °.£
3. Of the Estimates of the Public Revenue
and Expenditure for Ihe year 1822.
The ditninuliun of the revenue from un
porta and tonnage, which occurred in 1810
advanced with progressive force tliro I8S.0
and reached its lowest point of depression 111
die first quarter of the present year. Il>«
dulies secured in that quarter were 727,000
dollars less than those uf the corresponding
nuartcr of 18S0—whilst the amount secured
in tiie second and third quarters exceeded
that of the same period of the preceding
year by I 172,000 dollars : thus presenting
on the the 30lh of Sept, last an aggregate
exces* of 445,000 dollars, for the three fir-t
quarters of t82t, which sum, there is just
reason to believe, will be considerably uug-
uieutfil Jit the end of the yeai.
Whilst the duties have progressively in
creased, the debentures chargeable upon
them have considerably diminished : the a-
uiount of debentures issued from the first »t
January to the 30lh of September last, be-
ine 952,000dollars less than was issued din
ing the same period of the preceding year.
The same caimes which in 1819 and 1
effected so great a reduction of tlw revenue
arising from imports and tonnage, were i
in an equal degree in the sale of the public
lands. Those who, from anticipation ot
their resources previously to those y*’® 1 ' ’
were unable to purchase foreign men on
dize, were equally incapable ot purchasing
stock. ......
the three succeeding years, the debt con
tracted during tile years 1812, 1813, 1814
and 1815, becomes redeemable at tbe will
of the government. These sums greatly
exceed the amount uf the sinking fund ap
plicable in those years to the redemption of
tiie public debt.—As the current value of
the five per cent, stock, created during the
last and present years, exceeds that ol the
seven per cent, stock, and of the six per cent,
stock of 1812 and 1813, it is presumed
that the holders of those stocks will be dis
posed to exchange them for an equal amount
of five per cent, stock, redeemable nt such
periods as to give full operation tn the sink
ing fund, as at present constituted. Accor
ding to this view of the subject, $24,000,000
of the stocks which will be redeemable in
the years 1825 and 1820, may be exchang
ed for five per cent, stock, redeemable, one
third on the lstnf January, 1831, and one
third or, the same dvys of 18S2 and 1838.—
This exchange of six per cent, stock, if ef
fected on the 1st nf Jan. 1823, will produce
an annual reduction of the interest of the
public debt, from that time to Ihe first men
tioned period, of$240,000, and an aggregate
saving, thro’ the whole period, of $2,100,000.
If the whole of Hie seven per cent, stock
should be exchanged, the saving will he con
siderably increased.
If such an exchange of stock should be
deemed inexpedient or impracticable, a sav
ing of equal, if not greater extent, may be
effected in the years 1825, 1820, 1827, and
1828, by borrowing, at the rate of five per
cent, in the first and each successive year, a
sum equal to tbe difference between tbe a-
inount redeemable and that portion of the
Sinking Fund, applicable to its redemption ;
the five percent, stock so created, to be re
deemable at such periods us to give full ope
ration to tbe Sinking Fond, until tiie whole
of the public debt shall be redeemed. If the
five per cunt, stork shall, during those years
be above pur, a saving beyond that propoa-
On the Judiciary—Messrs. Smith, Holmes
of Maine, Olis, Southard, und Van Buren.
On the Post Office—Messrs. Stokes, Pal
mer, Chandler, Barton, and King of Alaba
ma.
On Pensions—Messrs. Nobles, Eaton,
Seymour, Elliott, and Ware.
On the District of Columbia—Messrs. Bar
bour, Laiimun, Lloyd, Southard, and D’
Wolf.
On Accounts—Messrs. Lantv.an, Macon,
and Lowrie.
A message was received from the
President oi’ the United States, by the
hands of his secretary, transmitting a let
ter from the secretary of Ihe treasuary,
enclosing a report of the commissioners
appointed in conformity with the provi
sion* of the act of the 3d of March last,
“ to authorize (he building of light
houses therein mentioned, and for other
purposes,” and the message was rend.
Mr. Barboqr gave notice that he should
on to-morrow ask leave to introduce a
joint resolution proposing nn amendment
to the constitution of llie United States
to fix permanently the number of mem
bers of which the house of representa
tives shall consist.
The senate then adjourned.
Tuesday, Dec. 18
Mr. Barbour submitted for considera
tion the following resolution :
Resolved, by the senate and-hbuse of
representatives of the United States of
America in Congrcs* assembled, two
thirds of both hquses concurring, That
the following amendment to the consti
tution of the United States be proposed
to the legislatures of the several states
which when, ratified by the legislature
of three-fourth# of the states, shall be
valid, to all intents and purpose*, a9
part of the euid constitution, to nit :
biU to make tha'ataff'act,"which was Ii-1 R'»olvt<L by the Senate and House qf Re.
. .. f „ lin . m „„ on i |.,u> \prc8eruaiive8 of the Hinted slate* of e/Eintnca
anted to five years a permanent law U Congress assembled, two third, of both
1 ho motion of Mr. W. lies on the ta-1 // 0U4e4 concurring, That the following a-
ble ono day of course. I rnendnn-nt to the constitution of the United
Mr. Johnson, ol Ky. submitted the fol-1 States be p/upnm-d to the Legislatures of
lowing resolution for consideration : the several States, which, when ratified by
Resolved, That a committee be ap- the Lcgi.Jatures of three fourths of the
pointed to enquire into the expediency 8 ** 1 *- 8 ' ^ail be vabd, to all mtents and pur-
v” ... V . ,i poses, as part of the said constitution, to wit;
ot providing for the preservation and * o Thll ,‘for the purpose of chousing rep-
repairuig the National Turnpike, begin-1 rcgen taiiv».s to the Congress of the United
ning at Cumberland, on the Potomac, k.1 states, each state shall, hy its Legislature,
terminating at Wheeling on the Ohio be divided into a number of districts, equal
river, and I hat they have leave to report to the number of representatives to which
hv bill or otherwise such state may be entitled. The disliietS
^Some*conversation took place in re- *•«£' h °
. . ,, c e • ‘ | .. • I exterior limits or each of which, shall be as
gard to Ihe form of this resolution, to nea ,.|y equi-distant from a common centre
which Mr. Otis objected to the authort- as ma y be, and composed of a population
ty to report by bill being given as pro- „qual in number, as near us may be practi-
posed. The conversation resulted in 1 cable, to tbe number of the population en-
Mr. Johnson’s modifying his proposition I titled, by the apportionment for tho time
so as to read ns follows : "<?’, lw *‘ ect on . e representative : in each
Jiesoheil, Thj.« CMMUtM be eppoinb
ed on Roads and Canals
Thus modified, the resolve was ngroed
to by the Senate, nnd Mr. Johnson, of
Ken. King, ofNew-York, Lowrie, Ma
con, and Mills, were appointed a com
mittee accordingly.
Mr. Dickerson gave notice, that he
should to-morrow u#k leave to introduce
a resolution proposing to amend the con
stitution of the United Slates as it res
pect* the choice of electors of the Pre-
sidentand Vice President of the United
State*, and the election of representa
tives in the congress of the U. States.
The senate tlieu adjourned.
HOUSE bF REPRESENTATIVES.
Saturday, Dec. 15.
Mr. Walworth, of New York, sutimitUsd
the following resolution, which was nega
tived :
Resolved, That the military committee
be instructed to enquire into the expedien
cy of discontinuing the daily allowance of
ardent spirits to soldiers in the army of the
United States.
Mr. Moore, of Term, submitted the fol
representative,
division of states into districts hereby pro
vided for ahull take place immediately after
tho adoption of this amendment, and imme
diately after every future census and Appor
tionment of representatives thereupon, and -
such districts shall not be, at any other time,
or on any other occasion, altered or varied.
“ That, for the purpose of choosing E-
lectors of President and Vice President of
the United States, the persons qualified to
vote for Representatives in each district
shall choose one Elector. The two addi
tional Electors to which each State is en
titled shall be appointed in such manner as
the Legislature thereof may direct,
electors who may be convened, at thn L
and place prescribed, by law, for tho ~
pose of voting for President and Vice
ident of the United States, in car - ‘
non attendance of any one or more
elected, or in ease of a vacancy
happening; shall choose an e'„
tors to supply such vaesney.”
The House adjourned. *
Monday, j
Mr. William*, of Korin <
the committee of rl.uiug,
- on tbe petition of nvtmlry <
