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VOL. III.
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1822.
No. 15.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
BY S. GRAYTLA.YD be It. M. ORMF.,
On Hancock Street) opposite the Auction Storf)
AT Til REE DOLLARS, IN APVANCK, OR FOUR
DOLLARS AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE
YEAR.
O’ Advertisements conspicuously inserted
at tlie customary rates. Letters on business, iu
all cn^es, must be post paid.
Y\\ .lYTVUHUTX.
AN ACT
Slaking appropriations fur llie support of Go
vernment for tlie year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-two, and for other pur
poses.
/jj it enacted bp the Senate and Haute of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica in Congress assembled, That the follow-
jpg sums bu, anil the same tire hereby res
pectively appropriated for the service of the
year one thousand eight hundred and twen
ty-two ; that is to say :
For compensation, granted by law, to the
Si nate and House of Representatives, their
officers, and attendants), in addition to an un
expended balance of two hundred ami four
teen thousand and sixty-seven dollars and
fourteen cents, two hundred and one thou
sand five hundred and twenty-one dollars
and eighty-six cents.
For the expenses of fire-wood, station try,
print eg. and all other contingent expen
of the two houses of Congress, forty-live
thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the Library of Con
gress, including the Librarian’s allowance
for toe year, one thousand nine hundred and
fifty dollars.
For books for the Library, one thousand
dollars.
For compensation to the President of the
United States, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
For compensation to the Vice-President
of the United States, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of
■State, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Clerks in the De
partment of State, by the art of the twenli-
I'lli of April, one thousand eight hundred
mu) eighteen, fifteen thousand nine hundred
doll IKS.
For compensation to the messengers in
said department, including the messenger in
CP*- Patent OHicr, nine hundred m 1 - : Xi>
dollars.
For i he contingent and incidental expen
ses of the Department of State, including
expenses of publishing the Foreign corres
pondence of the confederation Congress, for
extra copying of papers, and a deficiency in
the appropriation for printing tile secret
journals of the old Congress, twenty-four
thousand four hundred and ninety-two dol
lars, and fifty-six cents.
For compensation to the Secretary of the
Treasury, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten
thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in
said office, one thousand and fifty dollars, in
fit'll of all allowances.
For compensation to the First Comptrol
ler of the Treasury, three thousand five hun
dred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of the first Comptroller, per act of 20th
April, one thousand eight hundred and eigh
teen, 8(;venta.Mi thousand eight hundred and
fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in
Said office, seven hundred dollars, iu full of
all allowances.
For compensation to the Second Comp
troller of the Treasury, three thousand dol
lars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of Ihe Second Comptroller, per act of
the 20th of April, one thousand eight hun
dred and eighteen, nine thousand seven hun
dred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in lull for
all allowances.
For compensation to the First Auditorvof
the Treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in die of
fice of the First Auditor, per act of the 20lh
of April, lull!, fifteen thousand two hundred
dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said
Office, seven hundred dollars, in lull ol all al-
Uwunces.
For compensation to the Second Auditor
Oftlie Treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Clerks in the of
fice of the Second Auditor, sixteen thousand
tivn hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in
said office, seven hundred dollars, in lull ol
all allowances.
For compensation to the Third Auditor ol
the Treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks io the of
fice of the Third Auditor, per act of the 20th
ef April, twenty-eight thousand six
hu ulrcd dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in
said office, one thousand and fifty dollars, in
full of all allowances.
For compensation to the Fourth Auditor
of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.
Fur compensation to Ihe clerks in the of
fice of the Fourth Auditor, per act of the
2aili of April, 1218, fifteen thousand and fif
ty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in
Soil office, seven hundred dollars, in full of
all allowances.
For compensation to the Fifth Auditor of
uie Treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the cleiks in the of
five of the F.ftll Auditor, per ..et of the 20th
of April, 1818, ten thousand five hundred
dollars.
For two clerks to complete the duties of'
the Commissioner of the Revenue, transfer
red to the office of the Fifth Auditor, two
thousand five hundred-and fifty dollars.
For one clerk oil the business of the Agent
of the Treasury, transferred to the office of
the Fifth Auditor, one thousand one hundred
uud fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said
office, seven hundred dollars, iu full of all al
lowances.
For compensation to the Treasurer of the
United States, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of tile Treasurer oftho United States,
per act of 20th of April, 1818, five thousand
tivn hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to an additional clerk,
as allowed by act of appropriation of 1810,
and 182p—and also, fur an assistant to the
chief clerk, one thousand two hundred dol
lars.
For compensation to the messenger in said
office, seven hundred dollars, in full of all al
lowances.
For compensation to the Commissioner
of t!ie Ueneral Laud Office, three thousand
dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of said Commissioner, per act of 2Utli
April, 1818, twenty-two thousand live hun
dred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said
office, seven hundred dollars, in lull of all al
lowances.
Fur compensation to the Register of the
Treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in tile of
fice of the Register, per act of20lh of April,
1818, twpnty-twolhousami five hundred and
fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said
office, including the allowance for stamping
ship’s registers, eight hundred dollars, in full
of all allowances.
For compensation to the Secretary of the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, two
hundred and fifty dollars.
For allowance to the person employed in
transmitting passports and sea-letters—for
expense of translating foreign languages in
the olfice of the Secretary of the Treasury ;
for stationary, fuel, printing, and all other in
cidental and contingent ex coses in the Trea
sury Depart incut, and the several offices
therein, including the expenses of stating and
printing the public accounts for the year
1822, thirty-six thousand dollars,
For allowance to the superintendent and
four watchmen employed for the security of
the State and Treasury buildings—for the
repairs of engines, hose, and buckets, out
thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of
War, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of the Secretary of War, per act of 2t>!li
\ • " - twenty-threei,io.«.iii« lorn nmi-
drtui '■'■’■ itt•
For compensation to the messengers in
said office, one thousand and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Paymaster Ge
neral, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to tin* clerks in the of
fice of Paymaster General, four thousand
two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said
office, seven hundred dollars, ill lull of all al
lowances.
For compensation to the Commissary Ge
neral of Purchases, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of the Commissary General of Purchas
es, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said
office, seven hundred dollars, in lull of all al
lowances.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of the Adjutant General, two thousand
one hundred and filty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
fice of the Ordnance, two thousand nine hun
dred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in Ihe of
fice of Commissary General of Subsistence,
two thousand one hundred and litty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the en
gineer Office, two thousand one hundred
anil fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the of
fice of the Surgeon General, one thousand
one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the War
Department, including fuel, stationary, and
other contingentent expenses, six thousand
dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the
Navy, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the of
;e oftho Secretary of the Navy, per act oi
20th of April, 1818, eight thousand two hun
dred dollars.
For compensation to tin; messengers in
said office, one thousand and fitly dollars, in
full of nil allowances. j
For Ihe contingent expenses of the said of
fice, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioners
of the Navy Board, ten thousand live hun
dred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary to the
Commissioners of the Navy Board, two
thousand dollars.
For compensation to the cleiks in the of
fice of tile Commissioners of the Navy
Board, per act of 20lh April, 1818, three
thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of three clerks and a
draftsman, as allowed by acts of appropria
tions since tile first of January, to 19, lour
thousand dollars.
For Compensation to the messenger in
said offiee, seven hundred dollars, in full of
all allowances.
For the. contingent expenses of said office
two thousand dollars.
For allowance to the superintendent and
four watchmen employed for the security
of the War and Navy buildings, and for the
incidental and contingent expenses, includ
ing oil, fuel, and candies, two thousand and
sixty-eight dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster Ge
neral, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to two Assistant Post
masters General, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in thr
General Post Office, per act of twentieth m
April, one thousand eight hundred and vigil-
teen, twenty-two thousand seven hundred
dollars.
For compensation to the messengers in
said office, one thousand and fifty dollars, ill
full nf all allowances.
For contingent expenses *f said office,
four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Surveyor Gene
ral, two thousand dollars.
Fur compensation to the clerks in the
office of the Surveyor General, two thou
sand one hundred dollars.
Fur compensation to the Surveyor Booth
of Tennessee, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the, clerks in the
office of said Surveyor, one thousand seven
hundred dollars.
Fur compensation to tile surveyor in Illi
nois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand
dollars.
For compensation to the rlrrks in the of
fice of said Surveyor, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Surveyor in Ala
bama, two thousand dullars.
For compensation to tile clerks in the of
fice of the Surveyor in Alabama, one thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the late Commis
sioner of the Public Buildings at Washington
City, four hundred and sixty six dullars and
sixty-seven cents.
For compensation to the offirors and
clerk in the Mint, nine thousand six hundred
dollars.
For persons employed in (lie different o-
perations of the Mint, nine thousand and fit
ly dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses
and repairs, cast of machinery, and tor al
lowance of wasteage in the gold and silver
coinage of the Mint, eight thousand one
hundred dollars.
For compensation to (lie Governor, Judg
es and Secretary, of the Arkansas territory,
six thousand six hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of said terri
tory. three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Governor, Judg
es, and Secretary, of the Michigan territory,
six thousand six hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of said ter
ritory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Chief Justice,
iho Associate Judges, and District Judges,
of the United States, including the Chief
Justice, and Associate Judges of the District
of Columbia, seventy-eight thousand two
hundred dollars.
Forcninpensation to the Attorney General
of the United States, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office
of the Attorney General, eight hundred dol
lars.
For compensation to the Reporter of the
derisions of the Supreme Court, one thou-
^niltf G'Blars
For c ompensation to sundry District m-
tornrys ami Marshals, as granted by law, in
cluding those in the several territories, eight
thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the Su
preme, Circuit, am) District Courts of the
United States, including the District of Co
lumbia, and of jurors mid witnesses, in aid
of the funds arising from fines, penalties and
forfeitures, and fur defraying the expenses
of prosecutions for offences against the Uni
ted Slater., and for the. safe keeping of pri
soners, thirty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensioners
granted by the late and present government,
two thousand nine hundred and forty-seven
dollars and ninety-nine rents.
For making good a deficiency io the fond
forthe relief of seamen, t bitty thousand dol
lars.
For the support and maintenance of light
houses, beacon, buoys and stakerges, inclu
ding the purchase and transportation of oil,
keepers’ salaries, repairs, and improvements,
ami contingent expenses, forty one thou
sand one hundred and four dollars and sixty-
eight cents, in addition to an unexpended
balance of fifty-three thousand four hundred
and twenty-six dollars and sixty two cents.
For rebuilding the light house, on Fayer-
wenther Island, which was blown down in
the gale of third September last, three thou
sand dollars.
For building a light house on the. Bodkin,
and two light houses on North Point, in Ma
ryland, in addition to the sums heretofore
appropriated for those objects, six thousand
six hundred dollars.
For placing buoys in the channels through
the shoals of Cape Hatteras and Cape Look
out, and in the channels through the Frying
Pan Shoals, and over the liars at Ocracork
and Cape Fear, one thousand six hundred
dollars.
For stationery, books, See. for the offices
of Commissioners of Loans, six thousand
nine hundred and sixty nine dollars and six
teen cents.
For surveying the public lands of the U.
States, actually performed in one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-two, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For payment to John Trumbull, for paint
ings commemorative of the most important
events of the revolution, six thousand dol
lars.
For the prohibition of the Slave Trade,
being the amount carried to the Surplus
Fund on the thirty-first of December last,
forty-seven thousand six hundred and forty-
seven dollars and sixty seven cents.
For the payment of balances due to offi
cers of the old internal revenue and direct
lax, fourteen thousand fifty-six dollars and
ten cents.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous
claims aginst the United States, not other
wise provided for, as shall he admitted in
due course of settlement at the Treasury,
six thousand dollars.
For the salaries in the Ministers of the
United States to London, Paris, St. Peters
burg, Lisbon, and Madrid, with the salaries
of their scvenil Secretaries of Legation, and
i he salaries of the Charge des Affiires at the
I lague and at Stockholm, sixty-one thousand
dollars.
For an outfit to a Minister at Lisbon, nine
thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of those mis
sions, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of earring into effect the
fifth, sixth, nml seventh articles the Treaty
of Ghent, concluded on the twenty-fourth
of December, otic thousand eight hundred
and fourteen, including the compensation of
the commissioners, agents, ami surveyors,
and their contingent expenses, twelve thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For the salaries of the Commissioners,
Secretary, clerk, and messenger, together
with the contingent expenses of Ihe two
commissions under the treaty with Spain,
of ihe twenty-second of February, one thou
sand eight hundred and nineteen, thirty
thousand dollars.
For the expense of ascertaining the longi
tude nf the Capitol, to wit: For the com
pensation to William I .anihert two I lions and
dollars ; to William Elliot live hundred dol
lars ; to Oswald Donu one hundred dollar-;
and for contingent expenses three hundred
and sixty dollars and ninety-two cents.
•See. 2, And be it farther enacted, That
the several sums hereby appropriated shall
he paid out oT any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated : Provided, how
ever, That no money appropriated by this
art, or liy the act making appropriations lor
the military service of the United States,
for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-
two, and towards the service of the year
eighteen hundred and twenty-three, shall
lie paid to any person for his compensation,
who is in arrears to the United States, until
such person shall have accounted for, and
paid into the Treasury, all sums for which
lie may lie liable ; Provided, further, that
nothing in this section contained shall extend
to balances arising solely from the deprecia
tion of Treasury Notes received by such
prison to he expended in the public service ;
hut, in all cases where the pay or salary of
any person is withheld in pursuance of this
net, it shall he the duty of the accounting
officer, if demanded by the party, his agent,
or attorney, to report forthwith to the agent
of the Treasury Department, tile balance
due ; and it shall he the duty of said agent,
within sixty days thereafter to order suit to
he commenced against such deliiupieut and
his sureties.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the expense for postage ini irred by mar
shals in taking and returning the fourth cen
sus of the United States, not exceeding two
thousand dollars, he paid out of an unex
pended balance of an appropriation for de
fraying tile expense of the fourth enumera
tion of the inhabitants of the United States,
i'llll.ll’ I\ RARDOlMt,
Speaker of tile House of Uepreser.talives
JOHN GWI.LAltl),
President of (lie Senate, pro tempore.
Washington, April 30,1832 —Approved,
JAM Kb MON HOE.
was found difficult, in executing the act, to
retain each officer in the corps to which he
belonged, the power nf transferring officers
from one corps to another Was reserved in
the general orders published in the register,
till the 1st day of January last, in order that
upon vacancies occurring, those who had
been put nut of their proper corps might, as
tarns possible, he restored to it. Under this
reservation, and in conformity to the power
vested in the Executive by the 1st section ol
the 7:uh article of the general regulations of
the aririy, approved by Congress at the Iasi
session, on tile resignation of Lieut- Cubital
Mitchell, of the corps of artillery, Ll. Col.
Lindsay, who had belonged to this corps
bef'oro the late reduction, was transferred
hack to it, ill the same grade. As an mlditi
onal motive to tile transfer, it had the ( fleet
of preventing Lt. Col. Taylor arid Maj. Wol
ley living reduced twfowiur grmiea than thrvv-e
which they held before the reduction, nod
Capt. Cobb from being disbanded under the
act. These circumstances were considered
as constituting an extraordinary case, within
the meaning of the section already referred
to of tile regulations of liieurmy- It is, how
ever submitted to the Senate whether this is
a case requiring their confirmation—and, in
case such should he their opinion, it is still
milted to them lor their constitutional con
firmation.
JAMBS MONROF,.
Washington, January 17th, 1822.
[Here follows the list of Appointments
made last summer, which tire already i:i pos-
session of the public. J
Tile message was read.
On motion, ordered, that it he referred Io
tlie Committee on Military Affairs, to he
considered end report thereon.
Wednesday, March IS, 1822.
Mr. Williams, of Tennessee, from the
Committee on Military Affairs, to whom
was referred the message ol the 21st Janua
ry, nominating to promotions and appoint
ments in the army, made the following re
port ; w liicli was read ;
That Colonel Tow-sun, on the 2d day of
March 1821, was Paymaster General; that
lie held neither rank nor command in the
army ; and, not In longing to any corps of
tlie army, the President had im power, un
der the law reducing and fixing the military
peace establishment, to arrange him to the
of the army before the passage ol the
late act, the force in service, the several
corps of which it was composed, and the.
grades and number of officers command-
ding it. By seeing distinctly, the body
in all parts, on which the law operated ;
viewing also, with n just discrimination,
the spirit, policy, and positive injunc
tions of that law, with reference to pi e*
cedent*, established in u former analo
gous case, we shall he enabled to ascer
tain, with great precision, whether these
injunctions bate, or have not been
strictly complied w itli.
By the act of the Bed of March, ldlfi,
cutilfed “ act lixing the military peace
establishment of the United States,” the
whole force-in sen ice was reduced to
ten thousand men, infantry, artillery,
and rillemen, exclusive of the corps of
engineers, which was retained in its
men stale. The tegimentof light artil
lery was retained as it had been organ
ised by the act of the 3d March, 1811.
Fhe infantry was formed into nine m-
giments, one of which consisted ol u-
fb'tnen. The regiments of light ami-
'cry, infantry rillemen, and corps of en
gineers, were commanded each by a uo
lonel, lieutenant culonel, and the usual
battalion and company officers ; and Inc
battalions of the corps of artillery, of
which there were eight, lour for the
northern, and lour for the southern di
vision, were commanded by lieutenant
colonels, or majors, there being four of
each grade, i bore were, therefore, in
the army, at the time the late law was
passed, twelve colonels belonging to
those blanches of the military establish
ment. Two major general ami four
brigadiers were likewise retained in ser
vice by this act ; but the staff, in se.-
veral of its brunches, not being proved
lor, and being indispensable, and tin; o-
tnission inadvertent, proceeding from tlie
circumstance under winch the net was
passed, being at the close of the session,
command nf one of the regiments retained | at w hich time intelligence of the peaco
in service by said act. I was received.it was provisionally re*
I lie Committee further report, that Go- • . , „ • , ■ , J , ,
lonel Gadsden, on the 2.1 of March, 1821, | b > th « 1 [ esU e,,t - and l’ rov,de *
was one of tlie two Inspector Generals of Hitervvarus, by the act of the 24th
I ti.v ntitnir l,,.t Iv /, I* tiilt.t... iWi.eik I n • n «. #1 in I O j ,'\ J”) J’ | j ^ 1310s
(£?- By an error uf the press, the art of
the
n otary nf the Treasury to exchange a stock
hearing an interest of five per cent, for cer
tain stocks hearing an interest of six and se
ven per rent.” was dated March 2U, instead
of April 20 ; of which error the publishers of
the laws and all other persons will please to
take notice—the true date of the act be
ing April 20, 1822.”*—JYat. Jnt.
* This law was published in our paper of the
Utli inst.
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
April 30, 1822.
Ordered, That thr injunction of secrerv
bn removed from tin; following proceeding!
and documents, and that they he printed.
Monday January 21, 1322.
The following written message was
received from the President ol tlie Uni
ted States, by Mr. Gouvcrneur, bis Se
cretary :
To the Senate of the. United Slates
1 nominate me persons whose names are
stated in the enclosed letter from the. th ere
tary of War, for the, appointments therein
respectively proposed for them.
The changes in the army, growing out of
the act of tile 2d of March, 1821, To re
duce and fix the military peace establish
ment of the United Stales,” are exhibited in
the official register for the year 18-22, here
with submitted for the infarmalion of tlie Se-
the army, both of whom wore retained in
service by the act ri diiemg tlie army : that
there were two Adjutant Generals in ser
vice, one of whom was retained in service ;
and the President w as not authorized to dis
miss both of them, ami retain Colonel Gads-
UiVtffh'IItee’fiirTher report, that Co
lonel Fenwick, on tlie 2d March, 8121, was
By this act, the Ordn
ance Department was preserved is u had
been organized by the act of February
8 1315, with one i olonel.one lieutenant
colonel, two uvMts, ten captains, and
. . r . .. .v-s licuienaB.
ISDc lATjatVKTC iusjrethor general of the
army, two adjutant generals, one tor
Lieutenant Colonel of the light artilli ry ; j the northern uud one for the iouthern
that by appointing him to tlie command of division, were retained. This act j ro-
one of the regiments of artillery, it will dts- v) j eSj a ] S n for a paymaster general, wait
hand, as supernumerary, a full Colonel, who, a suitable uumher of regimental and bat-
hy the terms oftiie law iiflhevd : larch, 18-1, j (a |. on paymasters, as a part of the geDe-
was entitled to be retained. Theconiniittee. I 1 J . 6
Under the late organization of the artillery
arm, with thn exception of the colonel id the
regiment of light artillery, there were no
ides higher than lieutenant colonel recog
nized. Three of tlie four colonels id artille
ry provided for by the act of Congress of
the 2d of March, 1821, were, considered,
therefore, as original vacancies,Jo he filled,
as the good of the service might dictate,
from the army corps.
Thu pay department being considered as
a part of the military establishment, Si with
in the meaning of the above recited act con
stituting one of the corps of the army, tliu
then paymaster general was appointed colo
nel of one of Ihe regiments. A contrary
construction, which would have limited the
corps specified in the 12lh section of tin: act
to the line of Ihe army, would equally have
excluded nil the other branches of the stall',
as well as that of the pay department, which
was expressly comprehended among those
to he reduced. Snell a construction d:d not
m tube authorized by the act, since, by
its general terms, it was inferred to have
been intended to give a power of sufficient
xtent to make the reduction, by which so
nariy were to be disbanded, operate with as
little inconvenience as possible to the parties.
Acting oil these views, ami on the recom
mendation of the Board of general officers,
who were called in,on account of their know'
ledge and experience, to aid the (executive
in so delicate a service, I thought it proper
to appoint Col. Towson tonne of the new
regiments nf artillery, it being acoips in
which he had eminently distinguished him
self,and acquired great knowledge and ex
prrience, ill tlu; late war.
In reconciling conflicting claim*, provision
for four officers of distinction could only he
made, in grades inferior to those which they
formerly held. Their names are submitted,
with tlie nomination for the brevet rank of
the grades from which they were severally
reduced.
! It is proper, also, to observe, that, ns it
therefore, recommend that the Senate do not
advise and consent to the nomination of Cu-
loiiel Fenwick.
The committee further report, that Gene
rals Macomb and Atkinson .Ma jors Bradlord
and Dalliha, are nominated to grades below
the rank they formerly held in the army ;
that the principle of razee was recognized by
the Senate on the reduction of the army in
181a ; and, under the authority of that pre
cedent, the Committee recommend that the
four last mentioned nominations he confirm
ed.
Thursday, March 14, 1822.
The Senate proceeded to consider the
nominations of Nathan Towson and James
Gadsden to appointments in the army, as
contained in the message of the 2lst Janua
ry ; a nil after debated, it was
’ Resolved, That tlie Senate do not advise
and consent to tlie appointments of Nathan
Towson and James Gadsden.
Tuesday, March 26, 1822.
The following written message was
received from the President of the U.
States, by Mr. Gouvcrneur, his Secreta
ry :
To the Senate of the United States :
Having executed the act entitled “ An
act to reduce and fix the military peace
taldishmcnt of the United States,” on
great consideration, and according to my
best judgment ; ami inferring from the
rejection of the nomination of Colonel
Towson and Colonel Gadsden, officers
of very distinguished merit, that (he
view which I took of that law has not
been well understood, 1 hereby withdraw
till the nominations, on winch the Senate
has not decided, until I can make a more
lull communication and explanation ol
that view, and of the principles on which
I have acted in the discharge ol that
very delicate and important duly.
JAMES MONROE.
Washington, March 26lh, 1822.
The massage was read,
Friday, April 12, 1822.
The two following written messages
were received from the President ol the
United States, by Mr. Gouverneur, his
Secretary ;
To the Senate of the United States.
Having cause to infer that the reason'
which led to the construction which 1
gave toflhe uetjof the last session, entitled
An act to reduce and fix the peace es
tablishment of the United States” have
not been well understood, I consider it
iity to explain, more fully, the view
ral staff, constituting the military peace
establishment ; and the pay department,
and every other branch of the staff,
were subjected to the rules and arlii le*
of war.
By the act of March 2, 1821, it rt.iff
ordained that the military peace estate-
lishment should consist of four regiments
of artillery, and of seven of infim ry,
with such officers ofengineers,ordnance,
mid staff, as vw 1 re therein specified. It
is provided, that each regiment of ar ti
lery should consist of one colonel, une
lieutenant colonel, one major, ar.d rune
companies, with the usual company offi
cers, one of which to be equipped oa
light artillery ; and that there should he.
attached to each regiment of artillery
one supernumerary captain to perform
ordnance duty, thereby merging tl.o
regiment of artillery and ordnance de
partment into these four regiments. It
was provided, also that each regiment
cf infantry should consist of one colonel,
one lieutenant colonel, one major, and
companies, with the usual company offi
cers. The corps of engineers, bom
bardiers excepted, with the topographi
cal engineers and their assistants, were
to be retained under the existing organi
zation. ’Fhe former establishment, as to
the number of major generals and briga
diers, w as curtailed one half, and the of
fice of inspector and adjutant general to
the army, and of adjutant general to each
division annulled, and hat oi adjutant ge
neral to the army instituted. 'Flic quar-
termasler, paymaster and commissary
departments, were, also, specially prtf
vided-for, ns was every other branch of
the staff, all of which received a new
modification, and wi re subjected to the
rules and articles of war.
T he immediate and direct operation
of this act on the military peace eslab-
lishment of 1815, was that of reduction^
from which, no officer belonging toil
was exempt, unless it might be the to-
pographicul engineers ; for, in retaining
the corps of engineers, as w as manifest*,
as well by the clear import of the sec
tion relating to it, a' by the provisions
of'-very other clause of the act, refer
ence was had to the organization, and
not to the officers of the corps. The
establishment of 1815 was reduced frota
10.000 to about 6.000 men. 'Fhe eight
battalion* cf artillery, con-tilutirig what
my
was called the corps of artillery, anql
which 1 took of that net, and of the piin- the regiment of light artillery, as e*-
ciples on which I executed the very dif tablishcd by the act of 1815, were to be
ficnlt and important duty enjoined on me incorporated together, nnd formed into
by it. I four new regiments. The regiments of
T o do justice to the subject it i* j infantry were to bo reduced from rune
thought proper to shew the actual slate j to seveD, the rijle regtnent being biokeas