Daily National Intelligencer

LIST OF PETITIONS
PRESENTED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
[CONTINUED.]

Tuesday, January 21.
By Mr. Cilley, against from sundry inhabitants of the county of Strafford, in the State of New Hampshire.
By Mr. Parris, a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Oxford, in the District of Maine.
By Mr. William Wilson, a petition of sundry inhabitants of Oswego, in the State of New York, and of Montrose, in the State of Pennsylvania, respectively praying for the establishment of post-routes.
By Mr. Mason, a petition of Stephen Jenks and others, late contractors for supplying arms for the army of the United States, praying to be allowed an additional sum in the settlement of their accounts, as they allege the said arms cost them a sum much greater than that contracted for with the public.
By Mr. Parris, a petition of Joseph Coffin Boyd, late a paymaster in the army of the United States; stating that he paid a sum of money to a certain Joseph Westcott, a captain of volunteers in actual service, to be by him paid to the said company, which sum of money was accidentally lost by the said Westcott, and praying to be exonerated from his liability to the United States for the same.
By Mr. Irving, of N. Y. a petition of Willet Coles, confined in jail at the suit of the United States, praying to be released from his confinement.
By Mr. Irving, of N. Y. also, a petition of John M. Ryer, praying to be remunerated for his expenditures and services in fitting out a vessel with the intention of destroying the armed vessels of the enemy during the late war with Great Britain, in pursuance of the act of the 3d of March, 1813, entitled "An act to encourage the destruction of the armed vessels of war of the enemy;" in which enterprise he succeeded in destroying several armed boats and barges.
By Mr. Root, a petition of Henry Bradley, late a lieutenant of militia in the actual service of the United States, praying to be remunerated for the expenses incurred by him while sick, on his way home, after his discharge.
By Mr. Jackson, a petition of Mary Riggs, widow of Cyrus Riggs, deceased, who died of sickness contracted while in the militia service of the United States, praying that the pension allowed to the widows and children of militia soldiers, who died previous to their discharge from service, may be granted to her and the five orphan children of the deceased.
By Mr. Hugh Nelson, the petition of William Tatham, heretofore presented.
By Mr. Blount, sundry resolutions adopted at a meeting of sundry inhabitants of Blount county, in the State of Tennessee, respecting the situation of land titles in that county, the grievances of the people in consequence of the conflicting claims arising under the States of North Carolina and Tennessee, and soliciting that so much of the act of 1805, as fixes a specific price for the public lands within the said State of Tennessee, and as appropriates certain described parts of the same for the benefit of seminaries of learning, may be repealed.
By Mr. Lattimore, a petition of sundry inhabitants of the Mississippi territory, praying to be permitted to remain on the public lands on which they now reside, until the same shall be offered at public sale.

Wednesday, January 22.
By Mr. Vose, a petition of sundry inhabitants of Springfield, in Massachusetts, praying for the establishment of a post route.
By Mr. Gold, a petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Oneida, Oswego, Cayuga, Ontario and Genesee, in the State of New York, also praying for the establishment of a post route.
By Mr. Mosely, a petition of Alexander Wolcott, collector for the customs for the district of Middletown, praying for an increase of compensation.
By Mr. Clark, of N. Y. a petition of Justus Ingersoll, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States, praying for a pension.
By Mr. Savage, a petition of John Hubbard, a soldier in the revolutionary army, also praying for a pension.
By Mr. Clark, of N. Y. the petition of Erastus Granger, heretofore presented.
By Mr. Brooks, a petition of sundry inhabitants of Ontario county, in the State of New York, praying that the mails may not be transported or opened on Sundays.
By Mr. Wm. P. Maclay, a petition of sundry manufacturers of iron, in the State of Pennsylvania, praying that additional duties may be imposed on foreign iron imported into the United States.
By Mr. Hopkinson, a petition of Ann Feran, praying to be paid the amount of wages due for the services of her son John Feran, as a sailor in the navy of the United States, who was lost in the brig Epervier.
By Mr. Savage, a petition of Luther Drury, jun. who, at the commencement of the late war with Great Britain, was an inhabitant of the province of Canada, which he left and joined the American army as a volunteer, praying for a grant of land in virtue of an act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers.

Thursday, January 23.
By Mr. Hulbert, a petition of sundry inhabitants of the towns of Becket and Washington, in Massachusetts, in opposition to the practice of opening and transporting the mails on Sundays.
By Mr. Baylies, a petition of Elias Ware, a soldier in the revolutionary army, praying for a pension.
By Mr. Pickering, a petition of Daniel Simmons, an officer of the revolutionary army, also praying for a pension.
By Mr. Johnson, of Ky. documents in support of the application of Armistead Whitehead, for an increase of his pension.
By Mr. Wendover, a petition of the merchants and ship owners in the city of New-York, praying that an act may be passed, imposing such restrictions on the commerce of foreign nations with, and on the shipping of said nations entering into, the ports of the United States, as are imposed by them, or either of them, on the commerce of the United States, or on the shipping of the same, entering the ports of such foreign nation or nations.
By Mr. Johnson, of Ky. a petition of Ebenezer Mosier, guardian of the infant children of Thomas Howard, deceased, late of the city of Hudson, in the State of New York, who died while a soldier in the army of the United States, praying for a grant of the land to which the deceased was entitled for his services as a soldier aforesaid.
By Mr. Johnson, of Ky. also, a petition of sundry officers and privates of the 17th regiment of Kentucky militia, commanded by colonel Francisco, which said regiment was called into actual service for six months, but before the expiration of that term, they were discharged, and praying to be allowed pay for the said term of six months.
By Mr. Robertson, a petition of Samuel Harper, Register of the Land Office for the Eastern district of Louisiana, praying compensation for his services in bringing to the city of Washington the report on the claims to land in the said district.

Friday, January 24.
By Mr. King, of Mass. a petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Saco, in the District of Maine, against the practice of transporting and opening the mails on Sundays.
By Mr. Clayton, a petition of John Fisher, judge of the District Court, in and for the district of Delaware, praying that so much of an act of the 18th of December, 1812, concerning the district and territorial judges of the United States, as debars the petitioner from the practice of law in the state courts, may be repealed, or that his salary may be increased.
By Mr. Archer, a petition of John Chalmers, jr. praying compensation for a rope walk, which was situated in the city of Washington, and destroyed partly by the troops of the United States, and partly by the enemy, in the month of August, 1814.
By Mr. Pope, a petition of the legislature of the Territory of Illinois, praying that the inhabitants who resided on the frontiers of that territory, and were compelled to encounter the enemy during the late war between the United States and Great Britain and her Indian allies, may be allowed the pay and emoluments of soldiers of the army of the United States.
By Mr. Herbert, a petition of George G. Gutter, praying for a pension.
By Mr. Hugh Nelson, a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Albemarle, in the state of Virginia, praying for the establishment of a post-route.
By Mr. Lattimore, documents in support of the petitions of William Collins and Ann Brashears.
By Mr. Pope, a petition of Pierre Baribeau, praying for a confirmation of his title to a tract of land in the Illinois Territory.
By Mr. Pope, also, a petition of the inhabitants of Prairie du Chien, in the territory of Illinois, praying for a confirmation of their respective titles to town lots, and the tracts of land occupied by them.
By Mr. Pope, also, a petition of Archibald M'Donald, praying to be allowed and paid for his services as an ensign in captain Boone's company of Rangers.
By Mr. Hendricks, the petition of sundry inhabitants of Knox county, in the state of Indiana, heretofore presented.

Saturday, January 25.
By Mr. Brown, a deposition of Daniel Richards and Joshua Humphrey, stating the capture of the schooner Henry, while engaged in a fishing voyage on the coast of Nova-Scotia, by a British brig of war.
By Mr. King, of Mass. a petition of Nathaniel Seaey, stating that during the late war with Great Britain, he, with a certain Richworth Mason and Daniel Toby, captured three of the crew of a British ship of war, and delivered them as prisoners of war into the custody of the officer of the United States, and praying compensation therefor.
By Mr. Reed, the petition of Eleazer Nickerson, heretofore presented.
By Mr. Wendover, a petition of James J. Ryan, a captain of volunteers in the service of the United States, during the late war with G. Britain, praying compensation for his services, and a reimbursement of his expenditures in raising and equipping his company, which has been refused to him, because he was at that time an alien.
By Mr. Middleton, a petition of William Smith, senior, confined in prison in Charleston, at the suit of the United States, praying to be discharged from his imprisonment.
By Mr. Forsyth, a petition of Christiana Hamilton and Samuel S. Hamilton, praying compensation for their property which was destroyed by the British forces on the capture of the city of Washington; the house in which they resided, being burned, because, as they believe, it was conceived by the enemy to be public property, or in the occupation of the public as an office.
By Mr. Robertson, petitions from Joseph M'Neil, and Berthelemy Duverges, respectively praying compensation for their property, which was used and consumed by the American troops during the military operations near New Orleans, at the close of the late war with Great Britain.
By Mr. Clendennin, a petition of Elisha Whittlesey, praying that eighteen thousand acres of land, lying at or near the mouth of Cuyahoga river on Lake Erie, may be granted to him and his associates, upon their completing a good and sufficient canal from the mouth of said river into Sandusky bay on said lake.
By Mr. Lattimore, a petition of Samuel Dale, stating that he purchased a quantity of coffee of a certain John Cornels, a half bred Creek Indian, which he transported by land into the state of Georgia, where it was seized, libelled, condemned and sold for a violation of the act imposing import duties, and alleging that he was ignorant of any such act, and praying such relief in the premises as Congress may think proper to grant.

Monday, January 27.
By Mr. Mason, a petition of the officers and soldiers of the Rhode Island brigade in the revolutionary army, their heirs and representatives, praying compensation for the services of the said brigade.
By Mr. Hopkinson, a petition of James Donalier, praying for a pension, and for the pay due for his services as a soldier in the revolutionary army.
By Mr. Southard, the petition of Daniel Moffett, heretofore presented.
By Mr. Boss, a petition of Stephen T. Northam, John G. Whitehorn and Samuel Whitehorn, praying for the remission of a part of the duties imposed on their distillery, as the said distillery was so injured by a storm and rising of the waters so as to render it wholly useless.
By Mr. Breckenridge, a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Rockbridge, in Virginia, praying that certain forfeitures incurred by them in their distilling business may be remitted, and that discounts may be allowed to those whose distilleries were unemployed, and whose licenses had not expired on the first of July last.
By Mr. Condict, a petition of sundry manufacturers of bar iron, in New-Jersey, praying that additional duties may be laid on that article imported into the United States.
By Mr. Law, a petition of Martin Warner, of Derby, in the state of Connecticut, praying to be allowed the bounty on a fishing voyage, denied him by the collector of the district of Fairfield, on account of an irregularity in the clearance of his vessel.
By Mr. Hopkinson, a petition of Timothy Currin, praying compensation for the use of his house in Philadelphia, as an hospital, as also for the damages sustained by the house during the said occupancy.
By Mr. Alexander, a petition of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery, Miami, and Champaign counties in Ohio, praying for the establishment of a post route.
By Mr. Lattimore, a petition of William Gabriel, and Thomas Scott, and Elizabeth Bowles praying that their title to a tract of land in the Mississippi Territory, may be confirmed.

Tuesday, January 28.
By Mr. Vose, a petition of sundry inhabitants of Hartford, in the state of Connecticut, praying for the establishment of a post route.
By Mr. Caldwell, a petition of sundry inhabitants of Belmont, in the state of Ohio, also praying for the establishment of a post route.
By Mr. Irving, of N. Y. a petition of Henry Lee, merchant, of Boston; stating that subsequent to the operation of the act laying a new tariff on imports, he imported into New York in a British ship, a quantity of goods from the British possessions in the East Indies, and praying that the said goods may not be charged with higher duties than if they had been imported in an American vessel.
By Mr. Wm. P. Maclay, a petition of sundry manufacturers of cast and wrought iron in Huntingdon county, in Pennsylvania, praying that additional duties may be imposed on those articles imported into the United States.
By Mr. Herbert, a petition of sundry pilots for the Potomac river and Chesapeake bay, residing in Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, praying that the provisions of the act of the State of Maryland, passed in the year 1803, may be extended to the county of Alexandria in the said district, and that a Board of Wardens may be constituted to decide upon the qualifications of persons offering themselves as pilots.
By Mr. Irving, of N. Y. a petition of the President and Directors of the Dutchess county Slate Company, in the State of New York, praying that the present ad valorem duty upon foreign Slates may be discontinued; and that, in lieu thereof, a specific duty may be imposed on that article imported into the United States.
By Mr. Smith, of Md. a petition of John Wilmot, praying that the duties paid into the Treasury on a cargo of merchandize imported into the United States in the year 1807, in the schr. Collector, may be refunded to him, as the Supreme Court of the United States have decided that duties were not payable on the said cargo.
By Mr. Wendover, a petition of George Buckmaster, boat-builder in the city of New York, praying to be paid for a number of whale boats built for the service of the United States, in the late war with Great Britain, by order of general George Izard.
By Mr. Bassett, documents in support of the petition of captain Teakle Savage.
By Mr. Edwards, a petition of Lavinia Hawkins, widow of Benjamin Hawkins, late agent for Indian affairs in the Creek nation, praying for a confirmation of the grant of the lands granted by the said Creek Indians to the said Benjamin Hawkins, his wife and children, at the treaty concluded with them by general Jackson on the 9th of August, 1814.
By Mr. Harrison, petitions from sundry inhabitants of the State of Ohio, praying that certain lands in said State ceded to the United States by the Indians, at the treaty of Greenville, and reserved, may be sold on the terms and conditions on which other public lands of the United States are sold.
By Mr. Wilde, the petition of Thomas Carr, heretofore presented.
By Mr. Harrison, a petition of Waterman Harris, praying for a grant of the land to which he conceives himself entitled for his services as a soldier in the late army, and that his present pension may be increased.
By Mr. Lattimore, a petition of William Hargrove, an officer of the revolutionary army, praying to be allowed and paid a commutation of half pay, to which he is entitled for his services as an officer aforesaid, and that some relief may be extended to him for his sufferings while in captivity, nearly six years, in a Spanish colony by the officers of that nation.

Wednesday, January 29.
By Mr. Hulbert, a petition of the Berkshire Association for the promotion of Agriculture and Manufactures, in Massachusetts, praying that the aid of the national government may be extended to the promotion of the interests of agriculture and manufactures, either by the establishment of a national board, or by such other measures as in the wisdom of Congress may seem meet and proper.
By Mr. Wendover, a petition of the American Society for the encouragement of domestic manufactures, representing the depressed and distressed condition of the manufacturing establishments throughout the United States, and praying that the duties imposed by the new tariff may be made permanent; that the importation of cotton manufactures from places beyond the Cape of Good Hope may be prohibited,—that further & more efficient provisions may be adopted to prevent smuggling, false invoices and other frauds on the revenue—that a duty of ten per cent. be laid on auction sales of foreign goods; and that such additional aid and protection may be extended to them generally, as will place them beyond that foreign influence which aims at their destruction.
By Mr. Hopkinson, a petition of Catharine Robertson, late the widow of Jacob Ritter, praying compensation for supplies furnished by the said Jacob Ritter to the revolutionary army.
By Mr. Smith, of Md. a petition of Zebulon Hollingsworth, stating that a judgment was irregularly and improperly obtained against him at the suit of the United States, and that he is now in confinement under said judgment, and praying that he may be released from his confinement—that the said judgment may be rescinded and that he may be permitted to plead the general issue; by which course alone, he states that he can obtain that justice which is the right of every American citizen.
By the Speaker, a petition of the second convention of the Manumission Society of Tennessee, praying that the objects of their association may be taken into the serious consideration of Congress, and that such aid may be afforded to them as may be within the constitutional powers of the general government.
By Mr. Robertson, petitions of Jacques Villerie, Antonio Bienvenue and Peter Lacoste, respectively stating that a considerable number of their slaves were carried out of the United States by the British army upon its retreat from the neighbourhood of New Orleans, and praying such relief in the premises as Congress may think proper to grant.
(To be Continued.)