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Alexandria, Virginia
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U.S. House of Representatives proceedings on February 19, 1803: bills introduced for Wabash River improvements, Mississippi navigation petition, land grants south of Tennessee, navy appropriations for 1803, insurance in Alexandria, and naturalization act amendments; debates and referrals occurred.
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OF THE UNITED STATES.
House of Representatives.
Saturday, February 19.
A bill was read appropriating 2000 dollars for the working of the Wabash rivers.
Referred to a committee of the house on Monday.
Mr. Hoge presented a petition from a number of inhabitants of Pennsylvania respecting the obstructed navigation of the Mississippi.
Referred to a committee of the whole on the state of the union.
Mr. Nicholson reported a bill for regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of lands south of Tennessee.
Referred to a committee of the whole on Tuesday next.
Mr. Nicholson also reported a bill for settling sundry claims to the public lands of the United States south of Tennessee.
Referred to a committee of the whole on Tuesday next.
Mr. Nicholson, chairman of the committee who reported the above bills, stated that the claimants of the lands of the United States, lying south of Tennessee, had applied to the committee to be heard before them by Counsel. The committee, being of opinion that time would be gained by hearing the counsel before the house, submitted a resolution that counsel should be heard at the bar of the house on Tuesday.
On taking up the resolution, a debate ensued. Mess. Nicholson, Bayard, Bacon, Griswold, and R. Williams, supported, and Mr. Randolph opposed taking it into consideration: when it was carried without a division.
The resolution offered by Mr. Nicholson, then passed. Ayes 47.
After discussion the bill making an appropriation for the Navy for the year 1803 in committee of the whole, it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday.
The bill concerning the insuring of buildings, goods and furniture in the county of Alexandria, in the territory of Columbia, was ordered to a third reading on Monday.
Mr. Leib call for the bill to amend the naturalization act: on which the house went into committee of the whole. Mr. Varnum in the chair.
The bill exempts those aliens who came into the United States between June 1798 and April 1802 from the obligation of declaring their intention to become citizens.
Mr. Bayard spoke against and Mr. S. Smith in favor of the bill.
Mr. Goddard being adverse to the bill moved that the committee should rise, in order to dismiss them from any further consideration of it.
This motion was supported by Mess. Bayard and Thatcher, and opposed by Mess. S. Smith, Leib, and Smilie, and was lost, Ayes 30, Noes 42.
When the Committee reported the bill, and the House ordered it to a third reading on Monday.
(A more particular detail of proceedings hereafter.)
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Saturday, February 19, 1803
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House proceedings included reading a bill for $2000 Wabash River appropriation referred to committee; Pennsylvania petition on Mississippi navigation referred; bills reported on land grants and claims south of Tennessee with resolution to hear counsel passed 47 ayes; navy appropriation bill for 1803 ordered engrossed; Alexandria insurance bill to third reading; naturalization amendment bill debated and ordered to third reading after motion to dismiss lost 30-42.