Daily National Intelligencer

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25.

Mr. Little laid before the House certain resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland, requesting the attention of Congress to the defenceless state of the Chesapeake Bay, the expediency of a naval depot on its waters, &c. which were read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Nelson, from the committee on the Judiciary, reported a bill more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes

Mr. Lowndes, from the committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill supplementary to the act of 1799, to regulate the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage; & also from the same committee, a bill for the relief of Benjamin Pool.

Mr. Robertson, from the committee on the Public Lands, made a report accompanied by a bill, for the relief of the inhabitants of Prairie du Chien; and from the same committee a report accompanied by a bill for the relief of William Barton,

These bills was severally twice read and committed.

Mr. Lowndes, from the committee of Ways and Means, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Samuel Buell. which was read and concurred in.

Mr. Williams, of North-Carolina, from the committee of Claims. made unfavorable reports on the petitions of John Chalmers, and of Lawrence Muse and William Gordon, which were read, and the first ordered to lie on the table, and the second committed to a committee of the whole House.

Mr. W also from the said committee, made unfavorable reports on the petitions of Joseph Herrick and of Diego M'Boy, William Fisher, John Bouyage and Mary Ann Bouyage, which were severally concurred in.

Mr. Whitman. from a select committee made an unfavorable report on the petition of Daniel Pettibone and others, which as read and concurred in.

After referring to the inconvenience often experienced by committees of the House, particularly that of elections. from a want of the statutes of the respective states, Mr. Taylor of New York moved the following resolution, which was agreed to:

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House procure a copy of the last edition of the statutes of the several states, to be kept in his office for the use of the members

On motion of Mr. Hubbard, the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims were instructed to enquire into the expediency of placing Oliver Pilsipher on the pension list.

On motion of Mr. Crawford, the committee on Post Offices and Post Roads were instructed to enquire into the expediency of establishing a new post road from Milledgeville to Greensborough, by way of Eatonton and Garner's ferry, in the state of Georgia.

The bill from the Senate to alter and amend the act establishing a separate territorial government in the territory of Alabama was twice read and referred.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury, transmitting the annual list rendered to him by the Register of the Treasury, of balances on his books due more than three years, and remaining unsettled on the 30th September last.

The Speaker also laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the commissioner of Claims, in answer to the resolution of the House of the 13th inst.