The Delaware Gazette

Congressional Register
In Senate.
Monday, December 11.

Mr. Pope, from the select committee to whom was referred the bill from the house of Representatives supplementary to the act extending the right of suffrage to the Indiana Territory and for other purposes, reported the same without amendment; and the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

Mr. Pope, agreeably to notice, presented a bill in addition to an act regulating the laying out and making a turnpike road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio. [The bill contemplates an additional appropriation of 50,000 dollars for this object.]
The bill was read and passed to a second reading.

The bill to repeal an act entitled an act to suspend for a limited time the recruiting service, was read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

The resolution approving the conduct of the executive in refusing to receive any further communications from Mr. Jackson, the British minister, was read a third time; and, without debate, on the motion of Mr. Goodrich, was decided by yeas and nays as follows:

Yeas--Messrs. Bradley, Brent, Condit, Crawford, Gaillard, German, Giles, Gilman, Gregg, Grayson, Lambert, Leib, Meigs, Matthewson, Parker, Pope, Reed, Smith of Md. Sumter, Taylor--20.

Nays--Mr. Goodrich, Hillhouse, Lloyd, Pickering--4.

Absent on this vote Messrs. Anderson, Bayard, Champlin, Franklin, Robinson, Smith of N. Y. Tait, Thruston, and the delegates from Vermont: of whom those in italics have not appeared in their seats during the present session.

The bill to prevent the abuse of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by foreign ministers within the United States, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading without debate.

December 12.

The bill supplemental to the act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana Territory was read the third time and passed.

The bill to repeal the act for suspending for a limited time the recruiting service was read a third time; and, on motion of Mr. Bradley, the further consideration of the bill was ordered to be postponed to the 1st day of August next.

House of Representatives.
Monday, Dec. 11.

The following gentlemen compose the committee of post office and post roads, to which has been referred a number of petitions and resolutions on the subject of post roads: Messrs. Rhea, (Pa.) Helms, Thompson, Desha, Stanford, Calhoun, Troup, Morrow, Davenport, Crittenden, Goldsborough, Whitehill, Potter, J. Smith, Upham and Wilson.

On motion of Bacon,
Resolved, That a committee be appointed for the purpose of enquiring whether any and what alterations or amendments are necessary to be made in the act entitled "An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose;" and that said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise.

Mr. Whitman, from the committee appointed on the 8th inst. to present to the president of the United States a resolution of the same date, reported that the committee had performed the duty assigned them, and that the president had signified that the information requested (relative to Danish, British and French captures of our vessels) should be communicated so soon as it could be prepared by the proper department.

On motion of Mr. Morrow, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Helms in the chair, on the bill allowing further time for issuing and locating military land warrants.

The blanks in the bill were filled so as to allow a further term of three years for that purpose. The committee then rose and reported the bill, which as amended was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.

A paper was received from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their secretary, in the form of a joint resolution, approving the conduct of the executive in relation to the refusal to receive any further communications from Jackson.

The resolution was read a first and second time, referred to a committee of the whole, and made the order of the day for Thursday next.

Tuesday, Dec. 12.

A letter was received from the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing a statement of the district tonnage of the United States.

A report was also received from the Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the act for regulating the currency of foreign coins.

Several petitions of a private nature were presented and referred.

Washington, D.C.
16, 1809.