The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

CONGRESS.

SENATE.

THURSDAY, March 1.

Mr. Sherman, from the joint committee appointed to consider and report what business is necessary to be done by Congress in the present session, and what part of the business now depending may be without great inconvenience postponed to the next session of Congress, that the proceedings may be so regulated as to close this Session, by the first Tuesday of April next,--Reported; and the report was read, and ordered to lie for consideration.

The report is as follows:

1 A bill for regulating processes in the Courts of the United States
2 A bill on the report of the secretary of the treasury, on the subject of the public debt
3 Amendments to the excise act
4 The bill for the protection of the frontiers
5 An act for apportioning the number of representatives
6 A bill providing for the settlement of claims of persons under particular circumstances, barred by the resolves of limitation
7 A bill for the relief of certain widows, orphans, invalids, and other persons
8 A bill to regulate the claims to half pay and invalid pensioners
9 A bill to compensate the officers of the customs
10 A bill for compensating the loan officers
11 A bill for registering vessels
12 A bill for regulating the coasting trade
13 A bill for regulating the militia
14. A bill for establishing a mint.
15. A bill to provide the monies necessary for protecting the frontiers.
16. A bill for making alterations in the treasury and war department.

The Committee further report, that in their opinion, it will be expedient to attend to the following business during the present session, if it can be done before the first Tuesday of April next, at which time the two Houses have proposed to adjourn.

1. A bill respecting fugitives from justice.
2. A bill concerning the office of Attorney-General.
3. A bill to reimburse the expenses of the late commissioners for trading with the Creek Indians.
4. A bill granting further compensations to certain receivers of continental taxes.
5. A bill for giving efficacy to certain acts of Georgia, Maryland, and Rhode-Island.
6. A bill concerning consuls and vice consuls.
7. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of manufactures.
8. A bill to direct the finishing a light-house on Bald Head, in North-Carolina.

The Committee are further of opinion, that the consideration of the following subjects may, without inconvenience, be postponed until the next session.

1. A bill to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes.
2. A bill to establish a land office for the sale of the Western Lands.
3. A bill respecting bankruptcy.
4. The Attorney-General's Report on the judicial system.
5. Propositions of amendments to the constitution.