Gazette Of The United States

CONGRESS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, May 4

Messrs. Bradbury, Kitchell, Kittera, Reed, Sitgreaves, Brent, and Hartley, presented petitions in favor of the British treaty, and Mr. Christie one against it, which were ordered to lie upon the table.

Mr. Goodhue, chairman of the committee of commerce and manufactures, reported a bill for the relief of Samuel Brown, another for the relief of Moses Miers, another for the erection of a Light House on Cape Cod, and one for the establishment of certain new ports of entry and delivery, which were severally twice read and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

Mr. Goodhue also made a report on the petitions of certain custom house officers, recommending that they should lie over till the next session. Agreed to.

Mr. Nicholas, Chairman of the committee appointed to confer with a committee from the Senate, with respect to the business which remained necessary to be finished before the session ended, and when it would be proper to adjourn the same, reported it as the recommendation of that committee, that the session should be adjourned on the 20th of the present month. He also reported a list of business which was entitled to a preference.

The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the report of the committee on the subject of post offices and post roads, which, having gone through, and made several amendments, the house took up the consideration of them, and the report referred to a select committee to bring in a bill or bills.

Mr. Sitgreaves, chairman of the committee appointed to consider upon the petition of certain attorneys respecting the holding of the district courts of the U. States at Yorktown and Philadelphia, reported a recommendation that that part of the act which directs the sessions to be held alternately at Philadelphia and Yorktown, be repealed, &c. and some other regulations made. The report was agreed to, and a bill directed to be brought in.

The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole upon the report of the committee to whom was referred the message of the President, respecting the forming of the territory south of the river Ohio, into a new state by the name of the Tennessee, and several documents relative thereto having been read, the committee rose and had leave to sit again.

A message was received from the Senate informing the house that the Senate had agreed to the several bills for carrying into effect the four treaties lately concluded. Two trifling amendments were made in that for carrying into effect the treaty with Spain, which were taken up and agreed to.

The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill allowing a certain compensation for horses killed in battle, which having gone through the house took it up, and ordered it to be engrossed for a third reading. Adjourned.