Laws of the United States.

RESOLUTION concerning the recording of Patents for employ a skilful assistant in the corps of engineers, be,

To the War Department, thirteen copies, namely: for the use of the Secretary, one copy; for the use of the Commanding General of the Army of the United States, the Paymaster General, the Adjutant General, the Commissary General of Purchases, the Ordnance Department, Commissary General of Subsistence, Quartermaster General, Engineer Department, Topographical Bureau, one copy each; and for the use of the Military Academy, three copies.

included a correct list, in the next Register, of all printers gister, Solicitor, and Commissioner of the General Land of the laws of the United States subsequent to the thirti-Office, one copy each. eth of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one to the thirtieth September, one thousand eight huudred and thirty-three, with the compensation allowed each; and of all printers, within the period aforesaid, in any way employed by Congress, or by any department or officer of the Government, with the compensation allow ed to each, designating the department or officer causing the printing to be executed; and that the said Register shall contain a correct statement of all allowances made by the Post Master General, within the period last aforesaid, to each contractor or contractors for carrying the mail, discriminating the sum paid as stipulated by the original contract, and the sum as additional allowance. And, to enable the Secretary of State to comply with this resolution, the several heads of departments, and officers directing or incurring the expense, or making the allowances mentioned, shall cause the lists, and the matter hereby required to be added, to be lodged in the office of the Department of State, as is directed in other cases by the resolution of April twenty seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

Resolved, That the said Register shall contain a correct list of the Presidents, Cashiers, and Directors of the Bank of the United States and its Branches, in office on the thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and thirtythree; which list shall be transmitted by the President of said bank to the Secretary of State by the first Monday of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. Resolved, That all Biennial Registers, under the said resolution of April twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall hereafter be compiled and published conformably to the principles therein and here by established.

Approved: July 14, 1832.

RESOLUTION directing the distribution of a compilation of Congressional Documents, and for other pur poses.

Resolved, &c. That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, directed to distribute, by mail or otherwise, the compilation of documents directed to be published by the act entitled "An act making provision for a subscrip. tion to a compilation of Congressional Documents," approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, in the following manner, to wit:

To the President of the United States, and to each person who has been President, one copy.

To the Vice President of the United States, one copy. To the Department of State, four copies, viz: one for the use of the Secretary, one to be deposited in the Patent Office, and the two others to remain in the library of that Department.

To the Navy Department, fifty-four copies, namely: for the use of the Secretary one copy; for the use of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, one copy; and to enable the Secretary of the Navy to place one copy in every public armed vessel of the United States, when in commission, under such regulations as the said Secretary shall prescribe, fifty-two copies.

To the General Post Office, three copies, namely: for the use of the Postmaster General, one copy, and for the use of each of the Assistants Postmasters General, one copy. To the Library of Congress, five copies. To the Library of the Senate, ten copies.

To the Library of the House of Representatives, twenty copies.

To each member of the Senate and House of Representatives and Delegates of the twenty-first and twentysecond Congresses, one copy.

To the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, each one copy.

To Mr. O. Rich, agent for the Congress Library, in London, one copy, to be disposed of by him in some suitable manner, in return for a donation made by authority of the British Government, to the Library of Congress, of the volumes of the Record Commission publications.

To supply the several States and Territories of the United States, eighty-one copies, viz: for the use of the Governor and each branch of the Legislature of every State, one copy; for the use of the Governor of each of the Territories, one copy; and two copies to be deposited in the archives of each of said Territories, for the use of the Legislature thereof.

To each incorporated college and athenæum in the United States, not exceeding sixty-nine, one copy.

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That of the copies of the Secret Journals of the old Congress, remaining for distribution, there be a further distribution as follows, namely: that one copy of each volume be delivered to each member of both Houses of Congress; and that the residue remain for a future order of distribution.

SEC. 3. And be it further resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House be, and here. by are, directed to divide the remaining documents of the two Houses from the fourteenth to the eighteenth ConFor the Ministers of the United States in foreign coun-gress inclusive, and to keep them for the use of each tries, fifty copies, to be deposited in, and distributed un-House in their respective libraries. der such regulations as may be made by, the Department of State.

To the Treasury Department, twelve copies, namely: for the use of the Secretary, one copy; and for the use of the First and Second Comptrollers, the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Auditors; the Treasurer, Re

Sec. 4. And be it further resolved, That the copies of the Journal of the Convention for forming the present Constitution, remaining for distribution, be equally divid· ed between the two Houses of Congress, to be kept in their respective libraries.

Approved: July 10, 1832.

INDEX TO THE DEBATES IN THE SENATE.

read the third time and passed, 58.
Belgium, mission to, (See appropriation bill.)
Appropriations, the general appropriation bill taken up, British colonial trade, (See West Indies and general appro-

Day of Humiliation, a resolution to appoint a joint com- Houston Samuel, a message from the House of Represen
mittee to wait on the President, and request him
to appoint a day to be observed as a day of gene-
ral humiliation and prayer to God, that He may,
in his mercy, avert from our country the Asiatic
plague, 1128; agreed to, 1130.

Department of State, (See State Department.)
Discriminating duties with Spain, a message from the
President, communicated a report from the Se-
cretary of State, on the subject of the abolition

tatives, requesting that leave be given to four
of the members of the Senate, to attend the
House, for the purpose of giving evidence on
the trial of Houston; leave given, 802.
Humiliation and prayer, (See day of.)
Hunt, Jonathan, a member of the House of Representa-
tives from Vermont, his death announced, and
orders entered into for his funeral, 931.

of the discriminating duties now existing on Indians,
Spanish vessels. Referred to the Committee on
Finance, 1124.

Dividends, the amount of unclaimed, of the funded debt,
the Secretary of the Treasury called upon to
communicate, 224; taken up, after some discus-
sion laid on the table, 639.

Durbin, Rev. Mr. of Kentucky, elected Chaplain on the
part of the Senate, 9.

Duty on Tea, a report of a committee on memorials of
merchants, pray for a further reduction of, 6;
report considered and debated, 12; laid on the
table, 19.

Indian blankets, a bill to reduce it, referred to the
Committee on Manufactures, 49.
Refunding of, a bill to exempt, in certain cases,
from the operation of the tariff act of 1828,
taken up, considered, and ordered to lie on the
table, 590; taken up, amended, and ordered to
be engrossed, 647, and passed.

remission of, a bill for the relief of B. J. Flaget,
(intended to remit the duties on certain paint-
ings, &c., presented to the Catholic Church, by
two foreign potentates;) ordered to a third read-
ing, 592, and passed.

Election of officers of the Senate, 6.
Executive powers, resolutions submitted on the subject of
the President's removal of public officers, 181.
proceedings, 1310.

Extension of Patents, (See Patents.)

Flaget, Bishop Benedict, a bill for the relief of, introduc-

ed and ordered to a third reading, 592.

Foreign Intercourse, (See appropriation bill.)

Mr. Frelinghuysen submitted two resolutions in
reference to treaties entered into with the Che-
rokees, 223.

vaccination of, (See Vaccination.)

the bill making appropriations for the Indian De-
partment for the year 1832, considered, and
ordered to be engrossed, 978; passed.

a bill to appoint a Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
988; ordered to be read a third time.

a bill to reappropriate the unexpended balances of
former appropriations, taken up, discussed, and
ordered to be read a third time, 991.
Insolvent Debtors, a bill in addition to an act for the relief
of insolvent debtors of the United States, 1089.
Internal Improvements, a bill for the improvement of the
Wabash river, &c.; referred to the Committee
on Roads and Canals, 592.

bill from the House of Representatives, making
appropriations for certain internal improvements,
read a second time, and referred to the Commit-
tee on Commerce, 938; discussed, 1120; passed,
1156.

a bill granting to the State of Missouri 500,000
acres of land for the purpose of internal im-
provement, was twice read, 592.

a resolution was offered to allow 500,000 acres of
land to the State of Louisiana, to aid in keeping
open their water courses, &c.; and another,
granting a like quantity to Mississippi, for pur-
poses of internal improvement.

a bill granting certain public lands to the States of
Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana, taken up,
discussed, and ordered to be engrossed, 1091;
again taken up and discussed, and laid on the
table, 1092.

Fortifications, a bill for the armament of, introduced, 26; Interest on protested drafts, a resolution to authorize the

discussed and indefinitely postponed, 31.

France, outfit to, (See appropriation bill.)
French Spoliations, motion made to take up the bill pro-
viding satisfaction for claims due to American
citizens for spoliations, negatived, 1080; taken
up, discussed, and laid on the table, 1081; sub-
ject resumed, the bill discussed and amended;
the bill again taken up and ordered to be en-
grossed, 1201; passed.
Free bridge over the Potomac, a bill for constructing a
new free bridge over the Potomac, at Washing-
ton, discussed and passed, 1296.

Frontier, a bill introduced authorizing the President to

raise five companies of rangers for the protec-
tion of the Northwestern Frontier, read twice,
and referred to the Committee on Military affairs,
1068; a message from the House of Representa-
tives, proposed certain amendments to the bill,
which were discussed, 1075, and laid on the table.

Guatemala, appropriation for a mission to, (See appropria-
tion bill)

Gwin, Samuel, his nomination as register of a land office,
rejected, 1417; nominated as register at a differ-
ent office; laid on the table, 1418

Harbor bill, (See Internal Improvements.)

Iron for

Judges,

Secretary of the Navy to allow interest in certain
cases; laid on the table, 954.
rail roads, (See Rail-roads.)

a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee
to inquire into the expediency of providing a
more permanent tenure of office, or for a differ-
ent mode of appointing them; agreed to, 462.
Judiciary, the general appropriation bill under considera-
tion; the increased expenses of courts discussed,
679.

the proposed increased appropriation negatived,
795.

a motion carried, to reconsider the above vote,
796.
resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to
inquire if any further measures be necessary 10
enforce the judgment or decrees of the Supreme
Court; agreed to, 964.

Johnston, honorable Charles C. one of the members of
the House of Representatives, from Virginia, his
death announced; measures taken for his fune
ral, 1093.

Land Patents, the Vice President laid before the Senate,
a report from the Commissioner of the General

Land Office, stating that there are 10,590 patents
waiting for the signature of the President, 1119.
Land, Public, a bill from the Committee on Public Lands,

President's messages to the Senate, in relation
thereto, 1386, 1387, 1388, 1389.
proceedings and debates thereon, 1367, 1394.

Officers of the Senate, (See election of.)
Order, points of, decided, 105, 333, 651, 660, 740, 786,
950, 1277, 1281, 1295.

for reducing the price of lands, was taken up
and considered; seventy-five cents, as the price
per acre, was stricken out, and fifty cents insert-
ed; the bill was ordered to a third reading.
resolution proposing to instruct the Committee on
Manufactures to inquire into the expediency of
distributing the lands, or the proceeds thereof,
among the several States; laid on the table, 638. Patents,
the amendments of the House to the bill supple.

Ordnance, a bill providing for the better organization of
the Corps, taken up and passed, 65.

extension of, a bill authorizing letters patent to
be issued to Thomas
and James Long;
recommitted, 996.
land, (See Land.)
Patent Office, resolution for recording patents for useful
inventions, was taken up, and passed, 487.
Pensions, (See Revolutionary Pensions.)

mentary to the several laws to dispose of public
lands were considered, one of them agreed to, Patents,
and the other laid on the table, 647; it was again
considered, and agreed to, 684.
Mr. Clay's bill for appropriating, for a limited
time, the proceeds of the sale of public lands
amongst the several States; read the first time,
785.

a motion made to take up Mr. Clay's bill for the
purpose of referring it to the Committee on
Public Lands; the motion to take up the bill was
carried, and the motion to refer it as proposed,
was laid on the table, 870; resumed 903, and
motion carried; report of the Land Committee,
931; bill taken up and discussed, 1096, 1129,
and passed, 1132.

Peters,

Richard, (Reporter,) offered a proposition for
publishing an edition of the laws, treaties, &c.
of the United States, which was referred to the
Library Committee, 412.

Pleasanton, Stephen, a bill for his relief, (Fifth Auditor
making him an allowance for extra services, in
acting as Solicitor of the Treasury;) was read a
third time and passed, 900.

Portuguese vessels, a bill to exempt Portuguese vessels
from the payment of duties on tonnage; ordered
to be engrossed, 796; passed, 822.

the bill to provide for the appointment of a Re-Post
corder of the General Land Office, was consi-
dered, and laid on the table, 902; bill called up,
amended, and laid on the table, 1059; ordered
to be engrossed for a third reading; the question
an engrossment was reconsidered, and the bill
was recommitted to the Land Committee, 1126;
the bill was again considered, amended, and
ordered to be engrossed, 1128, and passed.
Laurens, Colonel John, a bill for the relief of his per-
sonal representatives, 110; laid on the table,
113; taken up, discussed, and ordered to a third
reading, 939.

Lewis, John, Jr., a bill for his relief, to refund the amount
of certain duties; considered and laid on the
table, 902.

List of the Senators, 2.

Office and Post Roads, a bill from the House of Re-
presentatives, to establish certain post roads,
and establish others; the bill taken up, 761;
subject again resumed; an amendment proposed
and debated, to abolish newspaper postage,
875; negatived, 919; bill ordered to be engross-
ed, 919; passed, 930.

a bill introduced to repeal the postage on newspa-
pers, 930; twice read and referred to the Post
Office Committee; the committee report against
it, and recommend its indefinite postponement,
933; agreed to.

President's fac simile, (See Lands.)
Privilege of the Senate's officers, a resolution permitting
the assistant doorkeeper of the Senate to attend
as a witness before a committee of the House of
Representatives, 1127; laid on the table, 1128.
Public Documents, (See Congressional Documents.)
Public Expenditures, (See Barracks.)

Lowrie's, Mr. (Clerk of the Senate,) refutation of a cer- Protection of the frontier, (See Frontier.)
tain charge reported against him, 8.

Militia, resolution instructing the Committee on, to inquire
into the expediency of a new organization of, 6.
Mint, the annual report of the directors, 108.
Mitchell, honorable G. E., from Maryland, the annuncia-.
tion of his death; orders for his funeral, &c.,

1155.
Navy, a bill providing for the compensation of the Pur-
sers, taken up, discussed, and laid on the table,
45, 56.
Commissioners of, a bill to provide for the distribu-
tion of their duties; read a second time, 49; again
taken up, discussed, and postponed, 56.
Agents, a bill for the compensation of; ordered to a
third reading, 55.

Northeastern boundary, resolution calling on the Presi

dent to know whether further negotiation is pro-
posed in regard to this subject, 5; the resolution
called up, and transferred to the Executive
Journal, 6.

resolutions calling on the President for the ar-
rangement made with Great Britain on this sub-
ject, 108.

Rail-road, a bill authorizing a subscription on the part of
the United States, to the stock of the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail-road Company introduced, 951;
refused to consider the bill, 954, 988.
Randolph, Martha, a bill concerning, introduced and re-
ferred to a select committee, 20; motion to take
up the bill negatived, 1128.
Revolutionary pensions, a bill supplementary to the act
for the relief of the surviving officers and sol-
diers of the revolutionary army; taken up, again
considered and discussed, 706; bill taken up,
and after some discussion, laid on the table, 737;
again taken up, 761, and again, 919; motion to
recommit the bill negatived, 930; ordered to be
engrossed, 933; passed.

a joint resolution to transfer to the Secretary of
War, the duties imposed by the pension bill on
the Secretary of the Treasury, was taken up,
and agreed to, 1072.

the subject again taken up, and the resolution
committed to the Committee on Pensions, 1080;
the resolution was again taken up, and carried,
1120.