On motion, The said bill was read the second time, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next. The House proceeded to consider the motion of the twenty-eighth ultimo, for reduc ing the Military Establishment of the United States, to which the Committee of the Whole House had reported their disagreement on Saturday last: Whereupon, A motion was made and seconded to amend the same by striking out, in the second and third lines, the words "each of non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians," and inserting, in lieu thereof, the words "of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and of the privates who are now in service, or may be recruited next:" before the day ofAnd the question being put thereupon, It passed in the negative, Yeas..... Nays.... ..26. The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, And then the main question being put, that the House do agree to the said motion, The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, John Baptist Ashe, Abraham Clark, William B. Giles, Nicholas Gilman, John Francis Mercer, Nathaniel Niles, Alexander D. Orr, John Steele, Thomas Sumpter, Thomas Tredwell, Abraham Venable, and Artemas Ward. Ordered, That the committee to whom was committed the letter and representa tion from the Chief Justice and Associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, referred to in the President's message of the seventh of November last, be discharged from the farther consideration of the same. The House, according to the order of the day, again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill to regulate the claims to invalid pensions; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Dayton reported that the committee had, according to order, again had the said bill under consideration, and made several amendments thereto; which he delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same were read, and partly considered. Ordered, That the farther consideration of the said amendments be put off until to morrow. The several orders of the day were further postponed until to-morrow. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9. An engrossed bill making appropriations for the support of Government, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, was read the third time, and the blanks therein filled up. Resolved, That the said bill do pass, and that the title be, "An act making appropriations for the support of Government, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do carry the said bill to the Senate, and desire their concurrence. A petition of the comb-makers of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania, was presented to the House and read, praying the attention of Congress to the encouragement of the said manufacture in the United States, by increasing the duty on imported combs, or by adopting any other measure which they, in their wisdom, shall think proper. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, for information. A petition of Bridget Parry was presented to the House and read, praying compensation for her services as a nurse in the General Hospitals of the United States; also, the liquidation and settlement of a claim, for the services of her deceased husband, as a private in Colonel Stewart's regiment, during the late war. Ordered, That the said petition do lie on the table. A petition of Nathan Fuller, of Newton, in the State of Massachusetts, late Major of the twenty-fifth regiment, in the service of the United States, in behalf of himself, and the officers and soldiers of the said regiment, was presented to the House and read, praying that a certain sum of money, due to the said officers and soldiers, for subsistence and travelling expenses, by resolutions of the late Congress, which they are now barred from receiving, by the act of limitation, may be granted to them. VOL. I-84 Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Secretary of War, with instruction to examine the same, and report his opinion thereupon to the House. The House resumed the consideration of the bill to regulate the claims to invalid pensions: Whereupon, A motion was made and seconded further to amend the same, by adding, to the end thereof, the following section, to wit: "And be it further enacted, That no person, not on the pension list, before the twenty-third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, shall be entitled to a pension, who shall not have complied with the rules and regulations herein prescribed, saving, however, to all persons, all and singular their rights, founded upon legal adju dications, under the act, entitled An act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans, barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions.' But it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, in conjunction with the Attorney General, to take such measures as may be necessary, to obtain an adjudication of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the validity of any such rights, claimed under the act aforesaid, by the determination of certain persons, styling themselves Commissioners." The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, And then the said bill being further amended at the Clerk's table, was, together with the amendments, ordered to be engrossed, and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. Heister, from the Joint Committee for Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined an enrolled bill, entitled "An act to provide for the allowance of interest on the sum ordered to be paid by the resolve of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, as an indemnity to the persons therein named," and had found the same to be truly enrolled: Whereupon. Mr. Speaker signed the said enrolled bill. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed the bill, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,' so far as respects the coinage of copper," with several amendments; to which they desire the concurrence of this House. And then he withdrew. The House proceeded to consider the said amendments, and the same being read, were agreed to. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. An engrossed bill to regulate the claims to invalid pensions was read the third time, and a blank therein filled up: And on the question that the said bill do pass, The yeas and nays being demanded by one-fifth of the members present, Mr. Moore, from the Joint Committee for Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee had examined an enrolled bill, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,' so far as respects the coinage of copper," and had found the same to be truly enrolled: Whereupon, Mr. Speaker signed the said enrolled bill. Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do acquaint the Senate therewith. The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the motion of the twelfth ultimo, for opening a loan to the amount of the balances which, upon a final settlement of accounts, shall be found due from the United States, to the individual States; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. White reported that the committee had, according to order, had the said motion under consideration, and made some progress therein. Resolved, That this House will, to-morrow, again resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the said motion. The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill relative to claims against the United States, not barred by any act of limitation, and which have not been already adjusted; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Dayton reported that the committee had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made an amendment thereto; which he belivered in at the Clerk's table. Ordered, That the said bill, with the amendment, do lie on the table. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. A petition of William Stearns, administrator of the estate of Peleg Stearns, deceased, was presented to the House and read, praying compensation for the use of the buildings, and damages done to the property of the deceased, by the Army of the United States, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Ordered, That the said petition do lie on the table. A petition of Peter Perrit, late a Captain in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, was presented to the House and read, praying that he may receive the pay and other emoluments, granted to other officers of the same rank, to which he conceives himself justly entitled, by resolutions of the late Congress. Also, A petition of John and Mary Moore, administrators of John Cole, deceased, praying compensation for the services of the deceased, as a soldier in the first Pennsylvania Regiment, during the late war. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Secretary of War, with instruction to examine the same, and report his opinion thereupon to the House. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying his report of a supplementary statement of loans, made in behalf of the United States, pursuant to the resolution of the twenty-seventh ultimo; which were read, and ordered to lie on the table. On motion, Resolved, That the Attorney General be directed to report, at the next session of Congress, a table of costs and fees for the courts of the United States. The House, according to the order of the day, again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the motion of the twelfth ultimo, for opening a loan, to the amount of the balances which, upon a final settlement of accounts, shall be found due from the United States to the individual States; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. White reported that the committee had, according to order, again had the said motion under consideration, and made no amendment thereto. The several orders of the day were further postponed until to-morrow. And then the House adjourned until to-morrow morning eleven o'clock. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12. A petition of Robert Heaton, of the county of Westchester, in the State of New York, was presented to the House and read, praying to be exempted from the payment of the duty imposed by law, on sundry horses and other cattle, which he has lately imported into the United States. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to Mr. Benson, Mr. Sedgwick, and Mr. Madison; that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereupon, to the House. A petition of Francis Kellar was presented to the House and read, praying that the right of pre-emption to four hundred acres of land, adjoining the mouth of Indian Short Creek, on the Northwest side of the river Ohio, to include the settlement and improvements which he has made thereon, may be granted him. Ordered, That the said petition, together with the petition of Ephraim Kimberly, to the like effect, presented the eleventh of April last, be referred to Mr. Hillhouse, Mr. Findley, and Mr. Greenup; that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereupon, to the House. Ordered, That the reports of the Secretary of the Treasury on the petitions of Griffith Jones and Ludwig Kuhn, which lay on the table, be referred to Mr. Muhlenberg, Mr. Boudinot, and Mr. Schoonmaker; that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereupon, to the House. A petition of Ebenezer Foster, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, was presented to the House and read, praying the liquidation and settlement of a claim against |