S. 299. An act to establish a port of entry at the Brazos de Santiago, in the State of Texas, and for other purposes.

S. 22. An act for the relief of Mary MacRea, widow of Lieutenant Colonel William MacRea, late of the United States army, deceased.

S. 198. An act for the relief of Henry D. Garrison.

S. 107. An act for the relief of George Center.

S. 212. An act for the relief of Pierre Chouteau, junior, and company.

S. 45. An act for the relief of Thomas Talbot, and others.

S. 301. An act for the relief of Thomas W. Chinn, and others. S. 129. An act for the relief of James F. Sothoron.

S. 48. An act for the relief of Peter Capella, administrator of Andrew Capella, deceased; and for the relief of John Capo, and for the relief of Elijah Petty, and Hannah Petty his wife, heirs of John Beardon, deceased.

S. 313. An act to carry into effect certain stipulations of the treaty between the United States of America and the republic of Mexico, of the second day of February, 1848.

S. 405. An act to grant to the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Comthe right of way through the public lands of the United

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States.

S. 398. An act to grant the right of way to the Mobile and Obie Railroad Company.

S. 282. An act for the betternization of the district court of the United States within the State of Louisiana.

S. 476. An act for the relief of Alexander Montgomery, captain and assistant quartermaster of the army.

S. 66. A resolution respecting the claims of A. S. and A. W. Benson.

S. 70. A resolution to fix the meaning of the second section of "An act for changing the location of the land office in the Chippewa land district, and establishing an additional land district in the State of Wisconsin."

S. 71. A resolution relative to the public printing.

Mr. Jacob Thompson moved, at 2 o'clock and 25 minutes, a. m., (Sunday morning, March 4th,) that the House adjourn;

And the question being put,

It was decided in the negative, {eas...

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are,

Mr. E. Carrington Cabell
Charles W. Cathcart
John G. Chapman
Franklin Clark
Beverly L. Clark
William M. Cocke
Jacob Collamer
Harmon S. Conger
Robert B. Cranston
John W. Crisfield
John Crowell
John H. Crozier
Mason C. Darling
John Dickey
Richard S. Donnell
George G. Dunn
George N. Eckert
Joseph E. Edsall

Thomas O. Edwards
Elisha Embree
Nathan Evans
James J. Faran
John W. Farrelly
Orlando B. Ficklin
David Fisher
Thomas S. Flournoy
Richard French
George Fries
Andrew S. Fulton
John P. Gaines
Meredith P. Gentry
William L. Goggin
Daniel Gott
Horace Greeley
Dudley S. Gregory
Joseph Grinnell
Artemas Hale
Nathan K. Hall
David Hammons
James G. Hampton
Moses Hampton
John H. Harmanson
Samson W. Harris
William T. Haskell
Thomas J. Henley

Mr. William Henry

Elias B. Holmes

John W. Houston
Samuel D. Hubbard
Charles Hudson
Washington Hunt
Joseph R. Ingersoll
Timothy Jenkins
Andrew Johnson
James H. Johnson
Robert W. Johnson
George W. Jones
John W. Jones
David S. Kaufman
Orlando Kellogg
T. Butler King
Daniel P. King
Samuel Lahm
Emile La Sere

William T. Lawrence
Lewis C. Levin
Thomas W. Ligon
Abraham Lincoln
John H. Lumpkin
William Pitt Lynde
Robert McClelland
John A. McClernand
Abraham R. McIlvaine
Robert M. McLane
Job Mann
George P. Marsh
Dudley Marvin
John K. Miller
Charles S. Morehead
Jonathan D. Morris
Isaac E. Morse
Joseph Mullin
Henry C. Murphy
William Nelson
William A. Newell
Henry Nicoll
David Outlaw

Charles H. Peasice
Lucius B. Peck

Mr. John S. Pendleton
George Petrie
Samuel O. Peyton
James Pollock
William B. Preston
Harvey Putnam
Gideon Reynolds
Thomas Richey
John L. Robinson
William Rockhill
Julius Rockwell
John A. Rockwell
J. Dixon Roman
Robert L. Rose
David Rumsey, jr.
Daniel B. St. John

Robert C. Schenck

Augustine H. Shepperd

Eliakim Sherrill
Peter H. Silvester
John I. Slingerland
Caleb B. Smith
Truman Smith
Frederick P. Stanton
George A. Starkweather
Andrew Stewart
Charles E. Stuart
John Strohm

Frederick A. Tallmadge
John L. Taylor

Bannon G. Thibodeaux
Richard W. Thompson
John B. Thompson
William Thompson
Benjamin B. Thurston
Patrick W. Tompkins
Thomas J. Turner
Samuel F. Vinton
Cornelius Warren
John Wentworth
Hugh White
James S. Wiley
Hezekiah Williams
James Wilson.

Mr. Pendleton moved that the rules be suspended, for the purpose of enabling him to offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Clerk of this House be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to John Lee, the ostler of the House, the same compensation that was allowed and paid to the other attendants and laborers of the House during the present and last Congresses. And the question being put, Shall the rules be suspended?

It was decided in the negative-two-thirds not voting therefor. - Mr. Kaufman moved that the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; which motion. was not agreed to.

Mr. Phelps moved that the rules be suspended, for the purpose of enabling him to move that the House proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution of the Senate (No. 22) entitled a Resolution to authorize, and require a renewal of a contract for carrying the mail."

And the question being put, Shall the rules be suspended?

It was decided in the negative-two-thirds not voting therefor. Mr. Kaufman moved that the rules be suspended, for the purpose of enabling him to move that the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union be discharged from the further consideration of the bill (No. 711) to establish the Territorial government of New Mexico.

And the question being put, Shall the rules be suspended?

It was decided in the negative-two thirds not voting therefor. Mr. Putnam, by leave, presented concurrent resolutions of the Legislature of the State of New York, in relation to an appropri ation of five hundred dollars for the erection of a monument to the memory of General Nicholas Herkimer.

Mr. Taylor moved that the rules be suspended, for the purpose of enabling him to offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he is hereby, authorized to contract with Messrs. Bartlett & Wellford, of New York, publishers on behalf of the authors of the work on the ancient monuments of the United States, recently issued by the Smithsonian Institution, for a sufficient number of copies of the same, accompanied by the supplementary memoir now in course of preparation, on the ancient remains of the State of New York, as may be necessary to supply two copies to each member; one of which shall be deposited in some public library in each congressional district, to be designated by the member representing the same; and that the cost of the above books, not to exceed eight dollars per volume, be paid out of the contingent fund of this House.

And the question being put, Shall the rules be suspended?
It was decided in the negative-two-thirds not voting therefor.
On motion of Mr. Conger, it was

Ordered, That leave be granted to withdraw from the files of the House, the petition and papers of Lyman Phelps, James Phelps,

and others.

On motion of Mr. William T. Lawrence, it was Ordered, That leave be granted to withdraw from the files of the House, the petition of certain inhabitants of the State of New York for a post route between Ithaca, in Tompkins county, and Bath, in Steuben county, in the State of New York. Mr. Newell, by general consent, offered the following lution:

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Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be authorized to employ Cyril V. Grey to compile an index, in continuation of the general index, to the Documents of the House of Representatives, from the end of the 25th Congress to the end of the 30th Congress. And the question being put on agreeing to the said resolution, It was decided in the negative.

Mr. James G. Hampton, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee did this day present to the President of the United States for his approval, bills, and resolutions of the following titles:

H. R. 58. A joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the

Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to subscribe for a thousand copies of a further publication of the debates and proceedings of Congress, and for other purposes.

H. R. 341. An act for the relief of Joel Thacker.

H. R. 344. An act to transfer the towns of Vinal Haven, North Haven, and Islesborough from the collection district of Penobscot to that of Belfast, in the State of Maine.

H. R. 791. An act declaring Fort Covington, in the State of New York, to be a port of delivery, and for other purposes.

H. R. 804. An act concerning the selection of jurors in certain courts of the United States.

H. R. 805. An act to authorize the judge of the courts of the United States, of the fifth circuit to hold the circuit court for the district of Kentucky.

S. 405. An act to grant to the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Company the right of way through the public lands of the United

States.

S. 70. A resolution to fix the meaning of the second section of an act for changing the location of the land office in the Chippewa land district, in the State of Wisconsin.

H. R. 773. An act for the relief of Major Charles Larrabee. H. R. 76. An act for the relief of David Thomas, of Philadelphia.

H. R. 621. An act for the relief of Captain Alexander McEwen. H. R. 51. A joint resolution for the relief of pursers in the navy, as to expenditures made in pursuance of orders during the war with Mexico, and for other purposes.

H. R. 181. An act for the relief of John P. Skinner, and the legal representatives of Isaac Green.

H. R. 347. An act for the relief of the legal representatives of George W. Milam.

H. R. 354. An act for the relief of Adolphus Wizlizen us.

H. R. 464. An act for the relief of William Gott.

H. R. 531. An act for the relief of James Moorehead.

H. R. 659. An act further to continue in force the acts for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States.

S. 398. An act to grant the right of way to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.

S. 152. An act to establish the territorial government of Minesota. S. 185. An act for the relief of James G. Carson.

S. 277. An act for the relief of William L. Wizent.

S. 485. An act making appropriations for light-houses, lightboats, buoys, &c., and providing for the erection and establishment of the same, and for other purposes.

S. 66. A resolution respecting the claims of A. S. and A. W. Benson.

S. 367. An act to cause the northern boundary of the State of Iowa to be run and marked.

S. 388. An act for the relief of James Hotchkiss.

H. R. 747. An act to provide for the settlement of the accounts

of public officers and others, who may have received moneys arising from military contributions, or otherwise, in Mexico.

H. R. 742. An act to incorporate the Oak Hill Cemetery, in the District of Columbia.

H. R. 61. A joint resolution granting to the Secretary of the Treasury further time to make the report concerning the sale and enfry of certain lands in Cincinnati.

H. R. 403. An act for the relief of Samuel A. Grier.

H. R. 545. An act for the relief of Polly Dameron, widow of Charles Dameron, deceased.

H. R. 458. An act for the relief of Maurice R. Simons.

H. R. 553. An act for the relief of Catharine Clark.

H. R. 566. An act for the relief of John F. Ohl.

H. R. 569. An act for the relief of the president and directors of the Union Bank of Florida.

H. R. 677. An act for the relief of Sidney Flowers, of Louisiana, and for other purposes.

H. R. 700. An act to amend the act entitled, "An act supplemental to the act for the admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the Union."

H. R. 754. An act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department, for the year ending June 30, 1850.

H. R. 52. A joint resolution relative to evidence in application for pension by widows of deceased soldiers, under the act of July 21, 1848.

H. R. 406. An act to authorize the citizens of Ozark county, Missouri, to enter 40 acres of land for a county site in said county. H. R. 746. An act to authorize the coinage of gold dollars and double eagles.

H. R. 695. An act making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year ending the 30th June, 1850.

H. R. 764. An act to establish the Home Department, and to provide for the Treasury Department an assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and a Commissioner of the Customs.

S. 45. Ar act for the relief of Thomas Talbot and others.

S. 129. An act for the relief of James F. Sothoron.

S. 301. An act for the relief of Thomas W. Chinn and others. S. 313. An act for carrying into effect certain stipulations of the treaty between the United States of America and the republic of Mexico, of the 2d day of February, 1848.

S. 48. An act for the relief of Peter Capella, administrator of Andrew Capella, deceased, and for the relief of John Capo, and for the relief of Elijah Petty and Hannah Petty his wife, heirs of John Beardon, deceased.

H. R. 780. An act for the relief of Daniel Wilson.

H. R. 568. An act for the relief of Satterlee Clark.

H. R 738. An act to extend the provisions of all laws now in force relating to the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, and the regulation thereof.

H. R. 210. An act for the relief of Hervey Jones.

H. R. 583. An act for the relief of Thomas H. Noble.