Monday, April 26.
Relief to Widows and Orphans of Naval and Marine Officers.
The Senate resumed the third reading of the bill, entitled "An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of certain persons who have died, or may hereafter die, in the naval service of the United States."
On motion to strike out the second section of the bill, to wit:
"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any commissioned or warrant officer of the Navy, or commissioned officer of Marines, have died, or shall hereafter die, by reason of wounds received while in the actual service of the United States, or have been lost at sea, or drowned, or shall hereafter be lost at sea, or drowned, while in the service as aforesaid, and in the actual line of his duty, and shall leave a widow, or if not, leave a child or children, under age, such widow, or such child, or children, as the case may be, shall be entitled to, and receive, the half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, and for and during the term of five years. And in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay for the residue of the term shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer under the age of sixteen years; and, in like manner, the allowance to the child or children of such deceased, in case there be no widow, shall be paid no longer than during the time there is a child or children under the age of sixteen years."
It passed in the affirmative—yeas 16, nays 8, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Bradley, Brown, Clinton, Cocke, Dayton, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, S. T. Mason, Ogden, Olcott, Stone, Sumter, and Wright.
Nays.—Messrs. Ellery, Dwight Foster, Howard, J. Mason, Morris, Nicholas, Wells, and White.
Georgia Limits.
The following Message was received from the President of the United States:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:
In pursuance of the act, entitled "An act supplemental to the act, entitled 'An act for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia, and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi Territory,'" James Madison, Secretary of State, Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, and Levi Lincoln, Attorney General of the United States, were appointed Commissioners, to settle by compromise, with the Commissioners appointed by the State of Georgia, the claims and cession to which the said act has relation.
Articles of agreement and cession have accordingly been entered into and signed by the said Commissioners of the United States and of Georgia, which, as they leave a right to Congress to act upon them legislatively, at any time within six months after their date, I have thought it my duty immediately to communicate to the Legislature.
TH. JEFFERSON.
April 26, 1802.
The Message and documents therein referred to were read, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.