Monday, February 25.
The Senate resumed the third reading of the bill, authorizing the acceptance, from the State of Connecticut, of a cession of jurisdiction of the territory west of Pennsylvania, commonly called the Western Reserve of Connecticut; and the question on the final passage of the bill was determined in the affirmative—yeas 16, nays 12, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Chipman, Davenport, Foster, Goodhue, Greene, Gunn, Hillhouse, Livermore, Lloyd, Marshall, Paine, Read, Sedgwick, Stockton, Tracy, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Bingham, Bloodworth, Brown, Howard, Langdon, Latimer, Laurance, Martin, Mason, Pinckney, Ross, and Watson.