Monday, March 2.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the President of the United States elect, which was read, and is as follows:
Washington, March 2, 1801.
Sir: I beg leave through you to inform the Honorable the House of Representatives of the United States, that I shall take the oath which the constitution prescribes to the President of the United States before he enters on the execution of his office, on Wednesday, the fourth instant, at twelve o'clock, in the Senate Chamber.
I have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant,
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Ordered, That said letter do lie on the table.
Mausoleum to Washington.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill entitled "An act to erect a mausoleum for George Washington:" Whereupon,
A motion was made and seconded to amend the amendment of the Senate to the first section of the said bill, by striking out, from the tenth line thereof, the word "fifty," for the purpose of inserting, in lieu thereof, the word "one hundred;"
And the question being taken thereupon, it passed in the negative—yeas 34, nays 49.
The said amendments of the Senate were then further amended at the Clerk's table, and, on the question that the House do agree to the said amendments as amended, it was resolved in the affirmative—yeas 46, nays 33, as follows:
Yeas.—Theodorus Bailey, Bailey Bartlett, John Bird, Phanuel Bishop, Robert Brown, Samuel J. Cabell, Matthew Clay, William C. C. Claiborne, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, John Dawson, Joseph Eggleston, John Fowler, Albert Gallatin, Chauncey Goodrich, Andrew Gregg, William Barry Grove, John A. Hanna, Joseph Heister, David Holmes, John Wilkes Kittera, Michael Leib, Levi Lincoln, Matthew Lyon, James Linn, Edward Livingston, Nathaniel Macon, Peter Muhlenberg, Anthony New, John Nicholas, John Read, Nathan Read, Wm. Shepard, John Smilie, John Smith, Samuel Smith, Richard Dobbs Spaight, David Stone, Benjamin Taliaferro, Samuel Tenney, John Chew Thomas, John Thompson, Abram Trigg, John Trigg, Joseph B. Varnum, and Peleg Wadsworth.
Nays.—James A. Bayard, John Brown, Christopher G. Champlin, Gabriel Christie, William Craik, Franklin Davenport, John Dennis, Joseph Dickson, William Edmond, Thomas Evans, Abiel Foster, Henry Glenn, Roger Griswold, Robert Goodloe Harper, Archibald Henderson, Benjamin Huger, James H. Imlay, George Jackson, Henry Lee, Silas Lee, Ebenezer Mattoon, Robert Page, Thomas Pinckney, Jonas Platt, John Randolph, John C. Smith, Richard Stanford, Thomas Sumter, James Sheafe, John Stewart, George Thatcher, Lemuel Williams, and Henry Woods.