Tuesday, February 12.
The bill vesting the power of retaliation, in certain cases, in the President of the United States, was read the third time; and, being amended, the question on the final passage thereof was determined in the affirmative—yeas 22, nays 2, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Bloodworth, Chipman, Davenport, Foster, Goodhue, Greene, Gunn, Hillhouse, Latimer, Livermore, Lloyd, Marshall, Martin, Paine, Ross, Sedgwick, Stockton, Tattnall, Tracy, Watson, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Howard and Langdon.
So it was Resolved, That this bill pass, that it be engrossed, and that the title thereof be "An act vesting the power of retaliation, in certain cases, in the President of the United States."