Wednesday, May 2.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee authorizing Thomas Pinckney, late Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Spain, and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Great Britain, to receive the customary presents to foreign Ministers at those courts.
On the question to agree to the first resolution reported, to wit:
"Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress doth consent that Thomas Pinckney, Esq., who, as Envoy Extraordinary of the United States, negotiated the Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation between the United States and the King of Spain, may receive from the said King such present as it is customary for His Catholic Majesty to make to such persons as negotiate treaties with him:"
It passed in the affirmative—yeas 17, nays 5, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Bingham, Bloodworth, Clayton, Foster, Goodhue, Greene, Hillhouse, Howard, Latimer, Laurance, Livermore, Martin, Read, Sedgwick, Stockton, and Tracy.
Nays.—Messrs. Brown, Langdon, Marshall, Mason, and Tazewell.
And the other resolution reported was agreed to, in the words following:
And be it further resolved, That Congress doth consent that the said Thomas Pinckney, Esq., lately Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to the King of Great Britain, may receive from the said King such present as it is customary for His Britannic Majesty to make to Ministers Plenipotentiary on taking leave of him.