Tuesday, November 29.
Amy Dardin.
Mr. Claiborne called for the order of the day on the bill for the relief of Amy Dardin.
The motion of Mr. Dawson being lost, there being only thirty-two ayes in favor of it, Mr. Claiborne’s motion was taken up.
Mr. Sanford moved to postpone the order of the day on the bill for the relief of Amy Dardin till to-morrow, in order to introduce a resolution for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the expediency of extending the time for adjusting the claims of individuals for supplies furnished and services rendered during the Revolutionary war, with the view of trying previously to the granting individual relief the general principle, whether Congress would repeal the statutes of limitation.
After a debate of considerable length, the motion to postpone was lost.
The House then went into a Committee of the Whole on the bill, which was so amended as to allow Amy Dardin two thousand five hundred dollars for the horse Romulus, being the estimated value thereof, not including interest.
The Committee reported the bill so amended.
The question was then taken on two thousand five hundred dollars, and decided in the negative by the vote of the Speaker.
Mr. Nicholson moved to fill the blank with two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars, being the amount of principal and interest on the value of the horse.
Mr. Sanford moved to fill it with one thousand dollars.
The House agreed to Mr. Nicholson’s motion—ayes 58, noes 43.
The yeas and nays were then taken on the engrossing of the bill for a third reading—yeas 57, nays 49.
Ordered, That the said bill be read the third time to-morrow.