Wednesday, February 25.
Salt Duty.
The Senate resumed the third reading of the bill, from the House of Representatives, entitled “An act repealing the acts laying duties on salt, and continuing in force for a further time the first section of the act, entitled ‘An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary Powers;’” and on the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? it was determined in the affirmative—yeas 15, nays 12, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bradley, Condit, Giles, Howland, Kitchel, Logan, Maclay, Milledge, Moore, Reed, Smith of Maryland, Smith of Tennessee, Smith of Vermont, Thruston, and Worthington.
Nays.—Messrs. Adams, Bayard, Gilman, Hillhouse, Mitchill, Pickering, Plumer, Smith of New York, Sumter, Tracy, Turner, and White.