Monday, June 22.
On motion made, and leave given, Mr. Mitchill, from the committee appointed on that part of the President's Message, at the commencement of the session, which relates to Spanish American colonies, presented a bill authorizing the President of the United States to take possession of a tract of country lying south of the Mississippi Territory, of the State Georgia, and for other purposes; which was read the first time. When a question was taken whether the subject matter of the said bill required secrecy; and passed in the affirmative—yeas 71, nays 44.
The said bill was then read the second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole to-morrow; and the doors were then opened.