On motion, to postpone the further consideration thereof until the next session of Congress, it passed in the negative—yeas 10, nays 13, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bingham, Bradford, Foster, Latimer, Potts, Read, Ross, Rutherford, Strong, and Trumbull.
Nays.—Messrs. Bloodworth, Brown, Burr, Butler, Gunn, Henry, Langdon, Livermore, Marshall, Martin, Robinson, Tattnall, and Tazewell.
Resolved, That the Senate agree to the proposed conference, and that Messrs. Burr and Strong be managers at the same on their part.
Mr. Burr, from the joint committee of conference on the bill, entitled "An act laying out into one State the territory ceded by the State of North Carolina to the United States, and providing for an enumeration of the inhabitants thereof," reported, as the opinion of the majority of the joint committee, that the Senate recede from their disagreement to the amendment of the House of Representatives. Whereupon,
Resolved, That the Senate recede from their disagreement to the said amendment.
A motion was made by Mr. Burr, as follows:
"Resolved, That any enumeration of the inhabitants of any district under the temporary Government of the United States, for the purpose of furnishing evidence to Congress that such district contains the number which may entitle it to admission into the Union, shall have been taken and made, under a law to be made by the Legislature of the said district, of the free inhabitants only, and, in all other respects, pursuant to the provisions contained in the act, entitled "An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States:""
Which motion was read and ordered to lie until to-morrow for consideration.