Ordered, That it be referred to Messrs. Livermore, Paine, and Wells, to consider and report thereon to the Senate.
The Senate proceeded to consider the report of the committee to whom was referred the bill to augment the salaries of the principal officers of the Executive Departments, which was adopted; and
The question to agree to the third reading of the bill as amended, was determined in the affirmative—yeas 22, nays 3, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bingham, Bloodworth, Chipman, Davenport, Foster, Goodhue, Greene, Hillhouse, Howard, Laurance, Lloyd, Marshall, Martin, Paine, Pinckney, Read, Sedgwick, Stockton, Tattnall, Tracy, Watson, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Langdon, Livermore, and Mason.
Monday, February 25.
The Senate resumed the third reading of the bill, authorizing the acceptance, from the State of Connecticut, of a cession of jurisdiction of the territory west of Pennsylvania, commonly called the Western Reserve of Connecticut; and the question on the final passage of the bill was determined in the affirmative—yeas 16, nays 12, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Chipman, Davenport, Foster, Goodhue, Greene, Gunn, Hillhouse, Livermore, Lloyd, Marshall, Paine, Read, Sedgwick, Stockton, Tracy, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Bingham, Bloodworth, Brown, Howard, Langdon, Latimer, Laurance, Martin, Mason, Pinckney, Ross, and Watson.