Mr. Breckenridge presented the petition of Isaac Zane, stating that he was made a prisoner at the age of nine years by the Wyandot Indians, with whom he remained until he became of age; had a family by a woman of that nation, and a tract of land was assigned him by the said nation, on a branch of the Great Miami, and which tract of land was ceded to the United States by a recent treaty with the said Wyandot Indians, and praying such relief as may be deemed equitable; and the petition was read, and committed to Messrs. Breckenridge, Tracy, and Ogden, to consider and report thereon.
Tuesday, January 5, 1802.
Mr. Brown, from the State of Kentucky, attended.
Reporting the Debates.
The President laid before the Senate a letter signed Samuel H. Smith, stating that he was desirous of taking notes of the proceedings of the Senate, in such manner as to render them correct: Whereupon,
Resolved, That any stenographer desirous to take the debates of the Senate on Legislative business, may be admitted for that purpose, at such place within the area of the Senate Chamber as the President may allot:
And, on motion to reconsider the above resolution, it passed in the affirmative—yeas 17, nays 9.
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Breckenridge, Cocke, Dayton, Ellery, Dwight Foster, Hillhouse, Howard, Logan, Jonathan Mason, Morris, Ogden, Olcott, Sumter, Tracy, White, and Wright.
Nays.—Messrs. Baldwin, Brown, Chipman, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Nicholas, Sheafe, and Stone.
On motion, to amend the resolution, by adding, after the word stenographer, "He having given bond in the sum of ——, with two sufficient sureties, in the sum of —— each, for his good conduct," it passed in the negative—yeas 10, nays 18, as follows: