And the bill being further amended, it was ordered to the third reading as amended.
Thursday, April 29.
Mr. S. T. Mason presented the petition of David Brown, of Massachusetts, praying compensation for his sufferings while imprisoned under sentence of the judicial court, for seditious practices; and the petition was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Friday, April 30.
Mr. Tracy, from the committee to whom was referred, on the 29th instant, the bill to carry into effect a resolution of Congress for erecting a monument to the memory of the late General David Wooster, reported amendments; which were read, and ordered to lie for consideration.
Case of John Cleves Symmes and his land purchase in Ohio.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on the petition of John Cleves Symmes, which was adopted, as follows:
1. That, in the year 1788, the petitioner entered into a contract with the United States, upon a fair consideration, for the purchase of one million of acres of land in the North-western Territory.
2. That, in consequence of such contract, the petitioner made a settlement upon the tract, and sold many parcels thereof to adventurers, who went together with him into that new country, and located themselves there.
3. That, in the year 1794, the petitioner obtained a patent, under the authority of a law which enabled the President of the United States to make the same, for such proportion of the one million of acres, which had at that time been paid for, pursuant to the said contract, amounting to 311,682 acres of the said million of acres of land.