Resolved, That, in case of the death of a member of the House of Representatives at the seat of Government, while Congress is in session, the expenses accruing, in conformity to an order of the House, made to testify their respect for the deceased member, shall be paid out of the contingent funds of the House, and not out of his wages for travelling home, as is now allowed by law:
Ordered, That the said motion be referred to Mr. Davis, Mr. Lewis R. Morris, and Mr. Nicholson, to consider and report thereon to the House.
Wednesday, March 31.
Funeral Expenses of Members.
Mr. Davis, from the committee to whom was yesterday referred a motion respecting "members of this House dying at the seat of Government during a session, of Congress," made a report thereon; which was read and considered: Whereupon,
Resolved, That the expenses accruing by order of the House, in attending the funeral of Narsworthy Hunter, a member from the Mississippi Territory, be paid out of the contingent funds of the House.
Resolved, That the legal representatives of a member of this House, who shall die at the seat of Government during the session, shall be entitled to receive the same allowance for his itinerant expenses, as the member would have been entitled to, had he returned to his place of abode.
Ohio State Government.
The House went again into Committee of the Whole on the report of a select committee respecting the admission of the North-western Territory as a State into the Union.
The second resolution being under consideration,