Mr. Nicholson, from the committee appointed on the second instant, presented a bill to abolish the Board of Commissioners in the city of Washington, and to make provision for the repayment of loans made by the State of Maryland for the use of the city; which was read twice and committed to a Committee of the whole House on Monday next.
Mr. Nicholson, from the committee appointed, presented a bill to provide more effectually for the due application of public money, and for the accountability of persons intrusted therewith; which was read twice and committed to a Committee of the whole House on Monday next.
The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the supplementary report of the Committee on Claims, of the seventh instant, to whom was recommitted, on the fifteenth ultimo, their report on the memorial of Paul Coulon, a French citizen; and after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported a resolution, which was twice read, and agreed to by the House, as follows:
Resolved, That there be paid to Paul Coulon, as agent for the captors of the ship Betty Cathcart and brig Aaron, prizes to the French privateer La Bellone, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-four cents, being the amount retained by the Treasury Department, from the sales of the ship Betty Cathcart, and for duties on the cargo of the brig Aaron.
Ordered, That a bill or bills be brought in, pursuant to the said resolution; and that the Committee on Claims do prepare and bring in the same.
North-western Territory.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments reported yesterday from the Committee of the Whole to the bill to enable the people of the Eastern division of the Territory north-west of the river Ohio to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and for other purposes, which lay on the table; and the same being severally twice read, were, on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the House.
A motion was then made, further to amend the said bill, at the Clerk's table, by striking out, in the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth lines of the second section thereof, the following words: "and on the north, by an east and west line, drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east, after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie or"—and inserting in lieu thereof, the word "to."
It passed in the negative—yeas 27, nays 44, as follows:
Yeas.—James A. Bayard, Thomas Boude, Manasseh Cutler, John Davenport, Thomas T. Davis, John Dennis, Ebenezer Elmer, Abiel Foster, Calvin Goddard, Roger Griswold, William Helms, Joseph Hemphill, Archibald Henderson, William H. Hill, Benjamin Huger, Thomas Lowndes, Lewis R. Morris, James Mott, Thomas Plater, Nathan Read, John Cotton Smith, John Stanley, John Stratton, Samuel Tenney, Thomas Tillinghast, Lemuel Williams, and Henry Woods.