Yeas.—Thomas Boude, William Brent, John Condit, Manasseh Cutler, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, Thomas T. Davis, Lucas Elmendorph, Ebenezer Elmer, William Eustis, Abiel Foster, John Fowler, Calvin Goddard, Edwin Gray, Roger Griswold, John A. Hanna, Joseph Hemphill, Archibald Henderson, William Hoge, Benjamin Huger, Lewis R. Morris, Thomas Morris, James Mott, Thomas Plater, Nathan Read, William Shepard, John Cotton Smith, Henry Southard, Richard Stanford, Joseph Stanton, jr., John Stewart, John Stratton, Samuel Tenney, Thomas Tillinghast, John Trigg, George B. Upham, Peleg Wadsworth, and Lemuel Williams.
Nays.—Willis Alston, John Archer, John Bacon, Robert Brown, William Butler, Samuel J. Cabell, Thomas Claiborne, Matthew Clay, John Clopton, Richard Cutts, John Dawson, William Dickson, William B. Giles, William Helms, James Holland, David Holmes, George Jackson, Charles Johnson, Samuel L. Mitchill, Thomas Moore, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, jr., Joseph H. Nicholson, John Smilie, Israel Smith, John Smith, (of Virginia,) Samuel Smith, John Taliaferro, jr., David Thomas, Philip R. Thompson, Abram Trigg, Isaac Van Horne, and Robert Williams.
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
Friday, April 9.
A message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate have passed a bill, entitled "An act to amend the Judicial System of the United States;" to which they desire the concurrence of this House.
[The chief alterations made from the old system consist in the holding the Supreme Court only once a year by four justices, and the establishment of six circuits, within each district of which circuit courts are to be holden twice a year, composed of one justice of the Supreme Court and the judge of the district, in which said court is held.]
The bill was read twice, and referred to a select committee.
Ohio State Government.
An engrossed 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, was read the third time, and the blanks therein filled up: And, on the question that the same do pass, it was resolved in the affirmative—yeas 47, nays 29, as follows: