Emancipated Slaves from French West Indies.
An engrossed bill to prevent the importation of certain persons into certain States, where, by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited, was read the third time.
And, on the question that the same do pass, it was resolved in the affirmative—yeas 48, nays 15, as follows:
Yeas.—Willis Alston, John Bacon, Theodorus Bailey, James A. Bayard, Phanuel Bishop, Thomas Boude, William Butler, Samuel J. Cabell, John Campbell, Matthew Clay, John Clopton, John Dawson, Peter Early, Lucas Elmendorph, Ebenezer Elmer, Calvin Goddard, Edwin Gray, Daniel Heister, Joseph Heister, William Helms, Archibald Henderson, William H. Hill, William Hoge, James Holland, George Jackson, Michael Leib, David Meriwether, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, jr., Joseph H. Nicholson, Thomas Plater, John Rutledge, William Shepard, John Smilie, Samuel Smith, Richard Stanford, John Stewart, John Taliaferro, jr., Samuel Tenney, Philip R. Thompson, Abram Trigg, John Trigg, Philip Van Cortlandt, Joseph B. Varnum, Isaac Van Horne, Robert Williams, Henry Woods, and Thomas Wynns.
Nays.—Robert Brown, John Condit, Richard Cutts, John Davenport, Abiel Foster, John A. Hanna, Seth Hastings, Samuel L. Mitchill, James Mott, Israel Smith, Josiah Smith, Henry Southard, Joseph Stanton, David Thomas, and Peleg Wadsworth.
Resolved, That the title be, "An act to prevent the importation of certain persons into certain States, where, by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited;" and that the Clerk of this House do carry the said bill to the Senate, and desire their concurrence.
Tuesday, February 22.
Military Land Warrants.
GENERAL LAFAYETTE.
The House took up the bill respecting military land warrants.