TH. JEFFERSON.
Nov. 15, 1804.
The said Message and the papers referred to therein, were read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Monday, November 19.
Sword to Decatur.
The House proceeded to consider the resolution reported, on the ninth instant, from the Committee of the whole House, to whom was referred a motion relative “to Captain Stephen Decatur, the officers, and crew, of the United States ketch Intrepid;” and the said resolution being twice read, and amended at the Clerk’s table, was agreed to by the House, as follows:
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to present, in the name of Congress, to Captain Stephen Decatur, a sword; and to each of the officers and crew of the United States ketch Intrepid, two months’ pay, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct, and services of Captain Decatur, the officers, and crew, of the said ketch, in attacking, in the harbor of Tripoli, and destroying a Tripolitan frigate of forty-four guns.
Ordered, That the said resolution be engrossed, and read the third time to-day.
Tuesday, November 20.
Another member, to wit, George Tibbits, from New York, appeared, and took his seat in the House.