Yeas.—Messrs. Adams, Bailey, Condit, Dayton, Franklin, Jackson, and Wright.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Bradley, Breckenridge, Brown, Cocke, Ellery, Hillhouse, Maclay, Olcott, Pickering, Plumer, Potter, I. Smith, S. Smith, Tracy, Venable, White, and Worthington.
Friday, December 30.
Erection of Louisiana into two Territories.
Mr. Breckenridge, from the committee appointed, on the 5th instant, for that purpose, reported a bill erecting Louisiana into two Territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof; and the bill was read, and ordered to the second reading.
Tuesday, January 3, 1804.
Erection of Contingent Fund.
The following Message was received from the President of the United States:
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
I now lay before the Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the contingent charges of Government. No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of it in the present year, the balance of eighteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, unexpended at the end of the last year, remains now in the Treasury.