The yeas and nays were then taken on the question, “Shall the bill be rejected?”—yeas 113, nays 19, as follows:
Yeas.—Willis Alston, jr., Isaac Anderson, David Bard, Joseph Barker, Burwell Bassett, George M. Bedinger, Silas Betton, William W. Bibb, Phanuel Bishop, John Blake, jr., Thomas Blount, James M. Broom, Robert Brown, John Boyle, William A. Burwell, William Butler, George W. Campbell, John Campbell, Martin Chittenden, John Claiborne, Joseph Clay, Matthew Clay, George Clinton, jr., Frederick Conrad, Orchard Cook, Leonard Covington, Samuel W. Dana, Ezra Darby, John Davenport, jr., John Dawson, Theodore Dwight, Peter Early, James Elliot, Caleb Ellis, Ebenezer Elmer, William Ely, John W. Eppes, William Findlay, James Fisk, John Fowler, James M. Garnett, Charles Goldsborough, Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, Andrew Gregg, Silas Halsey, John Hamilton, Seth Hastings, James Holland, David Holmes, David Hough, John G. Jackson, Walter Jones, James Kelly, Thomas Kenan, John Lambert, Joseph Lewis, jr., Henry W. Livingston, Edward Lloyd, Matthew Lyon, Duncan McFarland, Patrick Magruder, Robert Marion, William McCreery, David Meriwether, Nicholas R. Moore, Thomas Moore, Jeremiah Morrow, John Morrow, Jonathan O. Mosely, Jeremiah Nelson, Roger Nelson, Thomas Newton, jr., Timothy Pitkin, jr., John Porter, John Pugh, Josiah Quincy, John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, John Rea of Pennsylvania, John Rhea of Tennessee, John Russell, Peter Sailly, Thomas Sammons, Martin G. Schuneman, Ebenezer Seaver, James Sloan, Dennis Smelt, John Smilie, John Smith, Samuel Smith, Richard Stanford, Joseph Stanton, William Stedman, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, Benjamin Tallmadge, Samuel Tenney, Philip R. Thompson, Thomas W. Thompson, Uri Tracy, Abram Trigg, Philip Van Cortlandt, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Peleg Wadsworth, John Whitehill, Robert Whitehill, David R. Williams, Marmaduke Williams, Alexander Wilson, Joseph Winston, Richard Wynn, and Thomas Wynns.
Nays.—Evan Alexander, John Archer, Barnabas Bidwell, John Chandler, Richard Cutts, Elias Earle, Isaiah L. Green, William Helms, Josiah Masters, Gurdon S. Mumford, Gideon Olin, Thos. Sanford, Henry Southard, David Thomas, Joseph B. Varnum, Daniel C. Verplanck, Matthew Walton, Eliphalet Wickes, and Nathan Williams.
Monday, February 2.
Death of the Representative, Levi Casey, Esq.
Mr. Thomas Moore, a member of this House for the State of South Carolina, informed the House of the death of his colleague, General Levi Casey, late one of the members of the said State in this House: Whereupon,
Resolved, unanimously, That a committee be appointed to take order for superintending the funeral of General Levi Casey, late a Representative from the State of South Carolina.
Ordered, That Mr. Thomas Moore, Mr. Earle, Mr. D. R. Williams, Mr. Marion, Mr. Early, and Mr. Holland, be appointed a committee, pursuant to the said resolution.
Resolved, unanimously, That the members of this House will testify their respect for the memory of General Levi Casey, late one of their body, by wearing crape on the left arm for one month.
On motion of Mr. Holland,