Incorporation of a Mining Company in Upper Louisiana.
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill to incorporate Moses Austin, John Rice Jones, Henry Austin, and others, into a company, by the name of the Louisiana Lead Company; and the bill having been further amended, the President reported it to the House accordingly.
On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as amended? it was determined in the affirmative.
Tuesday, March 24.
In the absence of the Vice President, on motion of Mr. Lloyd, the Senate proceeded to the choice of a President pro tempore, as the constitution provides, and William H. Crawford was elected.
Thursday, March 26.
Incorporation of Lead Mine Company.
The engrossed bill to incorporate Moses Austin, John Rice Jones, Henry Austin, and others, into a company, by the name of the Louisiana Lead Company, was read the third time.
On the question, Shall this bill pass? it was determined in the affirmative—yeas 14, nays 12, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Bradley, Condit, Crawford, Dana, German, Goodrich, Gregg, Howell, Hunter, Smith of New York, Tait, Taylor, and Worthington.