Mr. Mercer, from the committee to which was referred the memorial of the American Colonization Society, and also memorials, from the inhabitants of Kentucky and Ohio, reported with a bill (No. 412) to amend "An act in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave trade," passed March 3, 1819. Read twice and referred to Committee of the Whole. Ibid.
1830, May 31. Congress (Statute): Appropriation.
"An Act making a re-appropriation of a sum heretofore appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade." Statutes at Large, IV. 425; Senate Journal, 21 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 359, 360, 383; House Journal, 21
Cong. 1 sess. pp. 624, 808–11.
1830. [Brazil: Prohibition of Slave-Trade.
Slave-trade prohibited under severe penalties.]
1831, 1833. [Great Britain and France: Treaty Granting Right of Search.
Convention between Great Britain and France granting a mutual limited Right of Search on the East and West coasts of Africa, and on the coasts of the West Indies and Brazil. British and Foreign State Papers, 1830–1, p. 641 ff; 1832–3, p. 286 ff.]
1831, Feb. 16. Congress (House): Proposed Resolution on Slave-Trade.
"Mr. Mercer moved to suspend the rule of the House in regard to motions, for the purpose of enabling himself to submit a resolution requesting the Executive to enter into negotiations with the maritime Powers of Europe, to induce them to enact laws declaring the African slave trade piracy, and punishing it as such." The motion was lost. Gales and Seaton, Register of Debates, VII. 726.