. , , , Bailey AILEY,FRANCIS, bill for granting an exclusive privilege to, 42, 43, 44 Baltimore, resolution to hold the next session at, 137 Barclay, Thomas, bill to compensate for various public services, 189, 193, 203 Bills, providing for the a&ual enumeration of the inhabitants of the Unie ted States, 9, 15, 20, 21, 26, 27, 30, 38, 39, 41, 44 providing for the national defence, and regulating the militia, 14, 58, 155 providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, 14, 15, 17, 21, 22, 64, 70, 91, 118, 121, 126, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155 for establishing an uniform system of naturalization, 14, 20, 21, 27, 37, 41, 43, 45, 46, 60, 65, 66, 69 for giving effect to certain acts in respect to the state of North-Carolina, 14, 20, 22, 25, 26, 30 for securing to authors and inventors a right to their respective disco veries, 20,23,25,26 for the remission or mitigation of penalties in certain cases, 21, 22, 29, 45, 46,48,49,60,64,65,66,77,78,82,89,92,93,94,95,99,102,115,116 to suspend the operation of certain acts in respect to the state of Rhode Inand and Providence Plantations, 23 for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, 24, 74 75, 76, 77, 80, 83, 85, 93, 98 making appropriations for the support of government, 24, 49, 51, 55: 56, 61, 64, 65, 69 to prescribe the mode in which public a&s, records and judicial proceedings in each State shall be authenticated, &c. 25, 92, 93, 96, 97, 99, 102, 115, 116 to provide for the invalid pensioners of the United States, 25, 153, 154, 159, 171, 175 to promote the progress of useful arts, 37, 48, 53, 69, 71, 74, 76, 77 for regulating the post-office of the United States, 17, 40, 79, 80, 91, 131, 140, 141, 142, 143, 158, 159, 170, 172, 181, 185 for the encouragement of learning by securing copy-rights to au. thors, &c. 41, 42, 94, 95, 109, 114, 120, 126 for granting an exclusive privilege to Francis Bailey, 42, 43, 44 to accept a cession of the claims of the state of North Carolina to a certain diftri&t of western territory, 48, 49, 66, 68, 70, 73 for encreasing the salaries of clerks in the office of the commisioners for setting accounts between the United States and individual 48, 49, 51, 55 49, 51, 66, 69, 70, 72 to satisfy the claim of John Ely, 53, 54, 73, 84, 86, 96, 97 further to suspend part of an act to regulate the colledion of the duties, &c. 65, 66, 73, 74, 77, 79, 80 to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, 69, 78, 92, 109, 147, 148, 170, 171, 172, 173, 178, 179, 180, 181 supplemental to the aa for establishing the salaries, &c. 72, 79, 80, 941 121, 129, 130 for the relief of a certain description of officers therein mentioned, 74 83, 84 for the gorernment of the territory of the United States South of the river Ohio, 80, 81, 92, 93, 99, 102, 115, 118 for satisfying the claims of Frederick William de Steuben, 83, 96, 98, 99, ICC, 101, 102, 1Ct. 113120, 129, 130 II2 Bills to provide more effe&tually for settling the accounts between the United States and individual States, 83, 118, 128, 130, 131, 132, 142, 145, 146, 170, 173, 175, 180, 183, 185, 190, 199 for regulating the military establishment of the United States, 85, 86, 93, 95 for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen, 85, 176, 177, 178, 190, 203, 205, 207, 208, 209 making provision for the debt of the United States, 89, 100, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 128, 181, 183, 185, 191, 194, 195, 197 for imposing additional duties upon wines and distilled spirits, 91, 99, 105, 132, 135, 139, 142, 144 to continue in force an act to regulate processes in the courts of the United States, 91, 92, 93, 102, 115, 118, to authorize the issuing certificates to a certain description of invalid officers, 94, 96, 98 for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchant's Tere vice, 94, 97, 119, 142, 150, 151, 170, 172, 177, 179 to alter one of the places for holding diftriæ courts in the State of Pennsylvania, 95 for giving effect to an a& therein mentioned in respea to the state of North-Carolina, &c. 98, 99, 100, 106, 108, 109, 111, 112 concerning the navigation and trade of the United States, 108, 109, 110, 150, 153, 154 providing for certain cases of vacancy in the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States, of Rhode Isand into the United States, 121, 129, 130 for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Company, 113, 127, 138 for the relief of Nathaniel Twining, 121, 129, 130, 131, 140, 151, 153, 154, 155 for giving effe&t to several a&ts therein mentioned in resped to the state of Rhode-Inand and Providence Plantations, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133, 138 to satisfy the claims of John M'Cord against the United States, 128, 130, 145, 146, 152, 154, 155 to establish the judicial courts of the United States within the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 130, 131, 139, 140, 146, 148 providing for the enumeration, &c. in the state of Rhode Isand, 131, 146, 151, 152, 155, 156, 158 to authorize the purchase of a traa of land for the use of the United States, 140, 141, 153, 156, 158 for the relief of Adam Caldwell, 141, 202, 204 impoäng duties on the tonnage of ships or vesels, 146, 148, 149,172,177,179 to satisfy the claims of the representatives of David Gould, deceased, 146, 148, 149, 150, 158 to enable the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment to obtain titles to certain lands, &c. 152, 175, 179, 204, 205, 207 for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of government of the United States, 156, 158, 159, 170, 171, 176 Page. Bill making farther provision for the payment of the debts of the United States, 156, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 217 concerning consuls and vice-consuls of the United States, 157, 175, 179, 180 to provide more effe&ually for the collection of duties, &c. 159, 171, 173, 176, 190, 194, 195, 197 to amend the act for the establishment and support of light-houses, &c. 174, 178, 179, 180, 181 providing for the holding a treaty or treaties to elablish peace with certain Indian tribes, 176, 179, 180, 181 for registering ships or vessels, regulating those employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, &c. 181, 189 for the relief of John Stewart and Hugh Davidson, 183, 189, 190, 194; 195, 197 for making compensation to Thomas Barclay for various public services, 189, 193, 203 to continue the act for the temporary establishment of the postoffice, 191, 193, 194, 195, 197 making provision for the officers of the judicial courts of the United States, &c. 194, 199 declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the Nates of Maryland, &c. 194, 196, 200, 208, 209 for granting seven years half pay to Sarah Stirling, widow of Lord Stirling, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 205,209 making farther provision for the debt of the United States, so far as respects the assumption of the state of Georgia, 196, 197 for adding two commissioners to the board established for seitling accounts, &c. 197, 203 authorising the Secretary of the Treasury, to finish the light-house on Portland-head, in the district of Maine, 199, 200, 201, 204, 205 for the appointment of a surveyor-general for the United States, making certain appropriations therein mentioned, 205, 206, 209 making provision for the reduction of the public debt, 205, 206, 208, 209 to alter the times of holding circuit courts, &c. in Georgia, SouthCarolina and Pennsylvania, 206, 207, 208 Bland, Theodorick; order respecting his funeral, 127 House to go into mourning for him one month, 128 Books for the use of Congress, committee to report a catalogue of, reports, Business depending and undetermined at the last session, committee to report on reports, 8 200 96 148 4 motion that Virginia and North-Corolina be permitted to 196 Caldwell, Adam, bill for the relief of, 141, 202, 204 Carolina, North, ratification of the Constitution of the United States, by the state of, 9 (See Appendix.) bill to accept a session of the claims of, to a certain distria of western country, 48, 49, 66, 68, 70, 72 bill for giving effect to certain a&s in resped to the State of, 14, 20, 22, 25, 26, 30 bill for giving effe& to an act therein mentioned, in rel. pect to the state of, 98, 99, 100, 106, 108, 109, 111, 112 Page: 69 46 Carolina, North, bill for giving effe& to the act establishing judicial courts, in respect to the state of, 112, 113, 121, 129, 130 ratification of amendments to the Constitution of the United States by the state of, 137 (See Appendix.) Constitution of the United States, 71 (See Appendix.) referred to Secretary of the Treasury, 91 Chaplains to Congress appointed, to 7 Clerks in the office of the commissioner of army accounts, resolution respecting the pay of, 177, 185, 188, 196 Coasting trade, and fisheries, bill for regulating vessels employed in, 181, 189 Colle&ion of the duties on goods imported, &c. Secretary of the Treasury to report difficulties in the execution of the laws for, 15 bill to suspend part of the act for the, 65, 66, 73, 74, 77, 79, 80 bill to provide more effectually for the, 159, 171, 173, 176, 190, 194, 195, 197 Commissioners, board of, for settling accounts between the United States and individual States, their letter, 39 report thereon, 42 ordered to make certain reports, 86 report, 95 Committees, former rule for the appointment of rescinded, and a new one established, 12 Committee to examine the journal of last session, and report matters undetermined, 4 reports, 8 on statement of the President respecting south-western frontiers and the Indian department, reports, 16 to examinę into the measures, &c. respecting lands reserved for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, 23 reports, 25 to examine the Treasurer's accounts, 23 reports, 77 on printers accounts for newspapers, and fot regulating the future supply thereof, 72 reports, 77 agreed to, on an act of the legislature of New York, ceding the lighthouse at Sandy-Hook, 74 to report a catalogue of books for the use of Congress, reports, 148 to examine and report the decisions of the several states on the amendments to the Constitution proposed by Congress, 119 reports, 193 to consider and report fees and emoluments to consuls and vice-consuls of the United States, 141 reports, 155 12 80 96 Page. 20 96 III Committee to report a plan for the payment of the interest on the debt 144 reports, 153 reports, 16 agreed to, 26 reports, 27, 207, 208, 209, 94 reports, 13 agreed to by the Senate, 135 dent, Vice-President, Senators and Representatives were reports, 106 agreed to, reports, 151 172, 173, 175, 178 assent of to certain acts of the states of Maryland, Georgia and Rhode INand, bill for declaring the, 194, 196, 206, 208, 209 by the state of New Hampshire, 35 Providence Plantations, 154 73 56 49 18 (See. appendix.) 119 reports, 173 63 which the President, Vice-President, Senators and Re- reports, 107 202 96 |