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IN Sl:‘.l\AT,E. ._ E _ b V Mr. Thomas, from the committee on Public Lands, reported the following bill :I Be it enacted, Ede, ’I.‘l1'at,_ in all ycasesfwhere lands 118-V8 been purchasedfrom-the Unit-eel ‘st-'4t8.9"lN'|0I' ‘he 15‘ 1st day ofJuly, 1820, it shall be lawful or any guch P91‘- chaser. on or before the --—— 0f. ‘_f‘‘'‘*..1 “ls l0 file with the R,egistct‘ ortbe Lando 96 W,-lI¢‘=?e. an W0‘ 0*" land has been purchased, a reliniquishmcflt in ,1 any le al su,bdivi.§§9l1..0l'tll¢ lancleo rurcbafi. upon QIONGKESSIUN whicht er,,-r,,,1¢t’pureliasenioneyinasnot been, ‘Kl; and all sums p’ai.d”o_n icc.ot;3.M 0* thepsfl reliIxqoi,;_d,s|1all be appliedto the ,ttlnc;_f‘lrarge,ot'stnyinatalmeiits which may be, or shall hc1'eaffé1'- l?¢‘3"°m_¢ due and Pfiyllble \lfl99“,’ “Pb part of [ma so par used, as'shall_-pot have been. relin. quished und‘er"tlte orcgoinglprovisions: 1’rot~i,ded, (‘hat ..the right of 1-ej',e,,1’qu‘;§hnien_t hereby given sballcinno. case be ext-.rcis,éd.so'as.tc.'l'eq|11tc-- any repayment from the ' United States. ~ , 2 I ‘_ Sec. 2. ./17tiI.beir}7.ft;19ther enacted,.'l‘hat in all, cases where" the p‘ay'oiei3t‘~l9f3-51°. whole sum due from tli<:rur— 'chaser. of arjty,jtra5£t land from V the ’United,States:. as a- fbresa,-id, sf1lgll’,l,.gfgj’g,g‘ll:gj or before the ---- day ----— e,i,g~ht_ee_ni hufigl‘;-ed-;g,p‘4l~j§.twextty one, a deductionfat the x;:.,t_t,_¢,.-_'olV_‘_*-.....‘.... peg-,;;j§éj;}t;',.--lsliall be allowed upon 'sucll,_paj*- ruent‘s.~ ‘ . Sec‘. ./1-,.,d*z,¢ _ er enacted, That all sums‘ dub, or whic_h“may h‘é;,.e,,fi,,- _j become-r due, to the United soates, omaccount oi‘,.tiij_\§7.t I 4 ..:, J. .,4 . madé,,;;at‘t.ex- Of "."""'2.,.“fEl,glll‘.8€ll liundredfand tw,en_Q’-,t1ne;.'Efiiif§1‘ ,1 ,3 sélaargeis1.i-l5y';;-,:.- equal,autm_al in- 9talm¢nts..'..}ii..‘.'“}, if be P“idf9n 01'li:f<°-ftllte tl1e..'day?i and 1po"iilh" " '» i '.yeari~, _.tipo*;l ujhiplygt several .6: Ptéréhasésbii . Y0‘F3‘l¢‘l»"i'1?lJ.3§,’$¥l9?-" j bliu;‘"la;nd','.§t§h9,jfigllf_aqeppt,;.ofthe " ' s a“ll,io‘n Ar . _\_' ----_ j J H ' drcd._and‘--twt:§ity..-one,‘ e,-,—,wi~th the. Re ' Office whet-can mic oirngtitphattce in (Si€l‘.Vl¢.9 is. not provided for byjthis Stastés_ scbarge trolnjthej service of thenmted .. ...;...,..i2""’— °“°“ ".""?“*'“*°"*=+* view addition mm‘ y virtue of this act, there shall be paid, in . . pay and emoluments to which he shall be e~“”Eled .3‘? lb? tune? of his discharge, three months pay :1 hc bill. was twice read, and referred to a. com. mittee of the whole on the state of the Union .. O “jtiiig, of‘ chase 3-of public land, heretbfore. ‘Ifa measure of the sort now proposed were to Miller)’. iin the United States would cease to be receiva- from circulation. which could flow fr im the adoption of the regu- - latiun suggested in the resolve, but to give an al- most exclusive circulation to the notes of the ' Bank of the United States--and he was therefore opposed to the resolve. He thought it was bad policy ever to have per- mitted. thc Banks to issue notes of a less denomi- nation than live dollars---antl believed that such issues bada great agency in driving specie from circulation a few years ago. thatcxclutling the smaii notes fmnl circulati-.;n would restore specie to its former general cur- rency. . The Speaker laid before the house a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, supplemen- tary to his Annual Report ; and also a letter, transmitting the estimates of expenditures for the year ‘ensuing; which documents were referred to the committee of Vvays and Means. On motion of Mr. Sloan, it was _ Resolved, That the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to enquire into the expediency of establishing a post route from Washington, Penn. by way of Steubenville, New Salem, New l-‘biladelphia, Woos- ter, and Norwalk, to Lower . Sandusky, in Ohio, and to * discontinue such routes, or parts of routes, now existing, as are embraced in the route proposed by this resolution. On motion of Mr. Jackson, it was .Rcsalved. That the committee on the Post Office and , Post‘ Roads be instructed to enquire into the expediency o'f-“extending the post road from Wood Court House to ‘Jacksonville, in Virginia, to Lewis Court House, by the ' tvajfj of ~Murphy’s settlement, in said state. ».On motion of Mr. Williams, of N. C. it was ‘Resolved, That the committee on Military Affairs be , instructed to enquire into the expediency of allowing‘ t0 ‘. the ol¥i,c,ers of the army a salary, or stated sum of money f e1.-‘year, instead ofthe pay and emoluments as now al- V lowed bylaw. .on motion of Mr. Jllallary, the house proceed- : ed -to the consideration of the report of the Secre- tary of State on the expences attending the exe- § cution of the 5th, 6th, and 7th articles of the treaty ' of Ghent, this.,-house. 1 Sonic conversation took place as to what com- ‘ mittec should be referred the examination of this tee, another gentleman proposed the committee E of foreign relations, Stc. - 9 .!~n-the course of the convcrsation-- . - Mr. Cobb said, it was timesome enquiry should be made into the subject, for from this report it , appeared that the survey of the Northern Boun- dary Line, under these articles of the treaty. was likely to cost the United States a pretty round tsun1—liaving already cost the government, as appeared by this report, only a hundred and nine- ty five thousand dollars. . .Mr. .Ma.£lary said his object was to have an investigation of the matter; to see whether the -progress of the commission had been propor- tionate to its expenditure, Bag, With that object only in view, it was not material to him what committee the subject was referred to. Mr. Foot preferred that the subject should be referred to the committee of Foreign Relations, with which ‘it had ancvident connection. He further remarked, that it CI.-Old not be objected to its going to that committee, that they had before them at pi esent any very important business. The subject was finally referred to _a: select committee; and Messrs. Mallary, Lowndes, Can- non, Hendricks, and Lincoln, were appointed a committee accordingly. Mr. Rt-Ch gave noticethat, on Tuesday next, in case he should be able to obtain the floor, he should submit a proposition tor instructing a pro- prohibiting, prospectively, the importation of Distilled Spirits and Malt Liquors, and sundry petition with domestic fabrics tion :‘ . United States. were issued by neighboring states, tee. No au tion. which would have grown into importance had an inquisitive shape. The general course of this debate was as shatlowetl outbe-low. Mr. Storrs said he had no decided objection to inquiry into this subject, but he hoped the house would reflect on the effect which the adop- tion of the measure suggested would have, in giving a preference to the notes of the Bank of the United States over those of all other banks. lie” hoped that the committee of ways and means, whose information on such subjects was so ex tensive, would examine this question in all its beatings, and present their views of it to the house. ‘ Mr. Lowndes said it was hartlly possible to sup- pose that the comrnittce would not know. as every member of the House would see, that the effect of the adoption of such a measure must be favorable to some Banks, and unfavorable to others. But, Mr. L. said, there are many Banks, and those among the best in‘ the States, which do not issue notes of a less denomination than live dollars. It was for the committee of ways and means to inquire whether the government should not lend its aid to produce uniformity in this respect. - Mr. illeigs agreed in opinion with his colleague 7 J .United States had furnished, the Union with :1 these issuespf note law; it Commissary General ofpiirchases, witha salary circulating-medium of equal value in all parts of; rations of thc__city and towns of the District. With 3‘-‘d °"‘-‘ Assistant the Union, he might perhaps be inclined to give l respect to tltd3Bank” of the United States, Mr; M.’ it further facilities; but, for the present, he would: ‘not, fll' one, consent to go further in this respect than Congress had .1.-‘may gone. The Secreta- ry of the Freasury had already the power to for- bid the reception of notes not in good credit, by the Collectors, Ste. which he had duly exercised. succeed, the notes of a great majority ofthe Brinks ble in payment of taxes, and would be driven He could see no other eficct Mr. Southard spoke in favor of the resolve. He was of opinion made in pursuance of a resolution of subject. Mr. ‘It-lallary proposed a select commit- per committee to enquire into the expediency ofl ‘lb 5'-lid ll‘-'-ll manufactured articles, which come most in com- i hail fisiallllsll Mr. Lowndes submiuetl the following resolu- ,..1£e.soI~oed, That the committee of Ways and Means be . P _ instructed to enquire into the expediency of providing did/not hear vltli suflictent (llstlllctness to com- that the notes of no banks by which notes be-ow the a- S mount of 5 dollars are, or may be issue-(l,‘slxali be taken in payment of duties or debtspto the government of the In introducing the resolution, Mr. L. atlverted to the .v.i.ci-susncss of the currency where notes ' for dollars and parts of dollars supply the place of specie, as, where such notes are issued, they always will. He spoke also of the efforts made in some of the states, and now making in Virginia, to banish those notes from circ-.1lation--ctl‘orts whicli were always vain, so long as such notes thority but Congress, he contended, was corn- pctcnt to correct the evil in any manner; and, the object of his resolution being for inquii y only, he (lltl not anticipate any sound objection to its adop- A short debate took place on this subject, the proposition been in an afi~irmative lIIT.~‘.[C'd(l of Mr. Lowmies spoke in reply tojlvlr. .?lIeigs, dc. nying lb-at the particular object ol his motion wa«.._j to bcntfitthe United States’ Bdllk. Suppose nol such Bank werein ¢Xl5l°-11¢-ea he Sill‘-l» and ‘ill’? interest om“, L-ounu-y required that its currency should cmsist in part ofgold and silver, and “O1 (jfpapelf nepejy; wouldit not be well, under such circumst:m;cs,at least to enquire into the policy of pfflhllllting the circulation of notes of 21 ClA‘-1_m- mination under Five Dollars--the effect of which I measure vould be to substitute specie, In part, for notes, in the circulating medium of the coun- try? The object of the resolution was not to. in- stitute an {inquiry in order to benefit the Bank of the Unittd States : but, if it were the policy the country to encourage the circulation Of SP6- cie, whichhe presumed no man would doubt, asked tvheghgp that policy ought to be disregard- ed, because a resort to‘ it might incidentttlty be’. I nefit the Bank of the United States ? ll « it wertg true, thsgtthe Bank ofthe United States had not afforded acirculating medium of equal value, 8i.c.’. that itselfwould be an argument not against, but in favor of this enquiry. Mr. -/llei,2‘s resumed the floor. T he SW3,‘- Bank of the. United States, he-c-ontendetl, had not, fulfijjgdtlje duties which it wax expected to have performed. ' There were a hundred banks in the; States, he said, about the legality of whose Insti- tution there were no doubts, whose paper was as Clll rentiand in as high «Iedit as that Of the Bank the United States, and who issued, notes of less a- mount that five dollars. And why should they‘ not ? “law the circulating medium of the coun- try intendcd only for men who deal in tens and hundreds of dollars? The object of this resolu- tion, he Sll(l,‘;WaS plainly neither more nor less, than to restrain the (‘ll‘CUlatl'-3!} ofthe notes of banks issuing r.otcs"of less than five dollars, amlof course to benefit the-Bank of the U. S by _I11c.kll'lg its notes the onljcuri:e..t paper. He was,.thcrefore, yet de. c',dedly«i_npogl_ed to this proposition. M,-_' T,-imbfe said he should vote for the pro- posed enquirf , and regretted the opposition to it. The People “the United States, he sai(l,cxpect- ed that the ,n’tit1onal government would make the enquiry, an'd'ilo what appeared, on enquiry, £0 be within the Scjlptt of its power, to restore to this country a sotjid circulatr at medium. At a for- P . 0 . . mer scssion,',a report had been made to this House, in wllich it had been suggested that a circulating mpdinm m.ig-tat be established, to con- sist of small ins of convenient denominations. ..He presumecldt was intended to take up the sub- ject at the present session, and, it‘ possible, to adopt some nleasure to carry that idea into effect. He observed‘ by the way, that with regardto the Bank of tie United States he was not much disposed to _ ‘er to it any advantages in addi- ,. tion to those Erich it already enjoyed. Advert- ?ing to what h lallen fro:-n other gentlemen res- ifpecting small units and small Bank N tes, Mr. ongress hacl set the example to the .3 states in eslal siting them : in this district, with a l populati n 0 some thirty thousand, Congress twelve banks. and it had a branch of the Bank 0 the United States l)L.Sl(l€S. Mr. j'I‘. here allu-J. to the miserable small notes in j circulation in he llistrict, respecting which he 3 made a ludicruts comparison which the reporter mil to paper llie hoped some measure would be adopted by COi‘lgl‘6S5 to ctfect a circul:.tion of coins for all ttrisactions under’ five dollars. It was expected torn Congress. It was in the pow- er of Congress alone to effect this object, and Congress had zreatly too long delayed the exer- cise ofthc p(‘Wil' Mr. Smz'tlz., if Marylarcl, made rt few remarks on the prot.osi*on before the House, the object of which he urlcrstood to be to exclude lion) cir- culation all lilitlli notes under five .iollar::., with a view to introduce, in place of them, a specie c~'ur- rency. Such. me.--.sur‘e, Mr. believed, would have the clicrtto prevent the general exportation of specie wherever there was a demand for it abroad, by disjcrsiiig it over the country, in such d. manner thatt could not rea<.lily be o;atitex*e(l to- gether in lIil‘_t;tSulIlS. Mi‘. S. showed, by refer- ence to whitt lad taken place in dificrcnt parts 0‘ the country, and more recently by voluntary ar- rangement of he Banks in B-ltimore, that such would be the effect of the exclusion of small notes from crculution. VVbctlier it was politic to do, 11, this respect, what would have the ap- pearance of striking at the State Banks, was ano- ther question :therc could be no doubt. however, oftht: authority of Cozigress in this reg-..tr(l with- in the Districtof Columbia, nor of the expedien- cy of exercising‘ it, 3&c. M r. Silsbee made at few observations to the same effect as those of Mr. Smith. He vms in fu- V01‘ Qfme reg0luliO': ., a~.~*.“ N°“"Ha"€'tb"~‘?'Wil,‘4»5" ifom I‘ \