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THURSDAY, MARCH I^.
Mr. Nicholas made a'motion, that it be
Resolved, By the Senate and House of Re
presentatives of the United States, two gds
of both houses concurring, that the follow
ing articles be proposed to the Legislatures
of the several states, as amendments to the
Constitution of the United States ;
That, after the third day of March, inthe
ye/r 1801, thf choice of Electors of Presi
dent arid Vice President shall be made by di
viding each slats into a number of diftri&s,
equal to the number of Electors to be chosen
in such date, and by the persons in each of
those dittrids who shall have the qualifica
tions requisite for Endors of the most nu
merous branch of the Legislature of such
date choosing one, Eledor in ' the manner
which the Legislature thereof shall prescribe.
That the Election of Representatives to
Congress, who are to serve after the third
day of March, in the year 1803, shall be by
dividing each date into a number of diftrifts,
equal to the number of Representatives to
which such (late shall be entitled, andby
the people within each of those diftiids who
shall have the qualifications requisite for e
lefrrs of the most numerous branch of the
Legislature of such state choosing one Repre
sentative in the manner which the Legisla
ture thereof shall prescribe.
Ordered to lie on the table.
A report was read on the petition of B. #
Norton for the inhabitants of Martha's
Vineyard, praying abidance to pursue a
claim for fopplies furnifhed to the BritiSh
Government during our Revolutionary war.
The report dated, that it is inexpedient for
Congress to make a grant of money.
A petition relative to the eredion pf Piers
in the Delaware was committed.
The Bill providing means for foreign in
tercourse was read twice.
The Bill for the Government of the Ma
rine Cords, while employed on Shore, was
committed.,
The petition of Mr. Tazewell, Secreta
ry to Mr. Gerry, in his mission to France,
th be allowed travelling expenses from Par
is to London, on official bufmefs, and for
sundry articles plundered from him was
committed.-
A petition far ,he remission of duty on a
still which remained unemployed, by neces
sity, was committed.
The Senate, by Message, proposed to a
mend the law allowing a drawback on du
ties exported to New-Orleans, by comenc
ing its operation on the 11th of April.
HOUSE— WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12.
AN engroffedbiU to alter and establish
certain post roads, was read and palled.
7'he House then want into committee of
t.u whole, on a bill for the government of
'the Marine corps while oh shore. -
The reported bill, contained a feaion
providing that, if any marine officer or pri
vate ffionld commit any offence against the
person or property of any citizen, while on
fbore, that is punishable by the known laws
tot the land, the commanding officer or offi
cers of every company, or party, is required
to use his or their utmost endeavors to deli
ver up such Accused person, by the civil ma
gistrate upon demand made by such magis
trate, and (ball also aid and assist the officers
of justice in apprehending such offender, in
order to bring him to trial—any officer re
fufing as aforefaid, on application being made
to him, by a civil officer, to deliver or aid
the delivery of such person to the civil ma
gistrate, every such officer so offending, and
being thereof convicted in any court of law
in the county where the fa& was commit-'
ted, by the oath of two credible witnesses,
shall be cashiered, and for ever afterwards
incapacitated to hold any military commis
sion in the service of the United States.
This, so far as related to a trial before a
court of law was moved and carried in com
mittee of the whole, to be struck out. When
the question come forward in the House to
agree with the report of the committee of
the whole to strike out the words, a warm
and long debate ensued, the question to agree
was taken by yeas and nays, and carried as
follows;,
YEAS 47—NAYS 441 .
So th it the offence Ratal in the bill is tri
able at court martial. *
Some amendments reported by the com
mittee of the whole, were left undecided
when the house adjourned.
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post after being warned ot the consequences;
to the end that this House may be able in a
proper manner to do justice to his memory."
On motion, the part refpeding Mr. Jar
vis was struck out, and these words substi
tuted, viz. " And also upon the condu& of
any officers or other perlons on board said
frigate who may have particularly signaliz
ed themselves in the fall a&ion." The Re
solution, thus amended, was carried.
The Loan Bill passed to be engrofled.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1,.
The Loan Bill passed, Yeas 52— Nays 39.
A bill to eftablilh a military academy,and
better organize a Corps of Artillerifts and
Engineers, was read twice.'
A Resolution was submitted for appoint
ing a Committee to afeertain whether the
public debt has been encreafed or dimilhed
since the eftabliihment of the prefenft Cop
ftitution.
Mr. Parker called pp his resolution te
fpeaihg preferring a Medal to Gapt. Trux
ton. But it being wilhed that authentic in
formation might be obtained on the fubje&
from the Navy office, Mr. P. withdrew his
firft motion ; and proposed
• "That the Secretary of the Navy lay be
fore the House such information as he may
be possessed of, refpeding the engagement
which lately took place in the W. Indies
between the Constellation frigate, and the
French ship of war ; and also refpeaing the
condud of James jarvis, midihipman -on
board the said frigate, who voluntarily de
voted himfelf to death, by remaining at his
FRIDAY, MARCH 14.
The bill to prevent the interference of a
Military Force in certain eleaions, passed
to be enaaed.
The Senate's amendment to the bill re
fpe&ing exports to New-Orleans was re
jeded.
The Secretary of the Treasury complain
ing of defects in the law requiring the pay
ment of money from Collectors of the Re
venue into the Treasury ; and that he was
frequently trifled with by those officers; as
there was no provision for compulsion—a
Committee was appointed to confider of a
mending the law.
The refohrtions authorizing the eftabliffi
ment of a Legislature in the Miffifippi Ter
ritory, were agreed to.
A resolution palled authorizing enquiry
into the expediency of allowing the Secre
tary of the Treasury to remit any forfeitures
which shall occur, or may have occurred
under the law prohibiting the exportation of
arms and ammunition.
Certain refolutiohs relative to the Post-
Roads, proposed a few days since, were com
mitted.
In committee of the whole on the bill to
extend the privilege of obtaining patents for
ufeful difeoyeries and inventions to certain
persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge
and define the penalties for violating the
tights of patentees, it was thought that pa--
tents granted to aliens should only be in
force while they refitted in the country. ' No
decision.
A committee was Authorized to enquire
into the expediency of authorizing the be
cretary of War to issue to the officers and
foldiets of the continental army, warrants
for bounty lands, which may have been ob
tained by fraud, or loft or destroyed.
MONDAY, MARCH 17.
Mr. Parker after some pertinent prelimi
nary observations, proposed a resolution, di
re&ing that a gold medal, emblematical ot
the recent engagement between the Ameri
can frigate Cdnftellation and the French (hip
Vengeance, should be presented to Captain
Truxton, as an acknowledgement of his
gallantry and good conducts
A petition was presented from the widow
of Gen. Wooster, and committed.
A resolution was reported authorizinguhe
purchase of the copper bed on Lake Superior.
The Senate notified, that they had reject
ed the Bill extending the time for the pay
ment of bonds given for duties.
The Loan Bill underwent discussion but
was not decided upon.
The bill for removing any military force
of the U. S. from places of eleaions passed
to be engrossed.
A report for dividing the N. W. Terri
tory into two Governments, was accepted
in committee of the whole.
• WEDNESDAY-, APRIL a, 1800.
TUESDAY, MARCH 18.
A%ILL.
M^e effeaually to provide for the National defence
by ejiatlijhirig an Uniform Miltia throughout the
United States.
iJ™' r ' " " evaded by the Senate and House
I {^ e T re J e ntatives ofthe United States of America,
'mongrels afembled. That the militia of the Unit
[States, shall he composed of all the able bodi-
W}nale white citizens of the refpedtive Bates refi
deat therein, who shall refpe&vely be of the age
oftwenty and under the age of forty, and shall
crinftitute one army, of which the President of the
United States being commander in chief, there
fall be attached to the fame a complete flaff as
fofow, viz. eight aid-de-camp, with the rank of
lieutenant colonels, one adjutant general, one
infieftor general, one quarter matter general, each
with the rank of major generals, one infpeftor
of Artillery and cavalry, one commissary general
anaone p&ician general,
sc. 2. And be it further evaded, , That within
twelve months after passing this act, the militia of
the United States shall be arranged into divisions,
brigades, regiments, battalions and companies, as
the legislature of each state may direct ; each di
vifirti, brigade, regiment, battalion and company
shall be numbered, and a record made of such
number at the deputy adjutant general's office in
the ft^te, and when called into actual service, in
part or in whole, such nftnercial designation shall
govern as to precedence, reckoning the firft or
Bdweft number lugheft in rank ; each division shall
confifi of two or more brigades, as local conven
ience may direct, and under the fame rule; each
brigade shall consist of Four regiff ents, each regi
ment of two battalions, each battalion of five
companies, each company of sixty-sour privates ;
to each,divifion there shall be one major general
and two aid-de-camps, with the rank of major,
one quarter matter, with the rank of lieutenant
colonel ; to each brigade, one brigadier gemrJ,
with one brigade quarter matter, and brigade in
fpeftor and one brigade major with the rank ma
jor ; to each regiment one lieutenant colonel com
mandant ; to each battalion one major ; to each
company one captain, one lieutenant, one tenfign,
four sergeants, four corporals, one drummer and
one fifer or bugler. The general Raff for the mi
litia of the dates refpeftively, shall be taken from
the line feletted by their refpedive generals, as
shall the regimental flaff also, to be rejected by the
refpe&ive commari^ants of regiments, which shall
consist of one adjutant, one quarter master, and
one pay master, one surgeon and one Turgeon's
mate. To each regiment there fell be one ser
geant major, one quarter master sergeant, one
drum major and one me major.
Sec. 3. Andbe it further enabled by the authori
ty aforefaid, That the militia men liable to do du
ty as aiorefaid, from the age of 20 to 25, shall be
formed into companies of artillery, cavalry, light
infantry, or grenadiers, and shall be tailed the
light troops. To each company of artillery there
shall be one captain, two lieutenants, four ferjeants
four corporals^ fix gunners, fix bombadiers, one
drummer, r fifer, & privates—and each com
millioned officer shall provide himfelf with a sword
or hanger, a fuzee, bayonet and belt, and cart
ridge box to contain,at least twelve cartriges—to
each troop of horse there shall be one captain,
two lieutenants, one cornet, sergeants,
corporals ^d ", privates, and each commffion
ed officer and private, shall provide himfelf with a
good horse, at least fourteen hands and an half
high, and the officers Ihall provide themselves with
the following arms and accoutrements to Wit : a
„good fv ^l, a pair of pistols, with holders well
covered with bear fkiu,„a good saddle, bridle,
mail pillion and valise, bread plate, boots and spurs
—and it shall be at all times hereafter the duty of
the commandant of regiments to take measures
for the due difehargeof all ^en in said compa
nies as fpon as they refpeftively Complete the age
of twenty-five years, and fob the due enrollment
in some one of said companies of all men reaching
the age of twenty, and residing within the bounds
of his regiment, of which enrollment such citizen
shall be notified by a non commissioned officer of
the company of which he is enrolled, and every
citizen so discharged, having faithfully gone thro'
five yearsof training as by law directed, shall be
by the difeharging officer presented at the expence
of the United States, with his arms and accoutre
ments possessed by him while training ; every sol
dier removing from his diftria: shall be entitled on
demand to a certificate from his commanding offi
cer of the time he served in training, whiep said
certificate in case of removal as aforefaid, shall be
received as full proof, as to time of service, When
he shall claim his difcl,arge, and the arms and ac
coutrements to be presented to him: Provided he
shall within thirty days after removal, enroll him-
The following Bill has been read in Congress a
firfl and fecund time, and committed to a Com
mittee of the whole House of Representatives.
I TUESDAY, MARCH 18.
t The report of the Committee of Privi
leges was again taken up. Mr. Nicholas
moved its recommitment for certain altera
tions ; considerable debate ensued. The
firft part of the report declaring the publica
tions falfe, fandalous and malicious, was
agreed to—ayes 20 —nays 8.
Mr. Watson, Senator from N. York, has
resigned.
The consideration of the report of the
Committee of Privileges, recommending
the ordering of the Editor of the Aurora to
attend at the bar of the Senate, on motion
of J. T. Mason was postponed till to-mor
row.
SENATE — MONDAY, MARCH 17.
felf into the company within whole precincts he
shall remove to. *
- Sec. 4. And be it further enaftd, That the ex
ecutive of the federal Bates shall appoint to the
light troops within their rest five Bates a gene,
ral or generals of division. ' The generals of divi
(ion shall appoint the brigadier generals, and the
commandant ot brigades shall apportion to the
light troops of their brigades respectively, the
field officers, which several officers shall be taken
from those already in commission, according to
their reflective ranks. The commandants of regi
ments shall apportion the officers of their respec
tive regiments to the several companies thereof
and shall fee that the companies aforefaid, do at
tend on the training ground, at Rich time and
place astoay be designated by law.
Sec. 5. And be it further enabled, That there shall
be a deputy adjutant general, appointed in each
Bate by the legislature thereof, or in such manner
as they may direst with the rank of brigadier gen
eral, whose duty it shall be to distribute all orders
from the adjutant general, or froth the command
er in chief of the state to which he belongs to the
several corps, to attend all public reviews, when
ordered so to do by the commander in chief of the
Bate, or by the adjutant general—to obey all or
ders froth them, or either of them, relative to car
rying into execution, and perfecting the fyflem of
military dKcipline etiablifhed by this aQ-^he shall
likewise furnilh blank forms of such returns as
may be required, and furnifhed from time to time
by the adjutant general, and explain the principles
on which they are to be made, receive returns of
the militia throughout the Bate, reporting the ac
tual situation of their arms, accoutrements and
ammunition, their delinquencies, and every other
thing which relates to good order and discipline I
all which returns the commandants of divisions are
hereby required to remark, so that the laid deputy
adjutant general may be duly furnifhed therewith,
from which he shall make one general return, and
lay the fame annually before the commander in
chief of the state, who shall, within thirty days'
hereafter, cause a certified copy thereof to be
transmitted to the adjutant general fell be allow
ed, annually, as a compensation for his services
the sum of dollars, to be paid out of the
treasury of the United States.
Sec. 6. And be it further enabled, That Whenev
er the aforefaid troops, or any part thereof, shall
be called into the field for the purnofe of training
the officers, non-commiflioned officers, and pri
vates thereof shall be furnifhed at the expence of
the United States, with such rations both with re,
fpett to quantity and quality, as are allowed to
the officers add soldiers upon the militiary estab
lishment of the United States, they shall likewise
be furnifhed with one camp kettle to each field of
ficer ; one for the commissioned officers of each
company, one to every four non-commiflioned of
ficers, and one for every fix privates. They shall
appear at the place of rendezvous in such uniform
as may be directed by the legislatures of the differ
ent Bates, and while at the place of training, fliall
be comfortably hutted in such manner as mav be
direfted by the commanding officer at each place
of training, and it shall be the duty of command
ants of every regiment to make a return bf his re
giment to tiie brigadier general or commandant
of brigade who shall thereupon make out hs brig
ade return to the general of division, who shall
refpeftively form division returns and transmit
to the deputy adjutant general's office. The de
puty adjutant general ot each state shall once in
every year transmit a general return to the gove
nor and to the adjutant general, arid as often as
shall be required—in all returns aforefaid direct
ed, shall be designated by the camp equipage re
ceived, the said commandant flall give his bond
conditioned with a proper penalty to the said ad
jutant general or fucceeffor in office, with his
field officers refpedtively as flireties or other ade
quate security, for the said commandant shall be
allowed dollars, to be paid by order of
the Secretary of War on cet tificate from the adju
tant general of each state refpedively—lt shall be
the duty of the said lietit. colonel or commandant
to give out the said arms and camp equipage to
the light troops of his regiment previouflv to the
annual period of training and to take in return of
said names the companies constituting the light
troops the name ^a nd- places of residence of their
officers, and their aggregate amount contra diflin
guifal from the residuary militia shall be sepa
rately shewn and afeertained. The Secretary of
War shall in conformity to such returns supply at
the expence of the United States, arms, colours
and accoutrements complete for the light troops
corresponding to, their several lines, together v iih
strong chefls fufficient to contain all such arms and
accoutrements, each chest having a good lock and
key, uhi<;h said arms and^ccoutrements, thus to
cured shall be delivered to the deputy adjutant
general ot each state to be by him delivered to the
commandant of regiments for the foie use of the
light troops belonging to his regiment for the fate
keeping whereof and of troops—The officers and
soldiers of each company to be answerable for the
fafe restoration of all arms and accoutrements and
camp equipage received (wear and tear excepted)
and to be liable to make reflitution by fine impos
ed by court martial in such manner as they mav
decide—And it shall be the duty of the fenionoffi
cer of every detachment of light troops to make a
return within ten days after training, of the :rms,
accoutrements and camp equipage of foch detach
ment, their state and conditions to the command,
ant of the regiment, whose duty it (ball be to
transmit within thirty days thereafter a return to
the deputy adjutant general of the arms, accou
trements and camp equipage in his regiment who
shall examine the fame, anil 'in case of deficiency
shall compel by suit of the bond the immediate
replacement of such deficiency.<
Sec. 7. And be it further evaded, That the light -
troops of the militia of the several dates fl)all be
aflembled for training at least eighteen days at one
time in every year, to be computed from their ar
rival at the refpettive places of rendezvous, at
fetch times and places and in such manner as the
[t DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.