Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-04-27

partn1ent, eitifnased at 900 doii1Fs, 10
the fun of 81, 600 dollars.
MI. Grifwold moved TO ieparate this
fun into two diilintt ipeci6c appropri-
ations.
~sOn which an intereaing debate took
place (which thall be given in courie ( IL
which the amendment wac Imported by
MeiIrs Grifweld and Eufis, and oppofed
by Mefrs Nicholfon, S. Smith, and Dana.
Motion 10 amend loft Ayes II.
The bill was then ordered to be en-
groGed for third residing.
"A menage was received from the Senate
informing the Houie, that they have diff
agreed TO the amendments of the Houfe to
the Poa office bill, ana that tbey had al
70 dJ5agreed u tie ys/olat;u IF The HogJe
to adjourn the lvv9 H04Jss On M9uday
next.
The felea committee, appointed YET
terday, made report to amend the bill
refpeefing the mint, by providing thai
the iecretary of the treafury, under the
direction Of the Prefdent, be authorized to
contract with the bank of the u. States,
or with individuals, for the coinage OF
cents and half cents, provided the amount
coined lhall not exceed 20 tons annually,
and that no expence fhall be incurred by
the United States land by further proyid-
ing, that all the implements and perlonai
effects of the mint fhould be retained.
Mr.. L. r. Morris moved to pofpone
the confederation of the report till the Sd
Monday in November Loft, Ayes I9.
Mr.. Grifwold moved poaponement
until Monday next. Loft Ayes 70.
The report of the felef committee was
agreed TO with an amendment authorizing
the fale ofhorfes employed in the mint.
So amended the bill was ordered TO
third reading on Monday.
The Houie went into committee OF
the whole, Mr.. S. Smith in the chair, On
the bill making appropriations for the civil
lift.
The fsveral blanks were filled up, and
fome amendments made; when Mr..
Nicholfon moved new fiction, making
appropriation of dollars to
the attorney general, and other agents
for fervices rendered under the Britilli
treaty.
Mr.. Bayard oppofed the appropriation
as illegal. He fated that as the board
of commillioners, under the article of the
treaty to which the appropriation refer
red, had ceafed to fit, and the iervices
of the attorney general and the agents
ceafed, in his opinion no allowance lhould
be made
Mr.. Nicholfon ifated, that under iimi-
lar circumstances, the late attorney ge-
neral had received the additional compen-
fation.
Mr.. Bacon oppofed the refolut,on on the
fame ground with MIR. Bayard, when the
queaion was taken, and the motion loft
without divition.
The committee rofe and reported the
bill, which the houfe Immediately took
up.
Ali the amendments were agreed to
without a diyifon, excepting one aFrro-
priating IS per cent. in addition to the
permanent allowance made to clerks in
the respective departments.
Mr.. Grifwold moved TO di!agree to this
appropriation, on the ground that the ex-
pence of living had decreafed, and the du-
ties of the clerks declined.
Mr.. Nichol6n conteaed both points.
He did not think the eypences ofliving had
diminiihed dnce. the lat year, when the
fame allowance was made: and if the du-
ties to be performed in fome departments
had diminilhed, which he did nor allow,
they had certainly inereafed Fin otAer de-
partrlents, viz. the treafury and poa Office
MIR. GrRwolds motion was loft. Ayes