Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-12-19
-aWedaesday, December IS.

The engrossed bill for the relief of The.
odorick Armistead was again read. -
Mr. ]. C.. Smith called for the order of
the day on the bill making provision tor
such as have been disabled By known
wounds in the service ofJbe -CniteaaS,ates
in the late revolutionary war with Great
Britain, whether they served as volunteers
under any authorised officer, or in the mi.
litia, or in any regiment raised by any Of
I the United States. The house resolved
itself into committee of the whole. (.
The apPlicantfor relief must be exam
ined by two, reputable physicians or sur
geons, who shall report upon oath or at.
hrmation the nature of the wounds, and
whether the same renders him incapable of
earning his subsistence by labor.
Ihe bill having been read, the commit.
tee rose and reported the bill without a.
men6ments
Mr.. Speaker having resumed the chair,
Mr.. Aston rose, and declared himself
adverse to the bill as it now stood. The
state which he represented North. Caioli-
MAJ supported their own militia who had
been disabled in the war. At period Of
20 or SO years, to open the doorro all per.
sons from the beginning of the war, will be
endless. Its very possible that any man
who during that time may have received a
wound, not being in the service Of his
country, may get such certificate, as may
entitle him TO the benefit of this Bill.
Mr.. Speaker said there was 40 motion
before the house, when
MFR. Gregg rose, and moved an amend
nent, viz. to lease out the militia, and
those Uho acfcd Under a particular state.
Mr.. ]. G.. Smith. said that the bill was
ordered to. be engrossed without opposition.
He was himself once tenacious respecting
admitting the militia, but now, he wished
every one who had made a sacrifice at the
altar OF their country, should be Admitted
to all the benefits proposed BY the bill.
Mr.. Cregg's amendment was now put,
and there being s only in the affirmative,
it wa, not carriede
The bill was then ordered4o,be ehgross-
ed, and to be read a third time to.mor-
row.
Mr.. Finley, from the committee of e.
lections, reported on the petition Of ~rhos.
SpaidiDg against she si,tisg rnrmber for
Georgia, Cowles Mead.
That Thomas Spaldipg was duly elected.
The house sconcurred. and the repor. was
referred TO a.committee Of the whole on
Monday rext.
Mr.. Southland offered the following ne.
solution:
Resolved, That a committee be appoiated
to enquire into any and what alterations are
necessary in the laws respecting comp ensa.
ten to the Grand and other Jurors sum.
moned to serve in he courts Of the United
States, and to reportby Bill or otherwise.
Mr.. Elmer moved en- amendment re-.
spec,ing the mode of taking affidavits in
such courts BIZ. Mr.. Southland disagree.
ing, the resolution, as he offered it, was
carried.
Mr.. Thomas called for tie order of the
day on e-bill granting land to certain re-.
fugees from Canada and Nova Scotia.
The House went into a committee eff
the whole.
Mr.. ]. C. Smith, the chair.
Mr.. Thomas observed, that during the
late war, many refugees from Canada and
Nova Scotia, joined the American Stand
ard, by which they forfeited their proper
". An act wa. passed by congress to re-
numerate such men, but several claims were
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