Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-12-26

object of attack.
Signed, De HI Clinton, Mayor
Referred to the committee appointed on
that part of the message Of the president
/; of the United States.
[ Memorial Of the Philadelphia Chamber
of Commerce, praying for an additional
duty of tonnage, 10 order to defray the adj
ditional expence of the harbor.
81 Referred.
/ Samuel Blodget, agent for petition
signed BY $4,000, for erecting an Univrrsi.
~ at w ashingtor, and subscriptions raised
for that purpose 10000 dollars.
Referred TO a select committee of five.
On division, there were 20 votes 10 the
Affirmative.
Petition of the inhabitants of Lynchburg
in Virginia, For alterations in certain post.
Offices and post roads. The petition states
that the sum annually transmitted BY way
of Richmond is not short of 900, 600 dol
lars: that this sum is from time to time
carried in specie and bank notes, often on
horseback, over dangerous roads, and pray
ing that the mail may be carried in aPnblic
Wagon.
Referred 10 the committee Of post Offices
and post roads.
Thos. Sterling, soldier, wounded at
Monmouth. aad praying relief. Referred
70 the committee of claims.
Mr.. Dawson from the committee to
which was referred so much OF the presis
deus's message as related to sggressions,
defence Of ports and harbors, the building
of T4.sun ships, made report, IN pare,
containing several resolutions thereon, and
providing certain sums OF money TOR such
purposes.
Pessfoed, That the report, together with
TIVE letters from the secretary OF the navy,
he referred to a committee of the whole,
ane be printed.
Mr.. Dawson Also moved the following
resolution
Resolved, That the president Of the U.
States De requested to inform the house
whether any and what steps have been TAX
en- by any particular state indebted 70 the
II. States. in defence Of the harbors OF the
United States.
Mr.. Crowninshield, from the committee
of commerce and manufactures, reported
bill for erecting lighthouses 10 Long
Island Sound, and for making Roxbury
port of delivery.
Read twice and committed to acomrilt-
tee of the whois house for "Wednesday
next, and to be printed.
Petition of number of inhabitants IN
Massachusetts, remote from post Offices,
praving for the establishment OF post Of
Sces in certain places therein narsed.
Referred TO the committee ofpost Offices
and post roads.
Petition from the inspectors at Baltimore,
similar TO that already presented from the
inspectors at New York, praying addition
al compensation.
Referred to the secretary of the sreasu-
rye :,
Petition 'of sundry inhabitants 10 New
| Jersey. for additional post Offices, from Bel.
yedira post Office, the Delaware, &c
Referred to the committee ofpost Offices
| and post roads.
Mr.. Gregg, from the committee o. pub
Hollands, reported on thepetition OF George
| Rogers Clarke, for grant OF land. as a
| compensation for losses sustained in the
revolutionary war with Great !Brltau.
Resolpsd, that the prayer ought not to be
granted.
Mr.. Findley, called for the report on
the petition of
| Thomas spalding fora seat in this house
| in place of Cowlrs Mead-and moved,
",hat the memovialist and the sitting
member, shalt if they desire it, be heard
| by counsel before the bar Of the house"
Mr.. Cowles Mead, the sitting member
from Georgia, COW rose and observed, that
| he wighed to dispense with troubling The
house with the hearing of counsel before
the bar, for tina, ali he wished, was an IN
! yastioation by the house.