Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-02-13
C0ngressionaL Register.
HOUSE oF REPRESENTATIVES.,
Nytdarsdl4, .h,7aarv So.


! Hed1-sd1y, .Is1arry so.
:. Ordered, tina, Mr. Nicholson be excused
K frpn serving On Che committee appointed
the fourth ui,'n,. on q memorial and pc.
!! tlinn of the directors and agents of the
ohio Company.
| On motion,
R,-oivsd. that the Pre~iden: OF the u.
fpitrt States be requested To ;ntorm this
house, whether Samuel Hammond, a
memiscr OF this house has moi accepted an
executive appointment, and wiisE
Ordered that ~ bryan and ail EpPes,
he appointed commilite 10 present The
foregoing resolution to the President of
the United States.
Mr. Recommendations the COMMITTEES
OF Commerce and Manufactures, 10 whom
wss referred on the third uiitrSo. the pc.
titan af Walter Charming, sat riy,ng part.
rrr NJ the house of Gibbi and Claiming,
of New port. IN The state Of Rnodc.l land,
m-rci,snt, made report sl,efeo,., which
was read, and ordered TO be referred 10
comni,tc.. Of the whole ho,se, on Nom
day, The eleventh of February next.
Ms isichaeds from the Joiat committee
for enrolled bills, reror;et bat he COM
mites did thu day, pr sens 10 The Ptesi.
dent of the Unitrd S.a cs, for ms appro-
, baton, ~ enrolled bill, in,ituied 5. An Act
for the rief Of John Steele - also, that
| the committee had examined an enrolled
dill, ir-i,mled . An Al foe the relief OF
Alexander Murray and had found the
same 70 be truly enrclied: hersuppn,
Mr. Speaker signed The said enrolled
thll$.
Ordered. ,ha, The clerk % this house do
acquaint the senate herewith
A message was received rom the Pre-.
s;den, Of the uai,ed States. by AIR Coles,
his secretary, noiifylog Tier ,he President
did this day. approve and sign an set
which originated ~ this house, inG.ulcd
" An acl TO provide for completing the va
luation Of lanNs and dwelling house, and
The enumeralion Of slaves ~ Soul Caro-
lima; and for other purposes"
Ordered, iha, the clerk of his house do
acguatTf the senate tberewi h.
petition Of Jacob Greer Of the STATE
OF North Carolina WAS presented 10 IN.
house and read. praying compensation 20,
services rendered, and es penses ;nc,,,,.,
by the petitioner in completing the coj,ee-
ton ofthe lax on lsuds, dwelling houscs &c
slaves, io- he thirty ninth csiIccl,op dis.
ttics, comcosedofth The county q Orarre. in
the state Of North Carolina, a foresaid.
Ordered, that the said patton DE re-
ferred TO the committee ways and
meass.
petition Of sundry inhDiiarts of the
state 1t Pennsylvania, Wise names arc
;hereunto svbsctibed TO ,lr same effect
with petitions presented unihe tenth and
fourteenth instant. from sn'dry o,her in
habtan's Of the said state, ,raying Chat
post road may be established from N,r-
ris'cwp, BY a tavern known by the sign
( OF the Bull, Pugh.,ovn, Gyentry force,
I Morgan town. Chnicll-toyn, and New.
( Holland, TO the town Of lancaster; and
that post Offices may be Gx.d at convent
eat places on the SAID roul WAS PRE-.
/ sented 10 the house and real.
( Ordered, that the said petition be refer.
red to The COMMITTEES appointed oa The oh
November last "to enquire whether any
and what amendments are necessary 70
be made m the acts es,a5iiminp yosf-
office and posi-roads xiihiDtAe United
States"