Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-02-16
TUESDAY,, Feb. ID.

TUESDAY,, req. IA.
The bill for the disposal of certain tracts
ofland in the Mississippi territory, claimed
under grants from the Spanish government,
and declared by the commissioners of pub
lie lands to be anti -dated,a and for other pur-
poses, was read third time, and on motion
made by Mr.. Ro7van that it be postponed
indefinitely. The motion was supported by
Mr.. Rowan, and opposed by Messrs. Pom
dexter and Morrow. Motion lost. Ayes
Is. Mi. Ely moved that it be recommitted,
which motion, after difuse debate, was
lost. The bill was passed, Sc to Cd.
MIR. Love reported a bill to regulate pro-
cess in certain cases in the courts OF the Z.
S. Referred to COMMITTEES of the whole
house.
NON-INTERCOURsE.
Mr.. Nicholas stated, that as one of The
committee who reported the bill on the sub
ject of non intercourse, he was prepared to
act on it but that he had been requested
not to call it up, from the lateness Of the
day and thinness of the house.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES.
On motion of Mr.. W. Alston, the house
resolved itself into committee of the
wholt, Mr.. MASTERS in the chair, on the
bill for imposing additional duties On all
goods, wares and merchandise imported in
TO the Us.
This bill provides +" That an additional
duty Of per centum on the per-
manent duties now imposed by law. upon
goods, wares and merchandise imported IN
to the U. S. from foreign ports or places,
shall be laid, levied and collected upon all
goods, wares and merchandise, which shall
after the 31st day of Jan. 1909, be import
ed into the q. S. from any foreign port or
place and a farther addition Of ten per CEN
tuun shall be made to the said additional duty,
in respect to all .so0ds, mares and merclan-
die imported in ships or vessals not Of the
L. S. i; and the duties imposed by this act
shall be levied and collected in the same
manner, and under the same regulations,
mode Of security and time Of payment, re-
spectively, as are already prescribed by law,
IN relation to the duties now III force on the
importation of articles imported from any
foreign port or place. That this act shall
continue in force until the first day OF April,
1910, and no longer Provided, that the
additional duties laid by this act, shall be
collected on such goods, wares and merchan-
die as shall have been imported previous
to the said day..
Mr.. W. ALston, in the absence of Mr.G.
w. Campbell, the chairman of the COM
mittee of ways and means, moved to fl,
the blank in the bill with the word seventy
five, stating that the opinions of the mem
bers of the committee had varied as to the
proportion with which to fill the blank,
some being for one hundred, some for fit
tv. and seventy-6ye had been taken as the
average.
The motion to fill the blank with seventy
FIVE was negatived, 81 to 81; and nifty a
greed upon, 50 to 80.
The words in itaAc in the above were
struck out on motion of Mr.. W. ASTON.
The words and allowances Us to draoo6acs
were inserted on motion of the same gentle
man, between the word regulations and
s. mode of security, &C.
A motion was made by Mr.. tulh'or to
strike out the first section of the bill, which