Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-04-10

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Their TO perform his official duties, or to resign
and not be permit ed to hold a sinecure office.
1 Mr. Gay thought it would be be ter to meet
the question fairly at once, by enquirir q INTO the
conduct OF the offending Judge, than to get
round It by allowing extra compensation to the
Judge who performs the duty ofbo,h.
Mr.. Nelson said that the enquiry had mot de.
volved ON the Judiciary committee. nor had .bey
conceived 1t their duty to enter into an examina.
ton OF the conduct of he Judge of the Northern
! district but they had incidentally become ac.
| 9uanted with his improper conduct and Mr..
N sad ne believed he ought to be turned out OF
| ONCE. That consideration, however, ought not
| 10 throw any impeachment in the way of this bill
because a former law had enjoined on the south
ern Judge CYAN Ness) TO perform those extra d,.
| ties, II necessary, and he ought to be compensa
| ted therefor.
Mr. Sfanfsrd hod some doubt as to the const
tutionslity of voting temporary increase of sala
ny to Judge. He doubted whether if the com
pensation was allowed, it could with propriet,
afterwards be reduced and for the purpose o.
entering INTO the enquiry ola general increase o.
salary to the Judges, he moved that the commit
| tee rise.
MI, Bets remarked that Judge Tallmadge wa.
capac'tated by bodily infrmity from perform
ing ms official duties, and that he had not rece.v
ed the salary for some time, &c. TO which it was
| replied by Mr.. Grosvenor and others that fact
was immaterial, as the judge had claim to the
salary and could at any time demand and receive
| it, &c.
The necessity of an enquiry into the neglect
OF Judge TalTadSe, was also urged by Mr.. Gros
venor and Mr.. Hopkinson.
| The committee then rose, ayes So, noes 81
OBTAINED leave to Sit again, and the bill was laid
on the table
The house went into committee of the whole
on the bill for the relief of Benjamin and Johr
| Tyler, OF New Hampshire, Mr.. Breckenridge ir
'he Chair the committee rose, reported progress
was refused leave to sit again and the bill laid
| on the table
The remaining orders of the day were suspen
ded, on mot on of Mr.. Nelson of Virginia and
Mr. Nelson then submitted the following reso
| luton:
ffesotved That committee be appointed &c
enquire into the official conduct of Matthias ID
iihnadge, one of the District Judges of the state
| OF New-York, and to report their opin on whether
the said Matthias b. Tsllmadge hath SO acted il
ms Judicial capacity as to require the interposi
ton OF the constitutional power of this House; &
that the SAID committee be authorised to send fol-
| to persons, papers and records.
he resolution was adopted without objection
and committee OF seven appointed accordingly
The bill for the relief of Edward Halloweli
the bill for the rehefof Henry Malcolm tie BIZ
for the relief of EbenezGr Keller and John Fran
els; the bill for the relief of Moses Lewis tin
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Harvard College the bill Tor the relief of Ro
bert Kidd /; and the bill allowing 100000 dollar
to the captors of certain Algerine vessels. seve
rally passed thro' committee of the whole, anc
with the exception of the last named, which
was ordered to lie for the present ON the table
were ordered to be engrossed and read thirc
time.
The bill renting the duties to Harvard Col
lege was on motion OF M. Clay, amended in thu
committee of the whole, by including in the bll
The remission of duties on the carriage OF Go
| veinor Gore of Upper Canada, who landed at New
York in 1915 md passed through part of the U
States to his love nnent
was eDquired by Mr.. Forsyth, who conceiy
ed the remission of the duty an act of courtes,
only, what the practice ofthe Bri ish government
| was IN such cases that if the courtesy was not
usual Wi b that government, he should be unwil
| ling to ext end II in the present instance
+ 1t was replied by MIR Clay that though his
motion was founded in strict justice, II no, being
within the contemplation of the law TO exact du.
ties on carriage which was not to be used in the
| countryside courtesy was usual in England, ami
| on the continent af Europe and
Mr.. HopkinsOn, stated fact also in which the
duties accruing in G. Britain on certain paintings
| intended for the Pennsylvania hospital were re
mitted, on the ground that they were for The pc.
| neral encouragement fthe arts, and for public
| institution, &c.
| Inc amendment was agreed to in committee
and concurred in UNANIMOUSLY by the house.
NEW STATES.
The house then resolved itself into commit.
tee OF the whole, Mr.. Nelson of Va IN the chair
on the bill to enable the people of Indiana terri
tory to form constitution and state government
and be admit ed into the union on the footing OF
the original states.
| The Dill received variety of amendments in
its details, and having been gone through,
! The committee proceeded to take up the hill
to enable The people of the Mississippi territory
| to form constitution and state government, and
be admitted into the union on an equal footing
with the original states
| After adopting various amendments and reject
ing others, the discussion of which consumed con
siderable time, the bill was got through.
The committee rose and reported the two bilIs
with their amendments 10 the House
The amendments reported to the first were enc /.
eessivey agreed to, and the bill, as amended. WAS
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
The amendments reported to the Afississipni
bill, were also agreed to, with the exception of
one adopted by the committee, on the motion of
Mr.. johnson, reserying to the Congress the pow
er OF hereafter altering the boundary of the new
state. This amendment was widely discussed
and finally disagreed to after which.
The bill was ordered to be eugrossed, as amen
ded, for third reading and
The House adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.