Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-03-24

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such person shall, for every such offence,
forfeit and pay to and for the use Of the U.
States, the sum Of twelve dollars.
Sec. S. And be it further enacted, That
the toll gatherers on the said road shall
spectiyely receive compensation for their
services, at the rate of twelve per cent on
the amount Of tolls by them respectively
received Provided, that the annual com
pensation of any toll gatherer shall never
exceed the sum of three hundred and fifty
dollars: nor shall the same be less in any
one year than one hundred and twenty dol.
lars (; and, in case Of any deficiency in the
amount collected by any toll ga'herer below
the sum ofone hundred and twenty dollars,
the residue shall be paid out ofthe tolls COL
lected at the other gates on said road.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the amount of tolls collected on said road
shall be paid into the treasury of the UNI
ted States semi-snnually, by the toll gather
ers on said road, and seperate account
kept thereof and the said monies, after
deducting therefrom the expences and char
ges of collecting the same, shall be applied,
under the direction Of the presi' ent of the
United States, to the repairs and preserva-
ton Of said road, in such manner and under
SUI h regulations, as he may prescribe, and
o,Los n,rnoe, ,vhotovor
This bill having been read, and its second
reading being in due course proposed
Mr.. Barbour moved to REJECT the bill.
This motion gave rise to short debate.
Our reporter did not reach the house in
time to hear the whole of The debate, and
to report part Of it would not be fair.
In general the motion to- reject the bill was
supported on the ground that the question
which it involved had been as much discus
sed as any ever presented to the view OF the
Legislature; that the discussions and So
Tenn decisions of this house had gone forth
to the vorld-that the mRd of every mem
Der was made up on it, and therefore there
was no need of delay for reRection-and
that the principle of the bill was, in the o.
pinion of the advocates of its rejection, so
obnoxious that it ought not to be entertain
ed by the house for moment
The motion to reject was opposed on the
ground thatthe question was OF much i'm
portance, and ought not to be hastily dispo-
sed of; that the preservation of national
work, which has already cost so much mo-
ney, was an object ofimportsnce, If within
the constitutional power of congress that,
in fact, the question involved in the bill had
never yet been decided by Congress that,
being but this day presented, it would be
unreasonable to call upon the house to say
it was so odious they would not look at it,
&c.
The question on the motion to reject the
bill was then put in this form" Shall this
bill be rejected ?" on which the votes were
as follow,
Yeas Al
Nays Ill
So the house refused to reject the bill
and it was twice read and ordered to be
engrossed for third reading.
The engrossed bill appropriating money
for continuing the centre building of the ca
pitol twas read third time, passed, with
out debate or division, and sent to the house
of representatives.
The remainder of the day was occupied
in debating the bill for amending the pen
sion law, land the proposition OF Mr.. Barbour
to substitute on it "a different bill. Messrs.
Reid, Hill, Fuller, Trimble, Barbour, Lii
vermore and Bloomfield engaged in the bill
among whom Mr.. Hill, Mr.. Fuller, and
Mr.. Livermore, earnestly opposed any in
vasion of the principle of the present pen
sion law, tho ugh willing to make any ne
cessary amendment to its details. Mr.. Full
Ter spoke on the subject considerably at
large.
Before coming to any decision on the sub
iect. the committee rose and reported pro-
gress-and
The house adjourned.
IN SENATE.
Tuesday, March 81.
Mr.. Lowrie, from the committee On pub
lie lands. to whom was referred the resolu-