Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-06

valid pensioners 8; which was twice
read and committed.
Mr.. RIlca also made unfaynra''le re
ports on the petitions Of Thomas sap
pington, and d. Simmons The FIRST
.of which was agreed to- and the latter
ordered to lie on the table.
Mr.. SmitI, of Maryland. frem the.
committee Of ways ami means, report
ed a bill {" to amend the several acts
providing for sick and disabled sea
men. and for establishing Navy Hospi
tails - which WAS twice read and com
mitted.
Mr.. Williams Of North Carolina,
from the committee ofclailns, made I'M
fas orabIe reports on the petitions Of
LemueI Wooten, Solomon Frazier,
Bailey, and Rinker, and J. Vance !;
which we're ordered to lie on the table.
Mr.. Campbell, from a select COM
mittee, delivered in the following re-
port:
The committee appointed TO enquire
into the expediency of providing by
law for the location of warrants which
issued to the officers and Soldiers Of
the Virginia line on continental esta
blishmcnt, and for the emanation pa
tents in cases where locations have been
made, report, that, having been assured
that Col. Anderson will be recognized
by the Treasury Department aspfinci-
pal Surveyor of tIle Virginia Military
District without the interposition Of
Congress, they ask to be discharged
from the further consideration Of the
subject.
The report was concurrcd in.
Mr.. Pindali, Of Virginia, offered for
consideration the following resolution,
in support of whichhe made some re-
marks, referring to the current report
that an act Of the descr ption therein
referred to had recently passed the lie
gislature of Pennsylvania
Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Treasury be instructed to procure and
transmit to this House, as soon as prac-
ticable, copy of such late act or acts
of the Pennsylvania Legislature as
prohibit or restrain the Justices. Alder
men, or other magistrates or officers of
that state from interposing in the apprc
hension or surrender Of fugitive slaves.
FOR from carrying into effect the act OF
Congress entitled 8 An act respecting
iugiti.es from justice and persons es-
Gaping fron. the service Of their mas
tcrs,'' pass, OH the 18th of February,
1898.
Mr.. Maclay, Of Penn. suggested.
that. if tie object OF the motion was on
~ to obtain cop! of the act, the lat
ter clause of the resolve was unneccs-
sary-and h. wished to see it expunged
because he did rot think that any act
had passed the Legislature, prohibiting
the state officers from carrying int
effect the act of Congress.
70 obviate this objection, Mr.. Pin
dali consented to modify his motion so
as to omit the clause within brackets.
at the cluse Of the above resolve.
The resolve was then amended, on
motion by adding to the end of the re
solution the words following: " Pro,i-
ded, any such act or acts shall hay,
been passed"
Mr.. S. Moore then moved to lay the
resolution on the table which motion
was opposed by MIR. Strotller, and it
was ncgatWed, and
The resolution was agreed to.
MIR. Holmes prefaced the submission
o the following resolve with few re
marks explanatory of bis object. lie
said he believed, that very few gci.tle
men were aware Of the Importance of
the principle involved in this BILL
There were, he said, about forty five
claimants, for whose benefit the bhlNas
Intended; and the sum involved was not
less, probably, than fifty thousand dol
lars. The subject was, therefore, wor
thy Of enquiry. and it was, partcu-
larly desirable, that the House should
not, through want of information, be
induced TO remit the duties OH goods
imported into the British lines during
the war by American merchants, with
view to their being Struggled into the
U. States. Such, he was under the
impression. was the case OF at least
somcu these claimants. He therefore
moved this resolution
PpeoIs,p1 That fha Dammit ce If the