Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-02-03
solution fiom the senate, and il lieu thereof
insert the following

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! insert the following:
Provided, That the following conditions
be taken as fundamental conditions and
terms upon which the said state is incorpo'
rated into the Union, viz That the fourth
clause of the 96th section OF the third article
of the constitution, submitted by the people
of Missouri to the consideration Of Congress
shall, as soon as the provisions Of said con-
sttuton will admit, be expunged or so a.
mended, that it shall not be applicable to
citizens of any state in this Union And that
until so expunged or amended, no law, pass
ed in conformity thereto, shall be construed
to extend to any citizen oil either state in this
Union.
This amendment was ordered to be
printed.
The House, on motion of Mr.. Mer-
Ger. proceeded to the consideration Of
the bill to incorporate the Columbian
College in the District Of Columbia.
MIR. Storrs stated a number of OBJ
lcctions which he had to the bill, as it
now stood, and particularly dwelt on
its having originated with religious
society, and that clause of it which
proposes to give to this corporation a
general capacity to hold lands. from
which might be inferred a capacity to
hold them in any state in the Union
concluding by suggesting certain alte-
rations which he proposed to make to
the constitution of the College, should
the bill pass, though opposed himself
to the passage of the bill in any shape.
MIR. S. moved to recommit the bill
to the committee on the District of Co.
lumbia, with Instructions.
lst. To reduce the number of trus-
tees for the said institution to twenty
one.
end. That the Secretaries of the
Treasury, War. Navy, and State. De.
partments, the Attorney General of
the U. States, and the Judges of the
Circuit Court of the District Of Colum.
bia for til, time being, shall respective
ly be ex officio trustees Of the said In
stitutiOn.
Sd. That vacancies in the said Board
of Trustees shall be filled by the same
body.
4tIl. That a visitorial power over
the said Institution shall be vested in a
joint commit ee to be appointed by the
Sena'e and House of Representatives.
5th. To fill up the Board Of Trus.
tees to the number of twenty one.
Mr.. Mercer opposed the re-commit-
ment, as inevitably leading to a rejec'
ton of the bill; particularly as coming
from a gentlman who had declared
that he should vote against the bill in
any shape. Mr.. Nj. protested against
this bill being rejected. on the ground
of hostility to the establishment of any
literary institution in this District.
which the gentleman from New York
had so broadly avowed. He went mo
a general view of the subject. vindicat-
ing The bill, and asserting the right OF
the people of this District to expect
from Congress, their sole Legislators,
that they would at least be allowed to
educate their children within the Dis
trict if they chose, and that they should,
therefore be enabled to secure and pro.
perly administer the funds they might
establish for that purpose, &c.
There then arose, on this sub jet, a
debate which occupied the whole of the
remainder of the days sitting, which
was desultory in its nature and com.
prehcnsive in its objects. embracing
the general powers of Congress to con.
fer power by granting acts OF incorpo.
ration, as well as the merits Of this
particular bill, and even the Missouri
question, somehow or other, wedget
its way into the debate.
MIR. Sergeant, Mr.. Meigs, Mr.. Cul
pepper, and Mr.. Cuthbert. sided it'll
Mr.. Mercer, in opposition to the a.
IN ndment, and Mr.. Storrs replied.
The motion of Mr.. Stsrrs was mega
lived.
Mr.. Baldwin to obviate the objec
ton which existed to the bill, on the
ground of its supposed comprehensive
ness, moved to amend it by adding
thereto the following:
And. provided, also, that nothing il
this act contained shall be SO construed
as to authorize said College to purchase
or hold any real estate out of the Dis