The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-01-21
CONGRESSIONAL JOURNAL.
MONDAY. ian 10

.MOJND4Y, Jan. IL.
SENATE. Mr. Bell presented memorial
from sundry inhabitants of New Hampshire,
praying that the practice of transporting the
mail on Sundays be discontinued. Mr. Cham
bers introduced a bill providing for the final
settlement of the claims of several States for
interest on advances made to the Government
during the late war The Vice President com
municated u letter from the Hon E. Bate
man, Senator in Congress from the State of
New Jersey, resigning his seat in the Senate
The Vice President presented letter from the
Governor of Georgia. transmitting protest,
on the part of the State of Georgia, against the
present tariff. Mr.. Berrien explained the pur-
port of the paper, and demanded that it should
be placed upon record. They were referred to
the Committee on Finance.
HOUSE. Mr.. M'Dutfie, from the Commit
tee of Ways and Means, reported bill relating
to Sales at Auction. The first section provides
that, from and after the 3lst day of May next,
no sale of any goods, the produce or manufac-
ture Of any foreign place, shall be made at pub
lie auction, within any city or town, which is
port Of entry, or within twenty miles of such
city or town, unless the auctioneer, or person,
shall, at the time of sale, exhibit the original
invoice on which the duties have been levied,
or a certified copy of said invoice Section 9
provides that, from and after the 3Ist day of
May next, in all such sales at public auction,
the auctioneer shall publish, in one or more of
the newspapers printed in said city or town,
forty weight hours Immediately before said sale,
schedules of said goods, wares, or merchandise,
with particular description of said goods, with
the original marks and numbers, and the name
or names of the vessel or vessels in which the
same were imported, an6 shall also exhibit a
number of such schedules at the time and place
of sale. Section 3 provides penalty for breach
of the foregoing provisions. Section provides
penalty for selling struggled goods. Section
directs the mode of prosecuting for the re-
covery of the penalties which may accrue under
the act. Section 6 oxempts from the operation
of the act administrators and sheriff's sales
goods not chargeable with duties and the stock
or goods of any retail merchant or trader.
Mr.. Storrs, from the select Committee on
the Census, reported bill to provide for TAX
ing the fifth census, or enumeration of the in
habitants Of the United States
TUESDAY, Jan. 10.
SENATE. The bill to distribute a portion
of the revenue Of the United States among the
several States, was taken up. The object Of
this bill is to apply portion of the surplus
money which should accumulate in the Treas
ury, after the completion of the public works,
and the payment of the national debt, to the
uses of the several States Mr. Smith of Ma
ryland, believed that, after the payment of the
debt, it was better to leave the surplus revenue
in the pockets of the people. The reduction of
the duties, to the amount of ten millions, would
relieve the people of great burden. The con-
sequence of the distribution of money among
the several States, proposed by the Senator
from New Jersey, would, he conceived, be the
immediate repeal, by the States of all their
I State taxes The States would then rely on
the Government solely for their revenues-u
state of things much to be deprecated 1t was
supported by Mr.. Dickinson at some length, on
the ground that it would afford to some States
the means of making important internal i'm.