Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-05-14
CoNGREss-Is SENATE.

On Saturday, on motion by Mr.. Grnndy, the SEN
ate resumed the consideration of the resolution of the
LIST OF February last to postpone the subscription
the compilation of pablo documents proposed to be
published by Gales and Seaton until ain appropria-
ton shall be made by Congress for that purpose
gether with the amendment reported thereto by the
Committee the Library of Congress. motion
of Mr.. Webster to lay ii the table failed el to
90; when motion of Mr.. Holmes, it was posi- poned
and made the order of The day for Monday, 23 to 90
The bill for the relief of certain officers and SOL
diersof the Virginia State Line during the reyoIu-
tionary war, having been reported by the Commit
tee correctly engressed was read third time and
passed, as follows:
A BILL
For the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the
Va State line during the Revolutionary war.
'sBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
seDtatives of the United States of America in Con
gress assembled, That the officers and soldiers who
We're of the Virginia line on her State establish
ment, during the Revolutionary war their heirs or
assigns whose claims to military bounty lands remain
iinsatisbed may, and they hereby authorised to,
locate their warrants any unsettled, unnhabted
and unappropriacd lands lying in either of the States
OF Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, which have heretofore
been brought into market, and remain unsold: Pro
vded, That such locations be made or before the
first day of January, thousand eight hundred and
thirty-fve and conform, nearly as may be- to the
subdivisions OF the public surveys"
iie DIN TO fepeaI the proFiso IN 1.-THE act TO
t1orize masters of vessels in certain cases to clear
out either at the Custom House of PETERSBURG or
that of Richmond was ordered to be encrossed
for third reading
The Senate then resumed the consideration of the
resolution submitted by Mr.. Frelinghuyscn, OF the
SUBJECT of Sunday Mails and after debate, motion
by Mr.. Bibb. was laid the table.
HOUSE OF REPH EsENTATIvEs.
There no business of novelty Saturday be-
fore the House Of Representatives. The Navigation
bill and the bill reported by the Committee on Man
1tfactures were severaIly discussed, Mr.. Strong
speaking on the former and Mr. Everett, Mr. MALTA
ny, Mr. Drayton, and Mr.. Denny On the latter.
Yesterdays mui furnishes few additional par
ticuars in relation the persons aPprehended for the
murder Of Mr.. White at Salem The two Crow
nlngshields stated to be Of respectable family,
and to have been educated at the Military Academy
at Norwich The Salem Register says, the prise
ners have expressed wish early trial and that
it is proboble It will take place in the Of next
month. John Walsh and Ebepezer ShiIIaber. Flsqrs
Of Salenl are engaged their counsel It is I'M.
derstood that the testimony Of Hatch relates to a
conspiracy to commit The murder not to the actua
commission Of the crirne; and that the evidence pro
duced, is altogether circumsisHtia
u The defeat ortbc Van Burenites in ALBANY b
the Working Men Party, noticed by us yestorda,
in an extract from the N. Y Commercial, is accoun
ted for by the Courier & Enquirer, n the follcwin,
in1euious manner