Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-01-16
Secretary of the Treasurv.


will not 'resspass upon the time of the
House. not even so long as it has
taken TO decide the question whether |
should proceed or not. All | wish to say
is, that on Monday last, resolution was of.
tered by the gentleman from Virginia, (Mr.
WIse') proposing to raise select commit.
lee % investigate the conduct of the Sccre.
tary OF the Treasury, and TO see if that com.
mlt'ee could find sufficient evidence on
which to found articles Of impeachment.-
ne proposition was, that the members of
the Commute should be selected by ballot.
| objected to the resolution OF the time, but
1T was not because was opposed to the in.
vestiga'Ion. Far from it. Sir. knew at
that time that the Secretary of the Trea.
sury would solicit such an investigation
whenever the House desired it md say
now, that flhe gentleman from Virginia
will so modify his isresolu'ion as to provide
that the committee shall be raised forthwith,
in the usual form and manner, (Mr C. was
here Interrupted with loud exclamations of
"Oh, oh !") wi | withdraw my objection.
will even 60 further. So desirous, so
anxious is this distinguished officer of the
Government to have his conduct investga.
ted and am authorized to state that he
is so--hat, ifthe House could raise a
committee by ballot within any reasonable
time, | will make no objection.
Mr.. Prentiss and Mr.. Wise both asked
leavo to reply. A majority voted 10 grant
leave, but not t,co thirds !; so leave was not
granted.
Jan 3. A report from the committee
on elections declaring that Mr.. Geo. w.
Jones is entitled to the seat now occupied by
j. D. Do'y as Delegate from Wisconsin
was concurred in l67 to 2s.
Mr.. Taliaferro, from the Committee on
Revolutionary Claims, reported the follow.
ing preamble and resolutions
Whereas the Continental Congress of the
hen confederacy of the United States did,
by resolution, under date of the 30th day
of September, in the year 1880, recon.
mend to the several States Of the confeder.
acy Of the Federal Union having claims to
Western lands, liberal surrender thereof,
as common fund, in aid of establishing the
public credit. and TO discharge the debt in.
CURED by the then existing arar 1c,th Great
Britain
And whereas the State Of Virginia, res
ponding to the said recommendation ofCon-
gress, did, on the I'd day Of January, by
an act of her Legislative Assembly, adopt
and submit TO Congress, for their consider.
alton and acceptance, the terms and con-
diiions on which that State would surrender
to the United States, for the purpose afv:-
said, all the lands within the chatered boun.
daries of Virginia, north and west of the
river Ohio:
And whereas Congress, having the said
terms and conditions of cession proposed
by the Stale of Virginia under cousidera-
ton, resolved, on the - day ofSeptember
1883, to accept tie same, with the excep.
ton only ofa stipulation in said terms oil
cession. requiring, the United States 10 guar
amy 10 Virginia the residue Of her west RI
territory lying south and east Of the rive
Ohio
And whereas the State of Virginia, as
sen,ng TO the proposed exclusion from her
terms of cession, did, by an act of hci Lrg.
la,ive Assembly, authorize her then dele
gates ia Congress to execute the con:cm.
plated deed Of cession whereupon, and in
virtue OF thelull powers ves,ed in them, the
said delegates, then present, did, on the frs
day of March, 1884, execute a conveyance
of the United States for all the lands te
which Virginia had claim north and west o
the river Ohio, according to the original
terms and conditions proposed by Virginia
to Congress for the cesssion thereof, with
the exception only ofthe guaranty aforesaid
proposed by Congress TO be excluded there
from, and assented to by Virginia, as afore
said
! And whereas the orr ginal terms und
conditions proposed by Virginia, and assem-
ted to by Congress, for the cession of that
Stale of all her lands north and west Of the
river-Ohio, impose The following obligations
on Congress
First. That provided the State of Vir.
gina had not reserved sufficient quantity
of good land on the south east side Of the
river Ohio, 10 satisfy the land bounty prom.
! ised by 10 her officers and soldiers who
served in the continental line of the army,
and who served in her own State establish.
ment, that Congress should make up such
deficiency out of good lands lying between
the Sciotio and Miami rivers;
Secondly. The aforesaid terms and con.
ditons Of cession provide, and ii is 80 ex.
pressed IN the deed, " That all the land,
within the territory hereby ceded to the
| United States, and not reserved or approp.
rated to any Of the before mentioned pur.
poses, or disposed Of in bounlies to the off.
GERS and soldiers of the American army,