OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OF

THE UNITED STATES:

BEING

THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS;

BEGUN AND HELD

AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON,

DECEMBER 4, 1843,

IN THE SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY BLAIR AND RIVES.

1844.

JOURNAL

OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

BEGUN and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and in the sixtyeighth year of the Independence of the said States, being the First Session of the TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, held under the Constitution of Government of the United States.

On which day, being the day fixed by the Constitution of the United States for the meeting of Congress, the following named members of the House of Representatives appeared and took their seats, viz:

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MASSACHUSETTS

RHODE ISLAND

CONNECTICUT

VERMONT

NEW YORK

(Edmund Burke,
John R. Reding,
Moses Norris, jr.,
John P. Hale.

Robert C. Winthrop,
Daniel P. King,

William Parmenter,

Charles Hudson,
John Quincy Adams,
Henry Williams,
Joseph Grinnell.

S Henry Y. Cranston,
Elisha R. Potter.
(Thomas H. Seymour,
John Stewart,

George S. Catlin,
Samuel Simons.

Solomon Foot,
Jacob Collamer,
George P. Marsh,
Paul Dillingham, jr.
S Selah B. Strong,
Henry C. Murphy,