OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OF

THE UNITED STATES:

BEING

THE THIRD SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS,

BEGUN AND HELD

AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON,

DECEMBER 3, 1838,

AND IN THE SIXTY-THIRD YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON: PRINTED BY THOMAS ALLEN. 1839.

JOURNAL

OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

Begun and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in the Ter ritory of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, being the Third Session of the TWENTY-FIFTH Congress held under the constitution of Government of the United States.

On which day, being that fixed by the constitution of the United States for the meeting of Congress, JAMES K. POLK, the Speaker, (one of the Representatives from the State of Tennessee,) and the followingnamed members of the House of Representatives, appeared, and took their seats, viz:

From the State of

MAINE,

Hugh J. Anderson,
Thomas Davee,
George Evans,
John Fairfield,
Joseph C. Noyes,

Virgil D. Parris,

Edward Robinson,

Charles G. Atherton,

Samuel Cushnan,

NEW HAMPSHIRE,

MASSACHUSETTS,

RHODE ISLAND,

CONNECTICUT,

James Farrington,
Joseph Wecks,
Jared W. Williams.
John Quincy Adams,
Nathaniel B. Borden.
George N. Briggs,
William B. Calhoun,
Caleb Cushing,
Richard Fletcher,
George Grennell, jun.
William S. Hastings,
Levi Lincoln,
William Parmenter.
Robert B. Cranston,
Joseph L. Tillinghast.
Elisha Haley,
Orrin Holt,
Samuel Ingham,

Lancelot Phelps,

Isaac Toucey,

Thomas T. Whittlesey.