The bill, entitled "An act to empower the Secretary of the Treasury to decide on the case of the ship Eliza Ann, belonging to Ezekiel Hubbel," was read the second time, and referred to a select committee, to consider and report thereon; and Messrs. GOODRICH, LLOYD, and ANDERSON, were appointed the committee.

SENATE.

The bill, entitled "An act directing the terms on which lands sold at public sale, and that revert for failure in payment, shall again be sold," was read the third time, and passed.

On motion. by Mr. FRANKLIN,

MONDAY, January 13.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill, entitled "An act directing the terms on which lands sold at public sale, and that revert for failure in payment, shall again be sold." Ordered, That it pass to the third reading. The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill in addition to the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes;" and, on motion by Mr. SMITH, of Maryland, it was agreed that it be made the order of the day for Monday next.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage; and the bill was amended; and, on motion, by Mr. BRADLEY, it was agreed that the further consideration thereof be the order of the day for Monday next.

FRIDAY, January 10.

A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that the House recede from all their amendments, disagreed to by the Senate, to the bill, entitled "An act to raise an additional military force," except the second of the new sections proposed, on which they insist.

Mr. LEIB presented the memorial of John Bioren and others, on printing the laws of the United States, upon conditions therein stated; and the memorial was read, and referred to a select committee, to consider and report thereon by bill or otherwise; and Messrs. LEIB, GOODRICH, and HORSEY were appointed the committee.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill in addition to the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled 'Ar act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes;'" and Mr. SMITH, of Maryland, proposed an amendment to the bill; which was read; and, on motion, by Mr. LLOYD, it was agreed that the further consideration of the bill, together with the amendment, be postponed to, and be made the order of the day for, Wednesday next.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage; and Mr. LLOYD, proposed an amendment to the bill; and, on motion, by Mr. BIBB, it was agreed that the further consideration of the bill, together with the amendment, be postponed to, and be the order of the day for, Wednesday next.

The PRESIDENT communicated a report of the Secretary for the Department of Navy, on the subject of the Navy Pension Fund; and the report was read.

The bill to prohibit the importation of rum, taffia, or other spirituous liquor, distilled from sugar-cane, sugar, or molasses, during the continuance of the act, entitled "An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes," was read the second time.

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sugar-cane, sugar, or molasses, during the continuance of the act, entitled "An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes;" and, on motion, by Mr. LLOYD, the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to lay before the Senate a statement of the quantity of rum.imported into the United States during the year ending September 30th, 1811; where imported and from whence; and it was agreed to postpone the consideration of the bill until Wednesday next.

On motion, by Mr. GILES, the bill, entitled "An act authorizing the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipage, and other quartermaster's stores and small arms," was read the

A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that the House have passed a bill, entitled "An act to alter the time of holding the district courts of the United States for the North Carolina district;" in which bill they desire the concurrence of the Senate.

The bill last mentioned was read, and passed to the second reading.

TUESDAY, January 14.

The PRESIDENT communicated a report of the Secretary for the Department of the Treasury, exhibiting the sums respectively paid to each clerk in the several offices of that department for services rendered in the year 1811; made in obedience to the provisions of the act of April 21, 1806, to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks; and the report was read.

The bill, entitled "An act to alter the time of holding the district courts of the United States for the North Carolina district," was read the second time, and referred to a select committee, to consider and report thereon; and Messrs. FRANKLIN, HORSEY, and LLOYD, were appointed

the committee.

WEDNESDAY, January 15.

The PRESIDENT communicated the report of the Postmaster General relative to public contracts; also, on the salaries allowed to the clerks of that department during the year 1811; and the reports were severally read.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill to prohibit the importation of rum, taffia, or other spirituous liquor distilled from sugar-cane, sugar, or molasses, during the continuance of the act, entitled "An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes," together with the amendment proposed thereto; and, on motion, by Mr. LLOYD, it was agreed that the further consideration thereof be postponed until Tuesday next.

Mr. FRANKLIN, from the committee, to whom was referred the bill, entitled "An act to alter the time of holding the district courts of the United States for the North Carolina district," reported the bill without amendment, and it was ordered to the third reading.

THURSDAY, January 16.

The bill, entitled "An act to alter the time of holding the district courts of the United States

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for the North Carolina district," was read the third time, and passed.

The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To the Senate and House of

Representatives of the United States:

I communicate to Congress a letter from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain to the Secretary of State, with the answer of

the latter.

The continued evidence afforded in this correspondagainst our national rights, strengthens the consideraence, of the hostile policy of the British Government tions recommending and urging the preparation of adequate means for maintaining them.

JAMES MADISON.

WASHINGTON, January 16, 1812.

The Message and documents enclosed were read, and referred to the committee to whom was referred, on the 8th of November last, so much of the Message of the President of the United States as concerns the relations between the United States and France and Great Britain, to consider and report thereon; and five hundred copies thereof ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.

The following Message was also received from the PRESIDENT OF the UNITED STATES: To the Senate and House of

Representatives of the United States:

I transmit to Congress an account of the contingent expenses of the Government for the year 1811, incurred on the occasion of taking possession of the territory limited eastwardly by the river Perdido, and amounting to three thousand three hundred and ninety-six

dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Jan. 16, 1812. resolution of the Senate requesting information on cerThe Secretary of State, to whom was referred the tain points respecting the trade of the United States to France, has the honor to report to the President that he has examined the files of this Department, and found no precise information on the subject of the said resolution, which has not been heretofore communicated to Congress. That, in consequence thereof, he applied to the French Minister for the requisite information, who, not possessing it, referred the application to the Consul General of France, from whom, as yet, nothing has been received, as will more fully appear by the accompanying letters, marked A and B.

It may be proper to observe, that it is generally understood, as well from the letters of Mr. Russell, communicated to Congress at the commencement of the present session, as from other sources, that the trade of the United States to France is subjected to very

tion to agree to the amendment to be inserted at the end of the fourteenth line, in the following words: "unless the claimant or claimants shall 'solemnly swear, or affirm, before the collector of the port where the property may be, that the ' invoice or invoices have neither been received ' by him or them, nor by any other person for his C or their use or behalf:" it was determined in the affirmative-yeas 21, nays 1, as follows:

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of Canada and Nova Scotia," was read the second time.

Mr. GILMAN, from the committee, reported the amendments to the bill, entitled "An act to empower the Secretary of the Treasury to decide on the case of the ship Eliza Ann, belonging to Ezekiel Hubbel," correctly engrossed; and the bill was read the third time as amended..

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And the bill having been further amended, the PRESIDENT reported it to the House accordingly. On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed, and read a third time as amended? it was determined in the affirmative.

The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the bill, entitled "An act to empower the Secretary of the Treasury to decide on the case of the ship Eliza Ann, belonging to Ezekiel Hubbel," together with the amendments reported thereto by the select committee; and having agreed to the amendments, the PRESIDENT reported the bill to the House accordingly.

On the question, Shall this bill be read a third time as amended? it was determined in the affirmative.

On motion, by Mr. SMITH, of Maryland, it was agreed that the bill to prohibit the importation of rum, taffia, or other spirituous liquor distilled from the sugar cane, sugar, or molasses, during the continuance of the act, entitled "An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes," be made the order of the day for to-morrow.

Mr. BRADLEY, from the committee to whom was referred the petition of Charlotte Hazen, reported a bill supplementary to the act, entitled An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia ;" which was passed to the second reading.

Mr. REED Submitted the following motion for consideration:

Resolved, "That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before this House a statement, so far as the same may be practicable, exhibiting the number of ships and vessels, and the amount of tonnage, and the several kinds of merchandise, being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States or Territories thereof, exported from thence to any port or place in France subsequent to the repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees; stating distinctly the duties payable in the ports of France on each article, before and since the repeal of said decrees.

WEDNESDAY, January 22.

Mr. GILMAN, from the committee, reported the bill supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," correctly engrossed; and the bill was read the third time, and the further consideration thereof postponed until Monday next.

Mr. FRANKLIN communicated a letter from the Governor of the State of North Carolina, with an authenticated copy of an act of the General Assembly of that State, ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by Congress to the Legislatures of the several States, relative to titles of nobility; and the letter

and act were read.

Mr. BAYARD, from the committee appointed to consider the subject, reported a bill to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing, for a limited time, to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective discoveries; and the bill was read, and passed to the second reading.

The Senate resumed the motion made yesterday by Mr. REED; and the motion having been amended, the further consideration thereof was postponed to, and made the order of the day for, the second Monday in February next.

The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITed States: To the Senate and House of

Representatives of the United States: At the request of the Legislature of New Jersey, I communicate to Congress copies of its resolutions transmitted by the Governor of that State. JAMES MADISON.

JANUARY 22, 1812. The Message and resolutions therein referred to were read.

THURSDAY, January 23.

The Senate resumed the consideration of the

amendments of the House of Representatives to the bill, entitled "An act for the establishment of a quartermaster's department ;" and the further consideration thereof was postponed until to

morrow.