JOURNAL

OF THE

EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

SENATE

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FROM MARCH 4, 1837, TO SEPTEMBER 13, 1841, INCLUSIVE.

VOL. V.

PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

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WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1887.

IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

June 28, 1886.

Resolved, That the entire Executive Journal of the Senate, from the 23d February, 1829, the date to which the said proceedings have already been printed and published by order of the Senate, be printed, to the end of the last session of the Fortieth Congress, under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, with a copious and comprehensive index to each volume, and that one hundred copies thereof be printed.

Resolved, That until the further order of the Senate the said print shall not be made public.

Attest:

ANSON G. McCOOK,

Secretary.

EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AT A SESSION SPECIALLY CALLED.

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1837.

The President of the United States to

of

:

Senator for the State

By virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution, I hereby convene the Senate of the United States to meet in the Senate Chamber on the fourth day of March next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to receive any communication the President of the United States may think it his duty to make.

DECEMBER 20TH, 1836.

ANDREW JACKSON.

In conformity with the above-recited summons from the President of the United States, the Senate assembled in their Chamber, in the city of Washington.

PRESENT:

The Honorable Richard M. Johnson, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.

From the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.