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OF THE

DEBATES OF CONGRESS,

FROM 1789 TO 1856.

FROM GALES AND SEATON'S ANNALS OF CONGRESS; FROM THEIR
REGISTER OF DEBATES; AND FROM THE OFFICIAL

REPORTED DEBATES, BY JOHN C. RIVES.

BY

THE AUTHOR OF THE THIRTY YEARS' VIEW.

VOL II.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

346 AND 348 BROADWAY.

LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.

1858.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York

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FOURTH CONGRESS.-SECOND SESSION.

BEGUN AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 5, 1796.

PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.

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ALEXANDER MARTIN, from the State of North Carolina, and WILLIAM BLOUNT, from the State of Tennessee, severally attended.

The VICE PRESIDENT communicated a letter from PIERCE BUTLER, notifying the resignation of his seat in the Senate, which was read.

tor by the State of New Jersey, in place of FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN, resigned; also, of WILLIAM BLOUNT and WILLIAM COCKE, appointed Senators by the State of Tennessee;-and, the oath required by law being respectively administered to them, they took their seats in the Senate.

A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representatives is assembled, and ready to proceed to business.

Ordered, That the Secretary wait on the him that a quorum of the Senate is assembled. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and acquaint

Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint the House of Representatives that a quorum of the Senate is assembled, and ready to proceed to business.

A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate that they have appointed a joint committee, on their part, together with such committee as the Senate may appoint, to wait on the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and notify him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and ready to receive any communications that he may be pleased to make to them.

Resolved, That the Senate concur in the above resolution, and that Messrs. READ and LIVERMORE be the joint committee on the part of the Senate.

Ordered, That the Secretary acquaint the The credentials of the after-named Senators House of Representatives therewith. were severally read:-Of BENJAMIN GOODHUE, Mr. READ reported, from the joint committee appointed a Senator by the State of Massachu-appointed for that purpose, that they had setts, in place of GEORGE CABOT, resigned; of waited on the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ISAAC TICHENOR, appointed a Senator by the and had notified him that a quorum of the two State of Vermont, in place of MOSES ROBINSON, Houses of Congress are assembled, and that the resigned; of JAMES HILLHOUSE, appointed a Sen- PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES acquainted ator by the State of Connecticut in place of OL- the committee that he would meet the two IVER ÉLLSWORTH, whose seat is become vacant; Houses in the Representatives' Chamber, at of URIAH TRACY, appointed a Senator by the twelve o'clock to-morrow. State of Connecticut, in place of JONATHAN TRUMBULL, resigned; of JOHN LAURANCE, appointed a Senator by the State of New York, in place of RUFUS KING, whose seat is become vacant; of RICHARD STOCKTON, appointed a Sena-tended.

WEDNESDAY, December 7.

JOHN HENRY, from the State of Maryland, at

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