The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Joseph C. Boyd; and in concurrence therewith,

Resolved, That the petitioner have leave to withdraw his petition.

The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Ewell; and in concurrence therewith,

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner is unreasonable, and ought not to be granted.

The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee to whom was referred the motion submitted by Mr. Fromentin on the 14th instant, with instructions in relation to the journal, as follows:

"That before the statement of the motion of Mr Barbour, on which the question was taken by Jeas and nays, on Thursday the 13th instant, as recorded in the Journal of that day, it would be proper to state the reading of the entries, prepared by the Secretary of the Senate, for a journal of the preceding day with reference to the counting of votes for President and Vice-President of the United States.

"In the opinion of the committee, a fair view of the question on which the yeas and nays were taken, may be presented in the following mode of stating the fact, viz.:

"The entries prepared by the Secretary of the

Senate for a journal of proceedings, on Wednesday the 12th instant. with reference to the counting of votes for President and Vice-President of the United States, were read in the words following:

"The two Houses of Congress, agreeably to the joint resolution, assembled in the Representatives' chamber, and the certificates of the electors of the several States, beginning with the State of New-Hampshire, were, by the President of the Senate, opened and delivered to the tellers арpointed for the purpose, by whom they were read, except the State of Indiana; and when the certificate of the electors of that State was opened, an objection was made by Mr. Taylor, a member of the House of Representatives, from the State of New-York, on the ground that the votes of the electors of the State of Indiana, for President and Vice-President of the United States, (having been given previous to the admission of that State into the Umon,) ought not to be received and counted." Whereupon,

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On motion by Mr Varnum,

The Senate returned to their own chamber; and

The following message was received from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Dougherty, their Clerk:

Mr. President-The House of Representatives is ready to proceed to make out and complete a list of the votes for President and Vice-President

of the United States, in pursuance of the joint resolution of the 11th instant. And he withdrew.

The two Houses of Congress having again assembled in the Representatives' chamber, and the certificate of the electors of the State of Indiana having been opened by the President of the Senate, was delivered to the tellers appointed for the purpose, who, having examined and ascertained the whole number of votes, presented a list thereof to the President of the Senate, which was read as follows:

The whole number of votes being 217, of which 109 make a majority. Whereupon,

Mr. Barbour submitted the following motion, which was read and considered:

Resolved, That the journal of the proceedings of the Senate on yesterday, so far as they are connected with the service of counting the ballots for President and Vice-President of the United States, be made up in conformity to the precedents heretofore established in similar cases."

On the question to agree thereto,

It was determined in the negative, yeas 12, nays 20.

On motion by Mr. Dana,

The yeas and nays being desired by one. fifth of the Senators present, those who voted in the

affirmative, are