JOURNAL OF THE EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM DECEMBER 6. 1841. TO MARCH 20, 1845, INCLUSIVE. VOL. VI. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 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. JOURNAL OF THE EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. [Second session of the Twenty-seventh Congress, 1841-'2.] TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1841. The following messages were received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Tyler, his secretary: To the Senate of the United States : I nominate John C. Spencer, of New York, to be Secretary of War in place of John McLain, of Ohio, who declined accepting the same. JOHN TYLER. WASHINGTON, Dec'r 13, 1841. To the Senate of the United States: Commissions having been granted during the recess of the Senate to the following persons for the offices respectively annexed to their names, I now nominate them to the same, viz: Elias H. Haines, reappointed collector of the customs for the district of Sandusky, and inspector of the revenue for the port of Portland, in the State of Ohio. William Walston, collector of the customs for the district and inspector of the revenue for the port of Folly Landing, in the State of Virginia, vice Samuel C. White, whose commission expired Sept. 25, 1841. William R. Easton, collector of the customs for the district and inspector of the revenue for the port of Nantucket, in the State of Massachusetts, vice Martin T. Morton, deceased. Seth W. Nye, surveyor and inspector of the revenue for the port of New Orleans, in the district of Mississippi, and State of Louisiana, viceLewis B. Willis, removed. John G. Watmough, surveyor for the district and inspector of the revenue for the port of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, vice J. Washington Tyson, appointed commissary-general of purchases. Samuel I. Bridge, appraiser of merchandise for the port of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, vice Edward A. Raymond, removed. John Lester, appraiser of merchandise for the port of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, vice Lyde Goodwin, removed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 1841. 3916 E J-v 3- -1 JOHN TYLER. 1 |