XJS:11-1 THE CONGRESSIONAL JOURNALS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL STATE PAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES, MICHAEL GLAZIER, INC. 1210 A King Street Every effort has been made to locate the best preserved and most Printed in the United States of America. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our deepest thanks to Mr. William Matheson, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, for much courtesy, and for allowing the publisher to microfilm the Journals in the Rare Book Collection. We are grateful to Mr. Charles G. LaHood, Jr., and his staff of the Photoduplication Service of the Library of Congress for their very professional microfilming of the Journals. We wish to express our gratitude to Mr. C. F. W. Coker of the National Archives for his permission to microfilm some copies of the Journals; and we are also thankful to the Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago for permission to reproduce its copy of the Journal of the House for the 1st session of the 12th Congress. A special editorial word of thanks to Gerald M. Straka of the University of Delaware, to Lois Straka, and to Eileen C. Daney who spared no efforts to get the program published. VOLUME 1 NOTE ON THE PRINTER, LEGISLATIVE NOTE ON THE PRINTER, EXECUTIVE vii •The original pagination of the Legislative Journal |