Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Lattimore,

Ordered, That the petition of Joseph Vidal, presented on the 8th of February, 1813, be referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a general statement of the unsettled accounts in the office of the Accountant of the Navy Department, agreeably to the resolution of the House of the 30th of July last, which were referred to the Committee of Ways aud Means.

On motion of Mr. Pickering,

Ordered, That the documents which were the subject of the order of the House of the 8th instant, instead of having their pages numbered in one continued series of numbers from the commencement to the termination of each session, shall be themselves numbered in a regular series in the order of time in which they shall be directed to be printed; the number of cach document to be distinctly marked on the top of the title page and of every subsequent page, in addition to the number of each page of such document.

On motion of Mr. Desha,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of paying for the waggons and horses that have been lost or destroyed whilst engaged in the public service.

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of paying for the horses lost by the volunteers who turn cd out under his excellency Isaac Shelby, governor of the commonwealth of Kentucky, on the Canada expedition last fall, and that they report by bill or otherwise.

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Af fairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of paying the mounted volunteers who turned out under

his excellency Isaac Shelby, governor of the commonwealth of Kentucky, on the Canada expedition last fall, additional pay for their horses furnished, and that they report by bill or otherwise.

On motion of Mr. Wright,

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of providing by an act of Congress one uniform mode of electing Senators, Representatives to Congress, and Electors of President and Vice-President.

Mr. Wright, Mr. Forsythe, Mr. Skinner, Mr. Sturges, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Ward, of New Jersey, and Mr. Boyd were appointed the said committee.

And then the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, eleven o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, December 15, 1813.

Several other members, to wit: from New York, Abraham Hasbrouck, and from Virginia, Thomas M. Bayly and James Johnson, appeared and took their

seats.

Mr. Fisk, of New York, presented a petition of Celestino De Oteyza, master of the Spanish brig Pa triota, praying, for reasons stated in the petition, the restoration of the said brig, which has been seized on behalf of the United States, for a violation of one of the revenue laws passed on the 6th of July, 1812.

Mr. Ingersoll presented a petition of Jane Dauphin, of the state of Delaware, praying a remission of the forfeiture of the schooner Mary, and her cargo, which was the property of her deceased busband, John Dauphin, and which have been condemned on the 12th of August, 1809, for a violation of the act laying an embargo.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.

On motion of Mr. Crawford,

Ordered, That the petition of sundry inhabitants

of the state of Pennsylvania, presented on the 8th of June, 1813, be referred to the Committee on the Post-office and Post-roads.

Mr. Crawford presented a petition of Hugh Ross, praying for a pension in consideration of a wound received in the naval service in the revolutionary war. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Ingham presented a petition of John Sces, praying compensation for services rendered in the transportation of prisoners during the revolutionary

war.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Sheffey presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Washington, Russell and Lee, in the state of Virginia, praying that a postoffice may be established at Mockerson Gap.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee on the Post-office and Post-roads.

Mr. Hall presented a petition of Robert Neil, praying for a pension in consideration of a wound received whilst a soldier in the detachment of militia acting against the Seminole Indians in the year 1812.

Mr. Hall presented a petition of John Huston. praying for a pension in consideration of wounds received whilst a soldier in the revolutionary army. Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Desha,

Ordered, That the petition of Walker Baylor, presented on the 30th of November, 1812, and the petition of John Edwards, presented on the 9th of February, 1811, be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Condict, from the Committee of Revisal and Unfinished Business, made a report in part, which was ordered to lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Winter,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post-office

and Post-roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-route from Chesterfield to Jay, in Essex county, New York.

On motion of Mr. Yancey,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the laws of the United States, as to the effect which a judgment of record of one state, shall have, when offered as evidence in a suit in another state, and that they have permission to report by bill or otherwise.

Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending that provision in the first section of the act, entitled, "An Act laying duties on licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors and foreign merchandise," so far as respects the sale of domestic spirits sold in less quantities than five gallons, at the place where the same shall have been distilled, and by the person to whom licenses shall have been granted for that purpose.

On motion of Mr. Lowndes,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs he instructed to inquire into the expediency of affording additional encouragement to the re-enlistment of those soldiers now in the army of the United States, whose terms of service may have nearly expired.

On motion of Mr. Hanson,

Resolved, That the Committee on the Post-office and Post-roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-route from Fredericktown, by Liberty town, Union Bridge and Union town to Westminster, in the state of Maryland,

On motion of Mr. Winter,

Resolved, That the Committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of paying for buildings occupied as public stores, and burnt by the enemy in consequence thereof, and that they report by bill or otherwise.

On motion of Mr. Pickering,

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inspect the printed journals and documents belonging to the House, and to cause them to be so marked and arranged, as to render the recurrence to them more easy and useful.

Mr. Pickering, Mr. Lovett and Mr. Sharp, were appointed the said committee.

Ordered, That Mr. Pickering be excused from serving on the Committee on the Public Lands, and that Mr. M'Clean be appointed, of the said committee, in his place.

And then the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, eleven o'clock.

THURSDAY, December 16, 1813.

Another member, to wit: from South Carolina. David R. Evans, appeared and took his seat.

On motion of Mr. Parker,

Ordered, That the petition of sundry inhabitants of Kennebec county, in Massachusetts, presented on the 28th of May, 1813, be referred to the Committee on the Post-office and Post-roads.

Mr. Lovett presented a petition of Jeptha Brown, of the state of New York, praying to be placed on the pension list, in consideration of bodily injuries received whilst a volunteer in the military service of the United States.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Hungerford,

Ordered, That the petition of sundry inhabitants of the Northern Neck of Virginia, presented on the 23d of July, 1813, be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

On motion of Mr. Rhea, of Tennessee,

Ordered, That the petition of Richard Mitchell,