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half. These modifications were produced by a spirit of accommodation. And if the House continued to be animated by the same spirit, he said, the motion to commit would not succeed. The Secretary of the Treasury has told you, that a land tax, or rather a direct tax, would operate most severely upon the Western States, on account of their distance from market, their want of capital, their infant settlements; and, with a correct knowledge of the actual state of the dif ferent parts of the Union, the Secretary had, with his usual impartiality and discernment, given the House a system as nearly equal in its operation as the nature of the subject would admit; and it was evident, that if a material alteration was made upon it, chaos would prevail, and the whole plan be rejected; and then the enemies of the Government would say with triumph, that the Republican Administration could not vindicate and support the rights of the nation, and that their Representatives were afraid to trust the people to send the ways and means to avenge their own wrongs. Mr. J. said the House had been engaged a long time on the subject; despatch was necessary, that Congress might have a little time to listen to the warning voice which now comes from the Wabash, the Mississippi, and Detroit, which makes it probable that as soon as the season will admit, the savages will rush down upon the defenceless frontiers, and destroy their inhabitants.

But, he said, he could not remain silent to hear the same gentleman seriously make a motion to re-commit the report from the Committee of Ways and Means, for the purpose of making the self-same proposition of laying a tax of twenty-five cents on whiskey and other distilled spirits, the prime cost of the article in the way of wholesale in the Western country. Upon the subject of taxation, he said, he had never entertained but one sentiment, and he never would agree to lay internal taxes upon the people of the United States, to support any permanent expensive establishment; that nothing on the present occasion should induce him to vote for taxes, but war. In consequence of this opinion, the Committee of Ways and Means had reported in one of their resolutions that the tax should not be levied until a declaration of war, or the issuing of letters of marque and reprisal; and, he said, he was a little surprised that any member should dislike such a resolution, and try to demonstrate to the people and the world that the taxes proposed were war taxes, and intended to meet that state of things. Another resolution declares, that the taxes shall not continue more than twelve months after the conclusion. With these resolutions incorporated and made a part of the system, he was astonished to hear gentlemen say that the people would be alarmed at these resolutions. He said he was never afraid of the people; they would act correctly; but he had more reason to fear that this House would be alarmed. He said the people understood their interests and their rights, and were not to be alarmed at a vindication of their rights and their independence. Mr. J. said that Mr. Gallatin had been called upon by the Committee of Ways and Means to furnish them with a system of internal taxation, predicated upon actual war with Great Britain. The Secretary was not a volunteer in proposing this system. In that letter, the Secretary had proposed ten cents upon distilled spirits from foreign materials, and three cents per gallon on domestic distilled spirits of domestic materials, which was considered equally hard upon the Western country when taken in connexion with the whole system proposed. Departing from this equal system, the gentleman from Maryland would raise it to twenty-five cents-a most unreasonable derangement of the whole plan. Mr. J. said that he had objected to this whiskey tax on account of the excise principle when it was before the Commit-undersell him; and thus will the fair trader, who tee of Ways and Means, and upon his objections wishes to support the Government be obliged to the excise part was changed to a direct tax upon give up his business or be ruined. The tonnage the still, differing only in amount with the tax duty is also too high. The former tonnage duty upon carriages or any other article; by which was about fifty cents on the vessel, of foreigners, modification, numerous officers would not be em- and six cents on our own vessels in the foreign ployed, oaths would be dispensed with, no search trade. The committee have added a little over would be made into the houses or cellars of dis- one hundred per cent. to the tonnage of foreigners, tillers, nor would we have excise officers breaking and upwards of four hundred per cent. on our locks and invading our firesides; and in this own tonnage. If the tonnage was not very much modification, the sum to be raised by a tax of out of the way heretofore, the committee have three cents per gallon was reduced from $400,000 reversed the rule of all other nations. Great Britto $275,000, making a deduction of almost one-ain has always encouraged her own merchantmen

Mr. WIDGERY.-Mr. Speaker, on a motion to recommit the report of the Committee of Ways and Means, I have not been able to discover how the arguments, either of the gentleman from Virginia, or those in answer to him, by the gentleman from North Carolina, can apply to the question before the House. Sir, I am of opinion that if I had suffered myself so far to have wandered from the question, I should deservedly have heard from the Chair. The question before the House is not the repeal of the non-intercourse, or whether we shall submit to the edicts of Great Britain. It is, will the House recommit the report for the purpose of amending it? To this subject I shall confine my argument. I am in favor of recommitting the report, first to amend it as respects the duty on imports. Many of these articles have already a duty of fifteen per cent. ad valorem ; add to this one hundred per cent. and you will either prohibit them entirely, or you will give a bounty to smugglers, which will destroy the fair trader, as the smugglers will always be able to

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by making a great distinction in favor of her own ship-owners, between them and foreigners; she is the greatest commercial_nation in the world, according to the report. Our vessels in foreign trade must pay thirty-one cents per ton every time they enter, so that a vessel of three hundred and thirty tons, if she enters three times, must pay the Government upwards of three hundred dollars a year, over and above all her custom-house fees, and the hundred per cent. on the duties of her cargo. Why the committee should have added four times as much on tonnage as on merchandise, I am at a loss to imagine, nor do I believe the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means can give any good or satisfactory reason for so doing. In the case of tonnage, it operates as a direct tax on the owner, because while ships are plenty, lying by the wharves, no man will give one cent more on account of the tonnage. Sir, in the case of the salt tax, the maritime and middle country pay the whole, the Western section pay nothing. There are 1,500,000 people exempt from this duty on salt, because they have plenty from the salt springs. As this is a necessary of life on which the Western section of the Union pay nothing, they ought to be willing to pay an equivalent on something else.

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The gentlemen say they are at a great distance from market. Be it so. Sir, the material from which the whiskey is chiefly distilled, is Indian corn. The middle country raise of this article about ten bushels to the acre; the Western country about fifty bushels to the acre, and with much less labor this article will give about two gallons to the bushel; so that the middle country can obtain about twenty gallons from one acre, while the Western country will give one hundred gallons-five times as much. This will more than pay for their extra distance from market; in addition to which, their liquor will bring them enough more at market to pay for the trouble of transporting it. Sir, Massachusetts will be willing to pay more than her part if necessary in defence of the just rights of the nation. But when a system of taxation is brought forth, it ought to be so modified as that each member of the Union should pay its due proportion of such taxes. It is said, this report is a system of com. promise. Sir, I am not one of those humble imitators of any man, or any body of men, who will, without investigation, tamely submit to anything they may please to lay before me, and vote it down as law. We are told that when the bill comes in will be the proper time to amend. If It is true, these gentlemen say, they are willing the House are determined not to recommit, I will to do their part in support of the war; yet when help to vote the report through, but with the same they are called on to augment the tax on whiskey reserve I made when I agreed to reconsider the they say their objection to that is the creation of vote which went against the salt, if no amendment excise officers, to which the people are very much or modification takes place so as to have a more opposed. Sir, there is a small tax on the capa-equal bearing on the different sections of the city of the still, let this duty be multiplied on the still until it will give about twelve and a half Mr. WRIGHT and Mr. Fisk supported the motion. cents on each gallon, as near as can be computed, [The arguments for and against the motion towhich may be distilled in the course of a year. day, as well as yesterday, were grounded on the In that case the same persons who may collect expediency or inexpediency of an excise tax on the tax on the capacity of the stills, as now taxed, whiskey. On the one hand, it was said, that, if which does not exceed one cent and a third per the proposed tax of 25 or 28 cents per gallon on gallon on the liquor, may collect it with as much distilled spirits were to take effect, it would proease when augmented, as they can if the amend-duce a revenue of five or six millions of dollars, ment should not take place. This therefore will and preclude the necessity of other taxes; that it do away the difficulty of excise officers. I ask would eventually be paid by the consumer, and them to take but twelve and a half cents per would therefore operate equally; that domestic gallon on their spirits, while in the maritime spirits ought to be taxed a little, when the duty States we pay the duty proposed, sixty cents. on foreign spirits was about to be doubled, as there This is a debt for which we are all alike liable. is no reason why a man who drinks brandy or Surely, sir, the Western gentlemen cannot think rum and water should be made to pay double price, hard to pay but one-fifth part as much as their while the whiskey-drinker paid nothing; that the friends in a different section of the Union, when excise system was already proposed as to fine they consider that we pay twenty cents on salt, sugar, and might be extended to whiskey with from which they are exempt. Sir, the last inter- much less inconvenience than would result from nal tax which was laid amounted to $989,533- the collection of the variety of small taxes proMassachusetts paid of that tax $282,566. Ac-posed by the Committee of Ways and Means. cording to the present system, Massachusetts will have to pay more than one-fourth of the internal tax, while she will not have more than one-ninth of the representation. Augment the whiskey tax as I propose, and you may do away your land tax altogether. There is in the United States distilled from home materials about 24,000,000 of gallons of spirits. This will give you $3,000,000, which is about what is laid on the land. A land tax is the last tax which ought ever to be laid. Every kind of luxury ought to be taxed before the land. '

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On the other hand, remarks were made on the severity with which this tax would operate on those who already have to bear the chief burden (with the least ability to pay it) of the land tax, viz: the people of the Western country; that, considering the paucity of their saleable productions in the Western country, a tax on whiskey, which would put a stop to its distillation, would wholly disable them from paying the land tax; that it was, besides, grievously heavy, partial, and unequal. The evils of an excise system were

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depicted in vivid colors; and it was said, that, although any tax on whiskey was unjust, and somewhat oppressive, they were willing to incur the responsibility of a tax on stills, rather than defeat the great work in which the nation was engaged.]

Mr. RANDOLPH moved a recommitment of the whole report to a Committee of the Whole.

This motion was supported by the mover at considerable length, and opposed by Mr. ALSTON, Mr. CHEVES, Mr. CALHOUN, and Mr. MACON.

[The recommitment of the report was supported on the ground that the budget of taxes reported was of the most oppressive character; that, moreover, they were unnecessary and impolitic, because Congress had only to repeal their own restrictive law, and revenue would accrue to the United States, to a much greater amount than was contemplated to be provided by the taxes under consideration.

In reply, it was urged that the gentleman's project was a peace project, and not calculated for the exigency; that, besides, it would not produce the effect he anticipated, because commerce was destroyed by the orders of Great Britain, and by the municipal regulations of France; that all taxes are disagreeable, and though the committee had exercised much deliberation on the subject of their report, it might be expected there would be a difference of opinion on some items; but that now to recommit the report, as proposed, would be shrinking from the pressure of the crisis, and would stamp indelible disgrace on the House and nation.] The question on recommitting the report was taken, and determined in the negative-yeas 34, nays 83, as follows:

YEAS-John Baker, Abijah Bigelow, Harmanus Bleecker, James Breckenridge, Elijah Brigham, Epaphroditus Champion, Martin Chittenden, William Ely, James Emott, Asa Fitch, Thomas R. Gold, Charles Goldsborough, Edwin Gray, Richard Jackson, junior, Philip B. Key, Lyman Law, Joseph Lewis, jr., Robert Le Roy Livingston, Archibald McBryde, James Milnor, Jonathan O. Moseley, Joseph Pearson, Timothy Pitkin, jun., Josiah Quincy, John Randolph, William Reed, Henry M. Ridgely, Daniel Sheffey, Philip Stuart, Lewis B. Sturges, Benjamin Tallmadge, Laban Wheaton, Leonard White, and Thomas Wilson.

NAYS-Willis Alston, jun., William Anderson, Stevenson Archer, Ezekiel Bacon, David Bard, Burwell Bassett, William W. Bibb, William Blackledge, Adam Boyd, Robert Brown, William A. Burwell, William Butler, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, Matthew Clay, James Cochran, Lewis Condict, William Crawford, Roger Davis, John Dawson, Joseph Desha, Samuel Dinsmoor, Elias Earle, William Findley, Meshack Franklin, Thomas Gholson, Peterson Goodwyn, Isaiah L. Green, Felix Grundy, Obed Hall, John A. Harper, Aylett Hawes, Jacob Hufty, John M. Hyneman, Richard M. Johnson, Joseph Kent, William R. King, Abner Lacock, Joseph Lefever, Peter Little, William Lowndes, Aaron Lyle, Nathaniel Macon, George C. Maxwell, Thomas Moore, William McCoy, Samuel McKee, Alexander McKim, Arunah Metcalf, Samuel L. Mitchill, James Morgan, Jeremiah Morrow, Hugh Nelson, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, Stephen Ormsby, Israel Pickens, William Piper, James Pleas

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ants, junior, Benjamin Pond, William M. Richardson, John Rhea, John Roane, Jonathan Roberts, William Rodman, Ebenezer Sage, Thomas Sammons, Ebenezer Seaver, John Sevier, Adam Seybert, Samuel Shaw, John Smilie, George Smith, John Smith, Rich'd Stanford, William Strong, John Taliaferro, Uri Tracy, George M. Troup, Charles Turner, jr., Robert Whitehill, Richard Winn, and Robert Wright.

So, Mr. RANDOLPH's motion was negatived; and the House adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, March 4.

Mr. ORMSBY presented to the House a resolution of the Legislature of the State of Kentucky, instructing their Senators, and requesting their Representatives in Congress to procure a grant of ten thousand acres of land lying in the Territory of Louisiana to Daniel Boone.-Referred to the Committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. RHEA, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, presented a bill to alter and establish certain post roads; which was read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole to-morrow.

Mr. GOLD, from the committee appointed on the twenty-fourth ultimo, presented a bill providing for the removal of the causes depending in the respective District Courts of the United States, in case of the disability of the Judges thereof; which was read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole on Friday next.

FINAL SETTLEMENT CERTIFICATE. Mr. GHOLSON, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of John Dixon; which was read, and referred to the Committee of the Whole on the report of the same committee made on the petition of John Murray. The report is as follows:

That, from documents exhibited by the petitioner, it appears he is the assignee of Lucy Dixon, his mother, of a certificate which was issued in her favor by the Commissioner for settling the accounts of the Revolutionary war in the State of Virginia, for the sum of $329 84.90, payable with six per cent. from the first day of January, 1781, and dated the 23d of December, 1786. The original certificate is produced, and, by an endorsement on it, it appears the interest was paid to the first of January, 1785; a certificate of the Register of the Treasury is likewise exhibited, showing that Lucy Dixon stands a creditor on the records of that Department for the said certificate, which “remains unliquidated by the United States."

As an apology (as it is presumed by the committee) for not presenting this claim at an earlier period, Lucy Dixon, in a petition formerly offered by herself, alleges that she, in the year 1793, left Virginia, and went to the State of Georgia, where she remained until 1799 or 1800; that on her return to her residence in Virginia, she, on looking over papers, found the certificate in question, and likewise others that were supposed to have been entirely destroyed; that she was ignorant as well of the value of such certificates as of the mode in which the law provided for their payment; that one of her sons took with him to the Mississippi Territory the said certificate, where he kept it until a few years

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ago, when he returned it to her, and she shortly after-spirits, and foreign merchandise,) and was agreed wards presented her petition for the amount of it.

From the foregoing statement, it would appear that there is no obstacle to the allowance of this claim but the statute of limitation. Your committee have recently, very respectfully, decided against the repeal of the law barring demands like the present. It is for the House to determine on the course they will pursue on this subject. The facts are faithfully detailed. Your committee, however, conforming to the rule by which it has been governed in similar cases, recommend the following resolution:

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

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The House resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee of the Whole on the report of the Committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. McKIM said, as his motion to recommit the fifth resolution had given rise to some difficulty, and he had no disposition to embarrass, he would withdraw it, reserving to himself the right to renew it when the subject should come before the House in the shape of a bill.

The question recurring on the adoption of the fifth resolution, (for laying a tax on stills, &c.,) it was decided in the affirmative-yeas 67, nays 38, as follows:

to without debate-yeas 68, nays 42, as follows: YEAS-Willis Alston, jun., William Anderson, Stevenson Archer, Ezekiel Bacon, David Bard, Burwell Bassett, William W. Bibb, William Blackledge, Robert Brown, William A. Burwell, William Butler, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, Matthew Clay, Lewis Condict, William Crawford, Roger Davis, John Dawson, Joseph Desha, Samuel Dinsmoor, Elias Earle, William Findley, Meshack Franklin, Thomas Gholson, Peterson Goodwyn, Isaiah L. Green, Felix Grundy, Bolling Hall, Obed Hall, John A. Harper, Aylett Hawes, Richard M. Johnson, Joseph Kent, William R. King, Abner Lacock, Peter Little, Wm. Lowndes, Aaron Lyle, Nathaniel Macon, George C. Maxwell, William McCoy, Samuel McKee, Alexander McKim, James Morgan, Jeremiah Morrow, Hugh Nelson, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, Stephen Ormsby, Israel Pickens, William Piper, James Pleasants, jun., Wm. M. Richardson, John Roane, Jonathan Roberts, Ebenezer Sage, Ebenezer Seaver, Adam Seybert, John Smilie, George Smith, John Smith, William Strong, John Taliaferro, George M. Troup, Charles Turner, jun., Robert Whitehill, William Widgery, and Richard Winn.

of foreign merchandise, &c.) was next agreed The seventh resolution (tax on sales at auction 10-yeas 79, nays 34, as follows:

NAYS-John Baker, Abijah Bigelow, James Breckenridge, Elijah Brigham, Epaphroditus Champion, Martin Chittenden, William Ely, James Fisk, Asa Gray, Jacob Hufty, John M. Hyneman, Richard JackFitch, Thomas R. Gold, Charles Goldsborough, Edwin YEAS-Willis Alston, jun., Stevenson Archer, Eze-ver, Joseph Lewis, jun., Robert Le Roy Livingston, son, junior, Philip B. Key, Lyman Law, Joseph Lefekiel Bacon, David Bard, Burwell Bassett, William W. Arunah Metcalf, Jonathan O. Moseley, Thomas NewBibb, William Blackledge, Robert Brown, William bold, Joseph Pearson, Timothy Pitkin, junior, Benja Butler, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, Roger min Pond, Elisha R. Potter, John Randolph, William Davis, John Dawson, Samuel Dinsmoor, Elias Earle, Rodman, Daniel Sheffey, Richard Stanford, Philip William Findley, Meshack Franklin, Thomas Ghol- Stuart, Silas Stow, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Tagson, Thomas R. Gold, Peterson Goodwyn, Isaiah L. gart, Benjamin Tallmadge, Uri Tracy, Pierre Van Green, Felix Grundy, Bolling Hall, Obed Hall, John Cortlandt, jun., Laban Wheaton, Leonard White, A. Harper, Aylett Hawes, Jacob Hufty, John M. Thomas Wilson, and Robert Wright. Hyneman, Richard M. Johnson, William R. King, Abner Lacock, Peter Little, Robert Le Roy Living ston, William Lowndes, Aaron Lyle, Nathaniel Macon, George C. Maxwell, Samuel McKee, Alexander McKim, Arunah Metcalf, James Morgan, Jeremiah YEAS-Willis Alston, jun., William Anderson, SteMorrow, Hugh Nelson, Anthony New, Thomas New. venson Archer, Ezekiel Bacon, David Bard, Burwell bold, Thomas Newton, Stephen Ormsby, Israel Pick- Bassett, William W. Bibb, Wm. Blackledge, Robert ens, William Piper, James Pleasants, jun., Benjamin Brown, William A. Burwell, William Butler, John Pond, Wm. M. Richardson, John Roane, Jonathan C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, Matthew Clay, Lewis Roberts, Ebenezer Sage, Ebenezer Seaver, Adam Sey-Condict, William Crawford, Roger Davis, John Dawbert, John Smilie, George Smith, John Smith, William son, Joseph Desha, Samuel Dinsmoor, Elias Earle, Strong, John Taliaferro, Uri Tracy, George M. Troup, William Findley, Meshack Franklin, Thomas GholCharles Turner, jun., Pierre Van Cortlandt, junior, son, Peterson Goodwyn, Isaiah L. Green, Felix Grunand William Widgery. dy, Bolling Hall, Obed Hall, John A. Harper, Aylett Hawes, Jacob Hufty, John M. Hyneman, Richard M. Johnson, Joseph Kent, William R. King, Abner Lacock, Joseph Lefever, Peter Little, William Lowndes, Aaron Lyle, Nathaniel Macon, George C. Maxwell, Thomas Moore, William McCoy, Samuel McKee, Alexander McKim, Arunah Metcalf, James Morgan, Jeremiah Morrow, Hugh Nelson, Anthony New, Thos. Newbold, Thomas Newton, Stephen Ormsby, Israel Pickens, Wm. Piper, James Pleasants, junior, Benjamin Pond, William M. Richardson, John Rhea, John Roane, Jonathan Roberts, Ebenezer Sage, Ebenezer Seaver Adam Seybert, John Smilie, George Smith, John Smith, William Strong, John Taliaferro, Uri Tracy, George M. Troup, Charles Turner, jr., Pierre Van Cortlandt, jr., Robert Whitehill, William Widgery, Richard Winn, and Robert Wright.

NAYS-William Anderson, John Baker, Abijah Bigelow, James Breckenridge, Elijah Brigham, Matthew Clay, William Crawford, John Davenport, jun., Joseph Desha, William Ely, James Fisk, Asa Fitch, Charles Goldsborough, Richard Jackson, jr., Philip B. Key, Lyman Law, Joseph Lefever, Joseph Lewis, jr., William McCoy, Jonathan O. Moseley, Joseph Pearson, Timothy Pitkin, jr., Elisha R. Potter, John Randolph, John Rhea, William Rodman, Daniel Sheffey, Richard Stanford, Philip Stuart, Silas Stow, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, Benjamin Tallmadge, Laban Wheaton, Leonard White, Robert Whitehill, Thomas Wilson, and Robert Wright.

The sixth resolution came next under consideration (for a tax on licenses to retailers of wines,

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NAYS-John Baker, Abijah Bigelow, Harmanus
Bleecker, James Breckenridge, Elijah Brigham, Epa-
phroditus Champion, Martin Chittenden, John Daven-
port, junior, William Ely, Asa Fitch, Thos. R. Gold,
Charles Goldsborough, Edwin Gray, Richard Jackson,
jun., Philip B. Key, Lyman Law, Joseph Lewis, jun.,
Robert Le Roy Livingston, Jonathan O. Moseley, Jo-
seph Pearson, Timothy Pitkin, junior, Elisha R. Pot-
ter, John Randolph, William Rodman, Daniel Sheffey,
Richard Stanford, Philip Stuart, Silas Stow, Lewis B.
Sturges, Samuel Taggart, Benjamin Tallmadge, La-affirmative-yeas 72, nays 48, as follows:
ban Wheaton, Leonard White, and Thomas Wilson.
The eighth resolution (for a tax of four cents
per pound on refined sugar) was next agreed to-
yeas 80, nays 38, as follows:

proportion of the amount of tax to the value of
the article taxed, which generally cost less than
$100, &c. It was opposed on the ground that
these carriages were nevertheless used by those
well able to pay the tax, which was by no means
disproportionate to the other taxes proposed.
The motion was lost-ayes only six or eight.
The question was then taken on the resolution
as reported by the Committee, and carried in the

YEAS-Willis Alston, junior, William Anderson,
Stevenson Archer, Ezekiel Bacon, David Bard, Bur-
well Bassett, William W. Bibb, William Blackledge,
Adam Boyd, Robert Brown, William A. Burwell,
William Butler, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves,
Matthew Clay, James Cochran, Lewis Condict, Wm.
Crawford, Roger Davis, John Dawson, Joseph Desha,
Samuel Dinsmoor, Elias Earle, William Findley, Me-
shack Franklin, Thomas Gholson, Peterson Goodwyn,
Isaiah L. Green, Felix Grundy, Bolling Hall, Obed
Hall, John A. Harper, Aylett Hawes, Jacob Hufty,
John M. Hyneman, Richard M. Johnston, Joseph
Kent, William R. King, Abner Lacock, Joseph Lefe-
ver, Peter Little, William Lowndes, Aaron Lyle, Na-
thaniel Macon, George C. Maxwell, Thomas Moore,
William McCoy, Samuel McKee, Alexander McKim,
Arunah Metcalf, James Morgan, Jeremiah Morrow,
Hugh Nelson, Anthony New, Thos. Newbold, Thos.
Newton, Stephen Ormsby, Israel Pickens, Wm. Piper,
Jas. Pleasants, jr., Benjamin Pond, William M. Rich-
ardson, John Rhea, John Roane, Jonathan Roberts,
Ebenezer Sage, Ebenezer Seaver, Adam Seybert, John
Smilie, George Smith, John Smith, William Strong,
John Taliaferro, Uri Tracy, George M. Troup, Chas.
Turner, jun., Robert Whitehill, Wm. Widgery, Rich-
ard Winn, and Robert Wright.

YEAS-Willis Alston, jun., William Anderson, SteBassett, William W. Bibb, William Blackledge, Adam venson Archer, Ezekiel Bacon, David Bard, Burwell Boyd, Robert Brown, William A. Burwell, William Butler, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, Matthew Clay, James Cochran, William Crawford, Roger Davis, John Dawson, Joseph Desha, Samuel Dinsmoor, Elias Earle, William Findley, Meshack Franklin, Thomas Gholson, Thos. R. Gold, Peterson Goodwyn, Isaiah L. Green, Felix Grundy, Bolling Hall, Obed Hall, John A. Harper, Aylett Hawes, John M. Hyneman, Richard M. Johnson, Joseph Kent, William R. King, Abner Lacock, Peter Little, William Lowndes, Aaron Lyle, Thomas Moore, William McCoy, Saml. McKee, Alexander McKim, Arunah Metcalf, Hugh Nelson, Anthony New, Thomas Newton, Stephen Ormsby, Israel Pickens, William Piper, James Pleas ants, junior, Benjamin Pond, William M. Richardson, John Rhea, John Roane, Jonathan Roberts, Ebenezer Sage, Ebenezer Seaver, John Sevier, Adam Seybert, John Smilie, George Smith, John Smith, John Taliaferro, Uri Tracy, George M. Troup, Charles Turner, junior, Robert Whitehill, William Widgery, and Richard Winn.

NAYS-John Baker, Abijah Bigelow, Harmanus Bleecker, James Breckenridge, Elijah Brigham, Epaphroditus Champion, Martin Chittenden, Lewis Condict, John Davenport, junior, William Ely, James Emott, Asa Fitch, Chas. Goldsborough, Edwin Gray, Jacob Hufty, Richard Jackson, junior, Philip B. Key, Lyman Law, Joseph Lefever, Joseph Lewis, junior, NAYS-John Baker, Abijah Bigelow, Harmanus Robert Le Roy Livingston, Nathaniel Macon, George Bleecker, James Breckenridge, Elijah Brigham, Epa- C. Maxwell, Archibald McBryde, James Morgan, phroditus Champion, Martin Chittenden, John Daven- Jonathan O. Moseley, Thomas Newbold, Joseph Pearport, junior, William Ely, Asa Fitch, Thomas R. Gold, son, Timothy Pitkin, junior, Elisha R. Potter, Josiah Charles Goldsborough, Edwin Gray, Richard Jack-Quincy, John Randolph, William Reed, Henry M. son, junior, Philip B. Key, Lyman Law, Joseph Lew-Ridgely, William Rodman, Samuel Shaw, Daniel Shefis, jr., Robert Le Roy Livingston, Jonathan O. Mose- fey, Richard Stanford, Philip Stuart, Silas Stow, Willey, Joseph Pearson, Timothy Pitkin, junior, Elisha R. liam Strong, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, BenPotter, John Randolph, William Reed, William Rod-jamin Tallmadge, Laban Wheaton, Leonard White, man, Samuel Shaw, Daniel Sheffey, Richard Stanford, Thomas Wilson, and Robert Wright. Philip Stuart, Silas Stow, Lewis B. Sturges, Samuel Taggart, Benjamin Tallmadge, Pierre Van Cortlandt, jun., Laban Wheaton, Leonard White, and Thomas

Wilson.

The ninth resolution (for laying a tax on carriages of pleasure, &c.) came next on the tapis. Mr. HUFTY, after adverting to the great number of carriages in the State of New Jersey, of a peculiar and cheap construction, which would be severely taxed, moved an amendment going to exempt from a tax of three dollars, carriages on wooden springs, and to impose on such a tax of one dollar and fifty cents.

This motion was supported by Messrs. HUFTY, CONDICT, and WRIGHT, and opposed by Messrs. BACON, SEYBERT, and STANFORD. The arguments for the motion were founded on the dis

The tenth resolution proposes a stamp tax on certain bank and other notes.

The question on the resolution was divided, on the suggestion of Mr. LITTLE, So as to take a question, distinctly, on the two clauses of the res

olution.

The question on that part which goes to tax bank notes at the rate of one dollar for every hundred dollars was carried-yeas 74, nays 43, as follows:

YEAS-Willis Alston, jun., Stevenson Archer, Ezekiel Bacon, David Bard, Burwell Bassett, William W. Bibb, William Blackledge, Adam Boyd, Robert Brown, William A. Burwell, William Butler, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves, Matthew Clay, James Cochran, Lewis Condict, William Crawford, Roger Davis, John Dawson, Joseph Desha, Samuel Dinsmoor, Elias

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