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HISTORY OF CONGRESS.
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February, 1813.
Proceedings,
Senate.
was read the second time, and iriade the order of
the day for to-morrow.
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the
Whole, the bill in addition to an act, entitled "An
act regulating the Post Office Establishment," to-
gether with the amendment reported thereto by
the select committee; and, having agreed thereto,
the President repotted it to the House accord-
ingly.
On the question Shall this bill be read a third
time as amended? it was determined in the affir-
mative.
-The following Message was received from the
President of the United States :
To the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States :
I lay before Congress copies of a proclamation of the
British Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Bermuda,
which has appeared under circumstances leaving no
doubt of its authenticity. It recites a British Order in
Council of the 26th of October last, providing for the
supply of the British West Indies, and other colonial
possessions, by a trade under special licenses; and is
accompanied by a circular instruction to the Colonial
Governors, which confines licensed importations from
ports of the United States to the ports of the Eastern
States exclusively.
The Government of Great Britain had already in-
troduced into her commerce, during war, a system,
which, at once violating the rights of other nations,
and resting on a mass of forgery and perjury unknown
to other times, was making an unfortunate progress in
undermining those principles of morality and religion
which are the best foundation of national happiness.
The policy now proclaimed to the world introduces
into her modes of warfare a system equally distinguished
by the deformity of its features, and the depravity of
its character; having for its object to dissolve the ties
of allegiance and the sentiments of loyalty in the ad-
versary nation, and to seduce and separate its compo-
nent parts the one from the other.
The general tendency of these demoralizing and dis-
organizing contrivances will be reprobated by the civil-
ized and Christian world ; and the insulting attempt on
the virtue, the honor, the patriotism, and the fidelity of
our brethren of the Eastern States, will not fail to call
forth all their indignation and resentment, and to at-
tach more and more all the States to that happy Union
and Constitution, against which such insidious and
malignant artifices are directed.
The better to guard, nevertheless, against the effect
of individual cupidity and treachery, and to turn the
corrupt projects of the enemy against himself, I recom-
mend to the consideration of Congress the expediency
of an effectual prohibition of any trade whatever, by
citizens or inhabitants of the United States, under spe-
cial licenses, whether relating to persons or ports, and
in aid thereof a prohibition of all exportations from the
United States in foreign bottoms, few of which are ac-
tually employed, whilst multiplying counterfeits of
â– their flags and papers are covering and encouraging
the navigation of the enemy.
JAMES MADISON.
Febbuart 24, 1813.
The Message and accompanying documents
"were read, and referred to the committee appoint-
ed the 9th of November last, on Foreign Relations,
o consider and report thereon.
The President communicated a report of the
Secretary for the Department of Treasury, with
a statement of the emoluments of the officers em-
ployed in the collection of the customs, for the
year 1812 ; which were read.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
bill, entitled !'An act to encourage vaccination."
Ordered, That it pass to a third reading.
Thursday, February 25.
A message from the House of Representatives
informed the Senate that the House have passed
a bill, entitled "An act to alter the time for the
next meeting of Congress;" in which they re-
quest the concurrence of the Senate.
The bill last mentioned was twice read by una-
nimous consent.
Mr. Dana, from the committee appointed on
the subject, reported a bill for the government of
persons in certain fisheries.
He further reported in part a bill concerning
navigation in the coasting trade; and the bills
were read, and passed to the second reading.
The amendment to the bill, entitled "An act
in addition to an act regulating the Post Office
Establishment," was reported by the committee
correctly engrossed, and the bill was read a third
time as amended.
Resolved, That this bill pass with amendment.
The bill to encourage more effectually the de-
struction of the armed vessels of the enemy en-
tering the ports and harbors of the United States,
was read a third time, and passed.
The bill supplementary to an act, entitled "An
act to authorize the making a turnpike road from
Mason's causeway to the town of Alexandria,"
was read a third time, and passed.
The bill for the relief of Nathaniel G. Ingra-
ham, Alexander Phoenix, and William Nexsen,
junior, was read a third time, and passed.
The bill for the relief of the representatives of
Samuel Lapsley, deceased, was read a third time,
and passed.
The amendments to the bill from the House of
Representatives, entitled "An act rewarding the
officers and crew of the frigate Constitution,"
were reported by the committee cprrectly en-
grossed, and the bill was read a third time as
amended.
Resolved. That this bill pass with amendments.
The bill to establish certain post roads in the
State of Louisiana, was read a third time, and
passed. â– .
The bill to authorize and empower the Presi-
dent and Managers of the Washington Turnpike
Company of the State of Maryland, when organ-
ized to extend and make their turnpike road to
or from Georgetown, in the District of Columbia,
through the said District, to the line thereof, was
read a third time, and passed.
' The bill, entitled "An act authorizing the ap-
pointment of additional officers in the respective
Territories of the United States," was read a
third time, and passed.
The bill, entitled "An act to continue in force,
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