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THE
HISTORICAL REGISTER
OF THE
UNITED STATES.
PART I.
FOR 1814.
EDITED BY
T. H. PALMER.
VOL. III.
PHILADELPHIA,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY G. PALMER,
NO. 201, CHESNUT STREET.
1814.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
32101 007596552
CONTENTS.
REVIEW OF THE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE
CHAPTER V.-Of the Federal Constitution. (In continuation.)
§1. Command of the army. 2. Military peace establishment. 3. Ad-
ditional force of 10,000 men. 4. War establishment. 5. The regi-
ment of light artillery. 6. The regiment of dragoons. 7. The ar-
tillery corps. 8. The regiments of infantry. 9. The rifle regiments.
10. The general officers. 11. The quarter master general's depart-
ment. 12. The topographical department. 13. The adjutant general's
and the inspector general's departments. 4. The ordnance depart-
ment. 15. The purchasing department. 16. The paymaster's de-
partment. 17. The hospital department. 18. The judge advocates
and the chaplains. 19. The engineer corps. 20. Rank of regi-
ments. 21. Rank of officers. 22. Rules of promotion. 23. Army
pay, &c. 24. The militia. 25. Volunteers. 26. Invalid pen-
sioners
1
CHAPTER VI.-Of the Federal Constitution. (In continuation.)
1. The navy. 2. Pay and subsistence. 3. Distribution of prize
money and bounties. 4. Navy pension fund. 5. Regulations of pri-
vateers and letters of marque. 6. Privateer fund. 7. Privateer
journals. 8. Punishment of offences committed by or in privateers.
9. The marine hospital fund. 10. Fund for the relief of destitute
seamen in foreign countries. 11. Regulation and protection of sea-
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men in the merchant service. 12. Consuls and ministers
CHAPTER VII. Of the Federal Constitution. (In continuation.)
1. Revenues of the United States. 2. The customs. 3. The post-
office. 4. Public lands. 5. Receipts and expenditures from the
commencement of the federal government. 6. Public debt. 7.
Funding system. 8. The sinking fund. 9. Statement of the public
debt in 1814. 10. The post-office establishment. 11. Surveyor
general's department and land-offices. 12. The mint establishment.
13. United States coin. 14. Trading-houses with the Indians. 15.
Indian intercourse
32
Observations made during a short residence in Virginia. In a letter
from the Editor to his friend in Philadelphia
53
HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
13TH CONGRESS-2D SESSION.
77
CHAPTER I. § 1. Meeting of congress. 2. President's message. 3.
Confidential message. 4. The embargo. 5. Mr. King's resolutions.
6. Indulgence to embargoed coasters. 7. Exemption in favour of
Nantucket. 8. Motions for suspension and repeal of the embargo. 9.
Repeal of the restrictive system recommended by the president. 10.
Report of the committee of foreign relations. 11. Debate on the re-
peal of the restrictive system. 12. Double duties. 13. Exportation
of specie. 14. British licenses. 15. Cuffee's memorial
CHAPTER II-§ 1. Bill for encouraging enlistments. 2. Debate on
its passage. 3. Increase and organization of the army. 4. The mi-
litia. 5. Augmentation of the marine corps. 6. Officers in the flo-
tilla. 7. Additional navy pay. 8. Bounty for prisoners. 9. Navy and
privateer pensions. 10. Purchase of the squadron captured on lake
Erie. 11. Tribute to valour. 12. Increase of the navy. 13. Steam
frigates 104
CHAPTER III. § 1. Treasury report. 2 Eppes' introductory speech
on the loan bill. 3. Pitkin's reply. 4. Arrangement of the debate
on the loan bill. 5. Finances of the union. 6. Causes of the war,
and justice of its continuance. 7. Naturalization and allegiance. 8.
Offensive and defensive war. 9. Rights and duties of opposition. 10.
Treasury note bill
123
CHAPTER IV. § 1. Deficit in the revenue. 2. National bank. 3. New
taxes. 4 National bank postponed. 5. Assumption of the direct
tax. 6. Duty on distilled spirits. 7. Licenses to retailers. 8. Duty
on sales at auction. 9. Compromise of the Yazoo claims. 10. Loui-
siana land claims. 11. Liquidation of Florida claims. 12. Extension
of credit to land purchasers. 13. Organization of New York district
court. 14. Payment of money into the courts. 15. Allowance to
marshals and district attorneys. 16. Alteration of the judicial sys-
tem. 17. Residence of the attorney-general. 18. Regulation of the
post-office. 19. Trophies of war
192
CHAPTER V.-§ 1. Enquiry into the failure of the campaign. 2. Re-
port of the secretary of war. 3. Motion for a committee of enquiry.
4. Enquiry respecting retaliation. 5. Report of the secretary of
state. 6. Resolution respecting the vacancy in the treasury depart-
ment. 7. Vacancies in the departments. 8. Gore's resolutions. 9.
Amendments to the constitution. 10. Hanson's resolutions. 11. Ro-
berts' resolutions. 12. Webster's resolutions
CHAPTER VI.—§ 1. Rejection of the Russian mediation. 2. Motion for
papers relative to it. S. Abstract of those documents. 4. Motion for
a suspension of military operations. 5. Resignation of the speaker.
6. Relations with France. 7. Organization of the navy department.
8. Appropriations. 9. Adjournment of congress 234
STATE PAPERS LAID BEFORE COngress.
209
Message from the president of the United States to both houses of con-
gress at the commencement of the second session of the 13th con-
gress
[1
Message from the president of the United States recommending an em-
bargo, &c.
[9
Letter from the commissioner of the general land-office, respecting the
public lands of the United States
[10
[26
Message from the president of the United States, transmitting copies
of a letter from the British secretary of state for foreign affairs, to
the secretary of state, with the answer of the latter
[19
Message from the president of the United States, transmitting infor-
mation relative to the reception of Mr. Crawford, the minister from
the United States to the court of France, by that court, in obedience
to a resolution of the 11th instant
[24
Message from the president of the United States, transmitting a report
from the secretary of state, complying with the resolution of the
house of representatives of the 12th instant
of the secretary of state, in obedience to a resolution of the 13th
instant, "requesting the president to lay before this house such do-
cuments relative to the Russian mediation as in his opinion it may
not be improper to communicate"
Message of the president of the United States, transmitting a letter
from the secretary of war, accompanied with sundry documents; in
obedience to a resolution of the 31st of December last, requesting
such information as may tend to explain the causes of the failure of
the arms of the United States on the northern frontier
Correspondence between the secretary of war and major-general
Dearborn, &c.
[28
[39
Correspondence between the secretary of war and brigadier-gene-
ral Boyd
[73
Letters from the secretary of war to major-general Lewis, com-
manding at Sackett's Harbour
[77
Harrison
[78
Correspondence with governor Shelby in relation to the north-west.
ern campaign
[94
Hampton
[96
Wilkinson
[112
Correspondence between the secretary of war and colonel Porter
and general M'Clure, &c.
[171
Message from the president of the United States, recommending a re-
peal of the embargo and the restrictive system, so far as relates to
nations in amity with the United States; also recommending mea-
sures for the encouragement of American manufactures, and advis-
ing the prohibition of the exportation of specie
[190
Message from the president of the United States, communicating in-
formation touching our relations with France, in compliance with a
resolution of the 13th instant
Message from the president of the United States, transmitting a re-
port from the acting secretary of the treasury, in compliance with
the resolution of the senate of the 13th instant
port from the acting secretary of the treasury, in compliance with a
resolution of the 31st of December, 1813
[192
[193