THURSDAY, December 14, 1814.

Mr. Parris presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts, praying for an alteration in a post route.

Mr. Yancey presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Guilford county in North-Carolina, praying that the mails may not be opened or transported on Sundays.

Mr. Powell presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Washington county, Tennessee, praying for the establishment of a post-route.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. Mr. Throop presented a petition of Thomas Johnson, praying compensation for a wagon and team, destroyed in the service of the army lately commanded by general Brown, in Upper Canada.

Mr. Hopkinson presented a petition of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased, praying compensation for the occupancy of, and damages committed on an estate left by the deceased, lying in the State of Georgia, by a detachment of United States' troops.

Mr. Hungerford presented a petition of John King, stating that his house and furniture were burned by the enemy during the late war, and praying that the said house may be rebuilt at the public expense.

Mr. Stanford presented a petition of Jacob Greer, praying to be reimbursed his expenses, and that he may be allowed further compensation for completing the collection of the former direct tax, laid in the county of Orange, in the State of NorthCarolina.

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

On motion of Mr. Lewis,

Ordered, That the petition of Joseph Forrest, of the city of Washington, presented on the 4th of June 1813, be referred to the committee of Claims.

On motion of Mr. Clark, of Kentucky,

Ordered, That the petition of Browing and Gilkey, presented on the 26th of September 1814, and the petition of Thomas Weathers, presented on the 4th of October 1814, be referred to the committee of Claims.

Mr. Hopkinson presented petitions of sundry inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, praying that an act may be passed establishing a National Bank, with branches, founded on such a capital, and regulated by such principles as shall secure public and private confidence.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on that part of the President's message which relates to the subject of an uniform national currency.

Mr. Sargeant presented a petition of sundry manufacturers of hats, residing in the city of Philadelphia, praying that the duty imposed on the domestic manufacture of hats, may be repealed.

Mr. Hungerford presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Lancaster county, in the State of Virginia, praying that the duty imposed on domestic manufactured brandies, may be repealed.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.

Mr. Sargeant presented a petition of the inspectors of the customs of the port of Philadelphia, praying for an increase of compensation.

Ördered, That the said petitions be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.

On motion of Mr. Goldsborough,

Ordered, That the petition of Matthew and Elizabeth Roxburgh, presented on the 24th of March, 1812, be referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

On motion of Mr. Tucker,

Ordered, That the petition of the President and Directors of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of George-Town, presented on the 19th of February 1814, be referred to the committee for the District of Columbia.

Mr. McLean, of Ohio, presented a petition of Samuel Hall, praying for a pension.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims.

Mr. Lattimore presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the eastern part of the Mississippi Territory, praying to be allowed further time to complete their payments for lands purchased of the United States, and that the interest thereon, for a certain period, may be remitted.

Mr. Lattimore also presented a petition of the heirs of John Baptiste Baudreaux, by Edwin Lewis, their agent, praying that their titles to several tracts of land in the Mississippi Territory, may be confirmed.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on the Public Lands.

On motion of Mr. Lattimore,

Ordered, That the petition of the heirs of John Baptiste Baudreaux, by Edwin Lewis, their agent, presented on the 18th of January 1815, and the petition of Edwin Lewis and Margarette his wife, presented on the 7th of February 1815, be referred to the committee on the Public Lands.

On motion of Mr. Jennings,

Ordered, That the petition of Isaac Lambert and John Dickson, presented on the 12th of November 1814, and the petition of sundry inhabitants of the Territories of Indiana and Illinois, presented on the 30th of September 1814, be referred to the committee on the Public Lands.

Mr. Lattimore also presented petitions from sundry inhabitants of the Mississippi Territory, east of Pearl River, praying that provision may be made for taking a census of the inhabitants of the said territory, and that the territory may be erected into an independent State.

Ordered, That the said petition, together with the petition of the legislature of the territory aforesaid, relating to Indian depredations, presented on the 21st of January 1815, be referred to the committee appointed on the 7th instant, on a petition from the said Legislature.

Mr. Speaker laid before the House a letter from William Lambert, of the city of Washington, enclosing abstracts of such calculations relative to the longitude of the Capitol in the city of Washington, as were made by him before the passage of the resolution of this House of the 18th of Feb. ruary last, upon that subject; which were order

éd to lie on the table.

On motion of Mr. Taggart,

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Resolved, That the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, be directed to inquire into the pediency of establishing a post-road from Colrain, Massachusetts, through the towns of Halifax and Whitingham, to Wilmington, in the State of Ver

mont.

On motion of Mr. Lewis,

Resolved. That the committee for the District of Columbia, be instructed to inquire into the ex

pediency of completing the Capitol, by erecting the centre building, according to the original plan. On motion of Mr. Lyon,

Resolved, That the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-route from Grand Isle to Alburgh, in the State of Vermont.

On motion of Mr. Desha,

Resolved, That the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a post-road from Washington, by Newtown and Marysville, to Cynthiana, in the State of Kentucky.

On motion of Mr. Thomas,

Resolved, That the committee on the Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting rights of occupancy and pre-emption, at two dollars per acre, to all such persons as shall be actually seated, on the first day of October, 1816, upon any section of land obtained by treaty or conquest, from the Creek nation of Indians, during the late war.

Mr. Mayrant submitted the following resolution, which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Resolved, That the committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of transporting the mail of the United States from Camden, South-Carolina, to Charleston in the same State, twice a week, instead of once a week as it is now carried.

On motion of Mr. Jennings,

Resolved, That the committee of Claims be instructed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the accounting officers of the Department of War, to liquidate the claim of a company of mounted rangers, lately commanded by captain James Bigger, of the Territory of Indiana, and pay them