IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

FEBRUARY 23, 1821.

MR. THOMAS, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the memorial of the mayor and aldermen of the city of Mobile,

REPORTED:

That the memorialists state that the said city is destitute of almost every kind of building necessary for public purposes, and without the means for improvement, except such as are derived from taxes upon individual property: that the only public buildings in the city, when taken possession of by the American government (a bakehouse and hospital) have been held as the property of the United States. That, the city also enjoyed the use and benefit of certain ungranted lands within its limits, under each of the former governments, which have been recently surveyed and offered for sale by the United States. That, the city is destitute of even a lot upon which to place a schoolhouse or a church, a court-house or a prison-and pray Congress to grant to the corporation of the city the remaining public lands within its limits, particularly the lots known as the hospital and bake-house lots, containing about three-fourths of an acre of ground; and, also, that the claim of the United States, if any, to certain ground between high water mark and the channel of the river Mobile, in front of the town, may be invested in the corporation of the said city, as far as may be consistent with private claims

Your committee are of opinion that the prayer of the memorialists is reasonable and ought to be granted. They therefore report a bill.

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

FEBRUARY 23, 1821.

MR. THOMAS, from the Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the petition of Watson Brown,

REPORTED:

That the Committee have examined the same, and are of opinion that it is inexpedient to grant the prayer of the petitioner. They therefore recommend the following resolution:

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

MESSAGE

FROM THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

TRANSMITTING,

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 16th instant,

THE

ORIGINAL ORDER FOR BUILDING THE BARRACKS AT SACKETT'S HARBOR,

TOGETHER

With all communications between the War Department and Major General Brown, relative thereto, and the amount of public moneys expended thereon.

FEBRUARY 28, 1821.

Printed by order of the Senate of the United States.

WASHINGTON:

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