STATE OF LOUISIANA.

_1834._

A resolution, recently presented to this body, proposing the appointment

of a joint committee to take into consideration the expediency of

promoting the emigration of free people of color from that State to

Liberia, was adopted by a vote of twenty-two against eleven.

Report of the naval committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States to Liberia: also to increase the steam navy, and to extend the commerce of the United States. · 第 17 / 22 题