_Ordered_, That the Secretary wait on the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, and acquaint him that the Senate have, in the absence of the
VICE PRESIDENT, elected the honorable ABRAHAM BALDWIN their President
_pro tempore_.
MONDAY, April 26.
_Relief to Widows and Orphans of Naval and Marine Officers._
The Senate resumed the third reading of the bill, entitled "An act for
the relief of the widows and orphans of certain persons who have died,
or may hereafter die, in the naval service of the United States."
On motion to strike out the second section of the bill, to wit:
"SEC. 2. _And be it further enacted_, That if any
commissioned or warrant officer of the Navy, or
commissioned officer of Marines, have died, or shall
hereafter die, by reason of wounds received while in the
actual service of the United States, or have been lost at
sea, or drowned, or shall hereafter be lost at sea, or
drowned, while in the service as aforesaid, and in the
actual line of his duty, and shall leave a widow, or if
not, leave a child or children, under age, such widow, or
such child, or children, as the case may be, shall be
entitled to, and receive, the half of the monthly pay to
which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death,
and for and during the term of five years. And in case of
the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the
expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay for
the residue of the term shall go to the child or children
of such deceased officer under the age of sixteen years;
and, in like manner, the allowance to the child or children
of such deceased, in case there be no widow, shall be paid
no longer than during the time there is a child or children
under the age of sixteen years."
It passed in the affirmative--yeas 16, nays 8, as follows:
YEAS.--Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Bradley, Brown, Clinton,
Cocke, Dayton, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, S. T. Mason,
Ogden, Olcott, Stone, Sumter, and Wright.
NAYS.--Messrs. Ellery, Dwight Foster, Howard, J. Mason,
Morris, Nicholas, Wells, and White.
_Georgia Limits._
The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES:
_Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of
Representatives_:
In pursuance of the act, entitled "An act supplemental to
the act, entitled 'An act for an amicable settlement of
limits with the State of Georgia, and authorizing the
establishment of a government in the Mississippi
Territory,'" James Madison, Secretary of State, Albert
Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, and Levi Lincoln,
Attorney General of the United States, were appointed
Commissioners, to settle by compromise, with the
Commissioners appointed by the State of Georgia, the claims
and cession to which the said act has relation.
Articles of agreement and cession have accordingly been
entered into and signed by the said Commissioners of the
United States and of Georgia, which, as they leave a right
to Congress to act upon them legislatively, at any time
within six months after their date, I have thought it my
duty immediately to communicate to the Legislature.