The Message and report were read, and one thousand copies thereof
ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.
WEDNESDAY, March 18.
_Incorporation of a Mining Company in Upper
Louisiana._
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of
the bill to incorporate Moses Austin, John Rice Jones, Henry Austin,
and others, into a company, by the name of the Louisiana Lead Company;
and the bill having been further amended, the President reported it to
the House accordingly.
On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as
amended? it was determined in the affirmative.
TUESDAY, March 24.
In the absence of the VICE PRESIDENT, on motion of Mr. LLOYD, the
Senate proceeded to the choice of a President _pro tempore_, as the
constitution provides, and WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD was elected.
THURSDAY, March 26.
_Incorporation of Lead Mine Company._
The engrossed bill to incorporate Moses Austin, John Rice Jones, Henry
Austin, and others, into a company, by the name of the Louisiana Lead
Company, was read the third time.
On the question, Shall this bill pass? it was determined in the
affirmative--yeas 14, nays 12, as follows:
YEAS.--Messrs. Anderson, Bradley, Condit, Crawford, Dana,
German, Goodrich, Gregg, Howell, Hunter, Smith of New York,
Tait, Taylor, and Worthington.
NAYS.--Messrs. Bayard, Franklin, Giles, Horsey, Lambert, Leib,
Lloyd, Reed, Smith of Maryland, Turner, and Varnum.
So it was _Resolved_, That this bill pass, and that the title thereof
be, "An act to incorporate Moses Austin, John Rice Jones, Henry Austin,
and others, into a company, by the name of the Louisiana Lead Company."
WEDNESDAY, April 1.
_Erection of the Territory of Orleans into a
State._
The amendments to the bill, entitled "An act for the admission of
the State of Louisiana into the Union, and to extend the laws of the
United States to the said State," having been reported by the committee
correctly engrossed, the bill was read a third time as amended, and, by
unanimous consent, was further amended, by striking out, in the ninth
section and second line, the word "next," and inserting the words "one
thousand eight hundred and twelve."
_Resolved_, That this bill pass with amendments.
The bill giving further time for registering claims to land in the
eastern district of the Territory of Orleans having been reported by
the committee correctly engrossed, was read a third time, and passed.
The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration
of the bill to enlarge the limits of the State of Louisiana; and,
no amendment having been offered, on the question, Shall this bill
be engrossed and read a third time? it was determined in the
affirmative--yeas 21, nays 8, as follows:
YEAS.--Messrs. Anderson, Bayard, Bibb, Campbell of Tennessee,
Condit, Crawford, Cutts, Gaillard, Giles, Gregg, Horsey,
Howell, Leib, Pope, Smith of Maryland, Smith of New York, Tait,
Taylor, Turner, Varnum, and Worthington.
NAYS.--Messrs. Bradley, Franklin, German, Gilman, Goodrich,
Lambert, Lloyd, and Reed.
_Temporary Embargo._
The following confidential Message was received from the President of
the United States:
_To the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States_:
Considering it as expedient, under existing circumstances and
prospects, that a general embargo be laid on all vessels now in
port, or hereafter arriving, for the period of sixty days, I
recommend the immediate passage of a law to that effect.