AUGUSTUS J. FOSTER.

The Message having been read, was, on motion of Mr. NEWTON, referred to

the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.

WEDNESDAY, March 18.

_State of Louisiana._

The House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, on the bill

for the admission of the State of Louisiana (now Orleans Territory)

into the Union, and for extending the laws of the United States to the

same.

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