Journal of the House of Representatives of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1810 Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House." |
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Aaron Lyle Abijah Bigelow Adam Boyd amendments Archibald Van Horn Barzillai Gannett bill was read Burwell Bassett Charles Turner Committee of Claims Committee of Commerce Daniel Blaisdell David Bard Dennis Smelt district Ebenezer Huntington Ebenezer Sage Ebenezer Seaver entitled An act Eppes Erastus Root George Smith Gideon Gardner House adjourned Jacob Hufty James Cochran James Holland Jeremiah Morrow John Rhea John Roane John Smilie Jonathan Joseph Calhoun Joseph Desha junior Laban Wheaton Lemuel Matthew Clay Matthias Richards Meshack Franklin Mitchill motion nays being demanded Peterson Goodwyn petition be referred petition of sundry Porter praying presented a petition Public Lands read the second read the third Resolved resumed the chair Robert Le Roy Robert Weakley Robert Whitehill Robert Witherspoon Roy Livingston Samuel Ringgold Senate therewith Speaker resumed spent therein territory Thomas Gholson Thomas Kenan Thomas Newbold thousand eight hundred Timothy Pitkin United Uri Tracy voted whole House William Findley Willis Alston
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