Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16)United States. Congress
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Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16)
United States. Congress
Law -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
"That the President of the United States be, and he is
hereby authorized to apply a sum not exceeding 255,759
dollars and three cents, to the expenses which may have
been incurred in any negotiations with Mediterranean
powers, beyond the sums heretofore appropriated; and that
the said sum of 255,759 dollars and three cents, be, and
the same is hereby appropriated for that purpose; and that
a further sum not exceeding 96,246 dollars and 63 cents,
be, and the same is hereby appropriated for discharging the
two first years' annuity to the Dey and Regency of Algiers,
pursuant to treaty, in addition to the gum appropriated for
that purpose by the act of the sixth of May, 1796."
On the question being put that the bill do pass, Mr. GREENUP said he
never liked the bill in any shape whatever; he would therefore express
it now. He then called for the yeas and nays, which were taken, and
stood ayes 63, noes 19, as follow:
YEAS.--Fisher Ames, Abraham Baldwin, Theophilus Bradbury,
Nathan Bryan, Daniel Buck, Dempsey Burges, Thomas
Claiborne, Joshua Coit, Isaac Coles, William Cooper, James
Davenport, Henry Dearborn, George Dent, George Ege, William
Findlay, Dwight Foster, Jesse Franklin, Nathaniel Freeman,
jr., Albert Gallatin, Ezekiel Gilbert, Henry Glenn,
Chauncey Goodrich, Roger Griswold, Robert Goodloe Harper,
Carter B. Harrison, Thomas Hartley, Jonathan N. Havens,
Thomas Henderson, William Hindman, Aaron Kitchell, John
Wilkes Kittera, George Leonard, Matthew Locke, Samuel
Lyman, James Madison, Francis Malbone, John Milledge,
Andrew Moore, Frederick A. Muhlenberg, John Nicholas,
Alexander D. Orr, John Page, Josiah Parker, Elisha R.
Potter, John Richards, Robert Rutherford, John S.
Sherburne, Samuel Sitgreaves, Thompson J. Skinner, Jeremiah
Smith, Nathaniel Smith, Israel Smith, Isaac Smith, Richard
Sprigg, jr., Thomas Sprigg, Zephaniah Swift, George
Thatcher, Richard Thomas, Mark Thompson, Philip Van
Cortlandt, Joseph B. Varnum, Peleg Wadsworth, and John
Williams.
NAYS.--David Bard, Thomas Blount, Samuel J. Cabell, Gabriel
Christie, John Clopton, James Gillespie, Christopher
Greenup, John Hathorn, John Heath, James Holland, Andrew
Jackson, George Jackson, William Lyman, Samuel Maclay,
Nathaniel Macon, William Strudwick, John Swanwick, Abraham
Venable, and Richard Winn.
On motion of Mr. GALLATIN, the title was changed to "a bill to authorize
the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES to apply further sums to defray the
expenses of the negotiation with the Dey and Regency of Algiers."[11]
_John Cleves Symmes._
On motion of Mr. GALLATIN, the House took up the bill in addition to an
act for granting certain lands to John Cleves Symmes and his associates;
when
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