Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16)United States. Congress
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Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16)
United States. Congress
Law -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
SEC. 2. _And be it further enacted_, That, until the expiration
of the present session of Congress, or unless provision
be sooner made for the temporary government of the said
territories, all the military, civil, and judicial powers
exercised by the officers of the existing Government of the
same, shall be vested in such person and persons, and shall be
exercised in such manner as the President of the United States
shall direct, for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of
Louisiana in the full enjoyment of their liberty, property, and
religion.
On the question, Shall the bill pass? the yeas and nays were required,
and stood--yeas 89, nays 23, as follows:
YEAS.--Willis Alston, Isaac Anderson, John Archer, David Bard,
George M. Bedinger, Samuel Bishop, William Blackledge, John
Boyle, Robert Brown, William Butler, George W. Campbell, John
Campbell, Levi Casey, Thomas Claiborne, Joseph Clay, Matthew
Clay, John Clopton, Frederick Conrad, Jacob Crowninshield,
Richard Cutts, John Dawson, William Dickson, John Earle, Peter
Early, John W. Eppes, William Eustis, William Findlay, John
Fowler, Peterson Goodwyn, Andrew Gregg, Wade Hampton, John
A. Hanna, Josiah Hasbrouck, Daniel Heister, Joseph Heister,
William Hoge, James Holland, David Holmes, Benjamin Huger,
Walter Jones, William Kennedy, Nehemiah Knight, Michael
Leib, John B. C. Lucas, Matthew Lyon, Andrew McCord, William
McCreery, David Meriwether, Samuel L. Mitchill, Nicholas R.
Moore, Thomas Moore, Jeremiah Morrow, Anthony New, Thomas
Newton, jr., Joseph H. Nicholson, Gideon Olin, Beriah Palmer,
John Patterson, Samuel D. Purviance, John Randolph, jr., Thomas
M. Randolph, John Rea of Pennsylvania, John Rhea of Tennessee,
Jacob Richards, Cæsar A. Rodney, Erastus Root, Thomas Sammons,
Thomas Sanford, Ebenezer Seaver, John Smilie, John Smith of New
York, John Smith of Virginia, Richard Stanford, Joseph Stanton,
John Stewart, David Thomas, Philip R. Thompson, Abram Trigg,
John Trigg, Philip Van Cortlandt, Isaac Van Horne, Joseph B.
Varnum, Daniel C. Verplanck, Matthew Walton, John Whitehill,
Marmaduke Williams, Richard Winn, Jos. Winston, and Thomas
Wynns.
NAYS.--William Chamberlain, Martin Chittenden, Clifton
Claggett, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, Thomas Dwight, James
Elliot, Calvin Goddard, Thomas Griffin, Gaylord Griswold, Roger
Griswold, Seth Hastings, Joseph Lewis, jr., Thomas Lewis, Henry
W. Livingston, Nahum Mitchell, Thomas Plater, Joshua Sands,
John Cotton Smith, William Stedman, James Stephenson, Samuel
Tenney, and Samuel Thatcher.
SATURDAY, October 29.
_Mourning for Edmund Pendleton._
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