_Resolved_, That adequate provision shall hereafter be made to defray any necessary expenses which may be incurred in carrying the preceding resolution into effect. NOTE.—No proceeding took place in the House on these resolutions at this session. The committee consisted of Mr. Pickering, Mr. Comstock, Mr. Condict, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Taggart, Mr. Cilley, and Mr. Hooks, on colonizing the free people of color of the United States. NINETEENTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. _February 18, 1825._ The following resolution was submitted _to the Senate of the United States_, by Mr. RUFUS KING, of New York: _Resolved_, That, as soon as the portion of the existing funded debt of the United States, for the payment of which the public land of the United States is pledged, shall have been paid off, then, and thenceforth, the whole of the public land of the United States, with the net proceeds of all future sales thereof, shall constitute or form a fund, which is hereby appropriated; and the faith of the United States is pledged that the said fund shall be inviolably applied to aid the emancipation of such slaves, within any of the United States, and aid the removal of such slaves, and the removal of such free people of color, in any of the said States, _as, by the laws of the States_, respectively, may be allowed to be emancipated or removed, to any territory or country without the limits of the United States of America. _Extract of a letter from the Hon. James Madison to the secretary of the society, the Rev. R. R. Gurley._ MONTPELIER, _December 29, 1831_.