Congressional Serial Set (389)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... of said State shall first pass an act declaring their acceptance of said reliwjuishment, and, also, embracing a provision, to be unalterable without the consent of Congress, that the whole of the said two per cent, fund shall be faithfully applied, under the direction of the Legislature of Alabama, to the connection, by some 'means of internal improvement, of the navigable waters of the Bay of Mobile with the Tennessee river, and to the construction of a continuous line of internal improvements from a point in Chattahoochie river, opposite West Point, t- Georgia, across the State of Alabama in a direction to Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, It was detennined in the affinnative, -'2q' On motion by Mr. Smith, of Indiana, The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the Senators present, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Messrs. Allen, Benton, Buchanan, Calhoun, Clay, of Alabama, Cuthbert, Fulton, Henderson, King, Linn, McRoberts, Mouton, Nicholson, Sevier, Smith, of Connecticut, Sturgeon, Tappan, Walker, Williams, Woodbury, Wright, Young. Those who voted in the negative, are, Messrs. Archer, Bates, Bayard, Clay, of Kentucky, Clayton, Dixon, Evans, Graham, Huntington, Kerr, Miller, Morehead, Phelps, Porter, Prentiss, Rives, Simmons, Smith, of Indiana, Southard, White..So the proposed amendment was agreed to. On motion by Mr. Calhoun, To amend the bill, by inserting, at the end of the second section, Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to convert the distributive shares assigned to the several States into a debt due them, or to prevent Congress from repealing this act, whenever it shall deem the public interest to require it, except so far as may relate to the land grants, It was...