The House proceeded to the consideration of the said bill; when
It was read a first and second time, and

Ordered, To be read a third time to-day.

And, thereupon,

The said bill was accordingly read the third time, and passed.

Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate thereof.

The House then resumed the consideration of the resolutions from the legislature of the State of Massachusetts, relative to the naturalization laws, presented by Mr. Winthrop on the 15th instant.

The questions pending being,

First. Shall the said resolutions be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary?

Second. To a select committee, with instructions to inquire whether any, and, if any, what, alterations are required in our present naturalization laws, to guard the ballot-box and protect American institutions.

And, after debate,

On motion of Mr. Baker, the House, at fifteen minutes before 3 o'clock, p. m., adjourned until to-morrow, at 12 o'clock meridian.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1845.

Mr. Boyd, at his request, was excused from serving on the select committee, appointed yesterday, upon the subject of the folding-room, and Mr. Sawtelle was appointed.

Mr. Wheaton, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, reported that the committee have examined an enrolled bill of the Senate (No. 27) entitled "An act to establish a collection district in the State of Texas, and for other purposes," and found the same to be truly enrolled; when

The Speaker signed the said bill.

The House resumed the consideration of the resolutions from the legis lature of the State of Massachusetts, relative to the naturalization laws, presented by Mr. Winthrop on the 15th instant.

The questions pending being,

First. Shall the said resolutions be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Second. To a select committee, with instructions to inquire whether any, and, if any, what alterations are required in our present naturalization laws, to guard the ballot-box and protect American institutions.

And, after debate,

The previous question was moved by Mr. Hamlin, and seconded; and the main question was ordered and put, viz: Shall the said resolutions be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary?

And decided in the affirmative.

The rules being suspended for the purpose,

Mr. Garrett Davis offered the following resolutions, which were read, considered, and agreed to, viz:

1. Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire whether any additional legislation be necessary to secure the proper accountability of the officers or persons of either House of Congress having the custody or the disbursement of the public money.

2. Resolved, That the said committee also inquire into and report the facts connected with the defalcation of Caleb J. McNulty, a Clerk of the House of Representatives of the 28th Congress.

3. Resolved, That said committee further inquire whether the bond executed by the said Caleb J. McNulty and his securities has or has not been discharged; and, if it be discharged, whether the same was not effected by the appropriation of money belonging to the United States.

4. Resolved, That said committee also inquire whether the mode of summoning and empannelling juries in the courts of the United States needs any alteration and reform; and said committee is empowered to send for persons and papers.

The Speaker laid before the House sundry communications, viz:

I. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the resolution of the House of the 19th instant, relative to the amount of the two per cent. fund due the State of Arkansas, and the reason why the same has been withheld: which letter was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

II. A letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in obedience to the resolution of the House of the 19th instant, a statement concerning the agencies established by government in the States of Kentucky and Missouri, for the inspection, test, and purchase of American hemp: which letter and statement were laid upon the table.

III. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in obedience to the acts of April 21, 1808, and March 2, 1809, a statement of contracts made by that department during the years 1844 and 1845; also, a statement of payments made for the discharge of miscellaneous claims and of expenditures from the marine hospital fund, for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, for the years ending June 30, 1844, and June 30, 1845: which letter and statements were laid upon the table.

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Dickins, their secretary:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate have passed bills of the following titles, viz: No. 21. An act for the organization of a company of sappers, miners, and pontoniers; and

No. 22. An act to repeal the act which abolished the office of one of the inspectors general of the army, and to revive and establish said office: in which bills I am directed to ask the concurrence of the House.

The President of the United States has informed the Senate that he has approved and signed the bill (No. 11) entitled "An act to extend the laws of the United States over the State of Texas, and for other purposes."

And then he withdrew.

The following petitions, memorials, and other papers, were laid on the Clerk's table, under the 24th rule of the House, to wit:

By Mr. Wentworth: A petition of citizens of Cook county, in the State of Illinois, praying the establishment of a mail route from Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, to Southport, in the Territory of Wisconsin.

By Mr. Yell: A petition of citizens of Independence, Izard, and Fulton counties, in the State of Arkansas, praying the establishment of a mail route from Batesville, in the county of Independence, to Salem, in Fulton county, in the State of Arkansas.

By Mr. Boyd: A memorial of citizens of Princeton, in the State of Kentucky, praying the establishment of a mail route from Princeton, by way of the Empire iron works, to Cadiz, in the State of Kentucky.

Ordered, That the said petitions and memorial be referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Yell: A memorial of Margaret C. Brown, late Margaret C. Mur

ray, widow of Thomas Murray, jr., of Arkansas, praying payment for services due her late husband, who acted as clerk to a delegation of Cherokee Indians, while making a treaty at Washington in the year 1828.

By Mr. Giles: The petition of Thomas Jarrett, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, praying compensation for a vessel purchased by him for the government during the late war-heretofore presented January 27, 1845.

By Mr. Tibbatts: The petition of Hiram Humphreys, of St. Joseph's county, in the State of Michigan, praying remuneration for losses sustained in building a bridge for the United States-heretofore presented January 28, 1837.

By Mr. Russell: The petition of George Parsons, of Saranac, Clinton county, and State of New York, praying payment for timber furnished for building the breakwater at Plattsburg, in that State, in the year 1839heretofore presented June 3, 1844.

Ordered, That said memorial and petitions be referred to the Committee of Claims.

By Mr. Giles: A petition of Elizabeth Myers, (or McMyers,) of the city of Baltimore, widow of John Myers, (or McMyers,) a soldier of the revolutionary war, praying for a pension on account of the military services of her deceased husband;

Also, a petition of Magdalena Moore, of the city of Baltimore, widow of Benjamin Moore, late of Lebanon county, State of Pennsylvania, who was a soldier of the revolutionary war, praying for a pension;

Also, a petition of Eunice Starr, of the city of Baltimore, widow of William Starr, who was a lieutenant in the Connecticut line in the war of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States, praying for a pension at the same rate her late husband received till his death.

By Mr. Ashmun: A petition of Amos Hunting, of Shutesbury, county of Franklin, and State of Massachusetts, a soldier of the United States in the revolutionary war, praying for a pension.

By Mr. Sawtelle: The petition of Benjamin J. Porter, of the State of Maine, praying seven years' commutation pay for services as surgeon's mate in the army of the Revolution-heretofore presented January 23, 1845. Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

By Mr. Russell: A petition of Pliney Pearce, of Bolton, Warren county, in the State of New York, praying for an increase of pension to remunerate him for loss and injury sustained while in the service of the United States, during the last war.

By Mr. Benton: A petition of John J. Eldridge, of Herkimer county, in the State of New York, praying for a pension for services rendered during the last war.

By Mr. Jefferson Davis: A petition of John L. Allen, of Calbert, in the State of Mississippi, praying for back pension to which he claims he is entitled by the act of 24th of April, 1816, for services rendered during the last war.

By Mr. Andrew Johnson: The petition of George Miller, of Sullivan county, in the State of Tennessee-heretofore presented February 14, 1842; Also, a petition of Joseph Bell, of Washington county, in the State of Tennessee, praying for a pension for services rendered, and loss of health occasioned by exposure during the last war.

By Mr. Williams: The petition of William Pool-heretofore presented December 23, 1841.

Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.

By Mr. Milton Brown: The petition of John Scoby, heir of Mathew Scoby-heretofore presented January 30, 1845: which was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

By Mr. Bowlin: Five petitions of citizens of the State of Missouri, praying for the removal of the land office from Jackson, in Cape Girardeau county, to Fredericktown, in Madison county.

By Mr. Yell: A petition of David F. Williams, of the county of Pope, in the State of Arkansas, praying for the right of pre-emption to a quarter section of land in said State.

Ordered, That said petitions be referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

By Mr. Morgan L. Martin: A memorial of Indians belonging to the Stockbridge tribe, praying arrearages of the annuities, and to be allowed to return to their primitive habits and government.

By Mr. Cobb: A petition of citizens of Georgia and Alabama, praying for payment for Indian depredations in said States in 1836.

Ordered, That said petition and memorial be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.

By Mr. Jefferson Davis: A petition of mail carriers, masters and owners of steamboats, and merchants and others, interested in the commercial interests between the cities of Mobile and New Orleans, praying for an appropriation to remove the bar in the Gulf channel near Pass Christian.

By Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll: A memorial of citizens of the State of Pennsylvania, praying for an appropriation to complete a light-house on “Brandywine Shoals.

Ordered, That the foregoing memorial and petition be referred to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. Wood: Two memorials of citizens of Albany, in the State of New York, remonstrating against the admission of Texas into the Union as a slave State.

Also, one of like import, of citizens of Sand Lake, county of Rensselaer, in the State of New York.

By Mr. Hungerford: One of like import, of citizens of Clayton, Jefferson county, in the State of New York.

Also, one of like import, of citizens of Brownville county, and State aforesaid.

By Mr. Sawtelle: One of like import, of citizens of St. Alban's, in the State of Maine.

Also, one of like import, of citizens of the State of Maine.

By Mr. Williams: One of like import, of citizens of Deer island, Hancock county, in the State of Maine.

By Mr. Russell: One of like import, of citizens of Malone, Franklin county, in the State of New York.

By Mr. Caleb B. Smith: Two of like import, of citizens of the State of Indiana.

By Mr. Delano: One of like import, of citizens of Licking county, in the State of Ohio.

Ordered, That said memorials be laid on the table.

And then, on motion of Mr. Hopkins, the House, at ten minutes before 3 o'clock, p. m., adjourned until to-morrow, at 12 o'clock meridian.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1845.

The following petitions, memorials, and other papers, were laid on the Clerk's table, under the 24th rule of the House, to wit:

By Mr. Daniel P. King: The memorial of the heirs of Baron De Kalbheretofore presented April 21, 1836;

Also, the memorial of Joseph W. Newcomb, of Springfield, in the State of Massachusetts, sole heir and representative of Major General Joseph Warren-heretofore presented February 5, 1840.

Ordered, That said memorials be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

By Mr. Gentry: The memorial of George Mayfield, of the county of Williamson, and State of Tennessee, praying that his title to land at Wetumpka, in the State of Alabama, may be perfected-heretofore presented February 6, 1840: which was referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims.

By Mr. McIlvaine: The memorial of Mary Reeside, of the city of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, executrix of James Reeside, deceasedheretofore presented February 28, 1845: which was referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

By Mr. Daniel P. King: The petition of John H. Russell, of Marblehead, Essex county, and State of Massachusetts, praying the allowance of fishing bounty to the crew of the schooner Lucy Ann-heretofore presented January 7, 1839;

Also, the petition of Glover Broughton, of Essex county, State of Massachusetts, praying for fishing bounty to the schooner Tancred-heretofore presented January 29, 1845.

By Mr. Morgan L. Martin: The petition of citizens of Buffalo, and its vicinity, in the State of New York, praying for the construction of a harbor at Manitowoc, in the Territory of Wisconsin-heretofore presented January 5, 1843;

Also, the petition of citizens of western New York, engaged in the commerce of the lakes, of like import-heretofore presented January 29, 1844; Also, the petition of residents in the vicinity of lakes Michigan, Huron, and Erie, of like import--heretofore presented February 7, 1844;

Also, the petition of citizens of the Territory of Wisconsin, and of the vicinity of the northwestern lakes, of similar import-heretofore presented March 5, 1844;

Also, the petition of citizens of Sheboygan county, in the Territory of Wisconsin, praying an appropriation for the construction of a harbor at the mouth of Sheboygan river, in said Territory-heretofore presented January 29, 1845;

Also, the petition of citizens of the Territory of Wisconsin, of similar import heretofore presented February 8, 1845;

Also, resolutions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, of like import-heretofore presented February 19, 1945;

Also, two petitions of citizens of Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin Territory, and others, in the vicinity of the northwestern lakes, of like import-heretofore presented February 24, 1845.

By Mr. St. John: Two memorials of like import, of citizens of the counties of Wood and Crawford, in the State of Ohio, praying an appropriation for the improvement of the Maumee river, in said State.