The following item was then read, viz:

"For the improvement of the Ohio river below the falls at Louisville, and of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.""

A division was called for by Mr. Tibbatts, so as to take the question separately upon the said item. And the call being seconded by one-fifth of the members present,

The question was put, Shall the said item be engrossed, and read a third time to-day?

And decided in the affirmative,

The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

Mr. Charles S. Benton
Asa Biggs
James Black

James A. Black

William H. Brockenbrough
Armistead Burt
Reuben Chapman
Lucien B. Chase
Henry S. Clarke
Howell Cobb
Alvan Cullom
John R. J. Daniel
Edmund S. Dargan
Paul Dillingham, jr.
James C. Dobbin
Alfred Dockery
Robert P. Dunlap
Jacob Erdman
William S. Garvin
Samuel Gordon
James Graham

Mr. Martin Grover

Hannibal Hamlin
Hugh A. Haralson
John H. Harmanson
George W. Hopkins
William J. Hough
George S. Houston
Edmund W. Hubard
Orville Hungerford
Robert M. T. Hunter
James H. Johnson
Joseph Johnson
Andrew Johnson
George W. Jones
Seaborn Jones
John W. Lawrence
Thomas W. Ligon
John H. Lumpkin
William B. Maclay
Moses McClean
Felix G. McConnell

All the items in the said bill having been read,

Mr. John D. McCrate
James McDowell
James J. McKay
John P. Martin
Barclay Martin
Isaac E. Morse
Mace Moulton
William W. Payne
Thomas Perry
David S. Reid
John Ritter
Cullen Sawtelle
John F. Scammon
James A. Seddon
Richard F. Simpson
William M. Tredway
Hezekiah Williams
David Wilmot
Joseph A. Woodward
William L. Yancey
Jacob S. Yost.

The question was stated, Shall the remaining items in the said bill be engrossed and read, and the bill be read a third time? when

Mr. Hilliard moved to reconsider the vote by which the House refused to order the item in the said bill making an appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars for improving Hog Island channel, at Charleston city, to be engrossed.

And the question being put,
It was decided in the negative,

Yeas,
Nays,

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

Mr. William H. Brockenbrough Mr. George S. Houston

William G. Brown
Armistead Burt
John H. Campbell
Reuben Chapman
Lucien B. Chase
John S. Chipman
Henry S. Clarke
Howell Cobb
John F. Collin
Albert Constable
Alvan Cullom
Erastus D. Culver
John D. Cummins
John R. J. Daniel
Columbus Delano
John De Mott

Paul Dillingham, jr.
James C. Dobbin
Stephen A. Douglass
Jacob Erdman
Orlando B. Ficklin
George Fries

Joshua R. Giddings
William F. Giles
Samuel Gordon
James Graham

Hannibal Hamlin

Hugh A. Haralson

George W. Hopkins

Orville Hungerford
Robert M. T. Hunter
James H. Johnson
Joseph Johnson
Andrew Johnson
George W. Jones
Seaborn Jones
Shelton F. Leake
Emile La Sère
Abner Lewis
Thomas W. Ligon
John H. Lumpkin
William B. Maclay
Moses McClean
John A. McClernand
Felix G. McConnell
John D. McCrate
James McDowell
Edward W. McGaughey
James J. McKay
John P. Martin
Barclay Martin
Joseph Morris
Mace Moulton
Archibald C. Niven
Robert Dale Owen
William W. Payne
Augustus L. Perrill

So the said item of the bill stands rejected.

Mr. John S. Phelps
Sterling Price
George Rathbun
David S. Reid
R. Barnwell Rhett
John Ritter
Robert W. Roberts
Joseph Russell
Cullen Sawtelle
William Sawyer
John F. Scammon
Henry J. Seaman
James A. Seddon
Alexander D. Sims
Leonard H. Sims
Richard F. Simpson
David A. Stark weather
John Strohm
George Sykes
Jacob Thompson
William M. Tredway

Horace Wheaton

William W. Wick

Hezekiah Williams

Bradford R. Wood

Joseph A. Woodward
William W. Woodworth
William L. Yancey
Jacob S. Yost.

The question recurred, Shall the remaining items in the said bill be engrossed, and the bill be read a third time? when

Mr. Harmanson moved to reconsider the vote by which the House. ordered the item making an appropriation for improving "St. Clair flats, so called," to be engrossed: which motion was disagreed to.

The question again recurred on ordering the said remaining items to be engrossed, and the bill read a third time.

And being put,

It was decided in the affirmative.

The said bill being engrossed, was read the third time.

And the question was stated, Shall it pass? when

Mr. Wentworth moved the previous question, which was seconded,

and the main question was ordered: when

A motion was made by Mr. George S. Houston, that the said bill be upon the table.

laid

And the question being put,

Yeas,

It was decided in the negative, Nays,

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who voted in the affirmative are

Mr. Stephen Adams
Joseph H. Anderson
Archibald Atkinson
Daniel M. Barringer
Thomas H. Bayly
Henry Bedinger
Joshua F. Bell
Charles S. Benton
Asa Biggs
James Black
James A. Black

Mr. Linn Boyd

William H. Brockenbrough

Milton Brown

William G. Brown
Armistead Burt
Reuben Chapman
Lucien B. Chase
Henry S. Clarke
Howell Cobb
William M. Cocke

John F. Collin

Mr. John H. Crozier

Alvan Cullom
John D. Cummins
John R. J. Daniel
Edmund S. Dargan
Jefferson Davis
Paul Dillingham, jr.
James C. Dobbin
Jacob Erdman
Edwin H. Ewing
Orlando B. Ficklin

Mr. Amos Abbott

John Quincy Adams
Lemuel H. Arnold
George Ashmun
Edward D. Baker
John Blanchard
James B. Bowlin
Jacob Brinkerhoff
Joseph Buffington
William W. Čampbell
John H. Campbell
Charles H. Carroll
Charles W. Cathcart
John S. Chipman
Albert Constable
Henry Y. Cranston
Erastus D. Culver
Francis A. Cunningham
Cornelius Darragh
Garrett Davis
Columbus Delano
John De Mott
James Dixon
Stephen A. Douglass
Robert P. Dunlap
Samuel S. Ellsworth
John H. Ewing
James J. Faran
Solomon Foot
Henry D. Foster
George Fries

William S. Garvin
Joshua R. Giddings
William F. Giles

Mr. James G. Hampton
Alexander Harper
Richard P. Herrick
Elias B. Holmes
William J. Hough
John W. Houston
Samuel D. Hubbard
Orville Hungerford
Washington Hunt
James B. Hunt
Charles J. Ingersoll
Joseph R. Ingersoll
Timothy Jenkins
Daniel P. King
Thomas Butler King
Owen D. Leib
Abner Lewis
Thomas W. Ligon
Robert McClelland
Joseph J. McDowell
Edward W. McGaughey
Abraham R. McIlvaine
George P. Marsh
William S. Miller
Joseph Morris

William A. Moseley
Archibald C. Niven
Robert Dale Owen,
Isaac Parish
John S. Pendleton
Augustus L. Perrill
John S. Phelps
James Pollock
Alexander Ramsey
George Rathbun
James H. Relfe

Mr. R. Barnwell Rhett

John Ritter

Robert W. Roberts
Cullen Sawtelle
John F. Scammon
James A. Seddon
Alexander D. Sims
Richard F. Simpson
Jacob Thompson
William M. Tredway
Horace Wheaton
Hezekiah Williams
David Wilmot
Joseph A. Woodward
William W. Woodworth
William L. Yancey
Jacob S. Yost.

Mr. Julius Rockwell
John A. Rockwell
Joseph Russell
William Sawyer
Robert C. Schenck
Henry J. Seaman
Luther Severance
Leonard H. Sims
Truman Smith
Albert Smith
Thomas Smith
Caleb B. Smith

The question was then put, Shall the bill pass?

And decided in the affirmative,

SYeas,
Nays,

Robert Smith

Frederick P. Stanton

David A. Stark weather
Andrew Stewart
Henry St. John
John Strohm
Stephen Strong
George Sykes

William P. Thomasson
Benjamin Thompson
James Thompson
Allen G. Thurman
John W. Tibbatts
Daniel R. Tilden
Andrew Trumbo
Samuel F. Vinton
John Wentworth
Hugh White
William W. Wick
Robert C. Winthrop
Bradford R. Wood
William Wright
Archibald Yell

Bryan R. Young

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The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,

Those who voted in the affirmative are

Those who voted in the negative are

. William H. Brockenbrough

So the said bill was passed.

The title of the said bill was read, viz: "An act making appropriations

for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers.”