On the motion of Mr. CLAIBORNE, the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the report of the Committee of Claims on the petition of Amy Dardin. The report is unfavorable to the prayer of the petitioner.
On agreeing to this report, a discussion took place which occupied the greater part of the day. Messrs. J. C. SMITH, GREGG, and MACON supported, and Messrs. CLAIBORNE, SMILIE, and ELLIOT opposed the report; when the question was taken on agreeing to the report of the Committee of Claims and lost--ayes 32.
Mr. CLAIBORNE then moved a resolution, “that the prayer of Amy Dardin is reasonable and ought to be granted.”
Messrs. CLAIBORNE and NICHOLSON supported and Messrs. GRISWOLD and GREGG opposed this resolution, which, on the question being taken, was carried--ayes 61, nays 38.
The committee then rose, and reported their agreement to the resolution.
Mr. GREGG moved an amendment directing the proper accounting officer of the Treasury to settle the claim of Amy Dardin, on the same principle with similar cases, the statute of limitations notwithstanding.
Messrs. GRISWOLD and GREGG supported, Messrs. NICHOLSON and CLAIBORNE opposed the amendment.
A concurrence in the report was then agreed to, and the Committee of Claims instructed to bring in a bill.
_Ordered_, That the petition of Memucan Hunt, William Polk, and Pleasant Henderson, for themselves and others, addressed to the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina; also, sundry resolutions of the said Assembly, respecting a claim for the value of certain lands in the State of Tennessee, presented to this House on the nineteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and two, and the report of a select committee thereon, made the twenty-fourth of March, in the same year, be referred to the committee this day appointed on the memorial of the Legislature of Tennessee.
Mr. NEWTON called for the order of the day on the bill to repeal an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States; and the House then resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the said bill.
Mr. VARNUM moved an amendment, extending the period of repeal to the first of January, 1804, instead of from the passage of the act; and afterwards varied the motion, so as to leave the period of repeal blank.