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bill (No. 53) making appropriations for the naval service for the 

 year 1836. 



A motion was made by Mr. Mercer to amend this motion, by 

 adding thereto as follows : " And that Monday next, after twelve 

 o'clock, be assigned for business relating to the District of Co- 

 lumbia." 



A motion was made by Mr. Graves to amend this motion to 

 amend, by striking out "twelve o'clock," and inserting "one 

 o'clock :" this amendment was disagreed to. 



And the question was put on the motion to amend made by Mr. 

 Mercer, and was decided in the negative. 



The question was then put on the motion made by Mr. Cam- 

 breleng, when there appeared yeas 114, nays 68. Two-thirds 

 not voting in the affirmative, the motion was lost. 



The house then, in execution of the order of therlst of April, 

 resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the bill 

 from the senate (No. 112) entitled "An act for the relief of the 

 several corporate cities of the District of Columbia." 



May 9. 



The house resumed the consideration of the amendments of the 

 senate to the bill (No. 53) entitled " An act making appropriations 

 for the naval service for the year 1836." 



The question recurred, that the house do concur with the Com- 

 mittee of the whole House on the state of the Union, in its amend- 

 ment to the thirteenth and last of the said amendments of the 

 senate : and being put, it passed in the affirmative. 



The said thirteenth and last amendment, as amended, is as fol- 

 lows : Strike out all of the two additional sections added by the 

 senate after the word "enacted," in the first of said additional 

 sections, and insert as follows : " That the President of the United 

 States be, and he hereby is, authorized, if in his opinion the public 

 interest shall require, to send out a surveying and exploring expe- 

 dition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas ; and for that purpose 



