THE BILL. 



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to employ a sloop of war, and to purchase or provide such other 

 smaller vessels as may be necessary and proper to render the said 

 expedition efficient and useful. And for this purpose, the sum of 

 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, 

 appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap- 

 propriated ; and in addition thereto, if necessary, the President of 

 the United States is authorized to use other means in the control 

 of the Navy Department, not exceeding one hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars, for the objects required." 



And on the question, that the house do agree to the said amend- 

 ments, as amended, it passed in the affirmative yeas 92. 



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

 present, those who voted in the affirmative are, 



There were sixty votes in the negative ; some, as alleged, be- 

 cause they had not time to make themselves sufficiently acquainted 



