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LEE, RICHARD BLAND, Representative from Virginia, 21, 175, 235, 317, 465, 527; on duty on steel, 35; on duty on nails, &c., 38; makes report of Committee on Messages between the two Houses, 45; favors a limited time for the impost bill to be in force, 77; on citizenship during absence, 97; favors discrimination in the pay of members of the two Houses of Congress, 123; offers a resolution on the principles which should control the choice of a seat of Government, 146; further remarks, 147; vote, 147; further remarks, 148; do. on the Potomac, 153, 161; in favor of New York for seat of Government, 163; do. on amendments of the Senate to House bill on seat of Government, 165; on a seat of Government, 243; on official conduct of Secretary of Treasury, 429; on harmony between the Eastern and Southern States, 560.

LEE, RICHARD HENRY, Senator from Virginia, 9, 254; on committee on rules in cases of conference, 1st Congress, 10; do. on manner of electing chaplains, 10; do. on rules of business, 10; appointed on Judiciary Committee, 1st Congress, 10; on committee for conducting reception of President, 11; on committee on titles of President and Vice President, 13.

LEONARD, GEORGE, Representative from Massachusetts, 21, 175, 250, 388, 604.

LEWIS, ----, counsel for petitioners relative to seat of Albert Gallatin, 449; speech of, 449, 452.

Liberty street, New York, name of, 563.

Lighthouses, &c., bill for the establishment of, passed, 129.

LINCOLN, BENJAMIN, votes for, as Vice President, 10.

LINN, WILLIAM, elected chaplain of the House, 46.

List of Persons employed in Treasury Department reported to the House, 406; do. employed in War Department, reported to the House, 406.

LIVERMORE, SAMUEL, Representative from New Hampshire, 46, 175, 255, 315, 388; considers motion to lay duty on African slaves improper at that time, 74; on the time of extending the impost bill, 77; on the Executive Departments, 86; on removals, 89; on the power to remove officers, 107; on the power of originating bills, 110; on a salary for the President, 117; on form of amending the constitution, 135; motion relative to the amendment of the constitution touching freedom of conscience, 138; on the doctrine of instruction, 142; further remarks, 143; on funding the debts of the States 192; do. on the reduction of the debt from its nominal value, 196; on discrimination among the public creditors, 227; on a seat of Government, 247; on excise bill, 265; on excise officers, 271; on vacancy in the Presidency, 267, 268; on the bill for the encouragement of the cod fisheries, 360; on American coins, 371; further remarks, 371; against attendance of Secretary of War, 391; on official conduct of Secretary of Treasury, 428; Senator from New Hampshire, 441, 520, 590.

LIVINGSTON, EDWARD, Representative from New York, 604; on salary for members of Congress, 636; on the treaty with Great Britain, 640; on the rights of the House relative to treaties, 675.

LOCKE, MATTHEW, Representative from North Carolina, 455, 527, 604.

LYMAN, SAMUEL, Representative from Massachusetts, 604; on rights of the House relative to treaties, 658; on the execution of the British treaty, 706.

LYMAN, WILLIAM, Representative from Massachusetts, 455, 527, 604; on the flag of the Union, 461; opposes the duties on manufactured tobacco and refined sugar, 507; on the President's speech, 534; on reference of letter of Secretary of War, 569; on intruders on Indian lands, 587; on the reports of the debates, 632; on rights of the House relative to treaties, 670; on the admission of Tennessee, 755.

MCDOWELL, JOSEPH, Representative from North Carolina, 455, 528; against duty on sugar, 518; against raising a force for the protection of a S.W. frontier, 517; on admitting the delegate south of the Ohio, 529; on the President's speech, 535, 539; on amending the naturalization laws by requiring foreigners to renounce their slaves, 559; on the right to Indian lands within a State, 580; on difficulties with the Indians, 587.

MCINTOSH, LACHLAN, nominated as naval officer at Savannah, 17.

MACLAY, WILLIAM, Senator from Pennsylvania, 9, 168, 251; appointed on Judiciary Committee, first Congress, 10; on committee on future disposition of papers of late Secretary of Congress, 10; on committee on rules in cases of conference, first Congress, 10; on manner of electing chaplains, 10; on rules of business, 10.

MACLAY, SAMUEL, Representative from Pennsylvania, 604.

MACON, NATHANIEL, Representative from North Carolina, 388, 455, 527, 604; on the right to Indian lands within a State, 579; on the resolution relative to the heirs of Count de Grasse, 583; on establishing Indian trading houses, 625, note, 625; on the admission of Tennessee, 756.

Madeira Wine, proposed duty on, 81; duty on, 32.

MADISON, JAMES, Jr., Representative from Virginia, 21, 175, 255, 315, 388, 455, 527, 604; informs the Senate that the House agrees that the notifications of the election of President and Vice President be made by the former, 10; on a committee to report a bill regulating oaths, 22; speech introducing the measure for imposing impost and tonnage duties, 23; his manner of proceeding, note, 23; further speech on laying duties on imports, 25; on duty on distilled spirits, 28; on duty on molasses, 29; on duty on salt beef, 34; on duty on beer, 34; proposes duty on hemp, 36, 38; on duty on nails, &c., 38; on duty on salt, 40; opposes duty on teas, 42; on drawback on distilled spirits, 43; on high duties, 44; reports an answer to Washington's Inaugural, 47; on tonnage duties and their equality, 50; on tonnage duties, 53, 55; do. discrimination of, 56; on the scale of duties proposed, 60, 62; where the burden of duties would operate, 64; opposes title for President as hostile to spirit of the Government, 67, 68; thinks arguments against duty on molasses inconsistent, &c., 71; further remarks, 71; remarks on the motion to lay a duty on African slaves imported, 75, 76; moves a limitation clause to the impost bill--respecting the time of its continuance, 77; remarks on the same, 77, 80; withdraws his motion to limit impost bill and introduces another, 83; on organization of the Treasury Department, 84; moves the organization of three departments, 86; on power of President to remove officers, 86; further remarks, 87; remarks on citizenship, 97; on the admission of Rhode Island, 101; on the power of removal of officers, 104; on the power to report plans of revenue by the Secretary of the Treasury, 112; on the compensation of the President, 117; on the compensation of the Vice President, 121; thinks discrimination in the pay of Senators and Representatives necessary, 124; moves a discrimination in the pay of members of the two Houses, 131; on the form of amendment of the constitution, 134; on the amendment to the constitution relative to the freedom of conscience, 137; further remarks, 138; on the right of instruction, 139; on the principles which should govern the selection of a seat of Government, 147; further remarks, 147, 148, 151; on deliberation in choosing the seat of Government, 154; on the place for a seat of Government, 155; further remarks, 160; constitutional objection, 164; further remarks on amendments of the Senate, 166; further remarks, 167; on census of United States, 181; on residence as essential to naturalization, 186; on the constitutional privilege to import African slaves, 201; further remarks favoring the commitment of the Quaker memorial as harmless, 204; on propriety of committing Pennsylvania memorial, 211; moves to discriminate between original creditors and present holders of public debt, 205; do. speech thereon, 205, 223; announces the death of Dr. Franklin, 239; on a seat of Government, 245; further remarks, 248; on answer to President's message, 258; on excise bill, 264; on vacancy in the Presidency, 268; on the commitment of the bill for a bank of the United States, 273; do. speech on the bank, 274, 306; on the bill for the encouragement of the cod fisheries, 361; on attendance of the Secretary of War to report, 391, 392; on the case of General St. Clair, 393; further, 394; on official conduct of Secretary of Treasury, 431; on the French emigrants from St. Domingo, 462; on the relief of the French emigrants, 474; on the preparations for the Algerine War, 475, 477, 479; speech on the commerce of the United States, 458, 465, 469; on duties on tobacco and sugar, 510; against the bill to increase the army, 516; on the delegate south of the Ohio, 531; on indemnification to sufferers by Pennsylvania insurgents, 549; on amending naturalization laws, 555; on the exclusion of titled foreigners from citizenship, 557; on the renunciation of nobility for citizenship, 562, 565; on reference of letter of Secretary of War, 567; on the Randall bribery case, 610; moves a resolution on post roads, 637; on the pay of the Speaker, 638; on the call for papers on the British treaty, 640; on rights of the House relative to treaties, 648; on the resolutions relative to the refusal of the President to furnish papers on the treaty with Great Britain, 696; on the execution of the treaty with Great Britain, 702.

MALBONE, FRANCIS, Representative from Rhode Island, 457, 527, 604.

Malt, duty on fixed, 38.

MARSHALL, HUMPHREY, Senator from Kentucky, 591.

MARTIN, ALEXANDER, Senator from North Carolina, 442, 520, 591.

Maryland, offers ten miles square to Congress for a seat of Government, 81; vote for President, 10, 385.

MASON, STEVENS T., Senator from Virginia, 591; on answer to the President's speech, 594.

Massachusetts.--Vote for President, 10, 385.

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