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PLUMER, WILLIAM, Senator from New Hampshire, 3, 163, 345, 485; on the amendments to the constitution, relative to the election of President, 29. See Index, vol. 2.

POINDEXTER, GEORGE, Delegate from Mississippi Territory, 613.

POLK, WILLIAM, petition of referred, 82.

POPE, JOHN, Senator from Kentucky, 547; on expelling Senator John Smith, 602.

PORTER, JOHN, Representative from Pennsylvania, 612.

Postage of Newspapers considered in House, 78; it affects the means of acquiring political information in the different parts of the Union, 78; should be transported free of postage, 78; Post Office establishment never intended as a paramount source of revenue, 78; resolution moved to repeal postage on newspapers, 79.

Post Office Committee, report of to the House, 85; amendments discussed, 86.

Post Office.--See Index, vol. 1.

Post Roads in States.--Act relative to, in Senate, 45.

Post Roads, passage of the bill relative to, 342.

Potomac River.--Bill to authorize the corporation of Georgetown to make a dam or causeway from Mason’s Island to the western shore of the Potomac, 290; motion to strike out the first section, 290; Congress no right to pass the law in question, 290; the tax authorized would be unequal and oppressive, 290; House should legislate, or relinquish the claim to jurisdiction, and authorize themselves, or retrocede to Virginia, 290; no opposition out of the House, 290; no injury done by it, 290; applicants should give notice of their intention by previous publication, 290; effects of the measure on the navigation, 291; moved committee rise, 291; opposed as it effects nothing, 291; where is the proof it will do no harm? 291; compact between Maryland and Virginia, 291; tendency to improve the navigation, 291; applications from the inhabitants of the district should be noticed, 292; further time desirable, 292; committee rose, 292; asked leave to sit again, 292; act of cession by Virginia read, 292; neither Maryland nor Virginia have ceded their joint rights to this river, 292; any thing done respecting the navigation must be by their joint act, 292; the constitution gives Congress exclusive jurisdiction over ten miles square, 292; the jurisdiction of the Potomac ceded by Virginia and Maryland, 292; if Congress has no jurisdiction over the Potomac, it has none over the district, 293; does Congress possess exclusive jurisdiction of the Potomac, is the question, 293; could Maryland give it? she had only a qualified right, so Virginia, 293; each had concurrent jurisdiction, 293; a deed to exclusive property by certain metes and bounds, would not pass a joint interest in other property not contained in those bounds, 293; where is the conveyance by which Virginia has relinquished her concurrent jurisdiction? 293; power of Congress to pass the bill, examined, 293; compact between Maryland and Virginia explained, 293; illustration of passing joint property with exclusive jurisdiction, 293; stipulations between Maryland and Virginia, 294; two States uniting makes the grant complete, 294; Virginia never passed the right of way purchased of Maryland, and Maryland had it not to convey--how could the United States have acquired it? 294; case of the cession of Louisiana, 294; was the jurisdiction of the Potomac ceded to Congress? 294; improper to take up the subject as there is a motion to retrocede the district, 297; determination on the part of the people of the district to give Congress as much trouble as possible, 298; immediate exertions required to prevent the channel from being filled up, 298; propriety of adopting the resolution to retrocede, 298; alterations in the bed of the river, 298; further reasons to show that Congress does not possess the power of legislating on the subject, 299; further reasons on the opposite side, 299; this reasoning examined, 299; it is intended to stop one channel in order to deepen the other, 300; further remarks on the rights of Congress, 300; further debate, 301; motion to strike out first section lost, 301; third reading of the bill, 301; this bill effects the interest and wantonly violates the right of one of the States, 301; two methods of construing the constitution, 302; the Legislatures of the two States never could have intended a cession of the jurisdiction, 302; passage of the bill, 302--Postponement passed in the Senate, 374.

Bridge across the Potomac, in the House, resolution to authorize the erection of, considered, 397; will the erection of the contemplated bridge injure the navigation of the Potomac? 397; reasons and objections of the anti-memorialists examined, 397; the inconvenience to vessels examined, 397; other objections of the counter-memorialists examined, 398; resolution carried, 398.

POTTER, SAMUEL J., Senator from Rhode Island, 3; deceased, 165.

PREBLE, COMMODORE, motion in Senate relative to, 168; resolutions relative to, 343.

Presents to Ministers.--See Index, vol. 2.

Presidency, Vacancy in.--See Index, vol. 1.

Proclamation of President Jefferson interdicting harbors and waters to British armed vessels, 619.

Protective Duties.--See Index, vol. 1.

Public Lands, bill from Senate to prevent settlement of, until authorized, considered in the House, 543; postponement moved, as too late in the session to do justice to the subject, 543; the bill declares the rights of all settlers forfeited, and thus destroys the constitutional rights of those who had existing rights, 543; an invasion of the rights of the States, 543; propriety of the bill justified by the necessities of the case, 543; shall the public lands be given up to intruders, 543; the bill destroys the right of asserting a claim to property, 544; other objections urged, 544; the very defects are a reason why the bill should not be postponed, 544; postponement lost, 544; moved to strike out first section, lost, 544; bill passed, 545. See Index, vol. 1.

Public Roads.--See Roads, Public.

PUGH, JOHN, Representative from Pennsylvania, 377, 493, 612.

PURVIANCE, SAMUEL D., Representative from North Carolina, 51, 286; in favor of the resolution to carry the Louisiana treaty into effect, 63.

Quakers.--Memorial on slavery in the Territories, 313. See Index, vols. 1 and 2.

QUINCY, JOSIAH, Representative from Massachusetts, 377, 493, 612; on the presentation of a sword to General Eaton, 382, 383; on the bill to authorize a detachment from the militia of the United States, 393; on the importation of slaves, 401; on incorporating a church in Georgetown, 408; on a plurality of offices in the same person, 471; on the exclusion of military and naval officers from civil employment, 476; against a repeal of the duty on salt, 479, 480; on the importation of slaves, 495, 498; on reference of the petition of the Manhattan Company, 497; on securing the privilege of the habeas corpus, 537; on post roads, 542; on the settlement of the public lands, 543, 544; on inquiring into the cause of the attack on the frigate Chesapeake, 614; on British aggressions, 617; on granting relief to the soldiers of the Revolution, 623, 624; on building gunboats, 628, 639; on the suspension of the embargo, 696.

RANDOLPH, DAVID M., his testimony for the defence on the trial of Judge Chase, 221.

RANDOLPH, JOHN, Representative from Virginia, 50, 285, 378, 493, 613; remarks on the death of Samuel Adams, 52; against the resolution to call upon the President for documents relative to the acquisition of Louisiana, 54; moves that the committee rise on the debate relative to amendment of the constitution, 60; advocates the resolution to carry the Louisiana treaty into effect, 61, 70; remarks on the bill to authorize the President to take possession of the Louisiana territory, 72; further remarks, 73; advocates a repeal of the bankrupt law, 79; on the resolution relative to public roads, 83; opposes augmentation of the navy, 87; offers a resolution to inquire into the official conduct of Judge Chase, 88, 89; further remarks, 91; on the importance of the inquiry into the official conduct of Judge Chase, 95, 97, 112; on the Georgia claims, 142, 148, 149, 150; reports on the impeachment of Judge Chase, 161; appointed to impeach Judge Chase at the bar of the Senate, 174; opens the case of the impeachment of Judge Chase, 192; closes the reply to the argument of the defence on the trial of Judge Chase, 274; informs the House of the deficiency in the appropriation to carry out the seventh article of the British treaty, 287; on the remission of duties on books, 289; against bridging the Potomac, 290, 292, 293, 299; on the duty on salt, 297; on the resolution relative to the Georgia claims, 315, 316; on the Georgia claims, 317, 330; presents a bill relative to French spoliations, 380; on proceedings of Committee of Ways and Means relative to the subject of neutral rights, 396; against postponing the resolution for amending the constitution relative to the removal of federal judges, 414; note, 414, 416; on exclusion of contractors from seats in the House, 417; on prohibition of plurality of offices, 417; on disjunction of military and naval with civil appointments, 417; on importations from Great Britain, 423, 463; on a plurality of offices in the same person, 466, 469, 471, 472; on naval appropriations, 474, 475; on repeal of the duty on salt, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484; on the suspension of the Habeas Corpus, 511; on the appropriation to build gunboats, 516; on securing the privilege of the Habeas Corpus, 529, 533, 539; on post roads, 542; on compensation to the soldiers of the Revolution, 622, 623, 624; on relief to the soldiers of the Revolution, 623, 624; on fortifications and gunboats, 639; communicates information relative to the conduct of General Wilkinson, 642; on inquiry into the conduct of General Wilkinson, 649; on fraud in land warrants, 676; on suspension of the embargo, 695, 706. See Index, vol. 2.

RANDOLPH, THOMAS M., Representative from Virginia, 50, 285, 378, 493.

Rapids of the Ohio, report relative to a canal at the, 465.