OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OF THE

UNITED STATES:

BEING

THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS;

BEGUN AND HELD

AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON,

DECEMBER 6, 1858,

IN THE EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON:

JAMES B. STEEDMAN, PRINTER.

1858.

JOURNAL

OF

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

BEGUN and held at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and in the eighty-third year of the independence of the United States; being the Second Session of the THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, held under the Constitution of the Government of the United States.

On which day, being the day fixed by the Constitution of the United States for the meeting of Congress, JAMES L. ORR, the Speaker, one of the representatives from the State of South Carolina, and the following named members of the House of Representatives, appeared and took their seats, viz:

From the State of—

MAINE...

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

VERMONT

MASSACHUSETTS

RHODE ISLAND.

John M. Wood,
Nehemiah Abbott,
Freeman H. Morse,
Israel Washburn, jr.,
Stephen C. Foster.
Mason W. Tappan,
Aaron H. Cragin.
E. P. Walton,
Justin S. Morrill,
Homer E. Royce.

Robert B. Hall,
James Buffinton,
Linus B. Comins,
Anson Burlingame,
Timothy Davis,
Daniel W. Gooch,
Chauncey L. Knapp,
Eli Thayer,
Calvin C. Chaffee,
Henry L. Dawes.
Nathaniel B. Durfee,
William D. Brayton.