PRINT RULES-JEFFERSON'S MANUAL, &c.

APRIL 15, 1830.

Read, and laid upon the table.

Mr. DE WITT submitted the following

RESOLUTION:

Resolved, That the Clerk, under the directions of the Speaker, cause to > printed the usual number of copies of the Rules of the Senate and of the ouse of Representatives, together with Jefferson's Manual and the Constiition of the United States, accompanied by a copious index; and that he ave the same bound in a volume for the use of the House.

st Session.

STEAM BOATS AND STEAM VESSELS.

MAY 4, 1830.

Mr. WICKLIFFE submitted the following

RESOLUTION:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to collect, and mmunicate to this House, at the next session, such information (and report 3 views on the same) as in his opinion may be useful and important to ›ngress in enacting regulations for the navigation of steam boats or steam ssels, with a view to guard against the dangers arising from the bursting their boilers.

1st Session.

DUTY ON SALT.

MAY 13, 1830.

Read, and laid upon the table.

Mr. TALIAFERRO submitted the following

RESOLUTION:

WHEREAS salt is an article which enters into the daily consumption of ery human being in our country, as a matter of primary and unavoidable cessity; and is, to a very great extent, procured at a high price, compared ith the cost of producing it, which too often exposes the poor consumer to e grinding exactions of the vender and monopolist of the article: influced by such, and by other obviously sound considerations, Congress never s, except under circumstances of great and emergent fiscal necessity, imposed tax on salt: And whereas, since the necessity, for which the existing tax on It was imposed (after five years' entire exemption of it from duty) in the ears 1813 and 1816, has been successfully met and overcome by the patient earing and faithful payment of this and the other taxes by the people, and te Government no longer needs the revenue arising from the existing tax 1 salt:

Resolved, That, from and after the 30th day of September next, the duty posed on all salt imported into the United States, and the Territories thereof, all be ten cents per the measured bushel; and that, from and after the 30th y of September, 1831, salt may be imported as aforesaid, free of any duty hatever.

Resolved, That the Committee on Ways and Means be instructed to pre. are and report a bill in conformity with the foregoing resolution.