Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements shewing [i.e. showing] the amount of expenditures at the Military Academy at West Point, from the establishment thereof, in the erection of buildings and repairs ; also, the aggregate amount of expenses up to the present time, for pay, &c. to teachers, officers, and cadets ; and the number of cadets educated at said Academy, &c. &c. January 9, 1821. Read, and ordered to lie on the table

Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a statement of the expenditures and application of the moneys drawn from the Treasury on account of the Navy, from the 1st of Oct., 1819, to the 30th Sept., 1820, inclusive, and of the unexpended balances of former appropriations. January 10, 1821. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table

Memorial of a committee of the citizens of Philadelphia in favor of the passage of a law to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy. January 9, 1821. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement shewing the expenditures of moneys appropriated for the contingent expenses of the military establishment for the year 1820. January 9, 1821. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table

Act giving the assent of the State of Virginia to an act of Congress for laying out and making a road from the Potomac River to the State of Ohio. January 9, 1821. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States

Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting statements which shew the names of clerks employed in his office, and in the office of the Commissioners of the Navy, and the compensation allowed to each. January 8, 1821. Ordered to lie on the table

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 4th ultimo, information on the subject of the African slave trade. January 5, 1821. Referred to the committee to which is referred so much of the President's message as relates to the slave trade

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of persons to whom patents have been issued, for any useful invention, during the year 1820. January 5, 1821. Read, and ordered to lie on the table

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th December last, a statement of expenditures and receipts in the Indian department ; also, the nature and extent of contracts entered into, and with whom, from the 2d of March, 1811, to the present period. January 5, 1821. Ordered to lie on the table

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a system of field service & police, and a system of martial law, for the government of the Army of the United States. Submitted, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 22d of December, 1819. December 26, 1820. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs