...resolution was transferred to the Speaker and by him delivered to the Clerk, who read: ' Resolved, that the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating thirty thousand dollars to enable Professor Morse to establish a line of telegraph...

...this as of small moment, so far as the practical workings of a bank were concerned, Calhoun moved that the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a national bank in the District of Columbia. To this the House gladly agreed, and in...

...17TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION (DEC. 2, 1822-MAR. 3, 1823) HOUSE PROCEEDINGS EDUCATION FUND Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating and setting apart a moiety of portion of the avails of the annual sales of the public...

...at the same salary, to be paid out of the contingent fund, as is paid to the other clerks ; and that the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the necessity and propriety of providing for such clerkship in the usual form of law." The committee do...

...determined in the affirmative. A motion was made by Mr. Harrison, and read as follows, viz. Resolved, That the committee of ways and means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of the renewal of the charter of the bank of Pennsylvania. And On, motion, The said resolution was...

...orders, are on whole or half pay. [Adopted on .Monday.] On motion of Mr. Martin it WHS Hewhvd, Thai the committee of ways and means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of reducing the duty on manufactures of silks, imported from Europe. Sir. Гш/ов moved the following...

...and means committee. On the same day, Mr. Clark, of Johnson, offered a resolution to the effect "that the committee of ways and means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of purchasing the law library of Mr. J. Grant, for the use of the State, and to report by bill or otherwise."...

...of the comm J the reconnaissances and estimates of the Board of Engineers, now on fiJ Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by a general law, for the relief of such public officers as sustained pecuniary losses,...

...amend the same, by striking out from the word Resolved to the end, and inserting as follows : That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of requiring that, hereafter, all estimates of appropriations for the operations of the different Departments...

...where the said road crosses the same at Brownsville. On motion of Mr. MtKim, it was Reiol-ved, That the committee of ways and means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of permitting all goods, wares and merchandise imported, to be secured in warehouses or other approved...