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_Indemnity_, for spoliations.--_See Great Britain._
_Indian lands within a State, Rights over._--The claim of Thomas Person
to certain lands on the frontier of North Carolina, and ceded by the United
States Commissioners to the Indians, considered, 576;
_note_, 576;
the conduct of other States, 576;
the Government of the United States has converted property of the citizens
of North Carolina, and they ask compensation, 576;
examination of authorities on the rights of the sovereign to take property,
576;
detail of the circumstances of the present dispute, 577;
the claim of North Carolina to sell the land was wrong, 578;
the cause of all the disputes with the Federal Government, 578;
have the United States taken away any claim which the purchasers of these
lands had, 578;
suitable method to settle the matter, 578;
Indians never occupied the lands, 578;
on the limits of the States and the right to what was jointly acquired, 579;
North Carolina could grant only the pre-emption right, 579;
further details respecting the grants in North Carolina, 579;
these lands within the limits guaranteed by the articles of Confederation,
580;
further particulars, 580;
resolutions reported to the House, 582;
do. further reported, 583.
_Indian lands disposed of by the Legislature of Georgia_, considered,
583;
resolutions on the subject, 584;
they subject persons to martial law, 584;
amendment proposed, 584;
also that persons in pursuit of Indians should not be liable to the law,
584;
useless to expend money to protect the frontier if this permission is
granted, 585;
better declare there shall be no frontier, 585;
no man could be arrested under this amendment, 585;
amendment carried in committee, 585;
reported to House, 586;
reasons for authorizing pursuit of Indians, 587;
importance of the amendment, 587;
further considerations, 588;
lost, 589.
_Indians, Southern_, treaty to be negotiated with, 18.
_Indian Trading Houses_, bill for establishing trading houses for
supplying Indians considered, 585;
tends to conciliate an unhappy and distressed people, 585;
bill of utmost consequence, 586;
system of arrangements for the frontiers proposed, 586;
bill to establish trading post considered, 624;
amendments made, 624;
the object of the bill unattainable, 624;
it effects a change in our system, 625;
influence of the Canada traders, 625;
_note_, 625;
objects of the measure, 625;
bill put on its passage, 625;
principles of the bill considered, 634;
no opinion of governmental bargains, 634;
_note_, 634;
bill passed, 635.
_Indian Tribes._--Message from the President on disputes between the same
and some of the States, 16.
_Instruction_, right of debate on, 138.
_Insurgents of Pennsylvania.--See Pennsylvania Insurgents._
_Intercourse Foreign_.--On the bill providing means of intercourse with
foreign nations, 242;
moved to strike out thirty and insert forty thousand dollars, 242;
reasons urged in opposition, 242;
reasons urged in favor of the motion, 242;
motion adopted, 242.
_Invalid Pensions_, bill reported, 406.
IRVINE, WILLIAM, Representative from Pennsylvania, 455, 551.
IZARD, RALPH, Senator from South Carolina, 10,168,251,309, 380, 441,
520;
on committee on future disposition of papers of late Secretary of Congress,
10;
added to Judiciary committee, 10;
on committee for conducting reception of President, 11;
on committee to wait on Vice President, 11.
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JACKSON, GEO., Representative from Virginia, 604.
JACKSON, JAMES, Representative from Georgia, 42, 175, 255;
remarks in favor of reducing duties, 44;
remarks on tonnage duties, 48;
on power of Congress to require oaths of State officers, 51;
objects to high duties on account of expense of their collection, 64;
temptation to smuggle, 64;
considers subject of title for President as trifling, 68;
urges postponement of consideration of duty on African slaves imported, 73;
further remarks, 74;
urges limitation to impost bill, 81;
on the power of the President to remove officers, 87;
remarks on citizenship and foreign allegiance, 98;
opposes discrimination in the pay of Senators and Representatives, 123;
further remarks, 126;
on the form of amending the constitution, 136;
on the rights of instruction, 139;
on location of a seat of Government, 149;
on amendments of the Senate to House bill on seat of Government, 165;
on subjects embraced in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, 182;
further remarks, 183, 184;
on testimonials of behavior and conduct as requisites of naturalization,
187;
favors a progressive and probational naturalization, 189;
further remarks, 189;
a funded debt is an injury, 191;
further remarks, 195, 197, 199;
opposes a commitment of the Quaker memorial, 202;
on property of master in the slave, 209;
on discrimination among the public creditors, 216;
further remarks, 217;
on memorial of Officers of the Navy, 240;
on answer to the President's message, 256;
further remarks, 257;
on price of public lands, 261;
moves to strike out essential part of first clause of bill relating to
duties on distilled spirits, 261;
remarks on, 261;
further remarks, 264,270,271,272;
on the commitment of the bill for Bank of the United States, 272;
speech on the Bank, 285;
petition on election and return of Anthony Wayne, 324;
Senator from Georgia, 445, 520.
JACOBS, ISAAC, Representative from Pennsylvania, 389.
_Jails of the States_, resolutions on, 308.
JAY, JOHN, votes for, as Vice President in 1789, 10.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, desires to return from France as Minister, 15;
votes for, as Vice President in 1793, 386.
JOHNS, KINSEY, claims a seat as Senator from Delaware--claim
considered, 453;
rejected, 453.
JOHNSON, WM. S., Senator from Connecticut, 9, 168, 254;
resigned, 309;
on committee on future disposition of papers of late Secretary of Congress,
10;
on committee of arrangements for reception of President, 10;
on committee to prepare answer to Washington's inaugural, 12;
on committee on titles of President and Vice President, 13.
JOHNSTON, SAMUEL, Senator from North Carolina, 171, 251, 309, 383.
JOHN TORREY.--Petition of, in Committee of the Whole on report of
Secretary of Treasury, 317;
Congress promised half-pay to the officers who should continue in service to
_the end of the War._--Major Torrey continued in service till near end of
1783 and died, did he continue in service to the end of the war? 318;
peace concluded April, 1783, 318;
what was the intention of the parties in this contract? 318;
when did the war end? 318;
what does the law of nations say? 318;
distinction between preliminaries and a definite treaty by the law of
nations, 318;
objections considered, 319;
the question does not turn on a judicial principle, 319;
certain established rules have been observed in settling with every officer,
320;
terms of contract decided by the sovereign power, 320;
motion for accepting report carried, 320.
_Judiciary_, Senate committee on, first Congress, 10.
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_Kentucky_, memorial of a convention in, 253;
vote for President in 1793, 385.
KEY, PHILIP, Representative from Maryland, 388.
KING, RUFUS, Senator from New York, 16, 168, 251, 312, 380, 444,
520, 591;
on answer to Presidents speech, 594.
KITCHELL, AARON, Representative from New Jersey, 316, 388, 455, 527,
604;
on the ratio of representation, 328;
on the execution of the British treaty, 734.
KITTERA, JOHN W., Representative from Pennsylvania, 323, 388, 455,
527, 604;
on reference of letter of Secretary of War, 569;
on the right to Indian lands within a State, 578;
on the execution of the British treaty, 729.
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