6 June 1836
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6. V. Monday

At the House the first subject taken up was the Resolutions of the Legislature of Maryland in favour of the distribution of the proceeds of the Sales of the public Lands among the States, and of expunging the Resolutions of the Senate against the . . ., upon which Thomas of Maryland claimed the floor— I asked him to suspend his remarks to give an opportunity for the presentation of Petitions but he declined— He then made a Speech of about an hour in answer to the Attack upon him by Jenifer, on the 24th. of last Month; and Jenifer replied—this was a second edition of their former altercation— Near noon the Maryland Resolutions were laid on the table, and the States and Territories were called over for Petitions and Memorials— I presented twenty-two Memorials and Remonstrances against the admission of Arkansas into the Union as a Slave State, and against the Article in the Constitution of that State respecting Slavery—they were all laid on the table, by the Resolution of the 25th. of May— I presented also two other Petitions, which were referred one to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, and the other to the Committee on the judiciary— There were a multitude of other Petitions, against the Slavery Article in the Constitution of Arkansas—all laid on the table without debate— Sevier offered a Resolution to make the Bill to fix the Northern boundary of Ohio, and the Bills for the admission of Michigan and Arkansas for Wednesday and following days, which was carried by vote of more than two thirds— The Indian annuity Bill was then carried through the Committee of the whole, and to the third reading. Sundry other Bills also passed in Committee of the whole. Mrs A. Adams and Mrs Angier visited the President this morning and with Joseph left the city this afternoon—

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