2 sess. pp. 9-19, 42, 150, 179, 330,
334, 341, 343, 352.
[116] Of which little was reported: _Annals of Cong._, 15
Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1430-31. Strother opposed, "for various
reasons of expediency," the bounties for captors. Nelson of
Virginia advocated the death penalty, and, aided by Pindall,
had it inserted. The vote on the bill was 57 to 45.
[117] The Senate had also had a committee at work on a bill
which was reported Feb. 8, and finally postponed: _Senate
Journal_, 15 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 234, 244, 311-2, 347. The House
bill was taken up March 2: _Annals of Cong._, 15 Cong. 2 sess.
p. 280.
[118] _Statutes at Large_, III. 532.
[119] _Annals of Cong._, 15 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1430. This
insured the trial of slave-traders in a sympathetic slave
State, and resulted in the "disappearance" of many captured
Negroes.
[120] _Statutes at Large_, III. 533.
[121] The first of a long series of appropriations extending
to 1869, of which a list is given on the next page. The totals
are only approximately correct. Some statutes may have escaped
me, and in the reports of moneys the surpluses of previous
years are not always clearly distinguishable.
[122] In the first session of the sixteenth Congress, two
bills on piracy were introduced into the Senate, one of which
passed, April 26.
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