Excerpt from Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States: Being the Second Session of the Twenty-Sixth Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 7, 1840, and in the Sixty-Fifth Year of the Independence of the United States Not deeming it within the constitutional powers of the General Govem ment to repair private losses sustained by reverses in business havingono connexion with the public service, either by direct appropriations m the Treasury, or by special legislation designed to secure exclusive privi leges and immunities to individuals or classes in preference to, and at the expense of, the great majority necessarily debarred from any participation in them, no attempt to do so has been either made, recommended, or en couraged, by the present Executive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.