United States House Select Committee on the Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi

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The Committee on the Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi was a

27th Congress.[1]

History

The select committee was established January 7, 1842, when

relief from Congress, specifically that interest the bank owed to the United States be remitted or forgiven.[2]

The committee terminated April 9, 1842, when it submitted its final report to the House.[1][3]

Members

The select committee consisted of five members, and was chaired by William M. Gwin, Democrat of Mississippi.[2] The committee consisted of three Democrats and two Whigs.

Members Party State
Democratic Mississippi
Whig Pennsylvania
  • Charles Hudson
 Whig Massachusetts
Democratic Maine
  • William O. Butler
 Democratic Kentucky

Legislation

Committee Chairman

private bill, H.R. 345, on April 9, 1842, along with the committee report. The bill authorized the United States Treasury Department to settle with the bank "for the amount of moneys of the United States deposited in said bank" and to remit the interest on those amounts.[4] The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.[5]

The Committee of the Whole approved an

United States Government from the sale of lands from the Chickasaw cession in Mississippi and Alabama pursuant to an 1834 treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw Indians. The bill allowed the bank a credit for its expenses equal to the amount of interest on the proceeds then due to the United States.[4]

The Senate approved the amended bill on August 11,[7] and it was enacted August 16, 1842.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Walter Stubbs (1985), Congressional Committees, 1789-1982: A Checklist, Greenwood Press, p. 4
  2. ^
    27th Congress, 2nd session. 7 January 1842, 131
  3. 27th Congress
    , 2nd session. 9 April 1842.
  4. ^
    27th Congress
    .
  5. 27th Congress, 2nd session. 9 April 1842, 679-680
  6. 27th Congress, 2nd session. 25 June 1842, 1013
  7. 27th Congress, 2nd session. 11 August 1842, 566
  8. ^ 6 Stat. 861
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