[115] Nov. 18, 1818, the part of the presidential message
      referring to the slave-trade was given to a committee of the
      House, and this committee also took in hand the House bill of
      the previous session which the Senate bill had replaced: 
      House Journal, 15 Cong. 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.  In the House there was a bill on piracy, and
      a slave-trade committee reported recommending that the
      slave-trade be piracy.  The Senate bill and this bill were
      considered in Committee of the Whole, May 11, and a bill was
      finally passed declaring, among other things, the traffic
      piracy.  In the Senate there was “some discussion, rather on
      the form than the substance of these amendments,” and “they
      were agreed to without a division”:  Senate Journal, 16 Cong.
      1 sess. pp. 238, 241, 268, 287, 314, 331, 346, 350, 409, 412,
      417, 420, 422, 424, 425; House Journal, 16 Cong. 1 sess. pp.
      113, 280, 453, 454, 494, 518, 520, 522, 537; Annals of
      Cong., 16 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 693-4, 2231, 2236-7, etc.  The
      debates were not reported.

[123] Statutes at Large, III. 600-1.  This act was in reality
      a continuation of the piracy Act of 1819, and was only
      temporary.  The provision was, however, continued by several
      acts, and finally made perpetual by the Act of Jan. 30, 1823: 
      Statutes at Large, III. 510-4, 721.  On March 3, 1823, it was
      slightly amended so as to give district courts jurisdiction.