In Senate of the United States January 16, 1817. ; Mr. Ashmun submitted the following motion for consideration - Ashmun, Eli Porter (William A. Davis, 1817)
"Resolved, that the Committee on Finance, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so far altering the law imposing a duty on carriages, as to exempt from its operation, any carriage which is usually and chiefly employed in husbandry, or for the transportation or carrying of goods. - At head of title, in square brackets: 54. - Caption title. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 42494. - William A. Davis was printer to the Senate for the 14th Congress