HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

December 9th, 1828.

The following resolution, offered yesterday by Mr. OWEN, was taken up and agreed to:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be directed to lay before this House the report of the Board of Engineers, on the subject of making a Canal between the Hiwasse and Connasauga Rivers, and for the purpose of connecting the waters of the same: and that he, be also directed to communicate to this House the report of Major Armstrong upon the same subject, under the authority lately given him to open a negotiation with the Cherokee Nation of Indians.