Mr. MORRILL. I move to amend section 3 of the amendment by inserting after “by: laws, ” in line 6, the words “not inconsistent with the laws of the U.S. ” The amendment to The amendment was agreed to. The amendment, as amended, was agreed to. The bill was ordered to be engrosssed for a 3rd reading, was read the 3rd time, and passed. FOUNDRY METHODIST CHURCH. On motion of Mr. MORRILL, the Senate, as in ComWhole, proceeded to consider the bill (S.No.506) to authorize the trustees of the Foundry (Methodist Episcopal) Church to sell and convey square No. 235, in the city of Washington. It proposes to authorize, Presley Simpson, James W. Barker, Edward Owen, David A. Gardner, Nathaniel Mullikin, William J. Sibley, T)aniel D. T. Leech, Edward F. Simpson, and Richard T. Morsell, trustees of the Foundry (Methodist Episcopal) Church, in the city of Washington, and their successors in office, to sell and convey a certain square of ground in that city known and distinguished on the ground plan thereof as square numbered 235, now held by the trust ees in trust for that church, and lately used, in part, as a burial ground, free and discharged of and from any trust, exPress or implied, now existing, or which may hereafter, before the execution of a conveyance of the square, exist, in the trustees or their successors, whether by virtue of the deed originally conveying the same to the trustees of the church, or by virtue of any deed or deeds, certificate or certificates, or any writing or writings whatever, by the trustees or their predecessors, conveying any lot or lots, site or sites, in the part of the square used as a burial ground, and free and discharged of and from any and every right, title, and interest, legal and equitable, now existing in any lot holder in the burial ground, under any contract with the trustees or their predecessors; but the trustees or their success ors are out of the proceeds of the sale to remove or cause to be removed the dead that are now interred in the ground, and to give them. decent sepulture in some public cemetery out side the corporate limits of the city of Wash ine r.JOHNSON. I am not sure that I understand the bill from the reading of it: the honorable chairman will oblige me personally by stating where is the necessity, or whether we have the power to pass such a bill.