Skip Skip PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. The PRESID ENT proIcmpore. The Chair will lay before the Senate the memorial of the corporate authorities of the city of Georgetown, DistCol, a inst the repeal of thg charter of that city, which will be referred to the ComDistCol if there be no objection. Mr. MORRILL. I su the table as that subject has been considered by the committee an is now before the Senate. The PRESIDENT prolemporc. It will be laid upon the table. Mr. CLARK. I present the memorial of C. I. Field, resident and John A. Strother, delegate, in half of the levee board of the Yazoo valley district, of Mississippi, to the senate and HoRep of the U.S.A., in which they say that the counties of De Soto. Tunica, Conhoma, and some other countie of the State of Mississippi embrace alarge and ertile body of land of a lu vial formation, nearly the whole of which, being 3,500,000 acres, is subject to overflow by the annual floods of the Mississippi, and by the influx of the waters those lands are rendered unfit for use or habitation, and that by the fact of the war they are utterly prostrate in resources; and the planters appeal to the Government at Washington for assistance. The work, they say, is one of vast national benefit, and it concerns the public revenues and public credit and the general interests of the whole country as well as the immediate district which now appealsfor relief, At the same time I present the memorial of the board of levee commissioners of the State of Louisiana, in which they state in s8: stance the same thing, that the levees of a Mississippi are broken and the country to a very great extent inundated, and that they are so impoverished byihe war that they are unable entirely, or to any great extent, to build up those levees and they ask the aid of the Government. I understand that the War Dept have had this subject under consideration and have sent a board of engineers, with GenlHumphreys at their hes, to the river to make some examination which report may be presented to the Senate in a few ays. Mr. President, I present these memorials to Congress with some satisfaction. While we have been in war in different parts of the country, and while those States have not yet been restored to their relations with the Government so that their Representatives and senators ean be here, I take pleasure in resentin these memorials to the Senate of the U.S., to show that I would be willing to do anything, to aid the material prosperity of that country that can safely be dime, and I shall be glu to lend the assisting aid of the government. I move that these memorials be referred to a select committee to consist of 5 members of the Senate, there not being any committee to which such matters would particularly go. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SAULSBURY presented the petition of Samuel Redfield. of Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, who was a soldier in the war of 1812, representing that the soldiers in that war were very inadequately paid for their services, and praying that they may be included in the provisions of the bill equalizing the beauties of soldiers in the late war; which was referred to the ComPensions. Mr. RAMSEY presented a petition of citizens of Minnesota, praying for the enactment of just and equal laws for the regulation of interstate insurances of all kinds; which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. MORGAN presented a petition of resi dents of the county of Cayuga, of the State of NewYork, praying for the repeal Or extension of the act of Congress imposing a tax of 10%. on State bank circulation; which was referred to the ComFinance. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.