Excerpt from Journal of the Senate of the United States of America: Being the First Session of the Thirty-Second Congress, Begun and Held in the City of Washington, December 1, 1851, in the Seventy-Sixth Year of the Independence of the United States Mr. Chase presented the credentials of the Honorable Benjamin F. Wade, elected a Senator by the Legislature of the State of Ohio, for the term Of six years from and after the third day of March, 1851; which were read, and the oath prescribed by law was administered to Mr. Wade, and he took his seat in the Senate. Mr. Miller presented the credentials of the Honorable Robert F. Stock ton, appointed a Senator by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, for. The term of six years from and after the fourth day of March, 185 which were read. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.