Excerpt from Journal of the Senate of the United States of America: Being the Second Session of the Seventeenth Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1822, and in the Forty-Seventh Year of the Independence of the Said United States The Honorable J ames Lloyd, appointed a Senator by the Legisla ture of the State of Massachusetts, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Honorable Harrison Gray Otis, produced his credentials, which were read; and the oath prescribed by law was administered to him, and he took his seat in the Senate. 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.