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. On July 18 Cochrane ordered Cockburn to "deter the enemy from a repetition of similar outrages . You are hereby required and directed to destroy and lay waste such towns and districts as you may find assailable". Cochrane instructed "You will spare merely the lives of the unarmed inhabitants of the United States" Ross and Cockburn surveyed the torching of the President's Mansion during which time a great storm arose unexpectedly out of the southeast They were confronted a number of times while on horseback by older women from around Washington City and elderly clergymen (Southern Presbyterian and Southern Baptist) with women and children who had been hiding in homes and churches They requested protection from abuse and robbery by enlisted personnel from the British Expeditionary Forces whom they accused of having tried to ransack private homes and other buildings Major-General Ross had two British soldiers put in chains for violation of his general order Throughout the events of that day a severe storm blew into the city worsening on the night of August 24 1814.

. . The committee structure permits members of Congress to study a particular subject intensely It is neither expected nor possible that a member be an expert on all subject areas before Congress as time goes by members develop expertise in particular subjects and their legal aspects Committees investigate specialized subjects and advise the entire Congress about choices and trade-offs the choice of specialty may be influenced by the member's constituency important regional issues prior background and experience. Senators often choose a different specialty from that of the other senator from their state to prevent overlap. Some committees specialize in running the business of other committees and exert a powerful influence over all legislation; for example the House Ways and Means Committee has considerable influence over House affairs, The U.S settlers surging into the newly conquered Southwest were openly contemptuous of Mexican law (a civil law system based on the law of Spain) as alien and inferior and disposed of it by enacting reception statutes at the first available opportunity However they recognized the value of a few aspects of Mexican law and carried them over into their new legal systems for example most of the southwestern states adopted community property marital property systems as well as water law, The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States and consists of two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate the Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington D.C Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial appointment Congress has 535 voting members: 435 representatives and 100 senators the House of Representatives has six non-voting members representing Puerto Rico American Samoa Guam the Northern Mariana Islands the U.S Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia in addition to its 435 voting members Although they cannot vote in the full house these members can address the house sit and vote in congressional committees and introduce legislation. Issues New Mexico Campaign The South developed an agricultural economy dependent on commodity crops Its planters rapidly acquired a significantly higher number and proportion of slaves in the population overall as its commodity crops were labor-intensive. Early on enslaved people in the South worked primarily on farms and plantations growing indigo rice and tobacco; cotton did not become a major crop until after the American Revolution and after the 1790s Before then long-staple cotton was cultivated primarily on the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina. Republic of Texas Bight of Biafra (Igbo Tikar Ibibio Bamileke Bubi) 24.4 The selection of a location for the capital resurfaced in the summer of 1790 At the same time Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was pushing for Congress to pass a financial plan a key provision of Hamilton's plan involved the Federal government assuming states' debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War Northern states had accumulated a huge amount of debt during the war amounting to 21.5 million dollars and wanted the federal government to assume their burden the Southern states whose citizens would effectively be forced to pay a portion of this debt if the Federal Government assumed it balked at this proposal Some states including Virginia had paid almost half of their debts and felt that their taxpayers should not be assessed again to bail out the less provident Further they argued that the plan exceeded the scope of the new Constitutional government James Madison then a representative from Virginia led a group of legislators from the south in blocking the provision and preventing the plan from gaining approval. Washington's first term was largely devoted to economic concerns in which Hamilton had devised various plans to address matters the establishment of public credit became a primary challenge for the federal government. Hamilton submitted a report to a deadlocked Congress and he Madison and Jefferson reached the Compromise of 1790 in which Jefferson agreed to Hamilton's debt proposals in exchange for moving the nation's capital temporarily to Philadelphia and then south near Georgetown on the Potomac River the terms were legislated in the Funding Act of 1790 and the Residence Act both of which Washington signed into law Congress authorized the assumption and payment of the nation's debts with funding provided by customs duties and excise taxes.