On 10 Feb. 1804, John Quincy Adams, Barron’s Harvard classmate, introduced the officer’s memorial petitioning the Senate for travel expenses and extra rations. On 8 Mch., a committee headed by Adams reported that Barron should receive his travel expenses, but would need to refer his request for rations to the executive branch. The Senate approved the committee’s resolution on Mch. 17. The House then passed a bill for Barron’s relief on 20 Mch. but later postponed the bill until Congress reconvened in the fall (Cullum, Biographical Register, 3:487; March 8th, 1804. Mr. Adams, from the Committee to Whom Was Referred the Petition of William A. Barron … Reports [Washington, D.C., 1804]; Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834-56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , 13:250, 291, 1232).