The House continued its consideration of a resolution requesting the president “to cause an ascertainment to be made of the losses sustained by the officers of Government and other citizens, in their property, (in consequence of their exertions in support of the laws,) by the insurgents in the Western counties of Pennsylvania” (Annals of Congress description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends , 3d Cong., 2d sess., 995). Hillhouse “moved to strike out the word in from the first resolution, and put into its place, by the actual destruction of—their property.”