Report of the Committee of Elections who were instructed by a resolution of the House of the 29th ultimo : to enquire whether John P. Van Ness, one of the members of this House, from the state of New York ... accepted, and exercised the office of a major of militia ... and there by forfeited his right to a seat, as a member of this House : 11th January, 1803, read, and ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole House, on Monday next.