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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Sir, New York June 6th. 1787.
I had the pleasure, yesterday, of receiving yours the 3d inst. I am very glad the Convention come fully into the determination of dividing the powers of Government, and of lodging them in distinct and independant hands as Nature seems always to have intended, &c. but in what hands to lodge the Legislative and executive powers so as to collect in the federal Government the greatest Strength and Stability, and general Confidence, is a work, I think, the Convention will find of vast consideration.
I inclose you, Sir, two Boston papers by which You will see how the General Court appeared for the first---;in the house 216 members, 156 of them marked with the sign of new Comers. You perhaps may know many of the characters. I find it difficult to recollect hardly any proportion of them---;there will in a few days probably be 250 or 260
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June 5, 1787
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members in the House---;and I believe no man can till [tell] what direction they may take.
We have in Congress only four States and two halves. Dr. Holten I see is in the Legislature---;but I hear nothing from him respecting his coming on to N. York.(1) I have nothing particular to communicate---;nothing of any consequence from the Eastward.
With Great esteem & respect, I am Your friend & Hum. Servant,
N. Dane(2)
RC (MWalB: Special Collections).
1 See Dane to Samuel Holten, June 7.
2 Dane also wrote a letter on June 2 to "Jos. Mosely [Moseley] Esqr. at Hartford," concerning the details of a suit Moseley had commenced "In Connecticut against Ebenezer Geary Junior," and requesting his opinion on the effect New York's Absconding Act "would, probably, have on your action, or proceedings in Connecticut." Dane Papers, Mhi.
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