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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment.
The President after explaining the nature of the letter delivered to him yesterday.
A memorial from Robert and John Murray, of New-York, was laid before the Congress, and read.1
[Note 1: 1 See New Jersey Archives, First Series, X, p. 561.]
Ordered, That it lye up[on] the table.
Agreeable to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the state of America;
Resolved that a committee be appointed to consider what posts are necessary to be occupied and by what number of forces it will be proper they shd. be guarded.
The president then loft the chair and the honble. Matthew Tilghman was called to it unanimously chosen to take the chair.
The order of the day being then read, also the letter from the provincial
The President having taken the chair
After some time spent thereon, the President resumed the chair, and Mr. [Matthew] Tilghman reported from the committee, that they had taken the matter referred to them into their consideration, debated upon it; but not having come to any resolution, desired him to move for leave to sit again.
Whereupon Resolved, That the Congress will to-morrow ∥again∥ resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to
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take into ∥their farther∥ consideration the state of America.
Adjourned till to Morrow at 12 o'Clock.
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