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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 --WEDNESDAY, MAY, 17, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment, and the order of the day being postponed till to Morrow:
Upon motion,
Resolved, that the Congress will tomorrow resolve itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration the state of America.
The Congress then taking into consideration the propriety of passing a resolve to enforce the 14th. Article of the Association and to step supplies to Newfoundland and British fisheries on the banks of Newfoundland and the American coast and to army and navy in N. A.
Upon entering into this debate Mr. Willing laid before the the memorial from S. Shoemaker and James and Drinker were read. The Congress then resuming the consideration of the matter in debate came into the following Resolution
Resolved unanimously, That all exportations to Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Island of St. John's, Newfoundland, Georgia, except the Parish of St. John's, and to East and West Florida immediately cease, and that no provisions of any kind, or other necessaries be furnished to the British Fisheries on the American coasts until it be otherwise determined by the Congress.1
[Note 1: 1 Printed in Pennsylvania Packet, 29 May, 1775.]
Ordered, That this be published immediately.
Adjourned till to Morrow at 9 o'Clock.2
[Note 2: 2 "College Of Philadelphia, May 17, 1775.
"This day the public Commencement for Graduates in the Arts was held here, in the presence of the most illustrious assembly this Seminary ever beheld.
"About half an hour after nine o'clock, agreeable to an invitation previously given to them, the Honorable Members of the Continental Congress were pleased to proceed in a body from the State-House to the College, where they were received at the gate by the Provost and conducted to the places prepared for their reception in the Hall. As soon as they were seated, the Trustees, with the Governor as President at their head, followed by the Provost, Vice-provost, Professors, Graduates and other Students, in their proper habits, entered the Hall, and took their places; the Galleries and other parts of the house being filled with as many of the respectable inhabitants of the city as could find room." From the Pennsylvania Packet, 22 May, 1775.
In the Library Company of Philadelphia is a pamphlet of eight pages entitled: An Exercise; containing, a Dialogue and Two Odes Set to Music, for the Public commencement, in the College of Philadelphia, May 17th, 1775. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, MDCCLXXV.]
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