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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 24, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment, but the honble. Peyton Randolph, Prest., being under a necessity of returning home1 and having set out this Morning early,
[Note 1: 1 Lord Dunmore had called a session of the Assembly, in which Randolph was the Speaker.]
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the chair was vacant. Whereupon on motion, the Honble. John Hancock was unanimously chosen President.
The president having assumed the chair, the Congress agreeable to the order of the day again resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into their farther consideration the state of America, and after some time spent therein, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Samuel] Ward reported from the committee that they had proceeded in the business, but not having come to a conclusion, desired him to move for leave to sit again.
Resolved, That this Congress will to Morrow again resolve itself into a committee of the whole to take into their farther consideration the state of America.
Adjourned till to Morrow at 9 o'Clock.
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