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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 --SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment.
Upon motion, Ordered, That the first and second resolves passed 26 May be published.
Upon motion, Resolved, That a Committee of seven be appointed to devise ways and means to put the Militia of America in a proper state for the defence of America.
The members chosen Mr. [Robert Treat] Paine, Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison, Mr. [Roger] Sherman, Mr. [Stephen] Hopkins, Mr. [William] Floyd, Mr. [Christopher] Gadsden, and Mr. [John] Dickinson.1
[Note 1: 1 The committee appears to have been chosen on June 26, for an entry to this effect is erased on that day.]
The Committee appointed to prepare a declaration to be published by Genl Washington, upon his arrival at the Camp before Boston, reported the same, which was read
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and debated, and referred for farther consideration till Monday next.
Resolved, that this Congress will on Monday resolve itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration the State of America.
Adjourned till Monday at 9 o'Clock.
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