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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, OCTOBER 21, 1775
Agreeable to the order of the day the Congress resolved itself into a comee. of the whole to take into consideration the state of the trade of the Colonies, and after some time spent therein the prest. resumed the Chair and Mr. [Samuel] Ward reported from the Commee. that they had taken into Consideration the matter referred to them but not having yet come to a conclusion, desired to move for leave to sit again.1
The order for resolving into a comee. of the whole on Monday next renewed.
A letter from Genl. Washington dated 12 Octr. with sundry enclose. was laid before the Congress and read.2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, I, folio 217, and is printed in Writings of George Washington (Ford), III, 172.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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