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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 --FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1778
According to order, the credentials heretofore given to delegates from Georgia, together with the credentials of the attending members from that State, were laid before Congress, and read: Whereupon,
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Resolved, That any one of the delegates from Georgia, or a majority of those present, is fully authorized to represent and give the vote of that State.
A question was then moved, whether one delegate from North Carolina is empowered, under the credentials last given, to represent and give the vote of that State? Whereupon,
Resolved, That any one of the delegates of North Carolina is empowered, when only one is present, to give the vote of that State:
The yeas and nays, being required on this question by Mr. [Samuel] Chase, are as follows:
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∥So it was resolved in the affirmative.∥
A memorial from Francis Hopkinson and John Wharton, commissioners of the navy board in the middle district, was read, with an account of their expences at
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Baltimore, in Maryland, on public business, by order of Marine Committee:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Marine Committee.
The determination of the question postponed by a State on the 13th, was called for: Whereupon it was moved, and
Resolved, That the determination of that question be postponed.
Pursuant to the powers in them vested, the delegates of Georgia signed the ratification of the articles of confederation.
Congress took into consideration the report from the Board of Treasury; and some time being spent thereon,
Ordered, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed till to morrow.
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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