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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 --THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1778


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Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1778

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In pursuance of the powers to them granted, the delegates of New Jersey signed ∥the ratification of∥ the articles of confederation and perpetual union.

Congress was resolved into a committee of the whole, and after some time the President resumed the chair, and Mr. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee reported, that the committee have had under their farther consideration the


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propositions referred to them, but not having come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again.

Resolved, That to morrow, at one o'clock, Congress be resolved into a committee of the whole, to consider farther the propositions referred to them.

Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.

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