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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, JUNE 24, 1779
Mr. [John] Penn, a delegate of North Carolina, laid before Congress the credentials of his re-appointment which were read, as follows:
State of North Carolina.
In General Assembly,May 10th, 1779.
Resolved, That John Penn and Cornelius Harnett, Esquires, Delegates appointed by the present General Assembly to represent this State in Congress the ensuing Year, in conjunction with Whitmill Hill, Thomas Burke, Joseph Hewes and William Sharpe, Esquires, be, and they are hereby invested with the same powers and authorities that the delegates appointed by the last General Assembly of this State were invested with.
Extract from the Journal.
J.Glasgow,Secretary.1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, North Carolina,Credentials of Delegates.]
On motion of Mr. [William Henry] Drayton, seconded by Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris,
Resolved, That Sunday the 4 day of July, being the anniversary of the declaration of the independence of these United States, the chaplains of Congress be requested to prepare sermons suitable to the occasion: a farther motion was made,
That the President cause an entertainment to be prepared on the 5th of July, in celebration of the independence of these United States; on which the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Henry] Marchant,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to assist the President in regulating the said entertainment:
The members chosen, Mr: [James] Searle, Mr. [James] Lovell, and Mr. [William] Paca.
According to the order of the day, Congress proceeded to the election of a clothier general; and, the ballots being taken, Mr. Peter Wikoff was elected.
Congress proceeded to the consideration of the report of the committee on the letters from A. Lee, Esq. and the communications of the Minister Plenipotentiary of France, and some time being spent thereon,
On the question, Shall the words moved to be struck out, stand, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
A motion was made by Mr. [Thomas] Burke, seconded by Mr. [John] Dickinson, after the words "North America," to insert, "As near the coasts of the "territories which shall remain in the possession of other "nations, after the conclusion of the present war, as is "permitted to any free and independent people." And on the question to agree to this amendment, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry,
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So it passed in the negative.
A motion was made by Mr. [Thomas] Burke, seconded by Mr. [William Henry] Drayton, to strike out the words "continue to." And on the question, Shall the words stand, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
A motion was made by Mr. [John] Dickinson, seconded by Mr. [William] Carmichael, to insert the word "all," before "these United States." On which, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [William Henry] Drayton,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
On the question to agree to the proposition as amended, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [William] Ellery,
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So it was resolved, That it is essential to the welfare of all these United States, that the inhabitants thereof, at the expiration of the war, should continue to enjoy the free and undisturbed exercise of their common right to fish on the banks of Newfoundland, and the other fishing banks and seas of North America, preserving inviolate the treaties between France and the said states.1
[Note 1: 1 These proceedings and votes were entered only in the manuscript Secret. Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
Adjourned to 10 oClock to Morrow.
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