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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, SEPTEMBER 23, 1779
According to order, Congress was resolved into a committee of the whole, and after' some time the President resumed the chair and Mr. [Daniel of St. Thomas] Jenifer reported, that the committee have had under consideration the report of the committee on the petition from Cumberland county, &c. and have come to sundry resolutions thereon:
The resolutions agreed to in committee of the whole being read,
Ordered, That the consideration thereof be postponed till to morrow, and that immediately after reading the journal, the same be taken up.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on General Washington's letter, of 23 August, and some time being spent thereon,
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Ordered, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed.
Congress proceeded in the consideration of foreign affairs, and some time being spent thereon,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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