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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, JULY 10, 1783
Congress resumed the consideration of the motion of Mr. [Stephen] Higginson, which was under debate yesterday; and thereupon,
Ordered, That the said motion be referred to a committee of three.
[Motion of Mr. John Francis Mercer, seconded by Mr. Thomas FitzSimons, July 10th, 1783.]
The Delegates of Pennsylvania having suggested that there is an ambiguity of expression in the following words [That they regretted the insult which had happened, with this additional motive of sensibility that they had themselves had a principal share in it] contained in the report of a committee entered in the Journals of Congress on
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the [1] day of [July] which ambiguity of expression is complained of by Executive Council of that State.
Resolved, That the committee who made the said report be permitted alter the above mentioned sentence in such manner as will most clearly express their sense. to explain their sense of the aforesaid expression.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of John Francis Mercer, except the last eight words, which are in that of Elias Boudinot, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, II, folio 175.]
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