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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 --Saturday, 23 November, 1782
The court met: present as before.
A motion was made by the agents for the State of Connecticut, in the words following:
Trenton, November 23, 1782.
Pensylvania v. Connecticut.
The agents for the State of Connecticut, sensible that in the course of this trial they will have occasion to make use of many depositions, taken before a justice of the peace according to the laws of the State in which they were taken, respecting the purchase of the Indian sachems, native proprietors of said lands, their deeds and the execution of them, the settlements that have been made on said lands and sundry other matters which will be necessary in said trial, beg leave now to move for the opinion of the court, whether such depositions, taken as aforesaid, will be admitted as evidence in the case.
Dyer,
Johnson,
Root,
Agents.1
[Note 1: 1 This Connecticut motion is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 77, folio 49.]
Which being followed by a motion from the agents for the State of Pensylvania, in these words:
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