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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 --November 23, 1782
The agents for Pensylvania, in reply to the written motion just filed by the agents for Connecticut, praying the opinion of the court respecting the admissibility of testimony, before the court proceeds upon a hearing of the cause, and before the testimony be regularly offered, humbly beg leave to object to the same motion, as irregular and unprecedented, and such as the court ought not to decide upon, and of this they pray the opinion of the court.
Wm. Bradford, Jun.
James Wilson,
Jona. D. Sergeant.2
[Note 2: 2 This Pennsylvania motion is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 77, folio 51.]
The court determined, that they can give no opinion upon the admission of testimony until regularly offered.
The agents for the State of Pensylvania, gave the following notice in writing, viz.
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Pensylvania v. Connecticut.
The agents for Pensylvania, anxious for the speedy determination of this cause, and desirous that the agents for Connecticut may have no reason to complain of hardship or surprize, do hereby, in the presence of the court, give notice to the said agents for Connecticut, that they shall conceive it their duty to oppose the admission of any ex parte depositions, as evidence in this cause; and that they shall object to any application for a commission to take the examination of witnesses, and to any motion for delaying this cause on the account of the absence of witnesses, unless such motion or application be forthwith made, so as to avoid unnecessary delay.
Wm. Bradford, Jun.
James Wilson,
Jona. D. Sergeant.1
[Note 1: 1 This notice by the agents of Pennsylvania is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 77, folio 53.]
23 November, 1782.
The court adjourned until Monday morning next, ten of the clock.
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