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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 --Tuesday, 3d December, 1782
The court met: present as before.
The agents of Pensylvania, in order to remove the doubts which were suggested by the agents of Connecticut, and entertained by some
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of the members of the court, as to their former powers, produced a new commission of agency, which is in the words following: Pensylvania, ss.
In the name and by the authority of the freemen of the Commonwealth of Pensylvania:
The president and supreme executive council of the said Commonwealth:
To William Bradford, jun. esquire, attorney-general of the said Commonwealth, Joseph Reed, James Wilson, Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, and Henry Osborne, esquires.
(L. S.) We, reposing especial trust and confidence in your prudence, integrity and abilities, do by John Dickinson. these presents constitute and appoint you, the said William Bradford, jun. Joseph Reed, James Wilson and Jonathan Dickson Sergeant, our counsellors and agents, and you the said Henry Osborne, our solicitor and agent, in the cause now depending before the honorable the commissioners and judges, appointed by virtue of the ninth Article of the Confederation of the United States of America, to hear and finally determine the controversy subsisting between the Commonwealth of Pensylvania and the State of Connecticut: hereby ratifying and confirming all, and whatsoever you our said counsellors and agents, or any two of you, shall lawfully do or cause to be done, or heretofore have lawfully done or caused to be done, touching the said cause between the said states of Pensylvania and Connecticut.
Given in council, under the hand of the president and the seal of the State, at Philadelphia, this thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two.
Attest:
T. Matlack, Secretary.1
[Note 1: 1 This commission of agency is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 77, folio 71.]
The agents for the State of Connecticut continued their proofs and exhibits.
The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock.
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