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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, 12 November, 1782
Present, the honorable David Brearley, and William Churchill Houston, esqrs.
Proclamation for silence being made,
The commission from the United States in Congress assembled, directing the sitting of the court, was read in the words following, viz
(Here follows the commission as recited in the Journal of the 28 August last.)
The commissioners present took the oath prescribed by the ninth Article of the Confederation, and recited in the commission, before the honorable Isaac Smith, esq. one of the justices of the supreme court of judicature of the State of New Jersey, a certificate of which was endorsed on the commission.
Adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock.
The certificate endorsed on the commission is as follows:
I, Isaac Smith, esquire, one of the justices of the supreme court of judicature of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that on the twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, personally appeared before me the honourable David Brearley and William Churchill Houston, esquires, and were severally sworn well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question between the States of Pensylvania and Connecticut, agreeably to the tenor of the within commission, according to the best of their judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward. Dated at Trenton, the day and year above.
Isaac Smith
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