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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 --MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1783
Mr. J[eremiah] T[ownley] Chase, a delegate for Maryland, attended, and produced credentials; whereby it appears, that on the 9th of this present month, Mr. John Hall and Mr. Jeremiah Townley Chase, were duly elected additional members, to represent the said State in Congress.
Maryland
The Senate proceeded to the Election of two additional Delegates to represent this State in Congress the Ballot Box was prepared the Ballots deposited therein sealed up and delivered to the Committee of the Senate appointed to meet the Committee of the House of Delegates who retired to the Conference Room and after some Time returned and reported that John Hall and Jeremiah Townley Chase Esquires have a Majority of Votes. Whereupon it is declared in the Senate that John Hall and Jeremiah Townley Chase Esquires are duly elected Delegates to represent this State in Congress.
True Extract from the Journal.
J. Dorsey Clk of the Senate.
December 9th. 1783.
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By the House of Delegates Decemr. 9th. 1783
The House proceeded to the choice of two Delegates to Congress by Ballot and the Ballots being deposited in the Ballot Box the gentlemen named to Strike retired and after some time returned and reported that John Hall and Jeremiah TownIey Chase Esquires were elected.
Whereupon Resolved, That John Hall and Jeremiah Townley Chase Esquires be and are hereby declared Delegates to represent this State in Congress.
True Extract from the Minutes.
Wm. Harwood Cl. Ho. Del.1
[Note 1: 1 The originals are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Maryland, Credentials of Delegates. They were entered in No. 179, Record of Credentials, and not in the Journal.]
Six states only attending, namely, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pensylvania, Delaware, Virginia and North Carolina; and from the State of Maryland, Mr. [Jeremiah Townley] Chase, and from New Hampshire, Mr. [Abiel] Foster, the President adjourned Congress to 10 o'clock to-morrow.
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