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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 --FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1784.
Mr. Thomas Stone, a delegate for the State of Maryland, attended, and took his seat.
Congress assembled: Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pensylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina; and from New York, Mr. [Ephraim] Paine.1
[Note 1: 1 From this point the proceedings for the day were entered only in the Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs, No. 5, in Secret Journal, No. 4, and in Secret Journal, No. 6. Vol. III.]
Congress took into consideration the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry and Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, to whom were referred sundry letters from the ministers of the United States in Europe. And sundry instructions to the ministers relative to the formation of commercial treaties with sundry European nations being under debate, and the third article or instruction being amended to read as follows:
"That these United States be considered in all such treaties, and in every case arising under them, as one nation, upon the principles of the federal constitution"--
A motion was made by Mr. [William] Ellery, seconded by Mr. [David] Howell, to strike out that instruction; and on the question, Shall it stand, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Jacob] Read--
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.1
[Note 1: 1 On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a letter of 8 March, 1784, from William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 68, folio 621.
Also, a letter of March 8 from the Superintendent of Finance. It is in No. 137, appendix, folio 337.]
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