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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 --THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present, the same states as yesterday, except Massachusetts, from which state Mr. [George] Partridge only was present.
Mr. John Stevens, a delegate for the State of New Jersey, attended, and took his seat in Congress.
A motion was made by Mr. [Jacob] Read, seconded by Mr. [Richard Dobbs] Spaight, for the purpose of removing the names of Mr. [William] Ellery and Mr. [David] Howell from the Journal on the question taken the 19th instant by propounding a question; shall the names of Mr. [William] Ellery and Mr. [David] Howell stand, &c.1
[Note 1: 1 Shall the names of Mr. [William] Ellery and Mr. [David] Howell stand on the Journal of Congress on the several questions taken in Congress on the 19th May instant? This motion, undated, in the writing of Jacob Read, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, II, folio 391.]
This was objected to by Mr. [Roger] Sherman and Mr. [George] Partridge as being out of order: And on the question, "is the motion in order" the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Jonathan] Blanchard,
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So the question was lost.
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