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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, AUGUST 13, 1784.
The same members attending as yesterday, the Committee of the States is adjourned to ten o'clock to-morrow.
Afterwards the members waited, but met irregularly till the 19 August, when they signed the following paper
Whereas the honorable the delegates from the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New-Jersey, did on Wednesday, the eleventh day of the present month of August, leave the city of Annapolis, and set out for their respective homes, whereby the Committee of the States hath been reduced to a number insufficient to do any manner of business; and whereas the continuance to meet from day to day, of the remaining members, without the power to do any public act, will be unnecessary; and as they do not conceive there is the smallest hope, that a sufficient number of delegates can again be assembled at Annapolis, to enable the Committee of the
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States to proceed to business, before the time appointed for the meeting of Congress pursuant to their adjournment, and it is proper that the public papers and records should be removed as speedily as may be to Philadelphia, till offices can be prepared for their reception at Trenton: The undersigned delegates have recommended to the Secretary of Congress, to take order for the immediate removal and safe arrangement and disposition of the papers and records of Congress.
Annapolis, State of Maryland, Thursday, 19th August 1784.
(Signed) S. Hardy,
Delegate from Virginia, and chairman of the Committee of the States.
Edward Hand,
Delegate from Pennsylvania.
J. T. Chase,
Delegate from Maryland.
Richard D. Spaight,
Delegate from North-Carolina.
Jacob Read,
Delegate in Congress from the state of South Carolina.
Wm. Houstoun,
Delegate from Georgia.1
[Note 1: 1 The original paper, in the writing of Jacob Read, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Committee Book, No. 10, Journals Committee of the States.]
The undersigned Delegates have also advised the Chairman forthwith to write to the Supreme Executive of the several states unrepresented in the Committee of the States, informing them of the actual situation of the Committee, and of the present disposition of the papers and records of
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Congress; that they may respectively send forward a Delegate to the City of Philadelphia or to Trenton (if the papers and records of Congress shall have been previously lodged in that place) in order that a Committee of the States may be assembled, and be enabled as early as possible to proceed to business. 19th August, 1784.
(Signed) Edwd. Hand.
Richd. Dobbs Spaight.
Jacob Read.
Wm. Houstoun,
Delegate from Georgia.1
[Note 1: 1 The original paper, in the writing of Jacob Read, is in the Committee Book, No. 10, Journals of Committee of the States.]
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