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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, DECEMBER 21, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present as yesterday.
A motion was made by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, seconded by Mr. [John] Jay,
That it is expedient Congress should determine on a place, at which they will continue to sit until proper accommodations in a federal town shall be erected, and that the subsisting resolutions respecting the alternate temporary residence of Congress at Trenton and Annapolis, be repealed.
A motion was made by Mr. [David] Howell, seconded by Mr. [William] Ellery, to strike out the latter part, viz. And that the subsisting resolutions, &c. to the end.
And on the question, shall the words moved to be struck out, stand the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Richard Dobbs] Spaight,
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So the question was lost, and the words were struck out.
Questions being put on the former part, it was
Resolved, That it is expedient Congress should determine on a place at which they will continue to sit, until public buildings for their proper accommodations in a foederal town shall be erected.
[Motion, Tuesday 21st., Dec. 1784.]
Resolved, That Congress will not adjourn from this place until they shall have named the place near the falls of Trenton at which the federal buildings mentioned in the resolution of yesterday shall be fixed and ascertained and Commissioners for erecting the same be appointed.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of John Jay, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, II, folio 487.]
Mr. [John] Jay, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry to postpone to take up foregoing.
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