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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, AUGUST 4, 1785.


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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1785.

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Congress assembled. Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina; and from Rhode Island, Mr. [David] Howell; from Connecticut, Mr. [Joseph Platt] Cook, and from Georgia, Mr. [Abraham] Baldwin.2

[Note 2: 2 On this day, according to Committee Book No. 190, Mr. E[dward] Fox was nominated by Mr. [David] Ramsay for Commissioner of the Treasury, "agreeable to 20 June."]

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