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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 --MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia; and from Pennsylvania, Mr. [John Bubenheim] Bayard.
Mr. Nathaniel Ramsay, a delegate for Maryland, attended, and took his seat in Congress.2
[Note 2: 2 For credentials see ante, January 17, 1786.
June 26: On this day Mr. [Samuel] Livermore was added to the committee of June 21, on the report of the Indian Commissioners, in place of Mr. [James] Wilson.
Committee Book No. 190.
Also, according to indorsement, was read a petition from Captain Duncan Campbell, praying the settlement of his accounts. It is dated June 14 and is in No. 42, II, folio 261. See post, June 28.
Also, letters of June 12 and June 17 from Governor Samuel Huntington, of Connecticut, were read, acknowledging sundry communications from Congress. They are in No. 66, II, folios 316 and 328.
Also, was read, a letter from the Secretary at War, dated June 26, enclosing his correspondence with Lieutenant Michael Connolly on the subject of his resignation. It is in No. 150, I, folio 391, with the enclosures. See post.]
According to Order, Congress was resolved into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the state of public affairs. The honble. Mr. [Samuel] Livermore was elected to the chair.
After some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Samuel] Livermore reported, that the committee have had under consideration the subject referred to them, but not having come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again.
Ordered, That the committee sit again to Morrow.
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