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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, FEBRUARY 20, 1786
Three States only met; viz. Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and from New Hampshire, Mr. [Pierse] Long; from Connecticut, Mr. [Stephen Mix] Mitchel; from Maryland, Mr. [William] Hindman; from Virginia, Mr. [Henry] Lee, and from South Carolina, Mr. [David] Ramsay.
Mr. [Arthur] St. Clair, a delegate for Pennsylvania, attended.
In the Name and by the Authority of the Freemen of the [SEAL] Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, OF THE SAID COMMONWEALTH,
To The Honorable Arthur St. Clair, Esquire:
Whereas, The General Assembly of this Commonwealth have, by their Act of the Eleventh Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty five elected B. Franklin Presidt you a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of the United States--You are therefore hereby commissionated as such.
Given in Council, under the Hand of His Excellency Benjamin Franklin esquire, President, and the Seal of the State, at Philadelphia, this fourteenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty-five.
Attest: John Armstrong, Jr., Sy.2
[Note 2: 2 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Pennsylvania Credentials. It is also entered in the Record of Credentials from which it appears to have been read on this day,]
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