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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, APRIL 18, 1786.


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Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1786.

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Congress assembled. Present as before.

According to order, Congress proceeded to the election of a commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Rhose Island and Providence Plantations, in the room of Mr. Clarke, who has resigned; and the ballots being taken, William Ellery, esqr. was elected, having been previously nominated by Mr. [Pierse] Long.1

[Note 1: 1 See ante, April 17, p. 185.]

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