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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, NOVEMBER 20, 1786.
The following gentlemen attended:
In the Name and by the Authority of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[SEAL] The Supreme Executive Council, of the said Commonwealth, To The Honorable Samuel Meredith Esquire:
Whereas, The General Assembly of this Commonwealth have, by their Act of the thirty-first Day of October in the Year Charles Biddle. of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six elected you a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of the United States, You are therefore hereby commissioned as such.
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Given in Council, under the Hand of The Honorable Charles Biddle esquire, Vice President, and the Seal of the State, at Philadelphia, this second Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.
Attest. John Armstrong Jr., Scy.1
[Note 1: 1 This Credential is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Pennsylvania, Credentials. It is entered also in Record of Credentials, No. 179, where Thomson has noted that it was read November 20.
William Bingham's credential, exactly the same in form and date, wasalso read and recorded as was Meredith's.]
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