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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 --1SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1787.
[Note 1: 1 Charles Thomson takes up the entry.]
Congress assembled. Present Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York New Jersey, Pensylvania Delaware Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia and from Maryland Mr [David] Ross.2
[Note 2: 2 September 22, 1787. According to the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, p. 167, the following committee was appointed:
Mr. Melancton Smith, Mr. Nathan Dane and Mr. John Kean on a letter of J. M. Pintard, August 18, 1787, read September 22, for sea letters. Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 120, III, pp. 270--271, which is in the Department of State. Report rendered September 24, 1787.
According to indorsement the following were read:
Report of the committee of September 20, 1787 on the memorial of Nathaniel Twining. Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, VI, pp. 101--102. This report, with verbal changes which do not affect the meaning, is entered in the Journal on September 25, 1787. See also September 26 and October 2, 1787.
Letter of George Mathews, governor of Georgia to [the Georgia delegates], August 9, 1787. Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 73, pp. 345--347, with enclosures of two talks of the Lower Creeks with answers on pp. 349--362.
Memorial of four surveyors, Absalom Martin, James Simpson, Israel Ludlow and Charles Smith, September 22, 1787, praying for reimbursement for expenses. Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, IX, p. 461. According to indorsement and the Committee Book this memorial was referred to the Board of Treasury to report. Report rendered October 2. See October 3, 1787.
Also according to the Committee Book, a letter of John Paul Jones to [Charles Thomson], August 8, 1787, requesting copies of documents, was referred to the Secretary of Congress and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to take order. The letter was copied in the Committee Book by Roger Alden.]
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