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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 --WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1787.
Congress assembled, present Massachusetts New York New Jersey Pensylvania Delaware Virginia North Carolina and Georgia and from South Carolina Mr [John] Kean.
Congress resumed the consideration of a report1 from the Secretary at War to whom had been referred certain papers transmitted by the Superintendant of Indian Affairs for the Northern department and the following paragraph being under debate viz "That a general treaty be held with the tribes of Indians within the limits of the United States inhabiting the country northward of the Ohio and about lake Erie agreeably to the United requests of the chiefs of the said tribes dated the 18 day of December 1786" A motion was made by Mr [Edward] Carrington seconded by Mr [William] Grayson to amend the paragraph by striking out what follows the words "tribes of Indians", and instead thereof inserting "Northward and eastward of Ohio for the purposes of obtaining further cessions of their claims to land, and establishing permanent principles of Amity and commerce between the United States and the said Indians."
[Note 1: 1 See July 21, 1787.]
A Motion was made by Mr [Nathan] Dane seconded by Mr [William] Few to Amend the Amendment proposed, by striking out the words "obtaining further cessions of their claims to land and". And on the question shall those words stand the yeas and nays being required by Mr [William] Grayson
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So the question was lost and the words were struck out.
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