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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, FEBRUARY 19, 1788.
Congress assembled present New hampshire Massachusetts New Jersey Pensylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia and South Carolina and from Connecticut Mr Jeremiah Wadsworth and from North Carolina Mr [James] White.
According to the Order of the day Congress proceeded to the election of a judge for the western territory in the room of Mr [John] Armstrong who declines and the ballots being taken
Mr John Cleves Symmes was elected, having been previously nominated by Mr [Abraham] Clarke.2
[Note 2: 2 This proceeding was entered by John Fisher in Western Territory, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 176, p. 25.]
[Motion of delegates from Maryland3]
[Note 3: 3 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 70, p. 555, in the writing of Mr. Benjamin Contee.(?). According to indorsement and the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, p. 182, this motion was referred to the Board of Treasury to report. Report rendered February 29, 1788.]
The Delegates from Maryland agreeably to their instructions apply to Congress for information, By what authority the sum of 54,642 47/90 continental state Dollars was lately issued from the continental loan Office in the state of Maryland, whether by any recent order or resolution of Congress, or merely by the authority of the Commissioners of the board of Treasury of the United States, in virtue of some agreement or contract by them entered into, on behalf of the United States, with private persons. Whether any part of the 4/10ths of the continental state money, reserved to the use of the United States,
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has been lately drawn out of the continental loan Offices, of any of the other states; and which of them, and when, and to what amount respectively.1
[Note 1: 1 February 19, 1788. According to the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, p. 182, the following committe was appointed:
Mr. Dyre Kearny, Mr. Jeremiah Wadsworth and Mr. James White, "to consider and report such arrangements as it may be expedient to adopt relative to the admission of persons at the public audience of the Minister of France on Tuesday next." Report rendered February 20, 1788.]
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