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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, MARCH 24, 1788.


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MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1788.

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Congress Assembled, present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pensylvania Virginia and South Carolina and from Delaware Mr . [Dyre] Kearny from Maryland Mr [David] Ross and from North Carolina Mr [James] White.

A supplement to an Ordinance, entitled An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territory was read a second time.1

[Note 1: 1 See March 19, 1788 for first reading. See also March 25 and July 9, 1788.]

Ordered, That the consideration of the said ordinance supplement be postponed until tomorrow.

[Report of Secretary of Congress on Sundry letters and petitions2]

[Note 2: 2 Reports of Secretary of Congres, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 180, between pp. 70 and 71, in the writing of Roger Alden. According to the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, pp. 187--188, the letters and petitions were referred in conformity with the report.]

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