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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, JUNE 9, 1788.
Congress assembled present New hampshire Massachusets, Rhode island, New York, New Jersey Pensylvania Delaware Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia and from Connecticut Mr [Pierpont] Edwards and from No Carolina Mr [Hugh] Williamson.
Mr Pierpont Edwards the delegate for Connecticut produced the Credentials of his appointment which were read.
[Credentials of Pierpont Edwards, Connecticut 1] State of Connecticut
[Note 1: 1 Original credentials, indorsed as read June 9, 1788, in Papers of the Continental Congress, Connecticut Credentials. Copied in Record of Credentials, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 179, I, p. 260.]
At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut (Seal) in America, holden at New Raven on the second Thursday of October Anne Dom. 1787
Resolved by this Assembly that Pierpont Edwards Esquire, be and he is hereby appointed and declared a Delegate to serve in the Congress of the United States for the Year ensuing, for this State instead of the Honorable William Saml Johnson Esquire, who had served in
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Congress for the Term of three Years last past and was therefore ineligible.
A true Copy of Record
Examind .
By George Wyllys Secrety
On motion of Mr [Abraham] Clarke
Ordered That the board of treasury lay before Congress an estimate of the sums necessary for the services of the year 1788 including the interest on the foreign and domestic debt and the amount of the capital of the foreign which will become due in the year 1789.
[Report of committee on letter of J. Burrall 1]
[Note 1: 1 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, p. 467, in the writing of Mr. Hugh Williamson. Read June 9, 1788. See June 2 and 11, 1788.]
The Committee consisting of Mr [Abraham] Baldwin Mr [Paine] Wingate and Mr [Hugh] Williamson to whom was referred a Letter from Mr Burrall submit the following resolve
That the Post Master General be instructed in examining dead Letters that in Case he shall find any Letters or Packages directed to any Accountant or other Officer of the U S or respecting the Duties of their Office on public Business he deliver the same to the Officer or Officers to whom directed free from any charge of Postage.
Agreed.
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