SECOND CONGRESS.—SECOND SESSION.
PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, November 5, 1792.
This being the day appointed by law for the meeting of the present Congress, the following members appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats:
From New Hampshire, Nicholas Gilman, Samuel Livermore, and Jeremiah Smith.
From Massachusetts, Fisher Ames, Shearjashur Bourne, Elbridge Gerry, Benjamin Goodhue, George Thatcher, and Artemas Ward.
From Rhode Island, George Leonard, Benjamin Bourne.
From Connecticut, Amasa Learned, Jonathan Sturges, and Jonathan Trumbull, (Speaker.)
From Vermont, Nathaniel Niles and Israel Smith.
From New York, Egbert Benson, John Laurance, and Thomas Tredwell.
From New Jersey, Elias Boudinot, Abraham Clark, and Jonathan Dayton.
From Pennsylvania, Thomas Fitzsimons and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg.
From Maryland, Philip Key and William Vans Murray.
From Virginia, William B. Giles, James Madison, Andrew Moore, Josiah Parker, Abraham Venable, and Alexander White.
From North Carolina, Nathaniel Macon, John Steele, and Hugh Williamson.
From South Carolina, William Smith, Thomas Sumter, and Thomas Tudor Tucker.
From Georgia, Abraham Baldwin and Francis Willis.
A quorum of members being present, a message was sent to the Senate to inform that body thereof. And a similar message was received by the House from the Senate; and that John Langdon had been chosen their President pro tempore.
A joint committee were then appointed to wait on the President of the United States, to inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and ready to receive any communications he may think proper to make them.
Resolved, That two Chaplains, of different denominations, be appointed to Congress, one by each House, to interchange weekly.
The House then proceeded to appoint a Chaplain on their part, when a majority of votes appeared in favor of the Reverend Ashbel Green.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Governor of Georgia, enclosing a proclamation and return of the election of John Milledge, to serve as one of the members of this House for the said State, in the room of Anthony Wayne, whose seat was declared vacant; which was read and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Boudinot, from the joint committee appointed to wait on the President of the United States, and notify him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled and ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make to them, reported that the committee had performed that service, and that the President was pleased to say, that he would make a communication to both Houses of Congress to-morrow, at twelve o'clock in the Senate Chamber.