FIFTH CONGRESS.—SECOND SESSION.
PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES In THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, November 13, 1797.
This being the day appointed by law for the meeting of Congress, the House of Representatives assembled in their Chamber, and the following members answered to their names, to wit:
From New Hampshire.—Abiel Foster.
From Massachusetts.—Stephen Bullock, Samuel Lyman, John Read, William Shepard, George Thatcher, Joseph B. Varnum, and Peleg Wadsworth.
From Connecticut.—John Allen, Joshua Coit, Roger Griswold, and Nathaniel Smith.
From New York.—Lucas Elmendorph, Henry Glenn, Jonathan N. Havens, Hezekiah L. Hosmer, John E. Van Allen, and John Williams.
From New Jersey.—Jonathan Dayton, (Speaker,) and Thomas Sinnickson.
From Pennsylvania.—John Chapman, Albert Gallatin, Thomas Hartley, and John Swanwick.
From Maryland.—George Baer, junior, William Craik, George Dent, and Richard Sprigg, junior.
From Virginia.—John Dawson, D. Holmes, James Machir, Daniel Morgan, and Anthony New.
North Carolina.—Matthew Locke, Nathaniel Macon, and Richard Stanford.
South Carolina.—Robert Goodloe Harper, and John Rutledge, junior.
Several new members, to wit: Isaac Parker, from Massachusetts; Thomas Tillinghast, returned to serve as a member of this House, for the State of Rhode Island, in the room of Elisha R. Potter, who has resigned his seat; and William Edmond, returned to serve in this House, as a member for Connecticut, in the room of James Davenport, deceased, appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats in the House.
But a quorum of the whole number not being present, the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, eleven o'clock.