PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES
IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 3, 1798.
This being the day appointed by the constitution for the annual meeting of Congress, a number of members of the House of Representatives assembled in their Chamber.
The following are the names of the members present:
From New Hampshire.—Abiel Foster, Jonathan Freeman, William Gordon, and Peleg Sprague.
From Massachusetts.—Dwight Foster, Samuel Lyman, Harrison G. Otis, Geo. Thatcher, Joseph B. Varnum, and Peleg Wadsworth.
From Rhode Island.—Thomas Tillinghast.
From Connecticut.—Samuel W. Dana, Chauncey Goodrich, and Roger Griswold.
From New York.—David Brooks, Henry Glenn, Jonathan N. Havens, and Hezekiah L. Hosmer.
From New Jersey.—Jonathan Dayton, (the Speaker.)
From Pennsylvania.—David Bard, John Chapman, William Findlay, Albert Gallatin, John A. Hanna, Blair McClenachan, and Richard Thomas.
From Maryland.—George Dent.
From Virginia.—John Clopton, John Dawson, David Holmes, James Machir, and Daniel Morgan.
From North Carolina.—Matthew Locke, Nathaniel Macon, and Richard Stanford.
From Tennessee.—William Charles Cole Claiborne.
From Georgia.—Abraham Baldwin.
Three new members, to wit: Jonathan Brace, returned to serve in this House as a member for Connecticut, in the room of Joshua Coit, deceased; Robert Waln, returned to serve as a member for Pennsylvania, in the room of John Swanwick, deceased; and Joseph Eggleston, returned to serve as a member for Virginia, in the room of William B. Giles, who has resigned his seat; appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats in the House.
A little after 12 o'clock the Speaker of the House took his chair, the names of all the members were called over by the Clerk, and there appearing only forty persons, (fourteen short of a quorum,) a motion was made to adjourn, and the House adjourned accordingly till to-morrow at 11 o'clock.