PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES
IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 6, 1802.
This being the day appointed by the constitution for the annual meeting of Congress, the following members of the House of Representatives appeared and took their seats, to wit:
From New Hampshire.—Abiel Foster and Samuel Tenney.
From Massachusetts.—John Bacon, Seth Hastings, Nathan Read, Josiah Smith, Joseph B. Varnum, Peleg Wadsworth, and Lemuel Williams.
From Rhode Island.—Joseph Stanton, jr., and Thomas Tillinghast.
From Connecticut.—John Davenport, Calvin Goddard, Elias Perkins, John Cotton Smith, and Benjamin Tallmadge.
From New York.—Samuel L. Mitchill, John Smith, David Thomas, John P. Van Ness, and Killian K. Van Rensselaer.
From New Jersey.—John Condit, Ebenezer Elmer, James Mott, and Henry Southard.
From Pennsylvania.—Robert Brown, Andrew Gregg, Joseph Heister, Joseph Hemphill, William Hoge, Michael Leib, John Smilie, John Stewart, Isaac Van Horn, and Henry Woods.
From Maryland.—John Dennis, Joseph H. Nicholson, Thomas Plater, and Samuel Smith.
From Virginia.—Thomas Claiborne, John Clopton, John Dawson, David Holmes, George Jackson, Anthony New, John Smith, and Philip R. Thompson.
From North Carolina.—Nathaniel Macon, Speaker, Richard Stanford, and John Stanley.
From Tennessee.—William Dickson.
From the North-western Territory.—Paul Fearing.
Several new members, to wit: Samuel Hunt, from New Hampshire, returned to serve as a member of this House, in the room of Joseph Peirce, who has resigned his seat; Samuel Thatcher, from Massachusetts, returned to serve as a member of this House, in the room of Silas Lee, who has resigned; and David Meriwether, from Georgia, returned to serve as a member of this House, in the room of Benjamin Taliaferro, who has also resigned; appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats in the House.
A new delegate, from the Mississippi Territory, to wit, Thomas M. Green, returned to serve in this House, in the room of Narsworthy Hunter, deceased, appeared, produced his credentials, and took his seat in the House.
But a quorum of the whole number of qualified members not being present, the House adjourned until to-morrow morning, eleven o'clock.