PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.

Monday, December 5, 1796.

PRESENT:

John Adams, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate.

John Langdon and Samuel Livermore, from New Hampshire.

Benjamin Goodhue, from Massachusetts.

William Bradford, from Rhode Island.

James Hillhouse and Uriah Tracy, from Connecticut.

Elijah Paine, and Isaac Tichenor, from Vermont.

John Rutherford and Richard Stockton, from New Jersey.

William Bingham, from Pennsylvania.

Henry Latimer, from Delaware.

Humphrey Marshall, from Kentucky.

William Cocke, from Tennessee.

Jacob Read, from South Carolina.

James Gunn, from Georgia.

The number of Senators present not being sufficient to constitute a quorum, they adjourned to 11 o'clock to-morrow morning.