Tuesday, July 17, 1798.
Agreeably to the adjournment of yesterday, as stated at large in the Legislative proceedings, the Senate assembled.
PRESENT:
Theodore Sedgwick, President pro tempore, from the State of Massachusetts.
Benjamin Goodhue, from Massachusetts.
Nathaniel Chipman, from Vermont.
James Hillary and Uriah Tracy, from Connecticut.
Theodore Foster and Ray Greene, from Rhode Island.
John Laurance and William North, from New York.
John Rutherford, from New Jersey.
William Bingham, from Pennsylvania.
Henry Latimer, from Delaware.
John E. Howard, from Maryland.
Henry Tazewell, from Virginia.
John Brown, from Kentucky.
Joseph Anderson, from Tennessee.
Alexander Martin, from North Carolina.
Jacob Read, from South Carolina.
Ordered, That the following summons, directed to the Senators of the United States, respectively, be entered on the journals:
The President of the United States to ——, Senator for the State of ——.
Certain matters touching the public good, requiring that the session of the Senate, for Executive business, should be continued, and that the members thereof should convene on Tuesday, the 17th day of July, inst., you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber, in Philadelphia, on that day, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to receive and deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you on my part.
JOHN ADAMS.
United States, July 16, 1798.