Monday, November 5, 1804
This being the day appointed by law for the meeting of the present Session, the following members of the House of Representatives appeared and took their seats, to wit:
From New Hampshire—Silas Betton, Clifton Claggett, David Hough, and Samuel Tenney.
From Massachusetts—Jacob Crowninshield, Thomas Dwight, Nahum Mitchell, Ebenezer Seaver, William Stedman, Joseph B. Varnum, and Lemuel Williams.
From Rhode Island—Nehemiah Knight and Joseph Stanton.
From Connecticut—John Davenport and John Cotton Smith.
From Vermont—William Chamberlin, Martin Chittenden, James Elliot, and Gideon Olin.
From New York—Gaylord Griswold, Josiah Hasbrouck, Henry W. Livingston, Andrew McCord, Samuel L. Mitchill, Beriah Palmer, Erastus Root, Thomas Sammons, David Thomas, Philip Van Cortlandt, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, and Daniel C. Verplanck.
From New Jersey—Adam Boyd, Ebenezer Elmer, James Sloan, and Henry Southard.
From Pennsylvania—Isaac Anderson, David Bard, Joseph Clay, Frederick Conrad, William Findlay, Joseph Heister, Michael Leib, John Rea, Jacob Richards, John Smilie, John Stewart, and John Whitehill.
From Maryland—John Archer, Wm. McCreery, Nicholas R. Moore, and Thomas Plater.
From Virginia—Thomas Claiborne, John Dawson, John W. Eppes, Thomas Griffin, David Holmes, John G. Jackson, Joseph Lewis, jun., Anthony New, Thomas Newton, jun., John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, John Smith, James Stephenson, and Philip R. Thompson.
From Kentucky—George Michael Bedinger, John Boyle, and Thomas Sanford.
From North Carolina—Willis Alston, jun., William Blackledge, James Gillespie, James Holland, William Kennedy, Nathaniel Macon, (Speaker,) Richard Stanford, and Joseph Winston.
From Tennessee—George W. Campbell, William Dickson, and John Rhea.
From South Carolina—John B. Earle.
From Georgia—Peter Early and David Meriwether.
From Ohio—Jeremiah Morrow.
Delegate from the Mississippi Territory—William Lattimore.
Several new members, to wit: from Massachusetts, Simon Larned, returned to serve in this House as a member for the said State, in the room of Tompson J. Skinner, who has resigned his seat; from New York, Samuel Riker, returned to serve as a member for the said State, in the room of John Smith, appointed a Senator of the United States; and from Virginia, Christopher Clark, returned to serve as a member for the said State, in the room of John Trigg, deceased; appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats in the House; the oath to support the Constitution of the United States being first administered to them by Mr. Speaker, according to law.
And a quorum, consisting of a majority of the whole number, being present,
Ordered, That a message be sent to the Senate, to inform them that a quorum of this House is assembled, and ready to proceed to business; and that the Clerk of this House do go with the said message.
The following committees were appointed pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the House, viz:
Committee of Elections.—Mr. Findlay, Mr. Varnum, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Eppes, Mr. Claggett, and Mr. Elmer.
Committee of Ways and Means.—Mr. John Randolph, Mr. Joseph Clay, Mr. Gaylord Griswold, Mr. Boyle, Mr. Davenport, Mr. Nicholas R. Moore, and Mr. Meriwether.
Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.—Mr. Samuel L. Mitchill, Mr. Crowninshield, Mr. McCreery, Mr. Leib, Mr. Newton, Mr. Early, and Mr. Chittenden.
Committee of Claims.—Mr. John Cotton Smith, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Plater, Mr. Chamberlin, Mr. Bedinger, Mr. Stanford, and Mr. Stanton.
Committee of Revisal and Unfinished Business.—Mr. Tenney, Mr. Dickson, and Mr. Earle.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Governor of the State of Maryland, enclosing a certificate of the election of Roger Nelson, to serve in this House as a member for the said State, in the room of Daniel Heister, deceased; which was referred to the Committee of Elections.