The House proceeded to consider the following resolution of the Senate, to wit:
"In Senate, April 27.
"Resolved, That after the oath shall have been administered to the President, he, attended by the Vice President, and the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, proceed to St. Paul's Chapel to hear divine service, to be performed by the Chaplains to Congress already appointed:" Whereupon,
Resolved, That this House doth concur with the Senate in the said resolution: amended to read as followeth, to wit:
"That after the oath shall have been administered to the President, the Vice President and members of the Senate, the Speaker and members of the House of Representatives, will accompany him to St. Paul's Chapel, to hear divine service performed by the Chaplains of Congress."
Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do carry the said resolution to the Senate, and desire their concurrence.—Adjourned.
Thursday, April 30.
Jonathan Grout, from Massachusetts, appeared and took his seat.
This being the day on which the President of the United States was inaugurated, no other business, of course, was attended to. The President's address to both Houses appears in the proceedings of the Senate.[21]