SIXTH CONGRESS.—FIRST SESSION.

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES

IN

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Monday, December 2, 1799.

This being the constitutional day for the annual meeting of Congress, the following members of the House of Representatives appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats, viz:

From New Hampshire.—Abiel Foster, Jonathan Freeman, and William Gordon.

From Massachusetts.—Bailey Bartlett, Phanuel Bishop, Dwight Foster, Harrison G. Otis, Silas Lee, Samuel Lyman, John Reed, Samuel Sewall, Theodore Sedgwick, William Shepard, George Thatcher, Joseph B. Varnum, Peleg Wadsworth, and Lemuel Williams.

From Connecticut.—Jonathan Brace, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, William Edmond, Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich, and Roger Griswold.

From Rhode Island.—John Brown, and Christopher G. Champlin.