Whereupon Mr. Condy was declared by the Speaker to be duly elected.
Ordered, That a message be sent to the Senate, to inform that body of the election of the Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
On motion of Mr. Macon, the House proceeded to the choice of a Sergeant-at-Arms, Doorkeeper, and Assistant Doorkeeper; when Joseph Wheaton, Thomas Claxton, and Thomas Dunn, were unanimously elected.
The oath to support the Constitution of the United States, as prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths," was administered by Mr. Rutledge, one of the Representatives for the State of South Carolina, to the Speaker, and then the same oath or affirmation was administered by Mr. Speaker to each of the members present.
William Henry Harrison having also appeared, as a Representative for the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, the said oath was administered to him by Mr. Speaker.
The same affirmation, together with the affirmation of office prescribed by the said recited act, were also administered by Mr. Speaker to the Clerk.
A message was received from the Senate, informing the House, that they had passed a resolution, appointing a joint committee to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that Congress had met and were ready to receive any communications he might think proper to make; and, in case of concurrence, that Messrs. Read and Bingham were appointed a committee on behalf of the Senate.
The House concurred in the resolution, and Messrs. Marshall, Rutledge, and Sewall, were appointed to wait on the President, in conjunction with the committee from the Senate.
The following letter was read by the Speaker.
72 Welbeck-Street, London,
September 20, 1798.