From New York.—John Smith, Philip Van Cortlandt, Jonas Platt, Henry Glen, John Thompson, and Theodorus Bailey.
From Pennsylvania.—Michael Leib, Richard Thomas, Joseph Heister, Robert Brown, Peter Muhlenberg, Henry Woods, and John Smilie.
From Maryland.—George Dent, Geo. Baer, William Craik, Gabriel Christie, John C. Thomas, and Joseph H. Nicholson.
From Virginia.—Leven Powell, John Nicholas, Robert Page, John Dawson, Anthony New, George Jackson, and David Holmes.
From North Carolina.—Nathaniel Macon, Richard Stanford, and Willis Alston.
From South Carolina.—Thomas Sumter, and Benjamin Huger.
From Tennessee.—William C. C. Claiborne.
A new member, to wit, John C. Smith, returned to serve as a member of this House, from the State of Connecticut, in the room of Jonathan Brace, who has resigned his seat, appeared and produced his credentials.
The Speaker observed that it had heretofore been the invariable practice of the House to admit new members to take their seats previously to being sworn, though the constitution directed directly the reverse. As there was a new member present, he suggested the propriety of administering the oath to him before he took his seat.
Mr. Macon thought such a step premature. He was of opinion that no inconvenience would arise from delaying to administer the oath until a House was formed, and he thought great caution should attend an innovation opposed to all precedent.