Though your Commissioners could not with propriety address these Observations and Sentiments to any but the States they have the honor to Represent, they have nevertheless concluded, from motives of respect, to transmit Copies of this Report, to the United States in Congress Assembled, and to the Executives of the other States.
By Order of the Commissioners
John Dickinson, Chairman
Dated at Annapolis
September 14th 1786.
154. Appointment of Delegates: Credentials (Georgia)
Records of the Federal Convention (Farrand), III, 576-577.
Georgia is here selected for illustration, because of the emphasis upon the sovereignty of the State in the forms used.
GEORGIA
By the Honorable George Mathews Esquire, Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the said State aforesaid.