Raynor HCA 2013-01
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The opening and reporting of the electoral votes for President and Vice President in the Senate chamber as reported in the Wednesday, April 15,1789 issueof The Connecticut Journal 4pp, disbound, some separation at the spine, VG. From the interior, "NEW - YORK, April 7, Yesterday the Honorable the Congress of the United States having a quorum of both houses, proceed to business. the Senate having Chosen his Excellency John Landgon, Esq. of New - Hampshire, President, for the purpose of opening and counting the votes for President and Vice President of the United States, agreeably to the Constitution, the House of Representatives attended in the Senate chamber, when his Excellency opened and examined the ballots of the electors of the respective states. The whole number of suffrages was 69, and it appeared that his Excellency George Washington, Esquire, was unanimously elected -- His Excellency John Adams, had 34 votes -- the Hon. John Jay 9 -- the Hon. R. H. Harrison 6 -- His Excellency John Hancock 4 -- His Excellency George Clinton 3 -- His Excellency Samuel Huntingdon 2 -- John Benjamin Lincoln 1 -- Edward Telfair, Esq. 1. The Illustrious GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esquire, was then announced President of the United States of America, and his Excellency JOHN ADMAS, Esquire, Vice President. Charles Thompson, Esq. was appointed to inform the President of this event; and Mr. Bowen, the Vice-President. Those gentlemen will accordingly set off this day for these purposes." .... Then, on pg 3, “April 9, …the doors of the house of representatives of the Congress of the untied States, were thrown open for the admission of the citizens to the gallery, when the hon. Mr. Morris, chief justice of this state, attended to administer to the hon. the speaker, and members present, the oath agreed to by the house last Monday, which was to following purport --- I _____ _____, a representative in the Congress of the United States, do swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States. After which, on motion of the hon. Mr. Parker, the house proceeded to the order of the day, and resolved itself into a committee of the whole. On the State of the Union. Mr. Page being placed in the chair, Mr. Madison opened the business with some general observations on 'the expediency of settling an uniform system of impost pro tempore,' and offered a resolution,as the basis of a bill to be brought in for that purpose. He was supported, on this occasion, by Mr. Boudinot, and Col White…" Much more fine content.
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