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same in a Convention of the United States, to be assembled at Philadelphia, for the purpose of devising and discussing all such alterations and further provisions as may be necessary to render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the Union,—

You are therefore hereby commissioned to proceed on the duties required of you in virtue of the same ordinance.

Witness our trusty and well-beloved George Mathews, Esq., our captain-general, governor, and commander-in-chief, under his hand and our great seal, at Augusta, this 17th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1787, and of our sovereignty and independence the eleventh.

GEO. MATHEWS, [l. s.]

By his honor's command.—J. Milton, Secretary.

 

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JOURNAL OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION

On Monday, the 14th of May, A. D. 1787, and in the eleventh year of the independence of the United States of America, at the State-House in the city of Philadelphia, in virtue of appointments from their respective states, sundry deputies to the Federal Convention appeared; but a majority of the states not being represented, the members present adjourned, from day to day, until Friday, the 25th of the said month, when, in virtue of the said appointments, appeared, from the states of

Massachusetts,

The Hon. Rufus King, Esq.;

New York,

The Hon. Robert Yates, and
Alexander Hamilton, Esqrs.;

New Jersey,

The Hon. David Brearly,
William Churchill Houston, and
William Patterson, Esqrs.;

Pennsylvania,

The Hon. Robert Morris,
Thomas Fitzsimmons,
James Wilson, and
Gouverneur Morris, Esqrs;

Delaware,

The Hon. George Read
Richard Basset, and
Jacob Broom, Esqrs.,

Virginia,

His Excell’cy, Geo. Washington, Esq.,
His Excellency, E. Randolph, Esq.,
The Hon. John Blair
James Madison,
George Mason,
George Wythe, and
James M’Clurg, Esqrs.;

North Carolina,

The Hon. Alexander Martin,
William Richardson Davie,
Richard Dobbs Spaight, and
Hugh Williamson, Esqrs.;

South Carolina,

The Hon. John Rutledge,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,
Charles Pinckney, and
Pierce Butler, Esqrs,

Georgia,

The Hon. William Few, Esq.