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Ordered, That a paper, purporting to be the credentials of Mr. BLOUNT and Mr. COCKE, be read.

And, on the question to agree to the resolution, it passed in the negative--yeas 10, nays 11, as follows:

YEAS.--Messrs. Bloodworth, Brown, Burr, Butler, Gunn, Langdon, Martin, Robinson, Tattnall, and Tazewell.

NAYS.--Messrs. Bingham, Bradford, Foster, Latimer, Livermore, Marshall, Potts, Read, Ross, Rutherford, and Trumbull.

A message from the House of Representatives informed the Senate, that the House, having finished the business before them, are about to adjourn to the first Monday in December next.

Mr. BUTLER, from the joint committee appointed to wait on the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and notify him that, unless he had any further communications to make to them, they were ready to adjourn, reported, that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES had no further communication to make, except the nomination of certain persons to execute the laws passed the present session.

After the consideration of the Executive business, the PRESIDENT adjourned the Senate to the first Monday in December next.

FOURTH CONGRESS.--FIRST SESSION.

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

MONDAY, December 7, 1795.

The following members appeared, and took their seats:

From New Hampshire.--ABIEL FOSTER, NICHOLAS GILMAN, JOHN S. SHERBURNE, and JEREMIAH SMITH.

From Massachusetts.--THEOPHILUS BRADBURY, HENRY DEARBORN, DWIGHT FOSTER, NATHANIEL FREEMAN, Jr., BENJAMIN GOODHUE, GEORGE LEONARD, SAMUEL LYMAN, WILLIAM LYMAN, JOHN READ, THEODORE SEDGWICK, GEORGE THATCHER, JOSEPH B. VARNUM, and PELEG WADSWORTH.

From Rhode Island.--BENJAMIN BOURNE, and FRANCIS MALBONE.

From Connecticut.--JOSHUA COIT, CHAUNCEY GOODRICH, ROGER GRISWOLD, ZEPHANIAH SWIFT, and URIAH TRACY.

From Vermont.--ISRAEL SMITH.

From New York.--THEODORUS BAILEY, WILLIAM COOPER, EZEKIEL GILBERT, HENRY GLENN, JONATHAN N. HAVENS, EDWARD LIVINGSTON, JOHN E. VAN ALLEN, PHILIP VAN CORTLANDT, and JOHN WILLIAMS.

From New Jersey.--JONATHAN DAYTON, AARON KITCHELL, ISAAC SMITH, and MARK THOMPSON.

From Pennsylvania.--DAVID BAIRD, ALBERT GALLATIN, DANIEL HEISTER, JOHN WILKES KITTERA, SAMUEL MACLAY, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, SAMUEL SITGREAVES, JOHN SWANWICK, and RICHARD THOMAS.

From Delaware.--JOHN PATTEN.

From Maryland.--GABRIEL CHRISTIE, GEORGE DENT, GABRIEL DUVALL, WILLIAM HINDMAN, and WILLIAM VANS MURRAY.

From Virginia.--SAMUEL J. CABELL, JOHN CLOPTON, ISAAC COLES, WILLIAM B. GILES, GEORGE HANCOCK, CARTER B. HARRISON, JOHN HEATH, GEORGE JACKSON, JAMES MADISON, ANDREW MOORE, JOSIAH PARKER, ROBERT RUTHERFORD, and ABRAHAM VENABLE.

From North Carolina.--THOMAS BLOUNT, NATHAN BRYAN, DEMPSEY BURGES, JESSE FRANKLIN, WILLIAM B. GROVE, JAMES HOLLAND, MATTHEW LOCKE, NATHANIEL MACON, and ABSALOM TATOM.

From South Carolina.--SAMUEL EARLE, ROBERT GOODLOE HARPER, and WILLIAM SMITH.

From Georgia.--ABRAHAM BALDWIN.

And a quorum, consisting of a majority of the whole number being present,

The House proceeded by ballot, to the choice of a SPEAKER; and, upon examining the ballots, a majority of the votes of the whole House was found in favor of JONATHAN DAYTON, one of the Representatives for the State of New Jersey. Whereupon,