Seal at Augusta, this seventeenth day of April in the eighty seven, and of our Sovereignty and Independ- By his Honor's Command J. MILTON Sec GEORGIA. By the Honorable GEORGE MATHEWS Esquire, Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the said State aforesaid. To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting. KNOW YE that JOHN MILTON Esquire, who hath Certified the annexed Copy of an Ordinance intitled "An Ordinance "for the appointment of Deputies from this State for the pur"pose of revising the Fœderal Constitution"—is Secretary of the said State in whose Office the Archives of the same are deposited. Therefore all due faith, Credit and Authority are and ought to be had and given the same. IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be put and affixed at Augusta, this Twenty fourth day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty Seven and of our Sovereignty and Independence the Eleventh. GEO: (Seal) MATHEWS AN ORDINANCE for the appointment of Deputies from this State for the purpose of revising the Foederal Constitu tion. BE IT ORDAINED by the Representatives of the Freemen of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met and by the Authority of the same, that WILLIAM FEW, ABRAHAM BALDWIN, WILLIAM PIERCE, GEORGE WALTON WILLIAM HOUSTOUN AND NATHANIEL PENDLETON ESQUIRES, Be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, who, or any two or more of them are hereby authorized as Deputies from this State to meet such Deputies as may be appointed and authorized by other States to assemble in Convention at Philadelphia and to join with them in devising and discussing all such Alterations and farther Provisions as may be necessary to render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the Union, and in reporting such an Act for that purpose to the United States in Congress Assembled as when agreed to by them, and duly confirmed by the several States, will effectually provide for the same. In case of the death of any of the said Deputies, or of their declining their appointments, the Executive are hereby authorized to supply such Vacancies. By Order of the House (signed) WM GIBBONS Speaker. Augusta the 10 February 1787. Georgia. Secretary's Office The above is a true Copy from the Original Ordinance deposited in my Office. Augusta J: MILTON Sec. 24 April 1787 Department of State March 19. 1796. Received from the President of the U. States this journal of the general or foederal convention, in one hundred & fifty three pages; together with a journal of the proceedings of the Committee of the Whole House; a book exhibiting on eight pages a detail of yeas & nays on questions taken in the Convention & two loose sheets & a half sheet, containing nine pages of the like yeas and nays; a printed draught of the Constitution; a sheet marked N° 1. exhibiting the state of the resolutions submitted to the consideration of the House by Mr Randolph, as agreed to in a Committee of the whole house; another sheet, marked N° 2. exhibiting the state of those resolutions as altered, amended & agreed to in a Committee of the whole House; and seven other papers, marked N° 3. No 4. N° 5. No 6. N° 7. N° 8. & N° 9. of no consequence in relation to the proceedings of the Convention, but which are on file with the printed draught of the Constitution and the papers marked N° 1. & N° 2. The leaf containing the pages of this journal numbered 151 & 152, was loose; it had plainly been torn from the place where it is now inserted following page 150. TIMOTHY PICKERING, 2 AP I. Secy of State. 47 In foederal-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 foederal-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 honorable Rufus King Esquire. New-Jersey ........The honorable David Brearly, William Pennsylvania......The honorable Robert Morris, Thomas Delaware Fitz Simmons, James Wilson, and Gouver neur Morris Esquires. .The honorable George Read, Richard Bas set, and Jacob Brown Esquires. Virginia ................................ His Excellency George Washington, Es quire, His Excellency Edmund Randolph Esquire The honorable John Blair, James and James McClurg Esquires. North-Carolina...The honorable Alexander Martin, William Richardson Davie, Richard Dobbs Spaight, and Hugh Williamson Esquires. South-Carolina...The honorable John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, and Pierce Butler Esquires. Georgia............ The honorable Few Esquire. In fœderal-Convention Friday May 25. 1787. It was moved by the honorable Robert Morris Esquire, One of the Deputies from Pennsylvania, that a President be elected by ballot, which was agreed to-and thereupon he nominated, on the part of the said State, His Excellency George Washington Esquire The Members then proceeded to ballot on behalf of their respective States-and, the ballots being taken, it appeared that the said George Washington was unanimously elected— and he was conducted to the chair by The honorable Robert Morris, and John Rutledge Esquires. The President then proposed to the House that they should proceed to the election of a Secretary-and, the ballots being taken, it appeared that William Jackson Esquire was elected. The following credentials were produced and read—(here insert the Credentials). The House then appointed Nicholas Weaver Messenger, and Joseph Fry Door-Keeper. On motion of M1 C. Pinckney-ordered that a Committee |