Friday, December 13

Monday, December 9.

Gabriel Christie, from Maryland, Thomas Claiborne and George Hancock, from Virginia, Joseph Winston, from North Carolina, John Hunter and Andrew Pickens, from South Carolina, appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats in the House.

Tuesday, December 10.

The House resumed the reading of the communications received from the President of the United States, on Thursday last, and made a further progress therein.

Wednesday, December 11.

Benjamin Bourne and Francis Malbone, from Rhode Island, appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats in the House.

Thomas Tredwell, from New York, and John Patton, from Delaware, appeared, produced their credentials, and took their seats.

Ordered, That a committee be appointed to prepare and bring in a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States; and that Mr. Giles, Mr. William Smith, Mr. Ames, Mr. Hartley, Mr. Hillhouse, Mr. Fitzsimons, and Mr. Boudinot, be the said committee.