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1787.] 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.

GEO. MATHEWS, [] By his honor's command.—, Secretary.

, 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

The Hon. Rufus King, Esq.; The Hon. Robert Yates, and

Alexander Hamilton, Esqrs.; The Hon. David Brearly,

William Churchill Houston, and

William Patterson, Esqrs.; The Hon. Robert Morris,

Thomas Fitzsimmons,

James Wilson, and

Gouverneur Morris, Esqrs; The Hon. George Read

Richard Basset, and

Jacob Broom, Esqrs., 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.; The Hon. Alexander Martin,

William Richardson Davie,

Richard Dobbs Spaight, and

Hugh Williamson, Esqrs.;

The Hon. John Rutledge,

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,

Charles Pinckney, and

Pierce Butler, Esqrs, The Hon. William Few, Esq.