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Excerpt from Votes and Proceedings of the Seventeenth General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey: At a Session Begun at Trenton on the 23d Day of October 1792, and Continued by Adjournments, Being the First Sitting
The respective Certificates of their Election were read, approved, and ordered to be filed. Benjamin Van-Cleve, Esquire, was appointed, agreeably to the Constitution, to qualify Silas Condict, Esquire, who, being duly sworn, took his Seat accordingly, and the remaining Persons being Returned as Representatives, and qualified by the said Silas Condict, took their Seats in the House.
The House proceeded to the Choice of a Speaker, when the Honourable Silas Condict, Esquire, was chosen, and accordingly placed in the Chair.
The House proceeded to the Election of a Clerk, when Maskell Ewing was unanimously chosen.
Maskell Ewing attended, and, after taking the Oath of Allegiance, and also an Oath for the faithful Discharge of his Office took his Seat as Clerk of the House.
Ordered, That Mr. Berry do wait on Council, and acquaint them that the House of Assembly have this Day proceeded to Business, and have chosen the Honourable Silas Condict, Esquire, then Speaker.
Resolved, That David Wrighter be Doorkeeper to the House during the present Session.
Ordered, That Messrs. Cooper, Van-Cleve and Helmes, be a Committee to report a Draught of Rules and Regulations for the better Government of the House.
Ordered, That Messrs. Dayton, Blackwood and M'Dowell, be a Committee to examine the Minutes of the last Sitting, and to report the Business that was referred or remains unfinished.
The House adjourned till To-morrow Morning ten o'Clock.
Wednesday, October 24, 1792.
The House met.
Mr. Berry reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the House.
Israel Hedden, returned as one of the Representatives of the County of Essex; John Sinnickfon and Thomas Clement, returned as two of the Representatives of the County of Salem; John Lacey and Thomas Hollinihead, as two of the Representatives of the County of Burlington; and Thomas Lowrey, as one of the Representatives of the County of Hunterdon, appeared in the House, and produced the respective Certificates of their Election, which were read, approved, and ordered to be filed; whereupon, being duly qualified by the Speaker, they took their Seats in the House; and, having rendered Excuses for their Non-Attendance before this Time,
Resolved, That the same is satisfactory.
Mr. Cooper, from the Committee appointed for that Purpose, reported a Draught of Rules and Orders to be observed in the House of Assembly as follows:
Rules and Orders to be observed in the House of Assembly.
1. That the Speaker and any two Members be a sufficient Number to meet and adjourn the House from Day to Day when necessary.
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Excerpt from Votes and Proceedings of the Seventeenth General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey: At a Session Begun at Trenton on the 23d Day of October 1792, and Continued by Adjournments, Being the First Sitting
Upon Call of the Houfs, or taking the Ayes and Noes on any Qieflion, the Names of the Members be called alphabetically.
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