Gentlemen, I most sincerely thank you. May every possible happiness attend you and every individual of this body; and may your zealous endeavors to promote the welfare of our beloved country, which I have so long and so often been a witness to, be crowned with unbounded success.

Ordered, That a message be sent to the Senate, to inform them that this House, having completed the business before them, are now about to adjourn without day, and that the Clerk of this House do go with the said message.

The Clerk accordingly went with the said message; and being returned,

A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their Secretary, notifying that the Senate, having completed the Legislative business before them, are now about to adjourn: Whereupon,

Mr. Speaker adjourned the House sine die.

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APPENDIX.

Proceedings of the District of Kentucky, for admission into the Union as an independent State.

"DANVILLE, October 4th, 1790.

SIR: By order of Convention, I now enclose to you a copy of the resolutions of Convention, respecting the separation of the District of Kentucky from the State of Virginia; and their address to the President and Congress of the United States. I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, Sir, your most humble servant,

GEORGE MUTER, President of Convention.

The President of the United States.”

UNITED STATES, December 9, 1790.

A true copy.

TOBIAS LEAR, Secretary to the President of the United States.

"DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY, to wit:

IN CONVENTION, July 28, 1790.

Resolved, That it is expedient for, and the will of, the good People of the District of Kentucky, that the same be erected into an independent State, on the terms and conditions specified in an act of the Virginia Assembly, passed the eighteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act concerning the erection of the District of Kentucky into an independent State."

Resolved, That We, the Representatives of the People of Kentucky, duly elected in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of Virginia, passed the eighteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act concerning the erection of the District of Kentucky into an independent State," and now met in Convention, having, with full powers, maturely investigated the expediency of the proposed separation on the terms and conditions specified in the above recited act: do, by these presents, and in behalf of the People of Kentucky, accept the terms and conditions, and do declare that, on the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, the said District of Kentucky shall become a State, separate from, and independent of, the Government of Virginia, and that the said articles become a solemn compact binding on the said People.

"To the President, and the Honorable the Congress of the United States of America: The Memorial of the Representatives of the People of Kentucky, in Convention asbled, pursuant to an act of the Legislature of Virginia, passed the eighteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act concerning the erection of the District of Kentucky into an independent State," HUM

BLY SHEWETH:

That the inhabitants of this country are as warmly devoted to the American Union, and as firmly attached to the perfect happy establishment of the Federal Government as any of the citizens of the United States. That, migrating from thence, they have, with great hazard and difficulty, effected their present settlements. The hope of increasing numbers could alone have supported the early adventurers under those arduous exertions; they have the satisfaction to find that hope verified. At this day, the population and strength of this country render it fully able, in the opinion of your memorialists, to form. and support an efficient domestic Government.

The inconveniences resulting from its local situation as a part of Virginia, at first but little felt, have for some time been objects of their most serious attention; which occasioned application to the Legislature of Virginia for redress.

Here your memorialists would acknowledge, with peculiar pleasure, the benevolence of Virginia, in permitting them to remove the evils arising from that source, by assuming upon themselves a state of independence.

This they have thought expedient to do on the terms and conditions stipulated in the above recited act; and have fixed on the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, as the period when the said independence shall commence.

It now remains with the President and the Congress of the United States to sanction these proceedings, by an act of their honorable Legislature, prior to the first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, for the purpose of receiving into the Federal Union the People of Kentucky, by the name of THE STATE OF KEN

TUCKY.

Should this determination of your memorialists meet the approbation of the General Government, they have to call a Convention to form a Constitution, subsequent to the act of Congress, and prior to the day fixed for the independence of this country.

When your memorialists reflect on the present comprehensive system of Federal Government, and when they also recollect the determination of a former Congress on this subject, they are left without a doubt that the object of their wishes will be accomplished. And your memorialists, as in duty bound, shall forever pray.

Attest,

A true copy.

THOMAS TODD, Clerk Convention."

GEORGE MUTER, President.

UNITED STATES, December 9th, 1790. TOBIAS LEAR, Secretary to the President of the United States.

UNITED STATES, February the 9th, 1791.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

I have received from the Governor of Vermont authentic documents expressing the consent of the Legislatures of New York, and of the Territory of Vermont, that the said territory shall be admitted to be a distinct member of our Union; and a memorial of Nathaniel Chipman and Lewis R. Morris, Commissioners from the said Territory, praying the consent of Congress to that admission, by the name and style of the State of Vermont, copies of which I now lay before Congress, with whom the Constitution has vested the object of these proceedings.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Proceedings of the Legislatures of New York and of the Teritory of Vermont relative to the admission of the said Territory into the Union by the name of the State of Vermont.

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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BY THE GRACE OF GOD FREE AND INDEPENDENT.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

Know ye, that we, having inspected the records remaining in our Secretary's office, do find there a certain original act, in the words and figures following, to wit: "An act appointing Commissioners with power to declare the consent of the Legislature of this State, that a certain territory within the jurisdiction thereof should be formed or erected into a new State: Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Robert Yates, Robert R. Livingston, John Lansing, junior, Gulian Verplanck, Simeon De Witt, Egbert Benson, Richard Sill, and Melancton Smith, shall be, and hereby are, appointed Commissioners, with full power to them, or any four or more of them, in their discretion, as they shall judge the peace and interest of the United States in general, and of this State in particular, to require the same, and on such terms and conditions, and in such manner and form as they shall judge necessary and proper, to declare the consent of the Legislature of this State that such district or territory within the jurisdiction, and in the Northeastern and Northern parts thereof, as the said Commissioners shall judge most convenient, should be formed and erected into a new State; and with farther full power to treat, conclude, and agree with any person or persons, or any assemblies or bodies of People, touching the premises, or touching the ceding or relinquishing the jurisdiction of this State over such district or territory, or touching the securing or confirming of rights, titles, or possessions of land within such district or territory, held o

claimed under grants from the State of New Hampshire, while a colony, or under grants, sales, or locations, made by the authority of the Government or jurisdiction now existing and exercised in the Northeastern parts of this State, under the name or style of the State of Vermont, against persons claiming the same lands under grants from this State, while a colony, or since the independence thereof: and every act of any four or more of the Commissioners hereby appointed, in the execution of the powers aforesaid, shall be as effectual to every purpose as if the same were an immediate act of the Legisla ture of this State: Provided, Such grants, sales, or locations, by or under Vermont, do not extend to the Westward of the towns granted, located, or occupied under the late colony of New Hampshire, which lay in that part of the country aforesaid, between the North boundary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, continued from the Northwest corner thereof towards Hudson's River, and a parallel line extended Eastward from the point of land where Fort Edward formerly stood, until it meets with the West bounds of any of the said granted, located, or occupied towns. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whatever stipulations shall be made by the Commissioners appointed by this act, with any person or persons, or any assemblies or bodies of People, touching the premises, or touching the ceding or relinquishing the jurisdiction of this State over such district or territory, or touching the securing of rights, titles, or possessions of lands within such district, for a compensation for extinguishing the claims to lands within such district, as derived under the late Colony of New York, shall be for the use of such claimants, although in such stipulations such compensation should be declared to be for the use of this State, or for the People thereof; and that nothing in this act contained shall be intended or construed to give any such claimant any right to any further compensation whatsoever from this State, other than such compensation which may be so stipulated as aforesaid. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the act, entitled "An act appointing commissioners with power to declare the consent of the Legislature of this State of New York, that a certain territory within the jurisdiction thereof, should be formed or erected into a new State :" passed the sixteenth day of July, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, shall be, and hereby is, repealed.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

This bill having been read the third time,
Resolved, That the bill do pass.

IN ASSEMBLY, February 20th, 1790.

By order of the Assembly:

This bill having been read a third time,
Resolved, That the bill do pass.

By order of the Senate:

GULIAN VERPLANCK, Speaker.
IN SENATE, February 27th, 1790.

ISAAC ROOSEVELT, President pro hac vice.

IN COUNCIL OF REVISION, 6th of March, 1790. Resolved, That it does not appear improper to the Council, that this bill, entitled "An act appointing Commissioners with power to declare the consent of the Legislature of this State that a certain territory within the jurisdiction thereof, should be formed or erected into a new State," should become a law of this State.

GEORGE CLINTON."

"All which we have exemplified by these presents. In testimony whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made Patent, and the great seal of our said State to behereunto affixed. Witness our trusty and well-beloved George Clinton, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, at our City of New-York, this first day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the fifteenth year of our Independence. [Great Seal appendant.]

Passed the Secretary's office, the 2d February, 1791.

GEORGE CLINTON.

ROBERT HARPUR, Deputy Secretary.

"To all to whom these Presents shall come:

Be it known, That Robert Yates, John Lansing, junior, Gulian Verplanck, Simeon De Witt, Egbert Benson, and Melancton Smith, Commissioners appointed by an act of