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Jensen, Merrill; Kaminski, John P.; Saladino, Gaspare J. (ed.) / Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Pennsylvania
2 (1976)
A. The assembly calls the state convention, pp. 58-111
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I. ASSEMBLY AND CONSTITUTION DANIEL CLYMER moved to amend the motion by adding a thousand copies in German; whereupon, It was ordered "That two thousand copies in English and one thousand in German be printed in addition."1 1. Lloyd's Debates are the sole source for the Assembly's action on printing additional copies of the Constitution. The German language printing was done by Michael Billmeyer, publisher of the Germantauner Zeitung. The English printing was probably done by Hall and Sellers of the Pennsylvania Gazette, printers to the Assembly. The Pennsylvania Assembly Wednesday 26 September 1787 Assembly Proceedings The House met pursuant to adjournment. Petitions from 249 inhabitants of the townships of Germantown, Oxford and Lower Dublin, in the county of Philadelphia, were read, of a similar tenor with those read September 24th from 250 inhabi- tants of Germantown. Ordered to lie on the table. 1. Lloyd's Debates record that "George Logan presented a petition from two hundred and forty-nine inhabitants of Lower Dublin and Oxford townships solicit- ing the House to take measures for adopting the Federal Constitution." Lloyd mentions only one petition, but six petitions were presented. The clerk's endorse- ment on the Germantown petition indicates that Oxford submitted four petitions and Lower Dublin and Germantown one each. The endorsement gives the total number of petitioners as 249. (See Mfm:Pa. 61 for the petitions.) The Pennsylvania Assembly Thursday 27 September 1787 Assembly Proceedings Petitions from 3681 inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and townships of the Northern Liberties, Moya- mensing, Passyunk, etc. in the county of Philadelphia, were read of 64
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