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Notes on Debates, 6 June 1783

Notes on Debates

MS (LC: Madison Papers). For a description of the manuscript of Notes on Debates, see Papers of Madison description begins William T. Hutchinson et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (Chicago, 1962——). description ends , V, 231–34.

Friday June 6.

The report as to the territorial Cession of Virga. after some uninteresting debate was adjourned.1

1. JM Notes, 4 June, and n. 2. See also ibid., 5 June, and n. 1. The journal of Congress omits mention of a session on 6 June. The report, again debated on 10 June, was not adopted by Congress until 13 September (JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXIV, 406–9, 559–64; JM Notes, 10 June 1783).

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    “Notes on Debates, 6 June 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-07-02-0072. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 7, 3 May 1783 – 20 February 1784, ed. William T. Hutchinson and William M. E. Rachal. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1971, p. 116.]