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From John Adams to Commissioners of City and County of Philadelphia, 9 December 1790

To the Commissioners of the City and County of Philadelphia

Thursday, December 9, 1790.

Gentlemen:

The Senate have considered the letter that you were pleased to address to the Senate and the House of Representatives, on the 6th instant, and they entertain a proper sense of the respect shown to the general government of the United States, by providing so commodious a building as the commissioners of the city and county of Philadelphia have appropriated for the accommodation of the Representatives of the Union, during their residence in this city.1

I have the honor to be, / Your most humble servant,

John Adams,
Vice President of the United States,
and President of the Senate.

MS not found. Printed from U.S. Senate, Jour. description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., 1789–. description ends , 1:218–219.

1. One of the first orders of business of the new session of Congress was to consider the 6 Dec. letter inviting members to meet in the former Philadelphia County Courthouse, located at the corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets. Newly renovated to accommodate 300 people, the building included a first-floor gallery, where the House of Representatives met, and space for the Senate to meet on the second floor. The building was renamed Congress Hall (Edward M. Riley, “The Independence Hall Group,” Amer. Philos. Soc., Trans. description begins American Philosophical Society, Transactions. description ends , 43:26, 27, 28 [1953]).

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    “From John Adams to Commissioners of City and County of Philadelphia, 9 December 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-20-02-0262. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 20, June 1789–February 1791, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, Neal E. Millikan, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, p. 442.]