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JOURNAL OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, JANUARY 4th, 1790; AND IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SAID ... This copy has a distinguished provenance, bearing the ownership signature on the front free endpaper and again on a front fly leaf of Benjamin Huntington. Huntington (1736-1800) graduated Yale in 1761, became a lawyer, and was a member of the Connecticut state House of Representatives for much of the 1770s, serving as Speaker in 1778-79. He was a member of the Second Continental Congress and was elected to the first Congress of the United States as a pro-administration candidate in 1788. Huntington was also an ancestor of the famous collector and railroad tycoon, Henry E. Huntington.The Senate journal of the second session of the first Congress. Many important issues were settled in the discussions recorded herein, and many significant moments in the nation's history are treated in depth. Included are the first State of the Union Message, discussions of state surrender of western lands, notices of ratification of the Bill of Rights, and discussions concerning the seat of government and Hamilton's fiscal proposals. There are two issues of this Senate journal: the earlier issue (as in the case here) has the final three pages misnumbered; in the latter issue the pagination error has been corrected, and an errata added.A highly important journal describing some of the founding legisla

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