The court cannot determine what motions may or may not be proper to be made here after; at the same time they think it proper to inform the agents on both sides, that they mean to govern themselves by the principles of law, so far as they ought to apply in the pre sent case. The court adjourned till to-morrow ten of the clock. SATURDAY, November 23, 1782. The court met: present as before. A motion was made by the agents for the state of Connecticut, in the words following: The agents for the state of Connecticut, sensible that in the course of this trial they will have occasion to make use of many depositions, taken before a justice of the peace according to the laws of the state in which they were taken, respecting the purchase of the Indian sachems, native proprietors of said lands, their deeds and the execution of them, the settlements that have been made on said lands, and sundry other matters which will be necessary in said trial, beg leave now to move for the opinion of the court, whether such depositions, taken as aforesaid, will be admitted as evidence in the case. DYER, Which being followed by a motion from the agents for the state of Pennslyvania, in these words: November 23, 1782. The agents for Pennsylvania, in reply to the written motion just filed by the agents of Connecticut, praying the opinion of the court respecting the admissibility of testimony, before the court proceeds upon a hearing of the cause, and before the testimony be regularly offered, humbly beg leave to object to the same motion, as irregular and unprecedented, and such as the court ought not to decide upon and of this they pray the opinion of the court. WM. BRADFORD, Jun. JON. D. SARGEANT. JAMES WILSON, The court determined, that they can give no opinion upon the admission of testimony until regularly offered. The agents for the state of Pennsylvania, gave the following notice in writing, viz. Pennsylvania v. Connecticut. The agents for Pennsylvania, anxious for the speedy determination of this cause, and desirous that the agents for Connecticut may have no reason to complain of hardship or surprize, do hereby, in the presence of the court, give notice to the sail agents for Connecticut, that they shall conceive it their duty to oppose the admission of any ex parte depositions, as evidence in this cause; and that they shall object to any application, for a commission to take the examination of witnesses, and to any motion for delaying this cause on the account of the absence of witnesses, unless such motion or application be forthwith made, so as to avoid unnecessary delay. November 23, 1782. WM. BRADFORD, Jun. JON. D. SARGEANT. The court adjourned until Monday morning next, ten of the clock. MONDAY, November 25, 1782. The court met pursuant to adjournment: present as before. The agents for the state of Connecticut made the following answer to the notice given by the agents for the state of Pennsylvania, on Saturday last, viz. Pennsylvania v. Connecticut. Now the agents for Connecticut, in answer to the notice given them by the agents for Pennsylvania on the 23d inst. say, that they being desirous of a just as well as a speedy decision of this cause, and that they, relying on the wisdom, equity and justice of this honorable court, that all questions and motions which shall come before them, will be righteously determined, are ready to proceed. And that the agents for Pennsylvania may not suffer any disadvantage by first disclosing their exhibits and evidence, the agents of Connecticut are willing, and now offer to go forward in their exhibits and proofs. November 25, 1782. E. DYER, J. ROOT, } Agents for Connecticut. Ordered, That the agents for the state of Pennsylvania proceed with their proofs and exhibits. Whereupon, Mr. Bradford opened the cause, and proceeded accordingly. TUESDAY, November 26, 1782. The court met: present as before. The court met: present as before. Farther proofs and exhibits on the part of Pennsylvania. The court adjourned till Friday morning next, ten of the clock. FRIDAY, November 29, 1782. The court met: present as before. The agents for the state of Connecticut proceeded to the proofs and exhibits on the part of the said state. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. SATURDAY, November 30, 1782. The court met: present as before. The proofs and exhibits continued on the part of Connecticut. MONDAY, December 2, 1782. The court met: present as before. On motion of the agents for the state of Pennsylvania, Ordered, That a commission do issue to take the deposition of the right hon. William, earl of Sterling, the agents of Connecticut having notice thereof. Farther proofs and exhibits on the part of Connecticut. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. TUESDAY, December 3, 1782. The court met: present as before. The agents of Pennsylvania, in order to remove the doubts which were suggested by the agents of Connecticut, and entertained by some of the members of the court, as to their former powers, produced a new commission of agency, which is in the words following: Pennsylvania, ss. In the name and by the authority of the freemen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania: The president and supreme executive council of the said commonwealth : To William Bradford, jun, esq. attorney-general of the said commonwealth, Joseph Reed, James Wilson, Jonathan Dickinson Sargeant, and Henry Osborne, esqrs. (L. S.) WE reposing especial trust and confidence in your prudence, integrity and abilities, do by these presents constitute and appoint you, John Dickinson, the said William Bradford, jun. Joseph Reed, James Wilson and Jonathan Dickinson Sargeant, our counsellors and agents, and you the said Henry Osborne, our solicitor and agent, in the cause now depending before the honorable the commissioners and judges, appointed by virtue of the 9th article of the confederation of the United States of America, to hear and finally determine the controversy subsisting between the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the state of Connecticut: hereby ratifying and confirming all, and whatsoever you our said counsellors and agents, or any two of you, shall lawfully do or cause to be done, or heretofore have lawfully done or caused to be done, touching the said cause between the said states of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Given in council, under the hand of the president and the seal of the state, at Phila- Attest: The agents for the state of Connecticut continued their proofs and exhibits. WEDNESDAY, December 4, 1782. The court met: present as before. The proofs and exhibits, on the part of Connecticut, continued. The agents for the state of Connecticut, having offered in evidence the proofs or attestations annexed to a certain deed, signed by Kahick Toton and other Indians, dated 11th July, 1754; which deed had yesterday been admitted to be read; the agents for the state of Pennsylvania objected to the reading of the said proofs and attestation, alleging that they contained sundry circumstances relating to the manner of obtaining the said deed, which were improper to be given in evidence; whereupon, after argument, the court ruled that the same be read. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. THURSDAY, December 5, 1782. The court met: present as before. The proofs and exhibits, on the part of Connecticut, continued: On motion of the agents for the state of Pennsylvania, James Van Acken, esq. of that state, was sworn to give evidence in the cause. FRIDAY, December 6, 1782. The court met: present as before. The court met: present as before. Proofs and exhibits, on the part of Pennsylvania, continued. MONDAY, December 9, 1782. The court met: present as before. Proofs and exhibits, on the part of Pennsylvania, concluded. Proofs and exhibits, on the part of Connecticut, resumed and concluded. TUESDAY, December 10, 1782. The court met: present as before. The proofs and exhibits, on the part of Pennsylvania, and on the part of Connecticut, being finished, Ordered, That the agents proceed in the arguments alternately, and that one conclude on the part of the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Root, one of the agents for the state of Connecticut, proceeded to argue the cause. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. WEDNESDAY, December 11, 1782. The court met: present as before. Mr. Sargeant proceeded with the argument on the part of the state of Pennsylvania. The hon. Samuel Wharton and Richard Peters, esqrs, were produced as witnesses by the agents for the state of Pennsylvania, and their evidence taken. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. THURSDAY, December 12, 1782. The court met: present as before. Mr. Sargeant continued the argument on the part of the state of Pennsylvania. His excellency governor Livingston was produced as a witness by the agents for the state of Pennsylvania, and evidence taken. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. FRIDAY, December 13, 1782. The court met: present as before. Mr. Dyer proceeded with the argument on the part of the state of Connecticut. SATURDAY, December 14, 1782. The court met: present as before. Mr. Dyer continued the argument on the part of the state of Connecticut. MONDAY, December 16, 1782, The court met: present as before. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. TUESDAY, December 17, 1782. The court met: present as before. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. WEDNESDAY, December 18, 1782. The court met: present as before. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. THURSDAY, December 19, 1782. The court met: present as before. Mr. Wilson continued the argument on the part of the state of Pennsylvania. The court met: present as before. SIX O'CLOCK P. M. Mr. Wilson continued the argument on the part of the state of Pennsylvania. FRIDAY, December 20, 1782. Mr. Wilson continued the argument on the part of the state of Pennsylvania. SATURDAY, December 21, 1782. The court met: present as before. Mr. Johnson proceeded with the argument on the part of the state of Connecticut. MONDAY, December 23, 1782. The court met: present as before. Mr. Johnson continued the argument on the part of the state of Connecticut. The court met: present as before. SIX O'CLOCK P. M. Mr. Johnson concluded the argument on the part of the state of Connecticut. TUESDAY, December 24, 1782. The court met: present as before. Mr. Reed proceeded with the argument on the part of the state of Pennsylvania. The court met: present as before. SIX O'CLOCK P. M. Mr. Reed concluded the argument on the part of the state of Pennsylvania. WEDNESDAY, December 25, 1782. The court met: present as before. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. THURSDAY, December 26, 1782. The court met: present as before. The commission for taking the deposition of the right hon. William, earl of Sterling, being returned with the deposition annexed: Ordered, That the same be filed. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. FRIDAY, December 27, 1782. The court met: present as before. The court adjourned till to-morrow morning ten of the clock. SATURDAY, December 28, 1782. The court met: present as before. The court adjourned till Monday morning next, ten of the clock. MONDAY, December 30, 1782. The court met: present as before. The agents attending, the court pronounced the following sentence or judgment: The court are now to pronounce their sentence or judgment. We are unanimously of opinion, that the state of Connecticut has no right to the lands in controversy. We are also unanimously of opinion, that the jurisdiction and pre-emption of all the territory lying within the charter boundary of Pennsylvania, and now claimed by the state of Connecticut, do of right belong to the state of Pennsylvania. WM. WHIPPLE, WELCOME ARNOLD, WM. C. HOUSTON. TRENTON, December 30, 1782. Attest: WM. WHIPPLE, President. TUESDAY, January 7, 1783. On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. Fitzsimmons, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Hamilton, to whom was referred a report from the secretary at war : 141 Resolved, That cols. John Greaton and Rufus Putnam, of the Massachusetts line, and col. Elias Dayton, of the Jersey line, be promoted to the rank of brigadier-generals, agreeably to the resolution of the 12th day of Dec. 1782. A grand committee, consisting of Mr. Rutledge, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Howell, Mr. Dyer, Mr. Duane, Mr. Witherspoon, Mr. Fitzsimmons, Mr. McKean, Mr. Hanson, Mr. Lee, Mr. Williamson, and Mr. Telfair, to whom were referred a letter of the 21st of October, 1782, from the legislature of Massachusetts, and a motion of Mr. Osgood; having reported thereon as follows: "That individuals in each state, who are possessed of continental paper money, be entitled to receive from the commissioner who is or shall be appointed to settle the accounts of the several states, and of individuals therein, against the United States, a specie certificate for all such sums of the said money as they shall respectively pay into the hands of such commissioner, at the rate of continental dollars; the certificates to bear one silver dollar for every interest of six per cent. from the date, and be provided for as other public debts; but that no money shall be received or certificates granted by the said commissioners after the last day of December, 1783. That the states which have not sunk the proportions assigned to them, of the continental money, be charged with the deficiency, or the amount of what they have not sunk, at the rate aforesaid." And the said report being taken into consideration, a motion was made by Mr. Williamson, seconded by Mr. Carroll, that the further con sideration be postponed; and on the question for postponing, the yeas and mays being required by Mr. Gilman, N-Hampshire, Mr. Gilman, White, Massachusetts, Mr. Osgood, ay] no Pennsylvania, Mr. Mifflin, no Fitzsimmons, no no Wilson, ay Gorham, no S Montgomery, ay Peters, ay Rhode-Island, Mr. Collins, Arnold, no Delaware, Mr. Dickinson, ay Wharton, ay Connecticut, Mr. Ellsworth, no Wolcott, Maryland, Mr. Carroll, ay Dyer, no New-York, Mr. Floyd, no Virginia, Mr. Madison, no Mr. Hawkins, ay no Williamson, ay ay Hamilton, no New-Jersey, Mr. Boudinot, no Elmer, ay ay Rutledge, ay div. ay Ranisay, So the motion was lost. ay no A motion was then made by Mr. Wolcott, seconded by Mr. Gervais, that the consideration of the report be postponed to take up the following motion: "That it be recommended to the several states, that they immediately take the most effectual measures to redeem their respective quotas of the old bills of public credit out of the hands of their possessors, upon such principles as will, in their opinion, render the most substantial justice to their own citizens and those of the United States :" And on the question, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. Wolcott, |