Motion to Admit the Freeholders and Inhabitants

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Monday, October 30, 1775.

The House met pursuant to adjournment.

A motion was made and seconded, that the Freeholders and other Inhabitants qualified to elect Members of Assembly be admitted to hear the debates of the Committee of the Whole House to-morrow; and after some time spent in the consideration thereof, the question being called for, and put by the Speaker, it passed in the negative:

Yeas.
Mr˙ Parker,
Mr˙ Morris,
Mr˙ Grubb,
Mr˙ Ross,
Mr˙ Ewing,
Mr˙ Montgomery,
Mr˙ Kachlein,
Mr˙ Taylor,
Mr˙ Dougherty.

Nays.
Mr˙ Hillegas,
Mr˙ Gray,
Mr˙ Potts,
Mr˙ Miles,
Mr˙ Rodman,
Mr˙ Haney,
Mr˙ Wynkoop,
Mr˙ Foulke,
Mr˙ Chapman,
Mr˙ Twining,
Mr˙ Brown,
Mr˙ Jenke,
Mr˙ Gibbons,
Mr˙ Pearson,
Mr˙ Humphreys,
Mr˙ Pyle,
Mr˙ Slough,
Mr˙ Webb.

The House adjourned to ten o' clock, to-morrow morning.