Extract from the minutes of the proceedings of a general meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, held in the State House yard, on Monday the 30th of July, 1792
Subtitle: "It was moved and seconded, that a committee of correspondence, consisting of seven, be appointed to collect information of the sense of the people in different parts of the state, respecting the characters proper to be nominated as members of Congress ..."
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 46543
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Politics and government; Philadelphia (Pa.). Committee of Correspondence
Notes: This Committee of Correspondence was the mechanism favored by the Republicans for nominating Congressional condidates; the Federalists preferred the conference, or nominating convention. Cf. Tinkcom, H.M. Republicans and Federalists in Pennsylvania, 1790-1801 (Harrisburg, Pa., 1950).

Signed: Thomas M'Kean, chairman. Robert H. Dunkin, secretary of the meeting.

Bristol B8107

Shipton & Mooney 46543