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Record of a Meeting of Delegates from Maryland - 31 August 1787

Friday, 31 August 1787

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McHenry records a meeting of the Maryland delegation to discuss the Committee on Commercial Discrimination's report and the tactics for how they might proceed in the Convention.

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McHenry records a meeting of the Maryland delegation to discuss the Committee on Commercial Discrimination's report and the tactics for how they might proceed in the Convention.

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Endeavoured to recall the house to the reported propositions from maryland, to prevent the U. S. from giving prefe[re]nces to one State above another or to the shipping of one State above another, in collecting or laying duties. — The house averse to taking any thing up till this system is got through. XXI. adjourned on this article.

Proposed to have a private conference with each other to-morrow before meeting of the convention to take measures for carrying out propositions. etc —

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McHenry's Notes (Max Farrand, 1911)