Circular, Trenton Decemr. 24th 1784
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency an Ordinance of Congress passed yesterday for fixing the permanent and temporary residence of that body.1
With sentiments of great regard and esteem, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency's Most Obedient Servant,
Richard Henry Lee
Letter book, Papers of Continental Congress, item 16, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Endorsed: "In the letters for New Hampshire, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland & Georgia, the following was added. I am desired by Congress to request that you will be pleased to urge the Delegates from your State to repair to Congress as speedily as possible, to the end that the very important business now under consideration may receive the fullest, earliest and most mature deliberation."
1 For this December 23d ordinance, authorizing the appointment of three commissioners for laying out a new federal town, "on the banks of either side of the Delaware, not more than eight miles above or below the lower falls thereof," and announcing that Congress would adjourn on the 24th "to meet at the city of New York, on the eleventh Day of January," see JCC, 27:699 - 704.