Given  at  the  Council  Chamber,  in  Boston  the  ninth  day  of
April,  A.  D.  1787,  and  in  the  11th  year  of  the  independ-
ence of  the  United  States  of  America.
JAMES  BOWDOIN.
By  his  excellency's  command. — John  Aveey,  Jun.,  Secretary.
STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT.
At  a  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  in  America,
[l.  s,]      holden  at  Hartford,  on  the  second  Thursday  of  May,
A.  D.  1787.
An  Act  for  appointing  Delegates  to  meet  in  Convention  of  the

States,  to  be  held  in  JPhilcu^elphia  on  the  second  Monday  of

May  instant.
Whereas,  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  by  their  act  of
the  21st  February,  1787,  have  recommended  that,  on  the  sec-
ond Monday  of  May  inst.,  a  Convention  of  delegates,  who  shall
have  been  appointed  by  the  several  States,  to  be  held  at  Phila-
delphia, for  the  sole  and  express  purpose  of  revising  the  Arti-
cles of  the  Confederation ; —

-Be  it  enacted  by  the  governor,  council,  and  representatives,
in    General  Court  assembled^   and  by  the  authority  of  the


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