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The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser
Washington, District Of Columbia
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New York House of Assembly passes resolutions in committee of the whole, affirming that electors for President and Vice-President may be chosen by the people under the U.S. Constitution, and appointing a committee to draft a bill dividing the state into 19 districts for selecting electors.
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Resolved, as the sense of this committee, that, by a fair construction of the constitution of the United States, electors of President and Vice-President may be chosen by the people.
Resolved, as the sense of this committee, that a committee be appointed to bring in a bill for dividing this state into nineteen districts, for choosing the electors of President and Vice President.
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New York
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resolutions passed; committee appointed to draft bill.
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The house of assembly of New-York, in committee of the whole, passed resolutions relative to electors of President and Vice-President: that electors may be chosen by the people by fair construction of the U.S. Constitution, and that a committee be appointed to bring in a bill dividing the state into nineteen districts for choosing the electors.