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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Philadelphia merchants unanimously adopt Boston's trade resolutions against Great Britain and plan to petition the legislature to empower Congress to regulate U.S. commerce. On April 6, their committee presented a memorial to Pennsylvania's Assembly urging such powers.
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The merchants of Philadelphia have, we hear unanimously agreed to adopt similar resolutions to those of Boston, relative to trade with Great Britain. It is also asserted, that they are determined to solicit the Legislature, at their next meeting, to vest Congress with power sufficient to regulate the commercial affairs of this country.
June 6. On the 6th. of April last, the committee of merchants of Philadelphia, presented a memorial to the Assembly of Pennsylvania, stating -- That it has been considered as a fundamental defect in the constitution of Congress, that a full and entire power over the commerce of the United States has not been given to that body, and stating that a recommendation from Congress to the several states, for that purpose would meet their approbation, and praying the legislature to endeavour to procure such a recommendation from Congress, and at the same time to give assurance of a disposition in the mercantile interest of Pennsylvania favourable thereto.
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Philadelphia
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April 6 (Last), Reported June 2 And June 6
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Merchants of Philadelphia unanimously agreed to adopt resolutions similar to Boston's on trade with Great Britain and to solicit the Legislature to vest Congress with power to regulate commercial affairs. On April 6, the committee of merchants presented a memorial to the Assembly of Pennsylvania, highlighting the defect in Congress's constitution lacking full commerce power, seeking a recommendation from Congress, and assuring favorable disposition from Pennsylvania's mercantile interest.