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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3

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Extract from the Minutes of the Continental Congress
Continental Congress
Thursday, June 20, 1776

Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to draw up rules and regulations for the conduct of Congress1

The members chosen, Mr. Rutledge, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Paine.

Printed in Journals of the Continental Congress, 5:468.

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The committee report appears below under the date July 10, 1776.