. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . TION ETC., FROM COPY OF THK ORIGINAL PETITION AMONG THE YHATKR PAPERSITORICAL SOCIETY. ^ <.7 ^ ^Af. ^ y~^. /? ^/ THE NEW GOVERNMENT 83 measure. On the same day Colonel George Ross, sec-onded by Mr. Clymer, tried to get a reconsideration ofthe one-branch feature of the Legislature, but in vain. Dayby day the work in Committee of the Whole was devotedto the new Constitution, and on the 23d, when it becameevident that the work was nearly done, a committee waschosen, composed of Colonel Matlack,
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . TION ETC., FROM COPY OF THK ORIGINAL PETITION AMONG THE YHATKR PAPERSITORICAL SOCIETY. ^ <.7 ^ ^Af. ^ y~^. /? ^/ THE NEW GOVERNMENT 83 measure. On the same day Colonel George Ross, sec-onded by Mr. Clymer, tried to get a reconsideration ofthe one-branch feature of the Legislature, but in vain. Dayby day the work in Committee of the Whole was devotedto the new Constitution, and on the 23d, when it becameevident that the work was nearly done, a committee waschosen, composed of Colonel Matlack, Mr. Jacobs andColonel Thomas Smith, to draw up an ordinance carryingout elections under the proposed Constitution. The drastic measures of Mr. Cannons committee soonstirred the supposedly defunct Assembly to action, al-though it was apparently impossible to secure a the 24th twenty-nine met—there seems to be no recordwhere—and attempted to vote the budget which car-ried ii,ooo for the late Governor John Penn. Many ofthe old members, who had declared the Province a freeState, took care to attend, and among them was ColonelThomas Smith. He and eleven others voted agai
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