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Dates:

7 Apr. 1789

Original paper slip text:7 April 1789

Author:

House of Representatives

Original paper slip text:House.

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Title:

Standing Rules and Orders of the

House of Representatives

Original paper slip text:House.

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Length:

4 p. (printed document without imprint)

Notes:

"Extract from the Journal, John Beckley, clerk."
Note: This is the sole recorded copy of the earliest known imprint of the U.S. House of Representatives. See James B. Childs in Bibliog. Soc. Amer., Papers, 58 (1964):101–102, with facsimile of first page of document at pl. II (following p. 108).
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Massachusetts Historical Society

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