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    <title>William Maclay journals and note, 1789-1791</title>
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  <abstract>Journals (1789 April 24-1791 March 3) kept by Maclay as a U.S. senator in the first U.S. Congress and note (1790) to John Nicholson.  Describes legislative and procedural debates relating to such questions as protocol for ceremonies; relations between the House and the Senate; the tariff of 1789; the judiciary bill; compensation for members of Congress; Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von Steuben's accounts; assumption of state debts; Alexander Hamilton's report on public credit; the creation of a national bank; and the establishment of a national mint.  Also includes personal observations and accounts of the social life of the members of Congress.  Volume 1 contains drafts of letters to Tench Coxe, Samuel Meredith, Richard Peters, and Benjamin Rush.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,459.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.</note>
  <note>U.S. senator of Pennsylvania, lawyer, and jurist.</note>
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