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THE CREATION OF THE PRESIDENCY: THE COMPLETION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. The Evening Chronicle. Vol 2, no 90. Philadelphia: printed by Robert Smith, September 18, 1787.
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THE CREATION OF THE PRESIDENCY: THE COMPLETION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
The Evening Chronicle. Vol 2, no 90. Philadelphia: printed by Robert Smith, September 18, 1787.
Bifolium (383 x 218 mm). Leaves separated and re-hinged with tape, tape repair across last page covering 4 lines, ownership inscription trimmed.
EARLY AND RARE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COMPLETION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, LATE-BREAKING NEWS IN A PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPER. "Yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock the federal convention, after having concluded the important task of framing a federal system of government, broke up: and many of the delegates, we are informed, are already on their way to communicate to their constituents the result of their deliberations. And we trust every friend to the peace and prosperity of America, is prepared to receive with respect, and to consider with candor the propositions which will soon be divulged."
This notice is inaccurately dated September 15, whereas the date of the paper, September 18, is the correct one, a mere typographical error in the rush to go to press with this late-breaking news. The time of the adjournment of the Constitutional Convention was indeed 4 o'clock in the afternoon of September 17, 1787, having been in secret sessions since May. Robert Smith, the printer of this paper, was also among the first printers of the complete Constitution, and this announcement appears simultaneously with Dunlap and Claypoole announcement in the Pennsylvania Packet.
Bifolium (383 x 218 mm). Leaves separated and re-hinged with tape, tape repair across last page covering 4 lines, ownership inscription trimmed.
EARLY AND RARE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COMPLETION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, LATE-BREAKING NEWS IN A PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPER. "Yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock the federal convention, after having concluded the important task of framing a federal system of government, broke up: and many of the delegates, we are informed, are already on their way to communicate to their constituents the result of their deliberations. And we trust every friend to the peace and prosperity of America, is prepared to receive with respect, and to consider with candor the propositions which will soon be divulged."
This notice is inaccurately dated September 15, whereas the date of the paper, September 18, is the correct one, a mere typographical error in the rush to go to press with this late-breaking news. The time of the adjournment of the Constitutional Convention was indeed 4 o'clock in the afternoon of September 17, 1787, having been in secret sessions since May. Robert Smith, the printer of this paper, was also among the first printers of the complete Constitution, and this announcement appears simultaneously with Dunlap and Claypoole announcement in the Pennsylvania Packet.