A quorum not being yet present, the House adjourned, from day to day, until the 17th instant.
SAMUEL GRIFFIN, from Virginia, took his seat.
ANDREW MOORE, from Virginia, took his seat.
No other member appearing, the House adjourned, from day to day, until the 23d instant.
The following members appeared, to wit:--
From New Jersey, ELIAS BOUDINOT; and from Maryland, WILLIAM SMITH.
No additional member appeared on the 24th.
JONATHAN PARKER, from Virginia, appeared and took his seat.
No additional member arrived until the 30th instant.
GEORGE GALE, from Maryland, and THEODORICK BLAND, from Virginia, appeared and took their seats.
No additional member on the 31st instant.
Two other members appeared, to wit: JAMES SCHUREMAN, from New Jersey, and THOMAS SCOTT, from Pennsylvania, who, forming a quorum of the whole body, it was, on motion,
_Resolved_, That this House will proceed to the choice of a Speaker by ballot.
The House accordingly proceeded to ballot for a Speaker, when it was found that a majority of the votes were in favor of FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, one of the Representatives from Pennsylvania. Whereupon Mr. MUHLENBERG was conducted to the chair, from whence he made his acknowledgments to the House for so distinguished an honor.
The House then proceeded in the same manner to the appointment of a Clerk, when it was found that Mr. JOHN BECKLEY was elected.
_Ordered_, That the members do severally deliver in their credentials at the Clerk's table.
LAMBERT CADWALADER, from New Jersey, appeared and took his seat.
GEORGE CLYMER, from Pennsylvania, appeared and took his seat.
GEORGE PARTRIDGE, from Massachusetts, appeared and took his seat.
The House proceeded to the election of a doorkeeper, and assistant doorkeeper; when Gifford Dudley was chosen to the former, and Thomas Claxton to the latter office.
DANIEL CARROLL, from Maryland, appeared and took his seat.
_Ordered_, That leave be given to bring in a bill to regulate the taking the oath or affirmation prescribed by the sixth article of the Constitution; and that Messrs. WHITE, MADISON, TRUMBULL, GILMAN, and CADWALADER, do prepare and bring in the same.
_Resolved_, That the form of the oath to be taken by the members of this House, as required by the third clause of the sixth article of the Constitution of Government of the United States, be as followeth, to wit: "I, A B, a Representative of the United States in the Congress thereof, do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) in the presence of Almighty GOD, that I will support the Constitution of the United States. So help me God."