zed to embrace such other objects, in the memorials, as
they might judge proper.

Resolved, That Theodore Foster, William Rawle, and William Johnson, be
a committee to consider, and report, whether any, and what, amendments,
appear necessary in the act, passed by the Congress of the United
States, prohibiting the carrying on the slave-trade to any foreign
place or country.

Resolved, That it be recommended to the several Societies, to transmit,
to the next Convention, an account of the number of free Negroes in
their respective states, with a general statement of their property,
employments, and moral conduct.

The address, to the several Abolition Societies, was re-committed to
William Walton Woolsey, William Johnson, Samuel Coates, and Robert
Patterson, for the purpose of incorporating therein such other matters
as this Convention have resolved to recommend to the said Societies.

Adjourned till to-morrow evening at six o'clock.

_January 13th. 1795._

The Convention met.

Present--Uriah Tracy, Zephaniah Swift, Theodore Foster, William
Johnson, Lawrence Embree, William Dunlap, William Walton Woolsey,
James Sloan, William Rawle, Robert Patterson, Samuel Coates, Caspar
Wistar, James Todd, Benjamin Say, Caleb Boyer, Cyrus Newlin, Joseph
Warner, Joseph Townsend, Joseph Thornburgh, John Bankson, Philip Moore,
Edward Scott, and James Houston.

The President being absent, Theodore Foster was appointed to preside
for the evening.

The committee, appointed to prepare memorials to the Legislatures of
the states of Georgia and South Carolina, presented two essays, which
were read; the one to the Legislature of Georgia, was ordered to lie on
the table; that to the Legislature of South Carolina, after amendment,
was agreed to as follows, _viz._

_To the ---- of the State of South Carolina._

The memorial and petition of the Delegates from the several
Societies, formed in different parts of the United States,
for promoting the abolition of slavery, in Convention
assembled, in Philadelphia, on the seventh day of January,
1795.

_Respectfully shew_,

THAT, having been deputed, and having convened, for the purpose of
considering, and carrying into effect, the most proper measures for
the abolition of slavery; and being forcibly impressed with a sense of
the dangers to which the citizens of the United States are exposed,
while a numerous class of men exist among them, deprived of their