Excerpt from Minutes of the Second Session of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Which Commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the Ninth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety A letter from Melchior Steiner, Printer of the minutes in the German language, was read, in Excufe for not having completed the bufinefs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.