Note 21 — FIRST CONGRESS.—FIRST SESSION. (continued 2)

The members of the two Houses of Congress began to assemble on the 4th day of March, but a quorum did not appear in the House of Representatives until the 1st of April, nor in the Senate until the 6th of that month. The organization of the two Houses necessarily preceded the inauguration of the President, which took place on the 30th of April. Some of the ceremonies observed on that occasion, and for some time afterwards, have since been discontinued: as, the proclamation for the long life of the President—his repairing to church to attend divine service, accompanied by the two Houses—his re-conducting to his own house by a committee of the two Houses—the answer to the inaugural address by each House.