On motion the name of the council was read for the benifit of the new members & cheerfully accepted by them.

Er called for the report of the Committee.

Prest. J. Smith offered some remarks of a political character and referred to a discourse between him & in relation to our political name. He said that had asked the question as to our political title and he had told him it should be, “Jeffersonianism, Jeffersonian Democracy, free trade and Sailors rights, protection of person & property[”]

On motion the name was unanimously adopted [p. [100]]