Excerpt from The Life and Public Services of J. Clancy Jones, Vol. 2 of 2

The House removed to its new Hall in the south wing of the Capitol on Wednesday, December 16, 18 57.

During this session Mr. Jones occupied with his family a residence at No. 476 H Street.

After the meeting Of Congress Mr. Jones was invited to address a meeting of the Democrats of Philadelphia, but the laborious duties of his position as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means made this impossible. He therefore wrote the following letter declining the invitation.

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