1900.] HAYS—DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. fare 
Declaration I can find no authority in the printed /ourna/ of the 
Congress. 
On July 19, 1776, the Congress ‘* Resolved, That the Declaration 
passed on the 4th be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title 
and style of—‘‘The Unanimous Declaration of the ‘ Thirteen 
United States of America; ’ and that the same, when engrossed, 
be signed by every member of Congress’’ (Secret Journals of the 
Acts and Proceedings of Congress, Vol. i, Boston, 1821, p. 48), 
and on August 2, the Secret Journal states that, ‘‘ The Declaration 
of Independence being engrossed, and compared at the table, was 
signed by the members.”’ 
On January 18, 1777, the Congress ‘‘ Ordered, That an authen- 
ticated copy of the declaration of independency, with the names of 
the members of Congress, subscribing the same, be sent to each of 
the United States, and that they be desired to have the same put 
upon record’”’ (Journal of Congress, Vol. iii, Philadelphia: John 
Dunlap, p. 28). 
The next official edition of the Declaration was printed under 
the above resolution at Baltimore, whither the Congress had ad- 
journed from Philadelphia on December 12, 1776 because of the 
advance of the British troops and their subsequent occupation of 
that city. Copies of this edition are to be found in the Emmet 
Collection in the New York Public Library (EM. 1535) and in the 
Boston Public Library. It corresponds with No. 105 of Mr. Ford’s 
Bibliography. This broadside measures on the print 1214 inches in 
breadth by 195% inches in length and is facsimiled in Zhe Orderly 
Book of Sir John Johnson, Albany, 1882, p. 220. The line for 
line transcript of the head lines and colophon are as follows : 
In Congress, July 4, 1776, | The Unanimous | Declaration | of 
the | Thirteen United States of America | 
The text is printed in double columns, and the signatures of the 
members are appended, with that of John Hancock in the centre 
of the top line and the others being arranged beneath in four 
parallel columns, the members signing by States, with Georgia 
first. Their signatures are included in a bracket placed to the left 
with the name of the State they represent opposite. Then follows 
the text of the resolution of January 18, 1777, and signed 
By order of Congress | John Hancock, President | 
