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Winner of National Election Announced!
Incumbent John Adams Reelected to a Second term in office!
John Adams has won the election for his second term in office, his last, he says, following the precedent set by the honored former president, George Washington. The election was another close one this year, John Adams with 70 votes, Jefferson with 66. The states of Maryland and south of it all voted for Jefferson, North of that line was Adams territory. The key battleground state of Delaware decided the election, with the apparent main deciding factor being open public funding by several states of the Adams campaign.
Page 2, Adams platform and what he intends to do with the Union
Page 4, Exact Vote totals
Page 8, Rumors of rigging
Bills proposed in Congress!
The New bills include several in their number, two are proposed by the governor of Pennsylvania, one by the new President himself. The following are the proposed bills:
Proposed by Pennsylvanias governor, this one would only affect, so far, the state of Virginias tariffs on cotton.
National Free Commerce Bill
The governor has proposed a bill to Congress that makes it illegal for states to place tarrif barriers on imports from other states. States may still place their own barriers on foreign goods.
Also by the governor, this one seems to be making a potential for a steel industry in particular, and many others in the USA.
International Commerce Bill
Governor Van der Ploeg proposed a second bill to Congress, proposing a tariff on all foreign manufactured goods and metal.
Also, by the President of the United States of America a bill that may have originated in the states themselves, but was only proposed by him much later,
Free Northwest Bill
If passed, this bill will make all forms of slavery, including pure ownership and also debt slavery, illegal in the states north of the Ohio River.
These bills are on their way to the House of Representatives, where, if passed, they will go to the Senate for the final stage of lawmaking.
Industries develop!
Most notably, industries are developing in Pittsburgh and Virginia, the former being steel, the latter cotton.
see page 9 for details
OOC: In your next set of orders, say how you will vote towards the three bills. The number of Representatives you have is the same as your electoral votes, the number of senators is 2. If you dont send in any orders for how they vote, then they will vote on their own. Current party affiliation is the same as Presidential vote distribution, Federalists are mostly north of Maryland, D-Rs south and in it. Delaware is split.
Sette7, yes, you have Delaware, forgot to mention it.
KarlMarxx, you need $10,000 up front to build your proposed military. Only 5,000 were built, the max that could be by what you allocated.
Only a few states have trade as of yet, notably the massive Virginia cotton industry and the small but rapidly growing steel industry in Pittsburgh.
Next Update is Sunday, July 25, about the same time as this one.
So I shall do election this turn. Basically, instead of two turns a year, every turn is a year.(make the game go faster, too) 
