The Court heard no cases during its first term. Once a quorum had assembled, the Justices’ first order of business was to appoint a court crier and a clerk, and to admit lawyers to the bar.
Only three of the six justices were present, however, so the court was adjourned until the following day. The scene at the Court’s scheduled opening was “uncommonly crowded,” according to the New York Daily Advertiser. A brick arcade shades the ground floor, an open air market where Broad and Waters Streets intersect in what is now the financial district.
Justices deliberated on the second floor of the gambrel-roofed hall. The cupola-crowned Royal Exchange in New York City housed the first meeting of the Supreme Court on February 1, 1790, when New York was the nation’s temporary capital.
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