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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1788.2
[Note 2: 2 This is the last day on which business was transacted by the Continental Congress.]
Congress assembled, present as before.
On the report3 of a committee consisting of Mr [Abraham] Clark, Mr [Hugh] Williamson and Mr [James] Madison, to whom was referred a motion of Mr [Abraham] Clark, respecting the board of commissioners, appointed under the ordinance4 of May 7th . 1787.
[Note 3: 3 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, p. 687, in the writing of Mr. Abraham Clark. Read October 10, 1788. See October 2, 1788.]
[Note 4: 4 Journals, vol. XXXII, pp. 262--266.]
Resolved, That the board of commissioners appointed pursuant to an ordinance of Congress of the 7th . of May 1787 be restrained from entering upon the business of their appointment, or finally determining any matter to them referred by the said ordinance unless all three of the said commissioners shall be present any thing in the said ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. And that said board of commissioners do not meet for the purpose of their appointment untill the board of treasury shall have notified to them that the vouchers and accounts to be returned by the district commissioners, are ready for them to act upon. And the board of treasury and the several commissioners then acting under Congress are hereby required to attend the said board of commissioners when by them requested, in order to give them any necessary information, and to explain and to support the claims of the Union. And the board of treasury
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are also required to furnish the board of commissioners with such of the clerks in the offices under the direction of the said board of treasury, as the said board of commissioners may find necessary, not exceeding two in number. And that the said board of commissioners have the privilege, while in the execution of their office, to send and receive letters by post free of postage.
A motion1 was made by Mr [Abraham] Clark, seconded by Mr [Hugh] Williamsn . in the words following, viz. That the Secretary at War be and he hereby is directed to forbear issuing warrants for bounties of land to such of the officers of the late army who have neglected to account for monies by them received as pay masters of Regiments, or for recruiting or other public service, until such officers respectively shall have settled their accounts with the commissioner of army accounts, or others legally authorised to settle the same, and have paid the balances that may be found due from them, into the treasury of the United States, any thing in the land ordinance passed the 9th . day of July 1788 to the contrary notwithstanding."
[Note 1: 1 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, III, p. 429, in the writing of Mr. Abraham Clark.]
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On the question to agree to the motion the Yeas and nays being required by Mr [Abraham] Clark,
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So the question was lost.1
[Note 1: 1 October 10, 1788. According to indorsement was read:
Petition of Jonathan Hastings and Samuel Bean, October 4, 1788, for release from a contract for carrying mail. Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, III, p. 584.
According to the Despatch Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 185, IV, p. 41, was received:
Letter of Samuel Huntington to Charles Thomson, October 3, 1788, acknowledging receipt of despatches. Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 66, II, p. 394.]
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