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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Sir Annapolis 1st Jany 1784
About the Time we adjourned from Princeton I recd. a Line from you,(1) to which you would probably have discovered before this Time that I had paid Every possible attention; but there have not since that Time been nine States represented in Congress. Your concerns are delayed with the most important ones of the Nation.
On the Application of some foreign Officers for some immediate Pay a Committee was appointed some Time ago of which I am chairman. The Journals ought to shew what has and what has not been promised or done for the Foreign Officers who have been in our Service, but there are different opinions as to the manner in which our executive Officers construe the meaning of these Journals. Be so good as inform me whether in settling the Accots of foreign Officers who have been in our service they have been allowed half Pay. If half
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JANUARY 1, 1784
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Pay has been allowed to any of them whether it has indiscriminately been allowed to those who had & to those who had not taken the Oath of fidelity to the States? (2)
I have the Honor to be, Your obed & hble Servt.
Hu Williamson
RC (NN: Emmet Collection, no. 9392).
1 Not in PCC.
2 A committee consisting of Williamson, William Ellery, and Samuel Osgood had been appointed to take into consideration an October 29 appeal from General Duportail, commander of Continental Engineers, on behalf of recently retired foreign officers whose accounts had not been settled as Congress had authorized on October 10. See JCC, 25:771; and PCC, item 78, 8:43-46. No response from Paymaster Pierce to Williamson's query is in the PCC, but for the committee's January 21 recommendations for relieving such officers, which were adopted the following day, see JCC, 26:42-44.
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