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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 --TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1781
A letter, of February 18th, from Colonel D. Broadhead, with a copy of a letter enclosed, signed Win. Penn at Wylapacheechon, was read:3
[Note 3: 3 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, IV, folio 81.]
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of War, to report a state of the western department and their opinion thereon.
A petition of Major Holmer was read:4
[Note 4: 4 This petition is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, III, folio 401.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War to take order, the resolution of the 4th of January notwithstanding.
A letter from Win. Davies, colonel 1st Virginia regiment, with a representation from the field officers of the Virginia line enclosed, was read:
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of War, to report a state of facts and their opinion thereon.
A letter from J. Bradford was read:5
[Note 5: 5 Davies' letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, VII, folio 365; that of Bradford is in No. 78, IV, folio 125.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
According to the order of the day the house was resolved into a Committee of the Whole, and after some time the President resumed the chair, and Mr. [John] Mathews reported
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that the Committee have made some farther progress in the matters referred to them but not having come to a conclusion desire leave to sit again:
IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
Resolved, That in the discharge of all this requisition, as well as those made by Congress on the 26th August and the 4th November, on the states, forAmended defraying the expences of the war, except those for sinking the bills emitted by Congress prior to the 18th March, the bills of credit emitted pursuant to the said resolutions of the 18th of March last, shall be received at the treasury of the United States as equal to and in lieu of the like sum of specie, whether the same shall have been issued by the states paying them, or by any other State; and that interest be computed thereon in favour of the states from whom such bills shall be received, to the time assigned for discharging the several requisitions respectively.1
[Note 1: 1 This resolution was entered only in the manuscript Secret Journal No. 8.]
Ordered, That to Morrow the United States in Congress assembled be resolved into a Committee of the Whole, to consider further the reports on finance and other papers referred to that Committee.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.2
[Note 2: 2 From this point Thomson resumes the entries.]
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