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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 --WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1781
A letter, of 24 November, from the governor of the State of New York, was read, together with concurrent resolutions of the senate and assembly of the said State, declarative of their sense on the acts of Congress of the 7th and 20th August
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last, respecting the people residing on the New Hampshire Grants, on the west side of Connecticut River:1
[Note 1: 1 These papers are in the Papers of the Continental Congress No. 40, II, folios 105117, 123.
Another letter from the Governor of New York, of November 24, inclosing a resolution of senate and assembly relative to the financial condition of the State was read and referred to Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [William Churchill] Houston and Mr. J[oseph] Jones. It is in No. 67, II, folio 445.]
Ordered, That the concurrent resolutions be filed in the secretary's office among the archives of Congress.
The committee, consisting of Mr. [James] Lovell, Mr. [Daniel] Carroll and Mr. [Thomas] Bee, to whom was referred a letter, of 30 November last, from Thomas Edison, report:
"That Thomas Edison has by an essential service to the United States and a singular proof of his fidelity to their interests, recommended himself to the attention and reward of Congress"; Whereupon,
Ordered, That the sum of two hundred and sixty-six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar be paid to Thomas Edison out of the treasury of the United States.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of James Lovell, except the first resolution which is in Thomas Bee's hand, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, II, folios 201 and 203. The resolution and order were also entered in the manuscript Secret (Domestic) Journal. Edison's letter is in No. 78, VIII, folio 375.]
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