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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 --SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1781
On report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Arthur] Middleton, Mr. [George] Clymer and Mr. [Abraham] Clark, to whom was referred a motion for supplying the several States with copies of ordinances or reports previously to their being debated,
Ordered, That whenever a day is assigned for the consideration of any ordinance or report, upon a matter of importance and not of a secret nature, the secretary, ex officio, cause to be made out and laid upon the table of Congress, as soon as may be, a copy of such ordinance or report for each State represented in Congress, for the information of members previously to their being debated.3
[Note 3: 3 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 23, folios 83--87.]
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An ordinance for incorporating the subscribers to the national bank, was read a first time:
The Committee appointed to confer with the Bank upon the act of incorporation proposed by them to Congress.
Report,
That it does not seem probable, that an Act of incorporation could be obtained from the Legislature of Pennsylvania before the middle of next March.
That in the Meantime, the finances of the United States must suffer considerably without the aid of the Bank.
That the Bank cannot operate without an act of incorporation from Congress itself.
The Committee therefore--
Report the following act of incorporation (here read the act, and let a question be taken upon reading it a second time on Monday next) and the Committee beg leave to sit again.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the Legislature of Each State to pass a Law, ratifying the preceding act of incorporation; and to pass other laws according to the recommendations, contained in the Resolutions of the 26th day of May last, respecting the National Bank.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Edmund Randolph, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 59, III, folio 315.]
Ordered, That Monday next be assigned for a second reading.2
[Note 2: 2 A letter of December 21 from Major General William Heath, enclosing a paragraph of a letter from Brigadier General John Stark, was read this day, as the indorsement shows, and referred to a committee consisting of Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [Abraham] Clark, Mr. [Joseph] Jones and Mr. [Arthur] Middleton. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 40, II, folio 173.
A letter of December 27 from the Secretary at War enclosing a statement by Captain Pry of losses of clothing was delivered December 28; it is in No. 149, I, folio 73, and Pry's memorial, dated December 26, 1781, is on folio 67.
Also on the same date, according to the indorsement, a letter of December 27 from General Washington was read and referred to Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, and Mr. [Richard] Law. It is in No. 152, X, folio 425, and is printed in The Writings of Washington (Ford), IX, 421.]
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