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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 --THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1781
A letter, of 5, from General Washington at Chester was read, announcing the arrival of the fleet under Count de Grasse in Chesapeak.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, X, folio 237.]
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Treasury Office, September 5, 1781.
The Board of Treasury beg leave to inform the United States in Congress assembled, that there are a number of Letters directed to them now laying in the General Post Office, which the Post Master General refuses to deliver, without the Postage is paid in Specie, which will amount to a considerable sum. The Board are not possessed of any Specie to pay the Postage, and the Public Business may be much injured by the Detention of Letters which the Board have Reason to suppose are of great Importance: the following Resolution is therefore submitted:
Ordered, That the postmaster general cause to be delivered to the Board of Treasury, all letters directed to the said Board, charging the postage arising thereon to account, which he is to exhibit to the auditors on the settlement of his accounts.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, V, folio 457.]
The committee of the week made a report on a memorial of Colonel Udney Hay; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the commissioners of Indian affairs for the northern department be and hereby are empowered to adjust and settle the demands of Jellis Fonda on the contract made by him with Colonel Udney Hay, deputy commissary general of purchases for supplies for the friendly Indians who have retreated to the neighborhood of Schenectada for protection, and to make such equitable allowance for the articles for
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which no prices are ascertained in the contract as they shall think reasonable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 241. Hay's memorial, dated September 3, 1781, is in No. 41, IV, folio 189.]
The report of the committee on the regulation of the treasury office was taken into consideration, and after debate:
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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