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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, JULY 28, 1781
Ordered, That the memorial from the honble. the Minister plenipotentiary of France, and the plan of a convention for regulating the powers and privileges of consuls, vice consuls and agents, be referred to a committee of three:
The members, Mr. [Edmund] Randolph, Mr. [Nicholas] Van Dyke, Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth.1
[Note 1: 1 These two paragraphs were also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
A report of the committee of the week was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a memorial of James Wharton, with the papers attending it, be referred to the Board of Treasury, and that they confer with the superintendant of finance on the subject thereof;
That the petition of Captain Von Heer be referred to the Board of War
That a letter, of 27, from E. Smith, be referred to the Board of Treasury.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Elias Boudinot, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folios 201 and 203. Smith's letter is in No. 78, XXI, folio 91; Wharton's memorial, dated July 25, 1781, is in No. 78, XXIV, folio 333; the letter of transmittal is on folio 329.]
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A letter from Abrm. Haryls and Ebenezer Richmond was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on the letter and papers from the president of New Hampshire, and, some time being spent thereon:
Treasury Office July 27th. 1781
The Board beg leave to lay before the United States in Congress assembled a letter from Mr Thomas Hutchins Geographer of the United States dated the 26th instant requesting, beyond the payment of his debts here, an advance of 2000 dollars specie to enable him to join the Southern army. The Board also inform Congress they have no means in their power to supply any part of the sums demanded.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, V, folio 419, and was read on this day, as the indorsement shows.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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