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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 --FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1781
A motion was made by the delegates of Virginia, that the resolution of yesterday, respecting the appointment of commissioners, to treat with the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians, be repealed.
Ordered, That Thursday next be assigned for the consideration of the preceding motion; and that no copies of the resolution passed yesterday be delivered out before Monday the 12th instant.
A letter, of 28 September, from Colonel Arthur Campbell was read, inclosing a letter, of 20th of the same month, from Colonel Jos Martin.2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, VI, folio 55.]
The committee, ∥consisting of Mr. Livermore, Mr. Osgood, Mr. Varnum, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Smith, Mr. McKean, Mr. Hanson, Mr. Randolph, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Bee, and Mr. Telfair,∥ appointed [to] apportion to the several states their respective quotas of the 8 millions of dollars voted by the resolution of the 30 of October last, delivered in a report, which was taken into consideration: when the quota of Connecticut was under consideration, a motion was made by Mr. Jenifer [Daniel] Carroll, seconded by Mr. Carroll [Daniel of St. Thomas] Jenifer,
"That ninety-three thousand four hundred dollars be added:"
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On which the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Daniel] Carroll,
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So it passed in the negative.
The report being farther considered,
Resolved, That the sum of eight millions of dollars, required to be raised [by the resolution of the 30th day of October last, be paid by the states in the following proportions:
That the said sums, when paid, shall be credited to the accounts of the several states on interest, to be hereafter
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adjusted, agreeably to the resolution of the 6th of October, 1779:
That such proportion of the said sums may be paid in provisions and other articles of supplies for the army, to be delivered at places within the respective states, Repealed 3d Novr. Finance shall appoint, and the remainder in Gold or Silver; and articles of the same kind and quality shall be credited to the several states at the same prices
That certificates which may be given by the quarter-master general, or other officers properly authorised Repealed the 12th. to give them, for supplies that shall hereafter be furnished, shall be accepted in payment of the aforesaid sums.
That such certificates for supplies heretofore furnished, shall be accepted from the states producing them in payment of what may be due on former requisitions.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the several states to lay taxes for raising their quotas of money for the United States, seperate from those laid for their own particular use, and to pass acts directing the collectors to pay the same to the commissioner of the loan office, or such other person as shall be appointed by the superintendant of finance, to receive the same within the State, and to authorise such receiver to recover the moneys of the collectors, for the use of the United States, in the same manner, and under the same penalties, as state taxes are recovered by the treasurers of the respective states, to be subject only to the orders of Congress, or the superintendant of finance.]1
[Note 1: 1 The portion in brackets was entered in the Journal by George Bond.]
Resolved, That Congress consider the present mode of assigning the quotas of the several States according to the number of inhabitants as a temporary expedient.
Resolved, That all sums at any time paid by any State before the completion of the estimate of lands and their improvements directed to
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be made by the confederation shall be passed to the credit of such State, on the terms prescribed by the first article of a resolution of Congress of the 22d day of November 1777.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Roger Sherman, except the last two paragraphs, which are in Edmund Randolph's writing, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, folio 313.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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