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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, JUNE 13, 1782.
The United States in Congress assembled, having received a letter from his Most Christian Majesty, dated March 3d, 1782, giving information of the death of the Princess Sophia Philippina Elizabeth Justina of France, agreed to the following answer:
The United States in Congress assembled, to their great, faithful and beloved friend and ally, Lewis the sixteenth, king of France and Navarre.
GREAT, FAITHFUL AND BELOVED FRIEND AND ALLY,
We learn with extreme grief, an event which has disturbed your majesty's felicity; and unite with you in offering that tribute of sorrow to the memory of your most dear and beloved aunt, the Princess Sophia Philippina Elizabeth Justina of France, which is due, as well to the eminent virtues she possessed, as to the relation in which she stood to your Majesty. We trust that our sensibility on this occasion will be considered as a fresh proof of the interest we take in every event which may affect your Majesty; and that our sincere condolence when such afflictions as are the lot of humanity put it out of our power to offer more effectual consolation, will evince our earnest desire on every occasion to contribute to Your Majesty's happiness.
We pray God, dear, great, faithful friend and ally, always to preserve and keep you under his holy protection.
Done at Philadelphia, the 13th day of June in the year of our Lord 1782, and in the sixth year of our Independence. By the United Stales in Congress
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assembled. Your Majesty's faithful friends and allies.1
[Note 1: 1 A copy of this letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 49, folio 33. It is printed in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), V, 490.
The proceedings for this day were entered only in the manuscript Secret Journal Foreign Affairs, and in Secret Journal No. 4. A copy is in Secret Journal, No. 6, Vol. III.]
[Report of the Secretary at War on a motion of the Delegates of Virginia for providing a cork leg for an officer, June 13, 1782.]
His Excellency The President Of Congress.
War Office, June 13, 1782.
Sir,
On a motion of the honorable Delegates from Virginia to provide at the public expence, a cork leg for Captain Cooper of the invalids, referred to the Secretary at War, I beg leave to lay before Congress an official report of the occasion on which Captain Cooper lost his leg, and to observe that from this circumstance Captain Cooper has no other claim to the public bounty, in this instance, than what arises from a consideration of his former services, his present indigent circumstances, and remote situation from his friends.
The sense of the house taken that the Secy: at War may advance to Capt Cooper 16 dollars in part of his pay--
Passed in the affirmative2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 599. The action of Congress is indorsed on the report. The official report from Mathew McConnell, Captain of Invalids, is on folio 603. It states that Cooper lost his leg by a wound received in fighting a duel.]
The Superintendant of Finance to whom was referred the motion of Mr [Elias] Boudinot begs leave to report the following Resolutions.
That a Commissioner be appointed to settle the accounts of the loan officers, in like manner with those directed to be appointed by the Act of the twenty seventh of February last and that the said Commissioner have like authority and salary with those to be appointed by the said Act.
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That no more bills of Exchange be drawn or issued for the interest of loan office certificates; but that the said interest Postponed. be paid out of the revenues to be granted by the several States for funding the public debts.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 137, I, folio 551. The first paragraph was referred to a committee, the latter paragraph was postponed, the indorsement states. A copy of the first paragraph, in the writing of Charles Thomson, is in No. 29, folio 203. The committee, given in Committee Book No. 186, and in No. 29, folio 204, was composed of Mr. [Abraham] Clark, Mr. [David] Howell and Mr. [Benjamin] Huntington.]
Ordered, That a letter, of June 11th, from the Superintendant of finance informing that there is no further use for a copper plate printer or inspectors of the press, be referred to him to take order.2
[Note 2: 2 This order was entered only in the journal kept by the Secretary of Congress for the Superintendent of Finance: Morris Papers, Congressional Proceedings.
On this day, according to the indorsement, was read a letter of General Washington, dated Head Quarters, June 6. It was referred to Mr. [John Morin] Scott, Mr. [Elias] Boudinot, Mr. [David] Ramsay. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, X, folio 581.]
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