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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 --WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1782.
Ordered, That Mr. [James] Lovell have leave of absence.
[Motion of Mr Oliver Ellsworth]
That the Comr for settling the accts of the Commissary Genls department be directed to reduce into specie value the whole of the purchases and expenditure of the late Commissry Genl Trumbull (the value to be ascertained at the end of every month) and to estimate the Commissn on the said expenditures in specie agreeable to the rates mentioned in the act of Congress of the 31st day March 1779.3
[Note 3: 3 This motion, in the writing of Thomas Fitzsimmons, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, I, folio 263. According to the indorsement, it was passed this day.]
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