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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 --MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1782
On a report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood and Mr. [James] Madison, to whom was referred a letter of February 1st, from the Superintendant of finance, Congress came to the following resolution:
Whereas the traders capitulants at York-town in Virginia, by the ninth article of the capitulation, are allowed to dispose
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of and remove their effects; and having in consequence thereof made sale of their said effects, and being thereby empowered to receive and carry off the monies arising there-from, have applied for permission to export tobacco to the amount thereof:
Resolved, That the secretary of Congress be, and hereby is empowered to grant letters of passport and safe conduct for the exportation of such tobacco to New York, on the conditions and under the limitations which shall, to the said Secretary and to the Superintendant of the finances of the United States, appear most proper and beneficial to the said states, being consistent with the said capitulation: provided always, that permission be not given for the exporting of tobacco, beyond the amount of the produce of the sales of the said goods belonging to the capitulants abovementioned.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of a clerk, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, IV, folio 343.]
On a report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood and Mr. [James] Madison, to whom was referred a letter of January 30, from the Commander in Chief,
That they have taken the same into their consideration, and are of opinion that to admit the States individually to furnish cloathing for their own troops would be inconsistent with the resolutions of the 18 June last, whereby it is provided that the cloathing for all the troops of the United States indiscriminately be issued from the department of the cloathier general--therefore
Resolved, That the cloathier general be, and he is hereby directed to agree for and purchase of the State of Massachusetts, all such cloathing as may have been or shall be provided by that State, before the opening of the ensuing campaign; and that he take charge of the said cloathing; and that the amount thereof be passed by the United States to the credit of the said State on the requisitions previous to the 30th day of October, 1781.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of George Clymer, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, VI, folio 381.]
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On a report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Edmund] Randolph, Mr. [Elias] Boudinot and Mr. T[homas] Smith, to whom was referred a memorial of James Wilson, in behalf of David Gardner, Nathaniel Fanning, Jeremiah Wells, Selah Havens, James McClure and Nathan Woodhull, praying for reasons therein specially set forth, that their appeal against the sentence of the courts of admiralty in the State of Connecticut, may be received:
Resolved, That the court of appeals be, and hereby is authorised to hear the parties on the subject matter of the said memorial, and to do what shall thereupon appear to the said court just and right, the act of the 24th day of May, 1780, notwithstanding.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Elias Boudinot, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, VII, folio 78. James Wilson's memorial is on folio 75.]
On motion of Mr. [Edmund] Randolph,
Resolved, That it be an instruction to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to endeavor to collect, in as authentic a form as possible, such papers as may tend to evidence the limits claimed by the United States in the resolution of the 13th day of August, 1779.2
[Note 2: 2 This motion, in the writing of Edmund Randolph, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, I, folio 261.
The resolution was also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
Ordered, That the letter of February --, 1782, from the Superintendant of Finance, respecting the delinquency of the states in granting the duty of five per cent, and raising their quotas of men and money, be referred to a committee consisting of Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [Arthur] Middleton, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, Mr. [Elias] Boudinot, Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, who are to confer with the Superintendant of Finance, Commander in Chief, and Secretary at War, and to report a circular letter to the states.
That a letter, of the 1st of February, from Baron D'Arendt, be referred to the Superintendant of Finance.3
[Note 3: 3 These two orders were entered only in the journal kept by the Secretary of Congress for the Superintendent of Finance: Morris Papers, Congressional Proceedings.
The letter from the Superintendent of Finance, respecting the delinquency of the states in granting the duty of five per cent, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 137, I, folios 317--329. It is dated February ll, 1782.]
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The Committee [Mr. George Clymer, Mr. Samuel Osgood and Mr. James Madison] on the petition of John Anderson, report,
That the prayer of the petition, to have liberty to export Tobacco from Vírginia to New York, cannot be complied with.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, undated, in the writing of George Clymer, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 81. Committee Book No. 186 shows that the committee was appointed February 8, and the report delivered February 11.
On this day, according to the indorsement, was read a memorial of the merchants and traders of Philadelphia. It was referred to Mr. [Thomas] McKean, Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [William] Ellery. It is in No. 41, VI, folio 269.]
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