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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, FEBRUARY 21, 1782
On the report of a committee of the states, consisting of Mr. [Samuel] Livermore, Mr. [George] Partridge, Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott, Mr. [William] Floyd, Mr.
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[Abraham] Clark, Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, Mr. J[oseph] Jones, Mr. [Benjamin] Hawkins, Mr. [Arthur] Middleton, Mr. [Edward] Telfair, to whom was referred a letter of 15 January, from the Superintendant of finance, touching the establishment of a mint:
Resolved, That Congress approve of the establishment of a mint; and, that the Superintendant of finance be, and hereby is directed to prepare and report to Congress a plan for establishing and conducting the same.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Abraham Clark, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, IV, folio 345. The letter of the Superintendent of Finance is in 137, I, folio 289.
A letter of this date, from Jonas Fay, Ira Allen, and Abel Curtis was read on this day, as the indorsement states. It is in No. 40, II, folio 261.
Also, a letter dated Philadelphia, February 20, from General Washington. It was referred to Mr. [Elias] Boudinot, Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [Thomas] Bee. It is in No. 152, X, folio 459. It is printed in the Writings of Washington (Ford), IX, 447,]
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