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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, APRIL 5, 1782
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood and Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, to whom was referred a letter, of the 3d, from the Superindant of Finance,
Resolved, That Congress do approve of the motives which have induced the Superintendant of Finance to give the preference above all others to the contract offered by Comfort Sands & Co., Tench Francis, Oliver Phelps, Timothy Edwards and Thomas Lowry for the supply of the moving army.2
[Note 2: 2 These two paragraphs were also entered in the manuscript Secret (Domestic) Journal.
The report, in the writing of George Clymer, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, IV, folio 355. The Superintendent of Finance's letter is in No. 137, I, folio 393.]
Ordered, That a bill of exchange by John Ashe, Treasurer of the State of North Carolina, on the continental treasurers or either of
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them, in favor of Daniel Mallet, for 250 dollars, dated 20th of May, 1777, be referred to the Superintendant of Finance.1
[Note 1: 1 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 or an approximate date was read a letter of March 25 from Major General Heath. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 157, folio 443.]
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