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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, APRIL 24, 17821
The Committee of the Week, [Mr. Arthur Middleton, Mr. Oliver Wolcott, Mr. Silas Condict] report, That the petition Passed of William Paulding, Deputy of the late Commissary Joseph Trumbull, requesting the payment of his account be referred to the Superintendant of Finance.
That the petition of Jordan Hopson, Conductor of Passed Military Stores, requesting a discharge be referred to the Secretary at War.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Oliver Wolcott, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 333. The indorsement states that it was passed this day.]
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War Office April 23rd, 1782.
Sir,
On the report of a resolve referred to me relative to the balance due to Colonel Massey for the Compensation granted by Congress on his retiring from service.
I beg leave to observe that Col. Massey's is one of those cases which at once excites concern and commands our attention--driven from his home and a degree of affluence to a situation, which presses him against his own feelings to urge the payment of a debt due to him from the public, and to which he has every claim that integrity and faithful services can give.
He is also unfortunately for himself one of those Creditors to the public, the immediate payment of whose debts does not fall within the present system of Congress.
I wish his case was so peculiar as to justify me in reporting in favor of an order for discharging his debt immediately; but I cannot view it in that light nor could I reconcile the propriety of such a report with the thousand applications which have been rejected.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, II, folio 187. It was read on this day, the indorsement states.
Also, a letter, of March 13, from the Governor of South Carolina, enclosing two Acts of that State. The indorsements show that one, for vesting Congress with a power of levying a duty of five per cent. on certain imports and prizes, was referred to the Superintendent of Finance; the other, for raising recruits, to the Secretary at Wax. The letter is in No. 72, folio 546, and the acts on folios 550 and 554.]
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