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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, JANUARY 4, 1782.]
Whereas by the 9th Article of Confederation Congress has the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority or by that of the respective States: fixing the standard of weights, and measures &c. therefore
Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to ascertain the value and weights at which all foreign coins shall be rec'd in taxes by the Treasurer of these United States and to form such ordinance or ordinances as may be necessary to regulate the currency of the same.3
[Note 3: 3 This motion, in the writing of Samuel Osgood, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, folio 325. It is indorsed: "January 4, 1781 [2] Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, Mr. [Edmund] Randolph, Mr. [Thomas] Bee."]
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