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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, JANUARY 7, 1782.
The Ordinance for amending the Ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful, was read a second time, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
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On a report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, Mr. [Edmund] Randolph and Mr. [Thomas] Bee, to whom was referred a motion relative to the value and weight of foreign coins:
Resolved, That it be an instruction to the Superintendant of finance, to prepare and report to Congress a table of rates, at which the different species of foreign coins most likely to circulate within the United States, shall be received at the treasury thereof.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Samuel Osgood, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, folio 323.]
War Office, January 4, 1782.
Sir
On the letter from Captain Segond, I beg leave to make the following report:
That Captain Segond's Credentials as a zealous, brave and good Officer are so ample that nothing farther is necessary to convince "the Public" and his "King" that he has faithfully discharged his duty.
The mode of paying the interest of the monies which is now and shall in future become due to Officers not Inhabitants of the United States, if different from the one now adopted, must be the subject of future discussion as it should operate so as to do equal Justice to all under similar Circumstances.
It would be an agreeable circumstance indeed if Money could be supplied the retiring foreign Officers, but as this is a matter of finance, I dare not recommend it to Congress as I do not know how far the Superintendant can comply with it.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, folio 81. The indorsement shows that it was read on this or an approximate date, the part relative to credentials agreed to, and so much as related to payment referred to the Superintendent of Finance.]
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