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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, SEPTEMBER 20, 17821
[Note 1: 1 The proceedings for this day were also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
A motion was made by Mr. [James] Madison, seconded by Mr. J[oseph] Jones,
That the resolution of the 17 day of September, 1782, informing Mr. Laurens that his services as a minister plenipotentiary for negotiating peace cannot be dispensed with by Congress, and so much of the other resolution of the same date as relates to Mr. Laurens, be not transmitted till the further order of Congress.
On the question to agree to this, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Turbett] Wright,
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So the question was lost.
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