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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, DECEMBER 20, 1782
On the report of the committee [Mr. John Taylor Gilman, Mr. James Madison and Mr. Alexander Hamilton], appointed to report such measures as it will be proper for Congress to take in consequence of the motion made by Mr. [David] Howell on the 18 instant:
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Resolved, That the said motion, with the preceding resolutions of Congress, to which it refers, be transmitted by the Secretary for foreign affairs to the executive authority of the State of Rhode Island, with an authenticated state of the several applications for foreign loans, and the result thereof.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of James Madison, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 20, I, folio 233.]
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [James] Madison, Mr. [Richard] Peters, and Mr. [John Taylor] Gilman, to whom were referred letters of Jacob Cuyler and Isaac Tichenor, on the subject of suits brought against the said Tichenor, for debts contracted by him on account of provisions furnished the troops in the service of the United States:
That the case of the said Isaac Tichenor is provided for by the resolutions of the 20th of Feby: and 19th of March last pointing out a mode of settlement of public accounts and recommending to the Legislatures of the respective States to pass laws to stay and prevent suits being brought by individuals against public officers who have contracted debts for supplies purchased for the army. The Committee therefore recommend the following Resolve,
Resolved, That copies of the letters of Jacob Cuyler and Isaac Tichenor, relative to suits brought against the said Tichenor, in New Hampshire, for debts contracted by him for supplies purchased for the service of the United States, be transmitted to and recommended to the attention of the said State.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Richard Peters, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 627.]
Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth, and Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott, two delegates for the State of Connecticut, attended, and produced credentials, which were read, and by which it appears, that on the 2 Thursday of May, 1782, the day appointed by law or the choice of delegates, Samuel Huntington, esq. Oliver Ellsworth, esq. Richard Law, esq. Jesse Root, esq. Oliver Wolcott, esq. Benjamin Huntington, esq. and Jedediah
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Strong, esq. were elected delegates to represent that State in the Congress of the United States.
At a General Assembly of the Governor and Company of [Seal] the State of Connecticut in America holden at Hartford on the second Thursday of May Anno Domini 1782.
This Day being appointed by Law for the Choice of Delegates to represent this State at the Congress of the United States, Proclamation was made, And then the Votes of the Freemen were given into the Persons appointed by the Assembly to receive sort and count them and declare the Names of the Persons legally Chosen to the Office aforementioned, which Persons so appointed were Andrew Adams Esqr Majr Bray, Mr Beach Colo Worthington Colo St John Mr Fetch Colo Bebee and Mr Gore, who were sworn to a faithful discharge of that Trust. And the Votes of the Freemen being brought in sorted and counted, Samuel Huntington Esqr. Oliver Elsworth Esqr. Richard Law Esqr. Jesse Root Esqr. Oliver Wolcott Esqr. Benjamin Huntington Esq. & Jedediah Strong Esq. were Elected and publickly declared to be Delegates to Represent this State in the Congress of the United States according to Law.
A true Copy of Record
Examin.d.
By George Wyllys Secrety.1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Connecticut, Credentials of Delegates. It was entered in No. 179, Record of Credentials, and not in the Journal.]
The supplementary ordinance for regulating the Post Office was read a second time, and Monday next assigned for the third reading.
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