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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 --SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1782
Mr. [Benjamin] Hawkins, a delegate for the State of North Carolina, attended, and took his seat in Congress.
The committee, consisting of Mr. [James] Madison, Mr. [John] Rutledge and Mr. [John Taylor] Gilman, appointed to confer with the Secretary for foreign affairs, on the subject of his department, report, That he is willing, if it be the desire of Congress, to remain in the said department until the ensuing spring, but that it will be necessary for him to
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make a short visit to the State of New York in the month of January, which the committee think will not probably interfere with the public business; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the election of a Secretary for foreign affairs be postponed until the first Monday in May next; and that Mr. Livingston be requested to continue to discharge the duties of that department until such election shall be made; and that he have leave of absence, for the purpose of making a visit to the State of New York.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of James Madison, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 25, II, folio 167.
This resolution and the preamble were also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
On the report of the Superintendant of finance, to whom was referred a report of a committee, on a letter of the 2d of August, from the said Superintendant:
Resolved, That the commissioners for settling accounts according to the act of the 20th of February last, do receive lottery tickets as vouchers for the prizes which may have been drawn to such tickets, and certify the same as debts of the United States, at and after the rate of one dollar in specie for every forty dollars of such prizes.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 137, II, folio 65.]
On the question to agree to the above, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [John Taylor] Gilman,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
The Committee of the Week [Mr. Abraham Clark, Mr. John Collins and Mr. Nathaniel Gorham] report:
That as the petitioner's husband is, as set forth, on the public service, he will be settled with and paid in common with others in similar service, on which account no particular attention can be paid the petition that will afford the relief prayed for, and therefore the same be dismissed.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Abraham Clark, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, III, folio 249, indorsed on the petition of Elizabeth Green. The petition, folio 246, is undated, but the indorsement shows that it was considered and dismissed on this day.]
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