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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, APRIL 28, 1783
The committee, consisting of Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton, Mr. [James] Madison and Mr. [Richard] Peters, appointed to confer with
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the Superintendant of finance respecting his continuance in office, report,
That they have conferred with him accordingly and that the substance of the conference was on the part of Mr. Morris as follows:
("That his continuance in office was highly injurious to his private affairs and contrary to his private inclinations, but that he felt the importance of the exertions necessary to be made at the present juncture towards the reduction of the army in a manner satisfactory to them and convenient to the public; that therefore if Congress should think his services towards effecting that object of importance and should desire them, he would be ready to continue them till arrangements for that purpose could be made and the engagements taken by him in consequence as well as those already entered into could be finally compleated. That in this case he should expect hope for the steady support of Congress."
He also that it would be essential for Congress to endeavour to stimulate the most vigourous exertions of the states towards raising the necessary supplies of money, and that it would be proper to reiterate an application to the Court of France for an addition of at least four millions to the six millions lately granted. Whereupon the committee submit the following resolution:
That the Superintendant of Finance be informed that it is the wish of Congress he should continue in office for the purposes above mentioned)
Whereupon;
Resolved, That the Superintendant of Finance be requested to continue in office [informed that Congress are of opinion the public service requires his continuance in office till arrangements] for the reduction of the army can be made and the engagements that shall be taken by him in consequence
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as well as those already entered into shall be finally completed.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, IV, folios 387 and 389. The part in parentheses is in the writing of Alexander Hamilton; that in brackets, in the writing of Elias Boudinot; the rest in the writing of Samuel Osgood.
On this day, as the indorsement indicates, a memorial dated Philadelphia, April 25, of John Durham Alvey was referred to Mr. [Hugh] Williamson &c., the committee on the post office. It is in No. 41, I, folio 85. Another memorial from him dated April 21 is on folio 87.
On this day, according to the indorsement, and to entries in Committee Book No. 186, the letter of August 4, 1782, from the Governor of New York, which had been referred, August 15, 1782, to a Grand Committee, was recommitted to Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth, Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, Mr. [James] Wilson, Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham and Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton. On July 23 the committee was renewed, and the letter committed to Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton, Mr. [Richard] Peters, Mr. [James] McHenry, Mr. [Ralph] Izard and Mr. [James] Duane, and on July 30 Hamilton was replaced by Mr. S[amuel] Huntington. The committee reported September 2. The Governor's letter, which enclosed concurrent resolutions of the legislature of New York, July 20 and 21, 1782, for augmenting the powers of Congress, is in No. 78, VI, folio 139.
Also on this day a letter of April 23 from Lieutenant Colonel du Cambray requesting a brevet of Colonel, was read. It was referred to Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton and Mr. [Richard] Peters. It is in No. 78, VI, folio 175. Committee Book, No. 186, says the committee reported April 30th. See post, May 2.]
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