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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 6, 1783]
In pursuance of the Resolve of the 17th of June:
Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham, Mr. [Jonathan] Elmer, Mr. [Samuel] Wharton, Mr. [Thomas] Fitzsimmons and Mr. [John Taylor] Gilman were appointed to enquire fully into the proceedings of the Department of Finance, including the several branches of the same, and report the result of their enquiry.
Mr. [John] Collins, Mr. [William] Blount, Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott, Mr. [David] Ramsay and Mr. [William] Floyd were appointed to enquire fully into the proceedings of the Agent of Marine and report the result of their enquiry.2
[Note 2: 2 These two committee appointments were entered only in the journal kept by the Secretary of Congress for the Superintendent of Finance: Morris Papers, Congressional Proceedings; and in Committee Book, No. 186. According to the record in Committee Book, No. 186, the following committees were appointed the same day and in pursuance of the same resolve:
Mr. [John] Rutledge, Mr. [Richard] Peters, Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, Mr. [Phillips] White and Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton, to enquire fully into the proceedings of the Department of War and report the result of their enquiry. Mr. [Theodorick] Bland was afterward substituted for White on this committee. See post, October 11.
Mr. [James] Madison, Mr. [James] Wilson, Mr. [Ralph] Izard, Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth and Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, to enquire into the proceedings of the Department for Foreign Affairs and report the result of their enquiry. This committee was discharged July 23.
Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, Mr. [John] Montgomery, Mr. [Philemon] Dickinson, Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer and Mr. [Silas] Condict, to enquire fully into the proceedings of the Post Office and report. See post, May 5.
The committee on the Department of Finance was renewed, March 31, Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham, Mr. [Thomas] FitzSimons, Mr. [William] Hemsley, Mr. A[rthur] Lee and Mr. [Stephen] Higginson being appointed on that day, and a report was delivered June 10 and entered.
The committee on the Agent of Marine was renewed April 28, Mr. [John] Collins, Mr. [William] Floyd, Mr. [Stephen] Higginson, Mr. [Benjamin] Hawkins and Mr. [Thomas] Mifflin being appointed on that day. On July 23, the committee was again renewed, and the matter referred to Mr. [Stephen] Higginson, Mr. [Benjamin] Hawkins, Mr. [William] Ellery, Mr. [Samuel] Holten and Mr. [James] Duane, 'together with so much of a letter from the Superintendent of finance as relates, to his desire of being excused from executing the office."]
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Ordered, That a report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [John Lewis] Gervais, Mr. [Thomas] Fitzsimmons and Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott, on the letter of the 10th December from the Superintendent of Finance be referred back to the same Committee.1
[Note 1: 1 This order was entered only in the journal kept by the Secretary of Congress for the Superintendent of Finance: Morris Papers, Congressional Proceedings. According to the record in Committee Books No. 186 and No. 191, the Superintendent's letter related to "an allowance to T. Rutledge, purchasing commissary for S. Army," and the original committee, appointed December 11, 1782, consisted of Gervais, FitzSimons and Clark, Wolcott being afterward appointed in place of Clark. This committee delivered a report January 2, it was recommitted to them January 6, and they delivered a new report February 28. In No. 191, referring to the last report, Thomson makes the following note: "Mr. Rutledge has this report."
On January 6, according to the indorsement, a letter, of the 4th, from Richard Butler, Colonel Commanding, on the subject of prisoners of war was referred to the Secretary at War. It is in No. 78, IV, folio 365. Committee Book, No. 186, states the report was made January 15.]
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