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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 --TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1783
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Thomas] Fitzsimmons, Mr. [James] Madison, and Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton, to whom was referred a report from the Secretary at War:
The Committee to whom was recommitted the letter of the 22d of December from the Secretary at War, submit the following resolution:
Resolved, The Brigadier General Clinton be promoted to the rank of Major General and Colonels John Greaton and Rufus Putnam, of the Massachusetts line, and Colonel Elias Dayton of the Jersey line, and Colonel Goose Van Schaiek of the New York line, be promoted to the rank of brigadier generals, agreeably to the resolution of the 12th day of December, 1782.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Alexander Hamilton, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 21, folio 313.]
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A grand committee, consisting of Mr. [John] Rutledge, Mr. [John Taylor] Gilman, Mr. [Jonathan] Jackson, Mr. [David] Howell, Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer, Mr. [James] Duane, Mr. [John] Witherspoon, Mr. [Thomas] Fitzsimmons, Mr. [Thomas] McKean, Mr. [John] Hanson, Mr. [Arthur] Lee, Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, and Mr. [Edward] Telfair, to whom were referred a letter of 21 October, 1782, from the legislature of Massachusetts, and a motion of Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, having reported thereon as follows:
"That individuals in each State, who are possessed of Continental paper money, be entitled to receive from the commissioner who is or shall be appointed to settle the accounts of the several states, and of individuals therein, against the United States, a specie certificate for all such sums of the said money as they shall respectively pay into the hands of such commissioner, at the rate of one silver dollar for every forty continental dollars; the certificates to bear interest of six per cent. from the date, and be provided for as other public debts; but that no money shall be received or certificates granted by the said commissioners after the last day of December, 1783.
That the states which have not sunk the proportions assigned to them, of the Continental money, be charged with the deficiency, or the amount of what they have not sunk, at the rate aforesaid."
And the said report being taken into consideration, a motion was made by Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, seconded by Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, that the farther consideration be postponed; and on the question for postponing, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [John Taylor] Gilman,1
[Note 1: 1 This report and motion in the writing of Samuel Osgood, are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, folio 459. See ante, December 24, 1782.]
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So the motion was lost.
A motion was then made by Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott, seconded by Mr. [John Lewis] Gervais, that the consideration of the report be postponed to take up the following motion:
"That it be recommended to the several states, that they immediately take the most effectual measures to redeem their respective quotas of the old bills of public credit out of the hands of their possessors, upon such principles as will, in their opinion, render the most substantial justice to their own citizens and those of the United States:"1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of Oliver Wolcott, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress No. 36, II, folio 7.]
And on the question, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott,
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So the question was lost.
A motion was made by Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton, seconded by Mr. [John] Collins, that the blank in the report be filled with the word "forty:"
And on the question to agree to this, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Samuel] Osgood,
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So the question was lost.
A motion was made by Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, seconded by Mr. [Jonathan] Arnold, that the blank be filled with "seventy-five:"
And on the question to agree thereto, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [John Taylor] Gilman,
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[Note 1: 1 This vote was entered in the Journal by George Bond,]
So the question was lost.
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