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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 --[WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1783]
Resolved, The memorialists be informed, That it is not now in the Power of Congress to make a general arrangement for liquidating and paying the half pay due to the reduced officers, and that it would be inexpedient to make at this time a partial arrangement for that purpose; that the memorialists be further informed, that the States have not yet furnished them with funds for paying the half pay due them.1
[Note 1: 1 This undated motion, in the writing of Theodorick Bland, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, VI, folio 509. It is indorsed "deranged officers." On folio 505 is a petition of Pelatiah Webster and William Judd, dated January 7, 1783, on behalf of the deranged officers of the Connecticut line; and on folio 507 one of Pelatiah Webster, dated January 8, 1783, on behalf of the deranged officers of the Massachusetts line. According to Committee Book No. 186, both petitions were referred to a Grand Committee, January 8, and a report was delivered February 27.
A letter of January 7, from Thomas Edison, praying for relief, was read in Congress January 9, and ordered to He, according to the indorsement. It is in No. 78, VIII, folio 397.]
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