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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 20, 1783]
The Committee [Mr. Daniel Carroll, Mr. Thomas FitzSimmons and Mr. Samuel Osgood] on the letter from the Superintendant of Finance report, in addition to the information contained in that letter,
That the Commissioner recommended to the State of Pensilvania has been approved; that one has been recommended to the State of Massachusetts; and that the Superintendant of Finance has wrote to the Executive of Maryland on the subject mentioned in his letter relative to that State.
They further report, That a person has offered to undertake the business of the Marine department for 2 thousand dollars per annum, but that in their opinion it is not expedient to raise any of the salaries of the Commissioners.
Your Committee are of opinion that considering notwithstanding the delay which was necessary and unvoidable from the references to be made to the Several Legislatures, the difficulties in procurring persons qualified to execute so important a trust and the particular situation some of the States have been under, the views of Congress by their acts of the 20th and 27th of Feb'y last have been answered in a considerable degree and that they will be fully complied with.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Daniel Carroll, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 137, II, folio 63. Committee Book, No. 186, states that it was made this day. The Superintendent of Finance's letter is in folio 59. It is dated December 3, 1782, and the indorsement states that it was read December 4, and referred to Carroll, FitzSimons and Osgood December 31.
On this day as the indorsement indicates, was read a letter of the 18th, from the Superintendent of Finance enclosing a copy of the agreement between Franklin and Vergennes. It is in no. 137, II, folio 111.]
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