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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 27, 1783
Mr. [Arthur] Lee, a delegate for Virginia, attended, and took his seat.
The delegates of Virginia laid before Congress an act of their legislature, repealing the act entitled "an act to enable the Congress of the United States to levy a duty on certain goods and merchandises, and also on all prizes;" also sundry resolutions of the legislature.
Congress proceeded on the order of the day, but came to no resolution thereon.2
[Note 2: 2 This act is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 75, folio 373.
On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a letter of January 20 from the General Washington. It is in No. 152, XI, folio 59.]
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