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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 --FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1783
A grand committee, consisting of a member from each State, to whom was referred the report of a committee on "the mode of estimating the value of lands in the United States, with the buildings and improvements thereon, for the purpose mentioned in the Articles of Confederation," brought in a report, and the same being read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee of the whole.
Congress was then resolved into a committee of the whole, and after some time the President resumed the chair, and Mr. [Daniel] Carroll reported, that the committee of the whole have had under their farther consideration the subjects referred to them, and have made some progress, but
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not having come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again on Monday.
Ordered, That leave be granted.
[Mr. Theodorick Bland's Motion, January 31, 1783. Referred to Mr. Thomas FitzSimons, Mr. Oliver Ellsworth, Mr. John Lewis Gervais, Mr. Nathaniel Gorham, Mr. Alexander Hamilton.]
Move that the Superintendant of Finance in consideration of the destruction and loss of papers and vouchers for public expenditures sustained by the State of Virginia during the invasion of that State, be directed to admit in the adjustment of that State's account with the U. S. charges that shall appear reasonable from circumstantial proof, and where the defect of positive proof arises only from the loss and destruction of the papers by the enemy.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of Theodorick Bland, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, II, folio 15.]
Ordered, That a letter of 30th January from the Superintendent of Finance, enclosing one from T. Pickering, Quarter Master General, relative to suits brought against him, be referred to Mr. [James] Wilson, Mr. [John] Rutledge and Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton.2
[Note 2: 2 This order was 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.]
Ordered, That the following resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia be referred to a committee of five, viz:
A resolution of the 28th December, 1782, relative to the shipment of tobacco by the Ships New York and Fame;
One ditto of the same date relative to loss of vouchers, and a motion of Mr. [Theodorick] Bland thereon;
And another of do. ordering the payment of 50,000 pounds in part of their Quota of 8,000,000 dollars, declaring they can pay no more at present, but promising to pay 174,000 dollars more for theft Quota of 8 million, and 290,000 for current support of the War."
The members, Mr. [Thomas] Fitzsimmons, Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth, Mr. [John Lewis] Gervais, Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham and Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton.3
[Note 3: 3 This order was entered only in the journal kept by the Secretary of Congress for the Superintendent of Finance: Morris Papers, Congressional Proceedings. The Virginia Resolutions are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 75, folios 376, 380 and 382. According to the record in Committee Books No. 186 and No. 191, a report on the first two resolutions and Bland's motion was delivered February 6, and acted upon, February 10. On the third resolution, no report appears to have been rendered, and the committee was discharged May 6, 1783.]
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