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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 --SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1783
Congress was resolved into a committee of the whole, and after some time the President resumed the chair, and Mr.
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[Daniel] Carroll reported, that the committee have farther considered the subject referred to them, and made some progress, but not having come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again:
Ordered, That leave be granted.
[In Committee of the Whole]
February 8, 1783.
The last question reconsidered and in lieu thereof was added after the word "years" in the answer to the previous question:
"And shall operate as a rule for apportioning the sums necessary to be raised within those years for contingent expences and supporting the public credit and other contingent expences and for adjusting all accounts between the U. S. and each particular state for monies by the agreeably to requisitions of Congress and for no other purposes whatsoever."1
[Note 1: 1 See the last question in Thomson's memorandum of the Committee of the whole, February 7.
This motion in the writing of John Taylor Gilman, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, III, folio 463. The vote is given by Thomson on the motion as follows: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New-Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina, ay. New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, no.]
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[Note 1: 1 This vote, in the writing of Charles Thomson, in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, III, folio 450, indorsed on his memorandum of the proceedings of the Committee of the Whole for February 7 and 8.
On this day, as the indorsement shows, was read a letter of Ebenezer Hazard dated Philadelphia, February 7, 1783, relative to a letter taken up at the post office by a person to whom it did not belong, and referred to Mr. [John] Rutledge, Mr. [James] Wilson and Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer. It is in No. 61, folio 141. See post February 14. Committee Book No. 186 records the committee appointment, hut not the report.]
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