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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 --THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1783
Mr. Stephen Higginson, a delegate for the State of Massachusetts, attended, and produced the credentials of his appointment, by which it appears, that on the 24 October, 1782, he was by joint ballot of the senate and house of representatives, elected a delegate to represent that Commonwealth in the United States in Congress assembled, for one year, commencing the first Monday of November, 1782.
Commonwealth Of Massachusetts
Council Chamber Boston
Feby 5th, 1783.
These Certify That the Honble Stephen Higgenson Esqr was elected on the twenty fourth of October 1782 by joint ballot of the Senate and House of Representatives as a Delegate to represent this Commonwealth in the United States in Congress Assembled agreeably to the Constitution; to serve for One Year commencing the first Monday of November 1782
Attest
John Avery Secy.1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Massachusetts, Credentials of Delegates. It was entered in No. 179, Record of Credentials, and not in the Journal.]
On a report of a grand committee consisting of a member from each State [Mr. Phillips White, Mr. Samuel Osgood, Mr. Jonathan Arnold, Mr. Oliver Wolcott, Mr. Alexander Hamilton, Mr. Silas Condict, Mr. Richard Peters, Mr. Philemon Dickinson, Mr. Daniel Carroll, Mr. James Madison, Mr. Abner Nash and Mr. John Rutledge], to whom was referred a petition of John Hall:
Resolved, That all those officers for the settlement of whose accounts no special provision hath heretofore been made, either by references to the states, or by the appointment of commissioners for states or departments, or otherwise, do settle their accounts as well for pay and depreciation as for monies or articles bought at the treasury in the usual manner;
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and that any balances which may be found due to them, previous to the first day of January, 1782, be placed on interest in common with other debts due by the United States.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, III, folio 3. Hall's memorial is in No. 42, III, folio 435. It had been referred, on Sept. 18, 1782, to the Secretary at War, and, later, to a special committee, and was referred, on January 14, to the Grand Committee of January 6.
The following in the writing of Richard Peters, is in No. 42, III, folio 437, indorsed on Hall's memorial:
"The Grand Committee to whom was referred the Memorial of John Hall, setting forth his appointment as an Armourer and claiming a settlement of his accounts, report
That the Memorialist be referred to the Commissioner for settling the Accounts of the United States in the State of Pennsilvania to be dealt with according to the Justice of his Demands by the said Commissioner, who is hereby empowered and directed to liquidate the accounts of all Persons late in the Department of the Commissary General of Military Stores under like Circumstances with the Memorialist."
According to Committee Books 186 and 191, the same committee delivered a report on February 27 on the memorials of Pelatiah Webster and William Judd, but it was recommitted the same day, to Mr. [Richard] Peters, Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton and Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer, who delivered a report March 3. See post Mar. 6.
On this day, according fo the indorsement, was read a letter of February 15 from William Buchanan, Commissary General of Purchases, relative to his accounts. It was referred to Mr. [John Lewis] Gervais, Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott and Mr. [Richard] Peters. The indorsement further says that the report was filed September 19, 1786. The letter is in No. 78, IV, folio 375.]
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