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Journals of the Continental Congress --[TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1783]


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[TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1783]

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By The United States in Congress Assembled

March 11, 1783

Ordered, that the three first paragraphs of the report of a committee consisting of Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham, Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton, Mr. [James] Madison, Mr. [Thomas] Fitzsimmons and Mr. [John] Rutledge on the subject of finance, be referred back to the same committee together with the estimate of the public debt by the Superintendant


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of finance and so much of his letter of the 8th as relates to exchanging the impost of five per cent. ad valorem for a tariff.

Extract from the minutes

Geo Bond, Depy. Secy.1

[Note 1: 1 This order is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 137, II, folio 163. According to Committee Book No. 186, the committee reported on March 17.
On this date, as the indorsement states, were read two letters from General Washington of March 7. They are in No. 152, XI, folios 97 and 101.
Also, according to the indorsement and the record in Committee Book No. 186, a memorial dated Philadelphia, Mar. 10, 1783, and signed by Samuel Starbuck and William Rotch, representing the inhabitants of Nantucket, was on this day referred to Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham, Mr. [John] Collins, and Mr. [Thomas] FitzSimons. It is in No. 41, VII, folio 91.]

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