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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, DECEMBER 19, 1783
Congress assembled: Present as before; and from the State of South Carolina, Mr. [Jacob] Read.
The Committee of the week [Jeremiah Towriley Chase, George Partridge and Samuel Hardy] report, That the memorial of Robert Patton praying a continuance of his additional allowance be referred to a Committee.
That the memorial of John Chever, praying that he be allowed full pay from the first of November 1782, until November, 1783, as officer
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of a company ordered to Frederick Town to guard the British prisoners be committed.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Jeremiah Townley Chase, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 533. By the indorsement it is of this date.
According to Committee Books Nos. 186 and 191, Patron's memorial was referred to Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, Mr. [George] Partridge and Mr. [Jeremiah Townley] Chase. They delivered a report the same day, which was acted on April 16, 1784, The memorial, dated December 16, 1783, is in No. 41, VIII, folio 120.
Chever's memorial, dated Annapolis, December 17, was referred to Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, Mr. [James] Tilton and Mr. [James] Monroe. It is in No. 41, II, folio 132. The record in Committee Books No. 186 and No. 191 shows that a report was delivered January 21, 1784, considered January 26, and filed.]
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