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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 --WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1783
Congress assembled: Present as before.
Mr. [Edward] Hand, a delegate for Pensylvania, attended, and took his seat.
On motion of Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson; seconded by Mr. [David] Howell,
Resolved, That the postmaster general be, and he is hereby directed to give orders to his deputy, at the place where Congress is sitting, to furnish an extra post or posts whenever required by the President.
Pursuant to the order of the 10 of September last, the Superintendant of finance and treasurer, laid before Congress an account of all the notes which have been issued by them on the credit of the United States, with an account of what part of those notes were in circulation, according to the state of the former on the 4 November, and of the latter on the 29 September, when their accounts are severally closed.2
[Note 2: 2 On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a letter of November 6, from General Duportail, recommending the promotion of Captain Castaing. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XVIII, folio 505, and was referred to Mr. [Jacob] Read, Mr. [Edward] Hand and Mr. [James] Monroe. Committee Book No. 186, enters the committee as reporting February 24, 1784, and according to Committee Book No. 191, the report was considered February 26, "question taken and lost."]
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