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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, JANUARY 16, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present as before.
The committee of the week [Mr. Abiel Foster, Mr. James Tilton and Mr. Charles Morris] report, that General Armand's letter to the President, on behalf of a number of foreign officers, together with a letter from the officers of the legion who had served under the said general praying and empowering him to act on their behalf, in obtaining commutation for their half pay, and so much of the money due them as will enable them to pay their debts in this country and return to Europe; also a letter from General Duportail to General Armand on a like subject be referred to a committee 2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of James Tilton, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 97. Committee Book, No. 186, shows that the committee, Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, and Mr. [William] Ellery was appointed January 16. See post, January 22.
On this, or an approximate date, as the indorsement indicates, was read a letter of January 16, from John Sullivan. It is in No. 59, III, folio 69.
Also, a letter of January 16 from General Armand. It is in No. 164, folio 493.]
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