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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, MARCH 17, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present as yesterday; and from the state of Maryland, Mr. [Jeremiah Townley] Chase.
On motion of Mr. [Roger] Sherman, seconded by Mr. [John] Beatty,
Resolved, That the Superintendant of finance be directed to take order for advancing to the Rev. Daniel Jones, chaplain to Congress, two hundred one hundred and fifty dollars on account.2
[Note 2: 2 This motion, in the writing of Roger Sherman, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, II, folio 341. The words lined out are so in the report and not in the Journal.
On this or an approximate date was read a letter of March 17 from the Superintendent of Finance. It is in No. 137, Appendix, folio 345.]
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