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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 31, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present, eleven states.
The committee of the week [Mr. Jonathan Blanchard, Mr. James Wadsworth and Mr. John Beatty] are of opinion that the memorial of Lieutenant Colonel Henry B. Livingston, stating that he was deranged in the line of the army, while abroad with Mr. Jay by the resolutions of Congress of the 31st December, 1781, and praying that his rank, pay and emoluments, as a Lieutenant Colonel may be restored him ought to be referred to a special committee read in Congress.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of John Beatty, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, IV, folio 350. The indorsement on the memorial states that it was read on this day and the memorial referred to Mr. [Roger] Sherman, Mr. [John] Beatty and Mr. [Samuel] Dick. The memorial is on folio 347. See post, May 7.]
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