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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 --MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pensylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina; and from the state of New Hampshire, Mr. [Abiel] Foster, and from South Carolina, Mr. [Jacob] Read.
On motion of Mr. [William] Ellery, seconded by Mr. [David] Howell,
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Resolved, That the appointment election of the five committees, directed to be appointed on this day, by the resolution of the 17 June, 1782, be postponed till the first Monday in February next.
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Arthur] Lee, Mr. [Hugh] Williamson and Mr. [William] Ellery, to whom was referred a memorial from Gustavus Conyngham, praying for the renewal of a commission of captain in the navy of the United States, received from the commissioners in Paris, in 1777, and lost by him, or to be reinstated in his former situation.
Resolved, That the prayer of the said memorialist cannot be granted, such commissions being intended for temporary expeditions only, and not to give rank in the navy.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Arthur Lee, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 621.]
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [William] Ellery, Mr. [Arthur] Lee, Mr. [Ralph] Izard, Mr. [Richard] Peters and Mr. [James] McHenry, to whom was referred a letter from the Commander in chief, of 28 August, containing a proposal from the Secretary of the Polish Order of Knights of Divine Providence, that Congress should nominate a number of suitable persons to be created Knights of the said Order.
Resolved, That the late Commander in Chief, be requested to inform the Chevalier Jean de Heintz, Secretary of the order of Divine Providence, that Congress entertain a high sense of the honour done them by are sensible of the attention of that Order, in proposing to them to nominate a number of suitable persons to be created Knights of the Order of Divine Providence; but that Congress cannot, consistently with the principles of the Confederation, accept of their obliging proposal.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Ralph Izard, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, II, folio 45; the words crossed out are in the report and do not appear in the Journal. On this or an approximate date was read a letter of January 4 from Wallace and Muir. It is in No. 78, XXIV, folio 413.]
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