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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, JULY 12, 1784.
The Committee of the States assembled; Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pensylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
The committee, consisting of Mr. [Francis] Dana, Mr. [Edward] Hand and Mr. [Richard Dobbs] Spaight, appointed to take into consideration an advertisement published in "The Boston Gazette, and the Country Journal," of the 31st of May last, signed "St. John, agent for the French packet-boats," and dated "Boston, May, 1784"; report,
That the said advertisement is an open avowal of a direct an intention to contravene an ordinance of the United States Congress for regulating the post-office of these United States; and that the measures therein mentioned, and said
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to have been taken by the said St. John, are a flagrant violation of the same ordinance, as well on his part as on the part of others said to be concerned with him; will greatly injure the revenue of the post-office, and, if not prevented, may defeat that useful institution. That therefore the postmaster general be furnished with a copy of the advertisement referred to, and ordered immediately to make enquiry into this matter, and if he should obtain sufficient evidence to prosecute the offender if he should find that the said ordinance hath been violated in consequence of the abovementioned advertisement, that he cause the offenders to be prosecuted according to law.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Francis Dana, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 73.]
Resolved, That the Committee of the States agree to the said report.
The report of a Committee consisting of Mr. [David] Howell, Mr. [Arthur] Lee and Mr. [James] Tilton, to whom was referred a letter of December 13th, 1783, from Joseph Reed, Esq., was taken up, which being under debate, an adjournment was called for and agreed to.
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