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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 --THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1784.
The Committee of the States assembled: Present as yesterday.
The committee, consisting of Mr. [Francis] Dana, Mr. [Jacob] Read and Mr. [Edward] Hand, to whom was referred the letter of Governor Martin, to Mr. Beresford, as chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, dated Hillsborough, June 4th, 1784, reported the draft of a letter to said Governor, which was agreed to.3
[Note 3: 3 Governor Martin's letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 72, folio 167.]
The Committee to whom was referred the letter of Governor Martin to Mr [Richard] Beresford as Chairman of the Committee
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of Indian affairs, dated Hillsborough June 4, 1784, beg leave to report the following draft of a letter to Govr. Martin to be signed by the Chairman of the Committee of the States:
Annapolis, July 22, 1784.
Sir,
Your letter dated Hillsborough July 4, 1784, to Mr. Beresford as Chairman of the Committee of Indian affairs, has been laid before the Committee of the States, from whom I have it in charge to inform you that Congress have not yet settled any Commission for Indian affairs in the Southern Department, and that the Committee of the States are not competent to accept of the goods mentioned in your letter, or to give any instructions relative to Treaties with the Indians in that Department. The whole of this business must therefore wait the decision of Congress at their next meeting. In the name and in the behalf of the Committee of the States.
I have the honor to be &c1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Francis Dana, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 7.]
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Jacob] Read, Mr. [Hugh] Williamson and Mr. [Thomas] Stone, to whom was referred the letter signed T. Gilfillan, dated London, the 19th February, 1784, with the inspection roll of Negroes taken on board certain vessels at anchor near Staten Island, on the 30th day of November, 1783, signed T. Gilfillan and William Armstrong:
Resolved, That a copy of the said letter and roll be transmitted to the ministers plenipotentiary of the United States, for negotiating treaties with foreign powers, to be made use of in any negotiations they may have with the Court of Great Britain, agreeable to the instructions heretofore transmitted to them.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Jacob Read, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 81.]
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, Mr. [Thomas] Stone and Mr. [Roger] Sherman,
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to whom was referred a letter of the Minister of France, dated the 6th May last, to the President of Congress:
Whereas it hath been represented to Congress by the Minister of France, that his Most Christian Majesty not having appointed a consul to reside in Charleston, it is his will that the Sieur de la Foret, vice-consul at Savannah, should, until such appointment is made, discharge that office in Charleston; and that he the said Minister has accordingly, together with the Sieur de Marbois, consul-general of France, appointed the said Sieur de la Foret, to be vice-consul at Charleston, and requesting that he may be recognized as such.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the supreme executive of the State of South Carolina, to receive the Sieur de la Foret as vice-consul in the port of Charleston, and to grant him their exequatur accordingly.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Hugh Williamson, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 79.]
On the report of the same committee, to whom was referred a letter of the 6 May last, from the Superintendant of Finance, enclosing letters from the quartermaster general and from the commissary of military stores, respecting a quantity of powder that is in the public magazines at West Point,
Resolved, That the Superintendant of Finance give directions for selling such damaged powder as may be in the public magazines at West Point: and that the commissary of military stores, as soon as such sales shall be made, report to Congress or the Committee of the States, the quantity and condition of the powder remaining at that post.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Hugh Williamson, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 83. The Minister's letter is in No. 95, II, folio 316.]
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