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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 --FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1784.
The Committee of the States assembled: Present as yesterday.
On motion of Mr. [Jacob] Read, seconded by Mr. [Richard Dobbs,] Spaight.
The committee consisting of [Mr. Edward Hand, Mr. Jacob Read and Mr. Richard Dobbs Spaight] to whom was referred a letter of the 21 October, 1783, signed Aycard, sculptor at Marseilles, setting forth that he had on the 10 April, 1778, shipped on board the frigate Adelaide, commanded by Captain Stubag, a statue of his Most Christian Majesty as a present to Congress; that he has not since that time heard either of the vessel or of the statue, and requesting to be informed if it has arrived, beg leave to report,
That they have made diligent enquiry, and find that Congress have never received any advice of the arrival of the said statue or any other notice of its having been shipped for America than that contained in Mr. Aycard's letter of 21 October, 1783, and do recommend that a letter be written to Mr. Aycard by the Secretary, informing him that his letter of the 21 October, 1783, contains the only advice Congress have ever had of the statue therein mentioned.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Edward Hand, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 85. Aycard's letter is in No. 78, I, folio 437.
On this day, according to the indorsement, was read a letter of July 20 from Arthur Lee and Richard Butler and ordered to lie. It is in No. 56, folios 117--119.
Also, a letter of July 16 from John Pierce, Paymaster General, which was referred to Mr. [Edward] Hand, Mr. [Jeremiah Townley] Chase and Mr. [Jacob] Read. It is in No. 62, folio 29.]
The committee of the states is adjourned till to-morrow 10 o'clock.
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