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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 30, 1784.
The Committee of the States assembled: Present, nine states as yesterday.
The chairman laid before the Committee of the States, an act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, entitled, "An act vesting certain powers in Congress."1
[Note 1: 1 A copy of the act is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 74, folio 205, a duplicate being on folio 209.]
The committee, consisting of Mr. [Edward] Hand, Mr. [Jacob] Read and Mr. [Richard Dobbs] Spaight, to whom was referred part of a report on a letter from Joseph Carleton, Secretary in the War Office, dated May 23, 1784, having considered the same and examined carefully the returns of stores therein alluded to, beg leave to report that in their opinion the stores enumerated in the annexed list should, after sufficient notice being given, be disposed of at public auction for public securities for liquidated debts, and that the commissary general of military stores Secretary in the War Office should be directed to take order for that purpose. In making out the list of articles submitted, your committee have not confined themselves to those they judged liable to embezzlement or altogether perishable, being of opinion that it would be for the advantage of the United States to dispose of immediately such stores as are not at this time wanted for the service of the public, and being in general demand will probably sell for their real value, and which may be easily replaced at any time. They have also included some articles which in their opinion would not bear the expence of transportation from the places where they now are to mere convenient deposits.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Edward Hand, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 101.]
Referred to the Secretary in the War Office to take order.
Sundry articles contained in the returns of stores transmitted by Jos. Carleton with his letter of the 23d. May, 1784, reported for sale, viz.
At Philadelphia.
Empty flannel cartridges, waggon covers, nails, iron wire, whiting, cotton wool, twine, thread, saltpetre, sulphur, bar and scrap iron, steel, sheet iron, sheet and scruff copper, antimony, Spanish brown,
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scrap steel, flannel, duck, horse and ox shoes, locks and keys, sundry articles of clothing, sheet tin, stovepipe joints, sweet oil, iron potts, camp kettles tin and iron, copper hoops, tents, barrel staves and heading, plank and boards, leather of different kinds, stirrup irons and leathers, spurs and spur leathers, bridle bits, reins and headstalls, leather hopples, neck slips, blind bridles, do. bitts, do. buckles, collars, hames, setts do. irons, back and belly bands, cruppers, leading lines, breech bands, pins, chains, rings and straps for do., trace chains whole and broken, breast and tongue chains, swivel trees, stretchers, tar pots, whip sticks, cart saddles and frames, hungarian and common saddles, surcingles, girths and girth web, saddle bags, valises leather and canvas, curry combs, curb chains, truck wheels wood and iron, horse bells, cutting boxes and knives, leather pocket books, candlesticks and snuffers, tow linnen, shoemakers' and sadlers' knives, maul rings, iron wedges, hoes, pitch forks, flesh forks, wooden trenchers, hay rakes, tin flasks, canteens tin and wood, canteen straps, chest medicine, scythes and handles, ink powder, rag stores, glue, scrap nail rod iron, wheel and hand barrows, cart bodies, saddle trees, screws with buns, andirons, fire shovels and tongs, bed sacks, sandbags, epaulettes, worsted binding, bread, beef, stove plates, tin watering pots, water buckets, half bushel measures, claret, pewter spoons, knives and forks, dishes, cups and saucers, sulkeys and harness, tables, brushes, damaged desk furniture, do. brass belt buckles, do. chairs, do. camp kettles.
At Carlisle.
Log carriage, powder, nails, iron wire, whiting, sulphur, bar iron, steel, sheet copper, antimony, copperas, allure, Spanish brown, copper kettles and pans, desk, sheet tin, stoves, sweet oil, shovels, fascine hatchets, fellies in the rough, barrel staves and heading, saws, drawing knives, grindstones, smiths' bellows and anvils, bick irons, smith's hammer and tongs, bench vices, stakes, augers, masons' trowels, planes, chizzels and gouges, stone and muller, turner's wheels, adzes, smith tools, tomahawks, leather, canteens, old brass and copper, iron hoops, shoemakers' lasts, chests old iron, tinmans' shears, fire buckets, benches, spatulas, arm chests.
At Lancaster.
Powder, flints, lead and lead shot, paper, waggon cover, copper kettles, stoves, writing desk.
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At the head of Elk.
Powder.
At Albany.
Tumbrel cart, powder, paper, lanthorn, tin-tunnel, twine, thread, broad ax, saws, drawing knife, rasp, planes, plane irons, chizzels and gouges, iron square adz, blind bridles and horse harness of every kind, tarpots, cart saddles.
At Rhode Island.
Powder, saltpetre, sulphur, bar iron, arm chests.
At Springfield.
Waggon covers, nails, cotton wool, twine, sulphur, bar iron, steel, sheet iron, scruff copper, duck, sheet tin in boxes and barrels, plank, stirrup leathers, breast straps, blind bridles and horse harness of every kind, cart saddles and frames, girts, curry combs, wooden trenchers, empty tin canisters, brass boreings, charcoal, yards of Hessen, frame for shoeing oxen, old sleds, planes without irons, damaged powder, do. flannel cartridges.
At Boston.
Saltpetre, stoves, spades, picks, adzes, tin flasks, wheel and hand-barrows.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Edward Hand, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folios 103--107.
On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a letter, dated Philadelphia, July 26, 1784, from Arthur Lee and Richard Butler, and referred to Mr. [Jacob] Read, Mr. [Jeremiah Townley] Chase and Mr. [Edward] Hand. It is in No. 56, folios 123--125.]
The Committee of the States is adjourned to Monday 10 o'clock A. M.
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