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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 --TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present, eight states as yesterday; and from the State of New Hampshire, Mr. [Abiel] Foster; from Rhode Island, Mr. [William] Ellery; from Connecticut, Mr. [Joseph Platt] Cook, and from Delaware, Mr. [John] Vining.
According to order, Congress proceeded to the election of three commissioners to constitute the Board of Treasury, but not coming to a choice,
Ordered, That the election be postponed till Tuesday next.
On motion of Mr. Jay, seconded by Mr. Gerry,
Resolved unanimously, Eight states only being represented, That his excellency the President inform the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at the court of France, that it is the desire but not the instruction of Congress, in case the convention proposed for regulating and ascertaining the powers and privileges of consuls should not be already signed, that he delay
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signing it until he shall receive further instructions on the subject from Congress.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of John Jay, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, II, folio 479. It was entered only in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs, in Secret Journal, No. 4, and in Secret Journal, No. 6, Vol. III.
On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a letter, dated North Carolina, November 27, 1784, from Alexander Martin, Governor of North Carolina. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 72, folio 177.
Also, a letter of December 10, from William Duer.
Also, a letter of September 17, from Thomas Barclay, was referred to Mr. [John] Jay, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Mr. [James] Monroe, Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, and Mr. [Hugh] Williamson. The indorsement continues: "Authorized and instructed to revise the plan of a convention of the consulate proposed to the court of Versailles and report thereon." It is in No. 137, appendix, folio 369.]
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