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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, JUNE 6, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia; and from the state of New Hampshire, Mr. [Abiel] Foster, and from North Carolina, Mr. [Richard Dobbs] Spaight.
On the question for commitment, the determination of which was postponed by the state of Georgia, and on which the yeas and nays were required by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney,
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So the question was lost.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee, which was under debate on the 31st May last; and on the question,
Resolved, That the paragraph, on which the question was lost, be re-considered.
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On the question to agree to the said paragraph, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney,
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So it was Resolved, That the commissioners instructed to hold a treaty under the resolutions of the 18 of March last, with the western tribes of Indians, at post St. Vincent, on the 20 day of June, for the purpose of obtaining from them a cession of lands, be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to avail themselves of the disposition of the Indians and the funds committed to their charge, to make such cession as extensive and liberal as possible.1
[Note 1: 1 On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a letter of May 3 from William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, informing that the state had not arranged furnish its quota of men for western frontier service. It is in No. 68, folio 645.]
Board of Treasury, June 6th 1785.
The Board of Treasury to whom was referred the petition of John Allan Esq. late Superintendant of Indian affairs for the eastern department, Report.
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That in the opinion of the Board, the Commission held by John Allan Esq. late Superintendant of Indian affairs for the eastern department, under the authority of Congress, can only be considered as a civil commission, and therefore that his claim for the emoluments granted to officers in the military line of the United States cannot be admitted.
With respect to the claims made by the Petitioner for his wages as Superintendant of Indian affairs from the 3d of June, 1783, till his dismission, and that the sum due on the certificate granted to him under the administration of the late Superintendant of finance, on the 4th June, 1783, should be discharged. The Board considering the pretensions of Mr Allan, as founded on the same basis with other civil officers of the United States submit to the consideration of Congress the following Resolve,
That the sum of eight hundred and seventy dollars 45/90 be paid to John Allan late Superintendant of Indian affairs June 13, passed for the Eastern department being the amount of his salary from the 3d June, 1783, till the 1st May, 1784, the time he received intelligence of his dismission from service.
That the Registers certificate given to John Allan Postponed 13 June; 17 June assigned the 4th. June, 1783, for three thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars being the balance due him for past services to that period be paid and cancelled out of the requisition for the year 1784.
Samuel Osgood
Walter Livingston1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 138, 1, folio 75. The part within brackets is in the writing of Charles Thomson. See post, September 29, 1785. Allan's petition is in No. 42, I, folio 79. See ante, April 21.
June 6: The following committees were appointed: Of the Week: Mr. [John] Habersham, Mr. [Abraham] Baldwin and Mr. [John] Kean.
Mr. [Rufus] King, Mr. [James] McHenry, Mr. [James] Monroe, Mr. [Charles] Pettit and Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson, on the petition of the Trustees and Fellows of the College in Providence. The committee reported September 28.
Committee Book No. 190.
Also, according to Committee Book No. 190, on this day the letter from J[ohn] Carter to Mr. D[avid] Howell respecting "Americans detained on board british ships of war"; a letter of March 27, 1785, "from His Most Christian Majesty announcing the birth of a Son, the Duke of Normandy" and the "Convention between his Most Christian Majesty and the United States respecting functions and prerogatives of Consuls, vice consuls, agents and commissaries" were referred to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs for reports. Reports were rendered on Carter's letter June 9; on letter from King of France June 14; and on the Consular Convention on June 23.
Carter's letter, dated April 19, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress No. 78, VI, folio 283.
The King of France's letter, with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs' translation, is in C. C. Miscellany, Ac. 2807.
The Consular Convention, dated July 29, 1784, and signed and sealed by Vergennes and Franklin, is in No. 47, folio 219. A printed "Scheme of a convention" varying as to the introductory paragraph from the manuscript on folio 219 is on folio 261.]
[That three thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars be paid to J Allan out of the requisition for the year 1784 in full of the balance due to him on the 4th. June, 1783, for his services to that time and that the Register's certificate given for that balance be taken up and cancelled.]
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