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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 --WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania; Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia.
[Motion of James Monroe]
That upon supplies furnish'd by impressment or other services rendered by individuals to the U. S. from the year 1781 to the present period, the claims whereof against the U. S. by payment of the principal, or other satisfactory compensation, are transferred from the individual to the State of which he is a citizen, upon the liquidation of the account by the Commissr. of the U. S. with the State, upon the same principles as if they had not been transferr'd, the State shall be consider'd as standing in the place of the individual and intitled to all the benefits which wod. otherwise have belong'd to him.
That as the accounts of the several States against the U. S. for their respective advances in support of the late war are unliquidated and each State supposes she hath advanc'd at least her federal quota, and requisitions upon a contrary principle so far as they apply to the domestic debt previous to that event may be injurious to some of the States and measures are taken to effect a final liquidation as soon as possible untill that desirable end is obtain'd all the monies call'd for in the discharge of the domestic debt be so modified in their collection as that each State be allow'd to pay its proportion into the treasury of the U. S. in certificates of discount either upon the principal or interest of so much as shall be liquidated within it as in the opinion of as the several legislatures shall be find most consonant to justice and convenient to their citizens.
And whereas the U. S. are plighted under the act of cession from the State of Virga. of her claims to territory no. westward of the Ohio agreeably to the conditions of the sd. act as therein contain'd, "to reimburse to the sd. State all her reasonable expences &c" and as a commissr. is
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appointed on the part of the U. S. for the adjustment and liquidation of said accts. and it is necessary that provision be made for complying with said engagements it is therefore agreed that provided they shall be liquidated during the operation of the present requisition thatdolrs. be admitted in discount to the said State for said advances.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of James Monroe, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, III, folios 49 and 51. An indorsement in Charles Thomson's writing says: "60 copies of this must be provided and ready to be delivered by 10 o'clock," and "Motion of Mr. [James] Monroe, seconded by Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, debated June 22, 1785, ordered for consideration on the 23d.". One of the printed copies is in the Continental Congress, Broadsides, in the Library of Congress.
Also a letter from John Kilbuck, dated June 18, was read, thanking Congress for its care of him and requesting further assistance. It is in No. 78, XIII, folio 613.
Also on this day, according to indorsement, a letter of June 22 from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs was read, asking directions as to the silk sent to Congress by William Shaw. It is in No. 80, I, folio 221. See ante, June 9.]
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