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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 29, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present as before.
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Charles] Pettit, Mr. [Samuel] Holten, Mr. [William] Ellery, Mr. [John] Lawrence and Mr. [Melancton] Smith, appointed to arrange the necessary preparations for a dinner on Monday the fourth of July, the place and hour of dining, the persons to be invited and other circumstances and ceremonials necessary to be previously attended to,
Resolved, That the Board of Treasury take order to provide a suitable dinner at the Coffee house on the fourth day of July for fifty persons, including Congress, and that the dinner be on the table precisely at 5 o'clock. That the following gentlemen be invited:
The Minister plenipotentiary of the United Netherlands and Secretary;
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That the Secretary of Congress send cards of invitation, make out a list of thirteen toasts for, and act as Master of ceremonies on, that day.
That the Secretary at War take order for procuring a band of musick and for furnishing two cannon with apparatus for firing salutes, and that he order the continental Officer of the highest military rank in the city to conduct the Salutes, and act as Officer of the day.1
[Note 1: 1 This paragraph has a line drawn through it in the Journal and in the margin opposite the resolve and list of guests Thomson has written: "Secretary at War to take order." Resolve Book No. 123 notes: "June 29 Vide Order for a public Dinner. Public Manust. Journal."]
Office of the Secretary of Congress, June, 1785.
The United States in Congress assembled intending to have a new, correct and compleat edition of their journals published as well for the use of the states and public departments as for supplying such as may be desirous of purchasing them. The printers in the several States are hereby requested to send to this office on or before the first Monday in November next the terms on which they will engage to publish the said journals, and to denver one thousand copies thereof.
The person or persons contracting must engage to have a compleat index made for the whole from the beginning to the 1st Monday in Novr. 1785, and inserted in the volume ending at that time.
The edition is to be in folio plain bound and lettered and numbered with the several years in boards.
The proposals must mention the tune when the work will can be entered upon and the quantity which can be composed daily, and be accompanied with specimens of the paper and types.
The work to be carried on at the place where Congress resides, or within such a distance thereof as shall be determined by the Secretary of Congress, who is to superintend the printing and revise the proof sheets.2
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, Mr. [David] Howell, Mr. J[ohn] Henry, Mr. [Rufus]
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Charles Thomson, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 23, folio 235. It is indorsed by Thomson: "Entd.--read 29 June, 1785, Aug. 25, 1785, Referred to the Secy. of Congress to take Order."]
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King and Mr. [William] Grayson, to whom was referred a motion of Mr. King,
Resolved, That the commissioners for negotiating a treaty with the western tribes of Indians, under the resolutions of the 18th March last, and of the 15th of June instant, be, and they are hereby directed to hold the said treaty on the western banks of the Ohio, at the rapids, or at the mouth of the great Miami.
That the Secretary at War detach one company of infantry from the troops in the service of the United States, to attend the said commissioners to, at and from the place where the treaty aforesaid shall be held, and to be subject to the orders of the said Commissioners; and that so much of the act of the 15 instant as directs the Secretary at War to order the troops in the service of the United States, to be in readiness to attend the said commissioners; [and so much of the said Act as requires the Commissioners to obtain from the inhabitants of Kaskasides, St. Vincents and others, a statement of their rights to lands, and to administer an Oath to the said inhabitants,] be, and are hereby repealed.
Resolved, That if the company of infantry aforesaid be found insufficient for the protection of the said Commissioners and others during the time of holding the said treaty it be, and hereby is recommended to the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the request of the said Commissioners, to furnish such numbers of the Militia of that State, not exceeding one hundred and fifty men, from the Counties within the State most convenient to the place where the said treaty is to be held, as will give full protection to all persons attending the same: provided the Company of infantry aforesaid, shall be found to be insufficient for that purpose.
The Committee consisting of [Mr. Samuel Hardy, Mr. John Henry and Mr. John Lawrance] to whom was referred the memorial of
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Catherine alias the Grenadier a Shawnese woman submit the following report
That it appearing to your Committee that the said Catherine alias Grenadier was instrumental in the preservation of fort Randolph by driving within the said fort forty head of Cattle at a time when it was invested by the Indians and when from the difficulty and danger of procuring supplies, there is just reason to believe it must have surrendered for the want of provision but for such supply
Resolved, That the said Catherine alias Grenadier be allowed dollars as a compensation for the said Cattle, and as a further testimony of the sense which Congress entertain of the services rendered by the said Catherine alias Grenadier.
Resolved, That she be allowed one thousand acres of land on the west side of the Scioto river above the old Picawee town where she once resided, for the use of her and her heirs.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Samuel Hardy, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 30, folio 367. Committee Book No. 191 states that it was transferred. The indorsement states that it was read on this day and on August 25, 1788, referred to Mr. [William] Irvine, Mr. [Edward] Carrington and Mr. [James Randolph] Read who reported September 16, 1788.
On this day, as the indorsement states, the petition of William Irwin and others, dated Pittsburg, June 2, praying to be protected in carrying on saltworks, was referred to Mr. [David] Howell, Mr. [Charles] Pettit and Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson. A report was rendered September 13, 1785. The petition is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, IV, folio 78.]
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