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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 --THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [James] Monroe, Mr. [Zephaniah] Platt, Mr. [Jacob] Read, Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, Mr. [Richard Dobbs] Spaight, to whom were referred a letter, of 3 November, 1784, from the honble. John Adams, and a letter, of the 11 of the same month, from the honble. John Adams, Benj. Franklin and Thomas Jefferson,
Resolved, That the paragraph in the joint letter respecting the communications they have received from the Count de Vergennes upon the subject of the Dutch loans guarantied by France, and the particular loans of France, as also the paragraph respecting the letter of Mr. LeGrand to Mr. Franklin, and the letter of Mr. Adams, be transmitted to the several executives, and that they be requested to lay them before their respective legislatures for their information upon the subjects on which they treat, under the most solemn injunctions of secresy.1
[Note 1: 1 These two paragraphs were also entered in the manuscript Secret (Domestic) Journal, and in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs. A copy of the resolve, which was sent to one of the States, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Miscellaneous, in the Library of Congress; with it is the extract from the letter of Adams, Franklin and Jefferson of November 11, 1784.
The report, in the writing of James Monroe, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 25, II, folio 405. See post, January 27, note.
To this same committee were also referred the letters from John Adams of October 20, 1784; from C. W. F. Dumas of September 18, October 8 and 12 and the letter from Thomas Barclay of November 15. The Committee was, this day, discharged and the "business transfered to Grand Comee." See post, January 24. The Barclay letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 137, Appendix, folio 373.
January 20: The following committees were appointed:
Mr. [Zephaniah] Platt, Mr. [James] McHenry and Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, on the Address of the Tradesmen and Mechanics of New York. Report was rendered February 4.
Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, Mr. [Samuel] Holten, Mr. [William S.] Johnson, Mr. [Hugh] Williamson and Mr. [Jacob] Read, on letters of January 14, and 20, 1785, (the letter of January 14 was read this day; that of the 20th is indorsed as having been read the 24th) from James Milligan on "a forgery of settlemt. certificates." These letters are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 35, folios 9 and 15, respectively. Also to this committee was referred the letter of January 15 from Joseph Pennell on the settlement of marine accounts and allowance to be made to marine agents. Reports were made, according to Committee Book, 186, on January 31 and May 13, but the report of the Board of Treasury, of June 10, was on Pennell's letters of January 15 and April 30. This report was read June 13.
Mr. [Samuel] Holten, Mr. [James] McHenry and Mr. [John] Beatty, on memorial of Capt. Giles Wolcott respecting settlement of his accounts as quartermaster in the Northern Department. A report was rendered January 28.
Committee Book, No. 186.]
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