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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 --FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.
On motion of the delegates from Massachusetts and New York,
Congress proceeded to determine according to the mutual agreement of the agents of the said states of Massachusetts and New York the 24 Decr. the place where the court shall be holden for determining the controversy between the states of Massachusetts and New York, and the ballots being taken,
The city of Williamsburgh, in the commonwealth of Virginia, was fixed determined to be the place for holding the said court, conformably to the agreement of the agents of the said states.
The committee, consisting of Mr. [Jacob] Read, Mr. [William] Ellery and Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, to whom were referred the letters of the 3d and 16th of November last from Mr. Laurens, having reported in part,
That in conformity to the repeated wishes expressed by the honble Benjamin Franklin, Esquire, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States at the Court of Versailles, he be permitted to return to America as soon as convenient and that an early day be appointed for the election of a proper person to represent the United States at the Court of Versailles.
When this part of the report was under debate,
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A motion was made by Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, seconded by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, to strike out the words "as soon as convenient and that an early day be appointed "for the election of a proper person to represent "the United States at the Court of Versailles" and in lieu thereof to insert "as soon as a minister shall have "been appointed to succeed him at that Court."
And on the question to agree to this amendment, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Samuel] Hardy--
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So the question was lost.1
[Note 1: 1 This proceeding was entered in the Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs, No. 5, v. 2, p. 1023, and in No. 6, v. 3, fol. 251.
On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a petition of the merchants of New York who have suffered by depreciation of paper currency and referred to Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, Mr. [James] Monroe, Mr. [Rufus] King, Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson and Mr. [James] McHenry. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, V, folios 431--442, and was reported on March 28. Also a letter of John Brown Cutting asking for settlement of his accounts, which was referred to Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, Mr. [William] Ellery and Mr. [Rufus] King. It is in No. 78, VI, folio 251. On folio 255 is a letter of Edward Fox of December 9, 1784, respecting Brown's accounts, which was read January 21 and referred, with a report thereon, to the same committee. A report was made February 5.]
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