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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, MAY 16, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina; and from the state of
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Rhode Island, Mr. [William] Ellery; from New York, Mr.[Melancton] Smith, and from Georgia, Mr. [William] Houstoun.
Congress proceeded to the election of a commissioner to negotiate a treaty of peace with the Southern Indians, in the room of Mr. D. Carroll, who has declined; and, the ballots being taken, Lachlin M'Intosh, Esqr. was elected.1
[Note 1: 1 On this day, according to the indorsement, was read a petition of David Oliphant, dated April 26, 1785, praying for extra pay for officers of the Hospital Department who had been detained in Charleston, S. C., after its surrender by General Lincoln. It was referred to the Secretary at War to report. See May 19, post. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 151, folio 51.]
On the report of a Committee, consisting of Mr. [Rufus] King, Mr. [George] Partridge and Mr. [Archibald] Stewart, to whom was referred a petition of Johannah Young, widow of the late John Young, Commander of the sloop of war Saratoga, in the service of the United States, praying for a resolution to entitle her to obtain half pay,
Resolved, That it is inexpedient to comply with the prayer of the said petition.2
[Note 2: 2 See ante, March 22.]
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Hugh Williamson, Mr. [William] Ellery and Mr. [John] Sitgreaves, to whom was referred a petition of David Jones, praying to be allowed the preemption of a certain tract of land in the Western country,
Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner cannot be granted.3
[Note 3: 3 Jones's petition is in No. 42, IV, folio 74.
Also, according to Committee Book No. 190, Mr. [James] Monroe was added to the Committee of April 4, on John Sullivan's memorial.
Also on this day, according to Committee Book No. 190, the Secretary at War was requested "To devise a plan for the general regulation of the militia of the U. S. in such manner as to render it most useful and least expensive to the respective States in order to ground thereon a recommendation relative to this subject to the several States." He reported March 20, 1786. See ante, February 21.
May 16: The following committees were appointed:
Of the Week: Mr. [David] Ramsay, Mr. [Samuel] Dick and Mr. [Joseph Platt] Cook.
Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [Pierse] Long and Mr. [William] Ellery on memorial of Udny Hay, dated May 16 and praying for benefits and emoluments allowed to a lieutenant-colonel. It is in No. 41, IV, folio 289, and report was rendered May 30.
Mr. [Samuel] Hardy, Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, Mr. [David] Howell, Mr. [Rufus] King and Mr. [Samuel] Dick on an Ordinance for regulating the Indian trade. This was a renewal of the Committee of January 17.
Committee Book No. 190.]
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