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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, JULY 28, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia; and from the state of New Jersey, Mr. [Lambert] Cadwallader.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report on the subject of supplies for the year 1785.
A motion was made by the delegates of South Carolina, to amend the report, by inserting, previous to the quotas of the states, the following clause:
"Whereas the money proposed to be called for in the present year, 1785, is only a part of deficiencies on the requisition of October, 1781; and whereas South Carolina has paid the
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whole of her quota of that requisition, agreeably to the last rule of apportionment adopted by Congress; and whereas Congress, by their act of April 27, 1784, agreed to a report of a committee, which proposed to prevent new requisitions on them (meaning the states) till the old shall have been exhausted, and to shew to those (meaning the states) who may have paid their whole quota of any requisition, that they will not be called on anew till all the other states shall, in like manner, have paid up their quota; therefore, Resolved, That the three millions of dollars proposed to be raised for the service of the year 1785, be exclusively quoted on the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia."
A motion was made by Mr. [Rufus] King, seconded by Mr. [Samuel] Holten, to postpone the consideration of the motion of South Carolina, in order to take up the following proposition:
After the quotas of the states to add:
Provided that such state or states, as have paid more than a moiety of their respective quotas of the requisition of the 30 of October, 1781, for eight millions of dollars, as the same were apportioned by the resolution of the 2d of November following, shall be credited for such advance, conformably to the resolution of the 27 of April, 1784, in their quotas in this requisition, upon a revision by the board of treasury of the quotas of the said requisition of the 30th October, 1781, and a regulation of the same, by the rule adopted in the apportionment of 1,500,000 dollars, supplementary funds to the revenue system of the 18 of April, 1783.
And on the question to postpone the consideration of the proposition from South Carolina, the yeas and nays being required by the delegates of South Carolina,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.1
[Note 1: 1 On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a letter of July 16 from James Bowdoin introducing Captain Walden and his plan for coinage. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 65, II, folio 257. Captain Frederick H. Walden's letter is in No. 78, XXIV, folio 527, and his plan is on folio 531.]
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