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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 --TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia; and from the state of Rhode Island, Mr. [David] Howell; from Connecticut, Mr. [Joseph Platt] Cook; from New Jersey, Mr. [Lambert] Cadwallader, and from North Carolina, Mr. [William] Cumming.
Congress proceeded to the election of a commissioner to negotiate with the Western Indians, and, the ballots being taken, Mr. Robert Howe was elected, having been previously nominated by Mr. [Jacob] Read.
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On motion of Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, seconded by Mr. [Samuel] Holten,
Ordered, That the Secretary for foreign affairs, report the number of Consuls and Vice consuls necessary to be appointed by Congress, and the foreign ports in which they should respectively reside.1
[Note 1: 1 This order was also entered by Benjamin Bankson in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs, No. 5. Report was rendered September 20.
On this day, according to the endorsement, the report of the Secretary at War, on the memorial of Captain Nathaniel Irish, was referred to Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [Samuel] Hardy and Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry. The indorsement on the memorial states that no report was made and that the papers were returned to Captain Irish August 26, 1791. See ante, July 29 and August 3.
On this day, the petition of Captain Pierre Ayotte was referred to Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [James] McHenry and Mr. [William] Cumming, who were the Committee of the Week. See post, August 25.]
Adjourned to Monday next, 11 o'clock.
[Motion of Mr Charles Pinckney]
That so much of the resolution of the 17th. June, 1782, as respects the appointment of Committees half yearly to enquire into the proceedings of the department of Finance and to report the result thereof to Congress be repealed.2
[Note 2: 2 This motion, in the writing of Charles Pinckney, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, III, folio 101. It was referred on this day, the indorsement states, to Mr. [David] Howell, Mr. [Pierse] Long, Mr. [Charles] Pettit, Mr. [Rufus] King and Mr. [James] Monroe. See ante, July 11.
On this day, as the indorsement indicates, was read a memorial of James Stuart, praying reimbursement for losses suffered in Canada as the result of aiding the American cause. The memorial is in No. 41, IX, folio 373, is dated August 8, 1785, was read and referred, August 17, to Mr. [John] Lawrance, Mr. [James] McHenry and Mr. [Rufus] King.]
Board of Treasury,
August 9, 1785.
The Board of Treasury to whom was referred the Letter of Andrew Dunscomb, Commissioner of Accounts for the State of Virginia dated 1st. July last, and the Letter of Guillem Artson, Commissioner of Accounts for the State of South Carolina of the 13th. July last, beg leave to Report--
That no settlement of the claims of Individuals against the United States, which may have been made under the authority of any State,
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subsequent to the Resolves of Congress of the 20th. February, 1782, shall be deemed conclusive against the United States; but that the same shall be investigated, and finally adjusted by the proper Commissioners appointed by Congress to settle the Accounts of the several States with the United States, agreeably to the Principles established by the Resolves of Congress of the 20 February, 1782, and 3d. June, 1784.
That such Claims, when ascertained in the manner before provided, shall be considered on the same footing as if the same had, in the first Instance, been adjusted by the respective Commissioners, appointed in the several States to settle the Claims of Individuals against the United States; and that the said Commissioners shall issue their Certificate accordingly for the amount so liquidated.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, signed by Samuel Osgood and Walter Livingston, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 138, I, folio 381. The indorsement states that it was read this day and referred to the grand committee of August 1. See post, September 28.
August 9: The following committees were appointed: Mr. [Samuel] Holten, Mr. [John] Haring and Mr. [David] Howell, on the memorial of Col. Return J. Meigs and Job Greene, son of Col. Christopher Greene, praying reimbursement for £50 borrowed of them by American prisoners in Quebec. A report was rendered September 14. The memorial, dated August 1, is in No. 41, VI, 436.
Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [James] McHenry and Mr. [William] Cumming, on the memorial of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. This committee was discharged September 20 and the memorial referred to the Board of Treasury.
Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [Samuel] Hardy and Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, on the report of the Commissioner for settling army accounts on the memorials of Captains Wylie and Jordan. This report is in No. 62, folio 75, and was read this day; against it Thomson has noted, at a later date, that it was filed.
Committee Book No. 190.
Also, according to Committee Book No. 190, the memorial of Pierre Regnier de Roussi and the report on his former memorial of April 19, 1785, were this day referred to the Paymaster General to report. Report was rendered August 15.]
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