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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, SEPTEMBER 15, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and South Carolina; and from the State of Virginia, Mr. [William] Grayson, and from Georgia, Mr. [John] Habersham.
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Congress resumed the consideration of the requisition for 1785; and the following paragraph being part of the provisoes reported by the grand committee, to be inserted immediately after the words "and certified to the last day of the year 1784," being under debate, viz. "And any commissioner of a continental loan office, who shall disobey the directions contained in this requisition, shall be dismissed from Office by the board of treasury, who are hereby authorized to fill up the vacancy, and report the same to Congress."
A motion was made by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, seconded by Mr. [James] McHenry, to postpone the consideration of that paragraph, in order to take up the following part of a report of a grand committee, viz. "That where supplies have been furnished by individuals for the use of the United States, and have been assumed by any state, the commissioner for settling the Accounts of such state with the United States, shall be authorised and instructed, to liquidate such claims upon the same principles as though they had remained in the hands of the individuals, and admit them as a charge against the United States."
On the question to postpone for the purpose aforesaid, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney,
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So it passed in the negative.
September 15th. 1785: That the Board of Treasury pay to Samuel Frauncis two thousand dollars in Specie and receive from him and cancel four Loan Office Certificates of that nominal amount conformably to the Resolve of the 4th. of April last.
Ordered, That the above be referred to the Board of Treasury to take order.1
[Note 1: 1 This proceeding was entered by Benjamin Bankson in Resolve Book No. 123. Thomson entered it, in slightly different phraseology, in Committee Book No. 190.
Also, according to Committee Book No. 190, Congress was to resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on this day, to consider the claims of the Wyoming settlers. See ante, August 19 and January 13, and post, September 19.
Also, on this day, another memorial, dated September 15, from Pierre du Calvet, was submitted to Congress in a letter from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, of this date. Both were read and the matter referred to the Board of Treasury to report. Calvet's memorial is in No. 78, VIII, folio 427. Jay's letter is in No. 80, I, folio 889.
Also, was read the report of September 15 from the Secretary at War on the petition of William Finnie for rank and emoluments of a colonel. It is in No. 151, folio 107. Committee Book No. 191 notes the report as filed and the indorsement states that it was acted on February 2, 1786.]
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