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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, OCTOBER 11, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.
On a report from the board of treasury, to whom was referred a petition of Lewis Nichols and Richard Lloyd, agents to the invalid corps and Hazen's regiment, in behalf of themselves and the agents of Armand's corps, the regiment of Artificers, and the corps of Sappers and Miners,
Resolved, That, when the agents appointed to issue certificates for the balances due to the corps of the late continental
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army, (not appertaining to any State) shall have finally adjusted the accounts of their respective corps, with the commissioner of Army Accounts, the board of treasury be, and it is hereby authorised, to ascertain and report to Congress, such compensation, as, from the report of the said Commissioner, they shall judge proportionate to the service of the respective Agents.
Resolved, That the Certificates which remain undelivered by the respective agents abovementioned, to the individuals to whom they belong, be returned to the commissioner of Army Accounts, with whom the said agents are to settle the accounts of their Agency, relative to the deliveries made to the individuals aforesaid; And the Commissioner for Army accounts shall transmit such remaining certificates to the supreme executive authority of the state in which the parties, having a right to claim the same, were enlisted, in the same manner as is provided for by the resolves of Congress of the 3d of November, 1783, and 27th of May, 1785, in the case of regiments appertaining to the several States.
Office For Foreign Affairs,
[October 8, 1785]
Sir: I have the honor of transmitting to your Excellency herewith enclosed, a letter of the 27th. Ultimo which I have received from Mr Soderstrom the Consul of Sweden.
The facts stated in it, are interesting, and in my Opinion it would be proper to send Copies of it to the different States with a Recommendation of Congress to them to treat the Merchants and Vessels of Sweden in the same liberal manner in which that Kingdom treats ours.
I have the honor to be, etc.
John Jay.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 81, I, folio 473. According to indorsement it was read this day and referred back to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to report. See post, October 24.
Also on this day, according to indorsements, were read letters from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, dated October 8, enclosing a letter and translation thereof, from Mr. Otto and October 11, a letter and sundry enclosures from Mr. [John] Adams.
Also, according to Committee Book No. 190, Mr. [Rufus] King, Mr. [Jacob] Read and Mr. [David] Howell were appointed a committee to consider a letter of September 24 from Richard Butler. They delivered a report this day which was adopted, verbatim, and spread on the Journal October 12. Butler's letter is in No. 56, folio 323.
Also, according to indorsements and that on the extract from the report of the Secretary at War, dated September 12 (No. 151, folio 99), to wit: "To be printed--the report on Mr. Kirkland's letter to succeed it--60 copies," the authority for this publication was given this day. A broadside of the combined reports is in the Library of Congress; the printed date line is September 12, but the broadside could not have been issued before October 11. See ante, September 12, 14, October 4 and 5.]
His Excellency the President Of Congress.
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