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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 25, 1785.
Four States only attending; namely, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina; and from the State of New Hampshire, Mr. [Pierse] Long; from Massachusetts, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry; from Connecticut, Mr. [Joseph Platt] Cook; from New York, Mr. [John] Haring; from Pennsylvania, Mr. [David] Jackson, and from Georgia, Mr. [John] Habersham:
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The president adjourned Congress till eleven o'clock to Morrow.
The Board of Treasury to whom was referred a letter of the 13th. October Inst: from the Secretary of foreign affairs transmitting to Congress a letter from Don Diego de Gaurdoqui, attorney for Joseph Gaurdoqui & Sons of Bilboa, relative to the claims of that House against the United States for certain disbursements made by them, by order of the Navy Board of the Eastern Department:
Beg leave to Report to Congress the following Resolve,
That the Board of Treasury take order for paying whatever balance shall appear due from the Navy Board of the Eastern Department to Joseph Gardoqui and Sons of Bilboa, on a certificate from the Commr. of the Marine Department, ascertaining the same: and that the Navy be charg'd with the amount.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 525. According to the indorsement it was passed August 8, 1786, and the papers returned, that day, to the Office for Foreign Affairs. See ante, October 13.]
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