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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 --WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia; and from the state of New Hampshire, Mr. [Pierse] Long; from Connecticut, Mr. [Joseph Platt] Cook, and from New York, Mr. [John] Hating.2
[Note 2: 2 On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a petition of Elizabeth Bingham, praying for assistance. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, I, folio 352.
Also, a letter of October 20 from William Paca, Governor of Maryland, with an act for alteration of the 8th article of the Articles of Confederation and a census of inhabitants taken in 1782. It is in No. 70, folio 539; a copy of the census is in No. 177, folio 23.
Also, according to Committee Book No. 190, a memorial from Marinus Willett on copper coinage was referred to the Board of Treasury.]
The Board of Treasury to whom was referred the Memorial of Samuel Tudor, beg leave to Report--
That while no money appears to be due to the Memorialist (his accounts being unsettled) there would be an impropriety in making
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him an advance, especially while the State of the Treasury is so exhausted that the creditors of the United States who have settled their accounts and to whom there are balances due cannot obtain their just demands.
The Board of Treasury submit for the consideration of Congress the following Resolve,
That the Memorial of Samuel Tudor praying for an advance of money previous to the settlement of his accounts with the United States cannot be complied with.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, signed by Samuel Osgood and Walter Livingston, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 138, II, folio 459. According to the indorsement it, was read this day. See ante, June 16.]
Octr. 25th., 1785.
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