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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, NOVEMBER 3, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present, as before.1
[Note 1: 1 On this day, according to Committee Book No. 190, a petition from Sarah Greaton was referred to the Board of Treasury to report and a report rendered July 22, 1788. The petition is in No. 41, III, folio 546, and prays that she, the widow of Brig. Gen. John Greaton, be allowed cash in lieu of the land bounty granted her husband.]
[Report of Grand Committee]
That the Board of Treasury give Instructions to the Commissioners appointed for the settlement of the accounts of particular States with the United States, to report to them from time to time such claims of States as, in their opinion, they are not authorised to admit as charges against the United States, and the nature of the evidence on which the same depends, and that the Board from time to time make report thereof to Congress, in order that they may be duly considered, and proper measures adopted for the final adjustment of the Accounts of the United States.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Roger Alden, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, folio 509. The indorsement states that it was read on this day. See ante, September 28.]
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