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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, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY.
Congress assembled. Present as before.
[Jan. 11, 1786.]
The committee [Mr. Rufus King, Mr. William Samuel Johnson and Mr. Pierse Long] to whom was referred a Report from Mr. Pennell, Commissioner for the Marine Department, relative to monies obtained in the Island of Martinique, for the repairs and outfits of the Ship Confederacy, submit the following Report,
That the Sieur Borde correspondent of the Commissary for Naval Supplies in the Island of Martinique, furnished Mr. Bingham, Agent of the United States in that Island, with Bills of Exchange drawn in his favor, on the Commissary General, and paid by the Treasurer General, of the French Marine to the amount of Livres 64,067.12.2 1/3 which sum was requisite for the Repairs and outfits of the Ship Confederacy. That Mr. Bingham in a settlement of his accounts, charged the United States with that sum, as supplied through him by the Government of Martinique, which charge hath been allowed, and paid by the United States to Mr. Bingham. Your Committee cannot but presume that Mr. Bingham before this time, must have paid over to the said Correspondent of the Commissary General, or to such other person as may have had authority
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to receive the same, the aforesaid sum of Livres 64,067.12.2 1/3 paid him by the United States to discharge the debt aforesaid.
Whereupon they submit the following Resolution,
Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Board of Treasury cause notice to be given to Mr. Bingham, late Agent of the United States in Martinique, of the request made to Congress by the Treasurer General of the french Marine, for the payment of the aforesaid sum, and that they likewise communicate to Mr. Bingham the direction of Congress that (provided the same is not already accomplished) he does without delay exonerate the United States from the debt aforesaid by applying for that purpose the monies by him received of the United States, expressly for that Object.
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