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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, JUNE 22, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina; and from New Hampshire, Mr. [Pierse] Long; from Rhode Island, Mr. [James] Manning, and from Georgia, Mr. [William] Few.
Mr. Daniel Huger, a delegate for South Carolina, attended, and produced credentials, by which it appears, that he is appointed a delegate to represent that state until the first day of February, 1787.
State Of South Carolina:
By His Excellency William Moultrie, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State aforesaid.
To the Honorable Daniel Huger, Esquire, Greeting:
Know ye that by Virtue of the Power and Authority in me Vested by the Legislature of this State I have Commissioned, Constituted, and Appointed, And by These Presents do Commission, Constitute, and Appoint You, the said Daniel Huger, to be a Delegate to represent this State in the Congress of the United States of America.
This Commission to continue and be in force, until the twenty-first day of February which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty-Seven.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State in the City of Charleston this twenty-first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty-six and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America the Tenth.
Willm. Moultrie.1
[Note 1: 1 The original of this credential is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, South Carolina, Credentials. According to indorsement it was read June 22. It is entered in Record of Credentials, No. 179, but not in the Journal.]
[Great Seal Pendant]
By His Excellency's Command:
John Vander Horst,
Secretary.
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On Motion of Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, seconded by Mr. [Edward] Carrington,
Resolved, That the Secretary at war direct the commanding officer of the troops, to detach two companies to the rapids of the Ohio, to protect the inhabitants from the incursions and depredations of the Indians.
On the question to agree to this resolution, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [William] Grayson,
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So it was resolved in the Affirmative.
[Motion of Mr. Grayson]
Ordered that the Secretary for foreign affairs be directed to transmit to the Executives of ye States, abstracts of the numbers, names and owners of negroes carried away by ye British in contravention to
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ye late treaty of peace, and which were the property of ye Citizens of such States respectively.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of William Grayson, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, III, folio 263. According to indorsement it made June 22 and "Referred to the Secretary for foreign Affairs to take Order." The motion and order thereon were also entered, by Thomson, in Committee Book No. 190 which notes "July 3 a letter from the Secy. on this subject."
June 22: The following committee was appointed: Mr. [William] Harrison. Mr. [John Cleves] Symmes and Mr. [William] Grayson, on a "Memorial of Jacob Rubsamen the settlement of his Acct." Report was rendered July 12.
Committee Book No. 190.
Also, on June 22, according to indorsement, was read the report of the committee of November 30, 1785, on the memorial of Lt. Col. Moses Rawlings. It is in No. 19, V, 231, in the writing of Charles Pinckney and was adopted practically verbatim June 30, where it is spread on the Journals.]
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