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Journals of the Continental Congress --WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 18, 1786.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 18, 1786.

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Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.

"An offer of the delegates of Connecticut to make a cession conformable to an Act of that State of Jany. 1784 and a Motion that Congress wd. accept it" [Referred to] "Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson,

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Mr. [William] Hindman, Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [David] Ramsay, Mr. [Samuel] Livermore. Report April 10."1

[Note 1: 1 This entry, in Thomson's writing, is in Committee Book No. 190. An attested copy of the Connecticut act is in No. 30, folio 575.
Also, on this day, according to Committee Book No. 190, a letter from Mathias Ogden, dated January 6, in reference to a mint, was referred to the Board of Treasury to report.]

Board Of Treasury,
Jany 18th. 1786.

Sir: In obedience to the act of Congress of the 5th. instant we do ourselves the Honor of transmitting to your Excellency an account of Continental Money destroyed previous to the 18th. September, 1782, and what has been since cancelled in pursuance of that Resolve.

Congress will observe that there is no return in this office of any monies destroyed by the Commissioners of the several States, excepting New Hampshire. We have, in consequence of the resolve of Congress written to those officers, to transmit to this Board returns of all monies they may have destroyed since the 18th. Sepr. 1782, which we shall do ourselves the Honor of laying before Congress, as soon as they come to hand.2

[Note 2: 2 This letter, signed by Walter Livingston and Arthur Lee, with its inclosure, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 139, folios 57 and 69--71. According to the indorsement, it was read this day.]

No. 1

An Account of Continental Bills destroyed at Philadelphia; in the presence of Francis Hopkinson, Esqr., Treasurer of Loans, by Commissioners, for that purpose appointed; agreeably to Acts of Congress, previous to the 18th. September, 1782:

Registers Office,
14 January, 1786.

Joseph Nourse, Regr.

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No. 2

Account of Bills of Credit destroyed in pursuance of an Act of Congress of 18th. Sept., 1782.

Note.--The above is the only return of money destroyed by virtue of sd. act of Congress that hath been received at the Treasury.

Joseph Nourse, Regr.

Registers Office, 14 January, 1786.

Joseph Nourse, Regr.

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