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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 --MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present as before.2
[Note 2: 2 On this day, according to indorsement, was read a letter of January 20, from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on the propriety of appointing a consul to the port of Canton, China.
Also a letter of the same date from the same Secretary, transmitting letters and papers from William Carmichael. Jay's letters are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 80, II, folios 125 and 129. Carmichael's letters dated July 15 and July 25, 1785, with enclosures, are in No. 88, II, folios 400--452.]
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