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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 --WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present as before.2
[Note 2: 2 January 25: The following committees were appointed:
Mr. [Melancton] Smith, Mr. [Charles] Pinckney and Mr. [Pierse] Long, on petition of Isaac Scars and Paschal N. Smith for sea-letters for the ship Hope to Canton. The committee reported January 26 and action was taken this same day.
Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, Mr. [Nathan] Dane, Mr. [James] Monroe, Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson and Mr. [Rufus] King, on the report of the Board of Treasury on the settlement of accounts of the Five Great Departments. A report was rendered January 31.
Committee Book No. 190.
Also, according to indorsement, was read a petition of Win. M. Smith, dated January 21, praying for pay and subsistence for services as chief engineer in New York City in 1776. It is in No. 42, VII, folio 1, and was acted on by Congress September 4, 1786. See post, January 26.
Also was read a letter of January 3, 1786, from Nathanael Greene forwarding a letter to him from William Finnie, and justifying Finnie's plea. It is in No. 155, II, folio 702. A copy of Finnie's letter is on folio 706.]
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 distroy'd previous to the 18th. September, 1782, and what has been since cancell'd in pursuance of that Resolve. Congress will observe that there is no Return in this Office of any Monies distroy'd by the Commissioners of the Several States, Excepting Newhampshire. We have in Consequence of the Resolve of
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Congress written to those Officers to transmit to this Board Returns of all Monies they may have distroy'd since the 18th. Sept., 1782, which we shall do ourselves the Honor of laying before Congress, as soon as they come to hand.
We have the Honor etc.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, signed by Walter Livingston and Arthur Lee, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 139, folio 57. According to indorsement it was read this day. The Register's account of bills destroyed is dated January 14 and is on folios 69--77.]
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