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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 --FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present as before.
According to Order, Congress proceeded to the election of a Consul, to reside at Canton, and, the ballots being taken, Mr. Samuel Shaw was elected; having been previously nominated by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney.
Ordered, That the Secretary for foreign Affairs prepare a commission for Mr. Shaw, as consul of the United States of
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America, at Canton; that the same, when prepared, be signed by the chairman, and that the great Seal of the United States be thereto affixed.1
[Note 1: 1 This proceeding is also entered in Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs, No. 5, by Benjamin Bankson.
January 27: The following committees were appointed: Mr. [Rufus] King, Mr. [Pierse] Long and Mr. [Stephen Mix] Mitchell, on the "Petition of sundry persons in the quartermasters department in Massachusetts for depreciation." This committee "discharged 1786, April 7. The papers to be returned to the Petitioners."
Mr. [James] Monroe, Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson, Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham, Mr. [John Cleves] Symmes and Mr. [Samuel] Livermore, on the "Report on the motion of Mr. [John Francis] Mercer on the measures to be taken for carrying into effect the recommendations of 18 Ap. 1783." Report was rendered February 2. See post February 3.
Committee Book No. 190.]
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