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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 30, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present as before.
On motion of Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, seconded by Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham:
Ordered, That the Chairman write to the Executives of the States of Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, stating to them the inconveniences arising from a want of a sufficient number of States to proceed on the business of the Union, and earnestly pressing them to send on their delegates immediately.2
[Note 2: 2 January 30: The following committee was appointed: Mr. [Nathaniel] Gorham, Mr. [Charles] Pettit and Mr. [John] Bayard, on a memorial of Hendrick Wyckoff for sea letters for a vessel to India. The committee reported January 31. The memorial is in No. 41, X, folio 681.
Also the memorial of John Clark, dated January 7, praying for reimbursement for depreciation of his pay while Auditor of the Army, was read and referred to the Board of Treasury to report. Report was rendered March 27; the memorial is in No. 41, II, folio 224, and the collateral papers filed therewith are on folios 226--280.
Also a "Motion of delegates of Pensyl. to have a sum of state money delivered to them" was referred to the Board of Treasury to report.
Committee Book No. 190.]
The Committee consisting of Mr. [John] Bayard, Mr. [Rufus] King, and Mr. [Stephen Mix] Mitchell, to whom were refer'd the
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proposals and Specimens, for Printing the Journals of Congress in Folio, report:
That they have examined the various proposals, and Specimens, sent into the Secretary of Congress, and by Him communicated to your Committee, All which they have arranged for the Inspection and final determination of Congress.
Your Committee submit to Congress the propriety of obliging the Printer that may be appointed, entring into Articles to print 500 Copies at His own Risk and Cost for Sale.
And also that the Journals of the first Congress, held in New York in the year 1764 be included in the present Edition. All wch. is Submitted.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of John Bayard, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 23, folio 285. According to indorsement it was read this day. The various proposals with the specimens of printing are in No. 46.]
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