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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 --THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1786
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.
On a report of the Secretary at War, to whom was referred a memorial of William Finnie,
Resolved, That the petition of William Finnie, esquire, late a deputy quartermaster general in the southern department, for the emoluments of a colonel, being contrary to the regulations
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established respecting the subordinate Officers in the quartermaster general's department, cannot be granted.
On the report of the Secretary at War, to whom was referred a memorial of Capt. Jonathan Lawrance, junr.
Resolved, That captain Jonathan Lawrance, junr. having resigned his commission in the service of the United States before the conclusion of the late war, he cannot be allowed those emoluments promised to the officers who should continue in service to the end of the war
On a report of the secretary at war,
Resolved, That the petitions of Hubert Dubois, Martin Lintz and John Brüger, be dismissed, they having no just claims upon the United States.
On a report of the board of treasury, to whom was referred a letter of Michael Hillegas, treasurer of the United States, dated 12 August, 1785,
Resolved, That the resolution of Congress of the 18 September, 1782; relative to the mode of destroying the old continental currency in the treasuries of the respective states, be, and it is hereby repealed.
On a report of the board of treasury, to whom was referred the report of William Barber, commissioner of Accounts for the state of New York, on the claim of Francis Cazeau, of the province of Canada,
Resolved, That the several resolves of the 18th of March, 1784, relative to the claims of Francis Cazeau, (excepting the first, third and fourth) and the resolve of the 7th of June, 1785, authorising the commissioner of public Accounts in the state of New York, to examine and report upon Canadian claims, be, and they are hereby repealed.1
[Note 1: 1 See ante, Aug. 81, 1785.
Also on this day, according to Committee Book No. 190, a memorial of Grace Mercer "stating a claim of her late husband" was referred to the Board of Treasury to report.]
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Office For Foreign Affairs,
2d. Feby. 1786.
The Secretary of the United States to whom was referred the Draft of a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between his Britannic Majesty and the said States, which was transmitted by Mr. Adams, together with his Letters that accompanied it, Reports:
That in his opinion the United States may safely enter into Treaty with Britain on the Terms and agreeable to the tenor of the said Draft, and therefore that it should be--
Resolved, That Congress approve of the said Draft and that in the Blank left for the Term of the Duration of the Treaty be inserted twenty years.
Your Secretary thinks it would be expedient to refer the Letters above mentioned to the same Committee to whom other Letters from Mr. Adams were yesterday Committed.
All which is submitted to the Wisdom of Congress.
John Jay.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 81, II, folio 31.]
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