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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, MARCH 31, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.
[Motion of Mr. [Charles] Pinckney.]
That the Chairman be directed to address a Letter to the Legislatures of the States of Pennsylvania and Delaware, earnestly requesting them to revise their Acts passed in conformity to the Recommendations of the 18th, 1783, so as to enable the U. States in Congress Assembled to operate upon that part of the said System either of impost or supplementary funds in aid thereof which shall be first assented by all the States, assuring them that Congress will continue to urge all the States to a full Compliance with every part of the said System. That the exigencies are pressing and important, but unless all the States so frame their Acts as to enable Congress to operate on that part which is first assented to by all, the System will be still inoperative.
March 31st, 1786: Ordered, That the foregoing Motion be referred to the Chairman of Congress to take Order1
[Note 1: 1 This proceeding is entered by Benjamin Bankson in Resolve Book No. 123. The draft, in Pinckney's writing, is in No. 36, III, folio 225. Thomson also entered it in Committee Book No. 190.]
Office For Foreign Affairs,
30th. March, 1786.
The Secretary of the United States for the Department of foreign Affairs to whom was referred Mr. Adams Letters of the 2d., 6th., 9th., 12th. and 15th. December, 1785, and 4th. January, 1786, with the Papers enclosed with them, and also a Motion founded on Mr. Adams Memorial demanding the Evacuation of the frontier Posts &ca, Reports:
That in his Opinion the Instructions proposed by the Motion in Question would be proper and expedient: Because
Your Secretary therefore thinks that Mr.: Adams should be immediately instructed in the Words of the said Motion, vizt. "to protract his Negociations with the Court of Great Britain respecting the Posts which should have been before this surrendered, to the United States
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and other Infractions of the said Treaty by that Power, so as to avoid demanding a categorical Answer respecting the same until the farther Orders of Congress."
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 79. According to indorsement it was read March 31 and on April 17 referred back to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to take order.]
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