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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 --[April 29]
Board of Treasy.,
April 28th, 1785.
The Board of Treasury to whom the Petition of Jeremiah Jackson, William Alexander, Robert Wilkin, Blackall William Ball, Edward Butler, and James Gilchrist, late Officers in the Pennsylvania Line was referr'd, Report:
That they find on a Conference with the Secretary at War that Colonels Thomas Craig and other Officers of that line who returned from the Southern Army in March, 1782, on account of a temporary Reform in the Pennsylvania line were paid, respectively, the sum of Thirty dollars as an extra allowance to defray travelling expences; they therefore submit to Congress the following Resolution:2
[Note 2: 2 This report, signed by Samuel Osgood and Walter Livingston, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 138, I, folio 625. According to indorsement it was read April 29 and passed August 9. The resolution submitted is spread verbatim on the Journal of August 9. See ante, April 26.]
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