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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, SEPTEMBER 1, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present as before.
A motion was made by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, seconded by Mr. [William] Few, further to postpone the determination of the question which was yesterday postponed by the State of South Carolina: And on the question further to postpone the determination of the question, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney,
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So it passed in the negative.
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On the question to agree to the motion, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [William] Few,
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So it was Ordered, That when a question is set aside by the previous question, it shall not be in order afterwards, formally or substantially to move the same, unless there shall be the same, or as many states represented in Congress.
Board of Treasury,
August 31, 1786.
Sir: In Obedience to the Act of Congress of the 28th. December last, We do ourselves the Honor of laying before them Copies of sundry Papers, which have been exhibited at this Office by the Hon'ble the Delegates of the State of N. Carolina relative to the conduct of James Hindman Esquire, Commissioner of Public Accounts for that State together with Copies of the Correspondence which has passed betwixt
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this Gentleman and the Board on the Subject of the above Communications. We have the Honor etc.
Samuel Osgood.
Arthur Lee.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 140, II, folio 253. The correspondence referred to is on folios 257--267. According to indorsement it was read September I and referred to a committee September 6.
September 1: The following committees were appointed: Mr. [John Bubenhelm] Bayard, Mr. [Melancton] Smith and Mr. [William] Harrison, on the petition of John Chaloner and Nicholas Shaler for sea-letters for three ships. The petition is in No. 42, II, folio 218, was read this day; the committee reported September 4 and Congress acted thereon September 5.
Mr. [Edward] Carrington, Mr. [John] Henry and Mr. [David] Ramsay, on the report of the Commissioner of Army Accounts on David Henley's memorial. A report was rendered September 4.
Mr. [Arthur] St. Clair, Mr. [William] Houstoun and Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson, on the report of the Board of Treasury on the petition of Samuel Davis. See ante, June 12 and post, February 12, 1787.
Also the petition of James Gibbon was referred to the Commissioner of Army Accounts to report.
Committee Book No. 190
Also was read, according to indorsement, a report from the Board of Treasury, dated August 31, on a memorial from Elisha Ransom, claiming the reward for informing on forgers. The Board analyzed the claim and recommended that it be dismissed. The report is in No. 138, II, folio 281. Ransom's petition is dated February 16, 1785, and is in No. 41, VIII, folio 373.
Also was read, according to indorsement, the report of Ben. Walker, Commissioner of Accounts for Hospital, Clothing, and Marine Departments, recommending denial of the claim of Levi Walker. The report is in No. 31, folio 145.]
His Excellency,
The President of Congress.
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