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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 --SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1787.
Congress assembled present as before.
On the report1 of a comee. consisting of Mr [Abraham] Clarke Mr [John] Kean Mr [Nathan] Dane, Mr [William] Few and Mr [William] Pierce to whom was referred a motion of Mr [William] Pierce
[Note 1: 1 The original report, in the writing of Mr. Abraham Clark, read July 14, 1787, is in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, p. 651. See July 10, 1787.]
Ordered That the board of treasury prepare and report2 to Congress a requisition on the states for the supplies necessary for the current year including one years interest of the foreign debt and such parts of the principal as may become due the ensuing year, providing for the payment of one year's interest on the domestic debt in a mode most convenient to the states and advantageous to the Union.
[Note 2: 2 See September 29, 1787, for the report.]
The comee. consisting of Mr [Edward] Carrington Mr [Rufus] King Mr [Nathan] Dane Mr [James] Madison and Mr [Egbert] Benson to whom was referred a memorial3 of Samuel Holden Parsons having brought in a report4 which was taken into consideration, and the first paragraph of the report being under debate and which is in the words following to wit "That the board of treasury be authorised and empowered to contract with Samuel Holden Parsons esquire or any other agent or agents duly authorised by the company stiled and known by the name of the Associators for the purchase of lands on the north west side of Ohio river for a grant of a tract which shall be bounded by the Ohio from the Mouth of Sioto to the intersection of the western boundary of the seventh range of townships now surveying thence by the said boundary to the northern
[Note 3: 3 See May 9, 1787.]
[Note 4: 4 See July 10, 1787. See also July 17, 20, and 23, 1787.]
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boundary of thetownship thence by a due west line to Sioto, thence by the Sioto to the beginning
A motion was made by Mr [John] Kean seconded by Mr [Benjamin] Hawkins to strike out that paragraph and in lieu thereof to insert the following
That the board of treasury be authorised and empowered to advertise for three months and at the termination of the said three months to contract with any person or persons for a grant of a tract of land bounded as follows viz by the river Ohio from the mouth of the river Sioto to the intersection of the western boundary of the seventh range of townships, thence by the said boundary to the northern boundary of the 10th township thence by a due west line to the river Sioto, thence by the said fiver to the Ohio.
And on the question to agree to this Amendment the yeas and nays being required by Mr [John] Kean,
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So the question was lost.
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[Letter of Board of Treasury requesting resolves of Congress1]
[Note 1: 1 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 140, II, p. 427, read July 14, 1787. Referred to the Secretary of Congress to take order. This reference is noted in the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, p. 152.]
Board of Treasury
July 12, 1787.
Sir: We request the favor of your Excellency to inform Congress that in the Settlement of the Accounts of the late Secret, and Commercial Committees, we find it necessary that this Board should be furnished with all the resolves relative to the transactions of those Committees which are in the Secret Journals of Congress.
We beg leave therefore to submit to the Consideration of that Honorable Body the Propriety of directing the Board to be furnished with a particular Abstract of them.
We have the Honor to be, etc.,
Samuel Osgood
Arthur Lee
His Excellency
The President of Congress.
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