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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 --1WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1787.
[Note 1: 1 Charles Thomson resumes the entry.]
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.
On a report2 of the board of treasury to whom was referred a memorial3 of Samuel Nicholson late a captain in the navy of the United States
[Note 2: 2 See April 24, 1787.]
[Note 3: 3 See March 23, 1787. See also July 12, 1787.]
Resolved That the commissioner of Marine Accounts in settling the Accounts of the Officers, seamen and marines of the late navy of the United States govern himself by the principles established for the line of the Army by the Act4 of Congress of the 10th of April 1780 so far as the same relates to the allowance for depreciation, provided that no Officer seaman or marine be entitled to the benefit of this resolve, who was not in service or liable to be called into service on the 10 April 1780.5
[Note 4: 4 Journals, vol. XVI, pp. 344--345.]
[Note 5: 5 According to indorsement this resolve was also action on a report of a committee on the memorial of the officers in the Navy, which was delivered August 19, 1783. Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 28, p. 185.]
6The Secretary of the United States for the department of foreign to whom were referred two letters7 from the honble. J Adams of the 24 and 27 Jany. last having reported8 that in his Opinion it would be proper to resolve, "That the honble. J Adams the Minister plenipotentiary of the United States at the court of London be permitted agreeably to his request to return to America at any time after the 24 feby 1788 and that his Commission of Minister plenipotentiary to their High Mightinesses do also then determine". And the same being
[Note 6: 6 From this point to the end of the day the entries are by Charles Thomson in the Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 5, III, pp. 1639--1641.]
[Note 7: 7 See April 11, 1787.]
[Note 8: 8 See July 26, 1787. See also September 24, 1787.]
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under consideration, a motion was made by Mr [Nathan] Dane seconded by Mr [Abraham] Clarke to amend it by inserting immediately after 1788 the words following viz And that a person be appointed to take charge of the affairs of the American legation at the court of London from the expiration of the Commission of the present Minister to the arrival there of another Minister to succeed him or until the further order of Congress."
On the question to agree to this Amendment the yeas and nays being required by Mr [Nathan] Dane
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So the question was lost.
The proposition of the Secretary for foreign Affairs being divided, on the question to agree to the first part as far as "1788" inclusive the yeas and nays being required by Mr [William] Grayson
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So the question was lost.
[Letter of Secretary at War regarding settlement on Wabash1]
[Note 1: 1 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 150, II, p. 427, read August 1, 1787. The copy of the letter of Col. Joseph Harmar, June 15, 1787, is on pp. 423--424, and that of the propositions of Judge John Cleves Symmes, May 29, 1787, on pp. 417--421.]
War Office August 1st. 1787
Sir: I have the honor to transmit to Congress a letter just received from Colonel Harmar with an enclosure containing the propositions of Mr Symmes relative to a settlement on the Wabash river.
I have the honor to be, etc.,
H Knox
His Excellency
The President of Congress.
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