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Journals of the Continental Congress --WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1787.


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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1787.

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Congress assembled present as before.

[Letter of Secretary for Foreign Affairs transmitting letter of J.P. Jones1]

[Note 1: 1 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 80, III, p. 345, read October 24, 1787. The letter of Jones is in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 168, II, p. 359.]

Office for foreign Affairs
23d. Octor. 1787

Sir: I have the Honor of transmitting to your Excellency, herewith enclosed, a Letter of this Date from the Chevr. Jones, reclaiming the Papers which accompanied his Letter of the 18th. July last, and which I understand are now before the Board of Treasury.

I have the Honor to be, etc.,

John Jay.

His Excellency
The President of Congress.

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