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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 --TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1788.
Congress assembled present New hampshire Massachusetts, Rhode island New York New Jersey Pensylvania Delaware Virginia South Carolina and Georgia and from North Carolina Mr [Hugh] Williamson.
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Congress took into consideration the report made yesterday from the Committee of the whole and on the question
Resolved That Congress agree to the said report.1
[Note 1: 1 See June 2 and July 3, 1788.]
Congress thereupon proceeded to the election and the ballots being taken the following members were elected and appointed to compose the Committee 2
[Note 2: 2 This committee is entered in the Committee Book, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 190, p. 193. On June 17 Mr. Hamilton was dropped from the committee and Mr. Ezra L'Hommedieu, Mr. Pierpont Edwards and Mr. Benjamin Contee were added. The committee was discharged July [3] 1788. The documents referred were the address and resolutions of the District of Kentucky. See February 29, 1788.]
[Report of Board of Treasury respecting loans3]
[Note 3: 3 Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 139, pp. 705--706, read June 3, 1788. The extract from the letter of the Commissioners is on pp. 707--709. This report was made obsolete by the ratification of the loan on July 2, 1788. The covering letter of the Board, also read, is in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 140, I, p. 527. See May 5, 1788.]
The Board of Treasury to whom it was referred to Report on their Letters4 to Congress of the 27th February and 17th April last; relative to a proposition of the Commissioners of Loans in Holland, for paying in Specie a certain proportion of the Domestic Debt, held by the Citizens of the United Netherlands,
[Note 4: 4 See February 28 and May 2, 1788. The letter referred to as of February 27 is apparently that of February 23, 1788.]
Beg leave to lay before Congress an Extract of a Letter from the said Commissioners of the 28th of March last, by which it appears
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that measures have been taken by them in concurrence with the Honorable Mr . Adams, and Mr . Jefferson, not only to provide for the June Interest; but to face all demands against the United States in Holland to the year 1790; and consequently that were the proposition formerly made by the Commissioners in order to secure the payment of the above Interest, in other respects unexceptionable (which in the opinion of this Board is far from being the case) the necessity of adopting the same is superseded.
All of which is humbly submitted
Samuel Osgood
Walter Livingston
Arthur Lee1
[Note 1: 1 June 3, 1788. According to indorsement was read:
Letter of John Fitch to President of Congress, May 23, 1788, enclosing a pamphlet to prove he is the inventor of the steamboat. Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, IX, p. 641. The enclosed pamphlet is on pp. 583--618.]
June 2d . 1788.
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