Book/Printed Material Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 Volume 22 (1782)
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Image 1 of Volume 22 (1782) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JOURNALS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1774–1789 EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORDS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BY GAILLARD HUNT, CHIEF, DIVISION OF MANUSCRIPTS Volume XXII. 1782 January 1–August 9…
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Image 3 of Volume 22 (1782) iii PRINCIPAL CONTENTS Page. Prefatory note V Ordinance Respecting the Hospital Department 4 Regulations for Hospital Department 408 Plan of Consular Convention with France 17,46 Inspector's Department 30 Instructions Concerning the Fisheries…
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Image 4 of Volume 22 (1782) iv Negotiations for Peace—Communication from French Minister 302,312 Naval Court-Martial Regulations 325 Salaries for Ministers Abroad 332 Great Seal Device 338 Illicit Trade with Enemy 340 Ordinance to prevent 392 Report of…
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Image 5 of Volume 22 (1782) v PREFATORY NOTE The surrender of Lord Cornwallis, on October 19, 1781, and the meeting, in Paris, in the spring of 1782, of Envoys from the United States and England, to arrange…
- Contributor: United States. Continental Congress - Harris, Kenneth E. - Tilley, Steven D. - Hunt, Gaillard - Ford, Worthington Chauncey - Hill, Roscoe R. - Fitzpatrick, John Clement - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Image 6 of Volume 22 (1782) vi Finally, a letter from Count Vergennes, asking clemency for Asgill, saved him, and he was set at liberty November 7. As the Government flowed on in peaceful channels, sectional jealousy and…
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Image 7 of Volume 22 (1782) vii informed him that France would lend the United States no more money. On May 8 the Minister told him France wanted an accounting with the United States. Nevertheless, on September 17,…
- Contributor: United States. Continental Congress - Harris, Kenneth E. - Tilley, Steven D. - Hunt, Gaillard - Ford, Worthington Chauncey - Hill, Roscoe R. - Fitzpatrick, John Clement - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Image 8 of Volume 22 (1782) viii Congress had hopes of relief from the 5 per cent impost which it had asked the States to levy for Federal purposes. The tax would not realize a sufficient sum by…
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Image 9 of Volume 22 (1782) ix debates by John Adams; and in Volume VI, for 1776, the notes of Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Following this plan, I have added to the volumes for 1782 the important journal…
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Image 10 of Volume 22 (1782)
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Image 11 of Volume 22 (1782) JOURNALS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1782 THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 1782. On motion of Mr. [Abraham] Clark, seconded by Mr. [James] Madison, Resolved , That the post…
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Image 12 of Volume 22 (1782) 2 Ordered , That the Superintendant of finance take order for supplying the foreign ministers of the United States, their secretaries and the public agents, with their respective salaries.1 1 The two…
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Image 13 of Volume 22 (1782) 3 On report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Edmund] Randolph, Mr. [William] Ellery, Mr. [Richard] Law, to whom was referred a motion of Mr. J[oseph] Jones, Congress came to the following…
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Image 14 of Volume 22 (1782) 4 THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1782. On a report of the Secretary at war, to whom was referred a memorial of Dr. Glentworth and others: Resolved , That it be, and hereby is…
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Image 15 of Volume 22 (1782) 5 plan for conducting the General Hospital, passed on the 30th day of September, 1780, and accordingly have herewith submitted such alterations and amendments for the consideration of Congress, in case they…
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Image 16 of Volume 22 (1782) 6 Commander in Chief, or commanding general of a seperate army, and issued in general orders: That all returns heretofore ordered to be made by the director or deputy director, to the…
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Image 17 of Volume 22 (1782) 7 That when by reason of vacancies or otherwise, any officer hereafter to be appointed in the hospital department, and whose appointment is reserved to Congress, {Begin deleted text}it shall be the…
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Image 18 of Volume 22 (1782) 8 That the letter of Jeremiah Wadsworth respecting the accounts of the late Col o Aylett Deputy Commissary of Purchases be referred to the Superintendant of Finance. That the Letter of John…
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Image 19 of Volume 22 (1782) 9 On a report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, Mr. [Edmund] Randolph and Mr. [Thomas] Bee, to whom was referred a motion relative to the value and weight of…
- Contributor: United States. Continental Congress - Harris, Kenneth E. - Tilley, Steven D. - Hunt, Gaillard - Ford, Worthington Chauncey - Hill, Roscoe R. - Fitzpatrick, John Clement - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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Image 20 of Volume 22 (1782) 10 TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1782. The Ordinance for amending the “Ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful,” was read a third time, and passed as follows: AN ORDINANCE FOR AMENDING…
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Image 21 of Volume 22 (1782) 11 masts or spars, by an armed vessel belonging to the United States, and duly authorised to make captures, the net proceeds of the sales of such captured vessel and her cargo…
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Image 22 of Volume 22 (1782) 12 That in the present state of the finances of the United States, the prayer of the petitioner cannot be granted.1 1 This report, in the writing of William Churchill Houston, is…
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Image 23 of Volume 22 (1782) 13 States and approved of by the legislature of the particular State for which he shall have been nominated. That upon the refusal, death or inability to act of such Commissioner another…
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Image 24 of Volume 22 (1782) 14 be complied with, and that such of the said requisitions as are for money be payable by the Bills to have been issued according to those resolutions or in specie. And…
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Image 25 of Volume 22 (1782) 15 Ordered , That Friday next be assigned for the second reading. On a report of the Secretary at War, on a resolution of the legislature of New Hampshire, of the 29…
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Image 26 of Volume 22 (1782) 16 Resolved , That it be, and is hereby recommended to the State of New Hampshire, to settle with and pay Captain Ebenezer Greene, and make him such allowances for his services…
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Image 27 of Volume 22 (1782) 17 due, but not to exceed his full pay as a captain, for so long time as they may judge proper, not exceeding the time of his release, and charge the same…
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Image 28 of Volume 22 (1782) 18 ARTICLE I. It shall be the duty of the consuls of his Most Christian Majesty to present their commissions in the first instance to the United States in Congress assembled, by…
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Image 29 of Volume 22 (1782) 19 ARTICLE V. Besides consuls, vice consuls and agents, there may be attached to the consulate, at the will of the consuls within their departments, any number of persons. Neither the papers…
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Image 30 of Volume 22 (1782) 20 ARTICLE VIII. The consuls and vice consuls respectively may establish a chancery as a depository of the consular acts and deliberations of effects left by the dead, or saved from shipwreck,…
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Image 31 of Volume 22 (1782) 21 of peace, and two years in time of war. If, however, within those terms, the creditor shall call upon the lawful representative or successor to the property of the deceased, by…
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Image 32 of Volume 22 (1782) 22 country as aforesaid. Upon the order of the nearest consul or vice consul, and without any fees or perquisites for storage when lodged in publick stores, the owner may reclaim the…
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Image 33 of Volume 22 (1782) 23 cause to be kept in prison, at the disposal and cost of the consuls and vice consuls, the sailors and deserters so arrested, until an opportunity shall be presented of sending…
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Image 34 of Volume 22 (1782) 24 of the United States shall be determined or taken up in any manner by the consuls or vice consuls, but shall be decided by the courts of the country in which…
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Image 35 of Volume 22 (1782) 25 except as to so much of the sixth article as relates to the erection of a chapel; taking care that reciprocal provisions be made for the recognition of consuls, vice consuls…
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Image 36 of Volume 22 (1782) 26 Ordered , That the committee who brought in the report, communicate the same as agreed to, to the honorable the minister plenipotentiary of France.a a This order was also entered in…
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Image 37 of Volume 22 (1782) 27 A motion was made by Mr. [Edmund] Randolph, seconded by Mr. [Samuel] Osgood. That in consideration of the eminent services of Brigadier General Knox, commanding officer of the artillery of the…
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Image 38 of Volume 22 (1782) 28 in the siege of York, in the State of Virginia, he be promoted to the rank of major general, and take rank from the fifteenth day of November last. That all…
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Image 39 of Volume 22 (1782) 29 On the question to agree to this, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Arthur] Middleton, New Hampshire, Mr. Livermore, ay * Massachusetts, Mr. Lovell, ay Partridge, ay ay Osgood,…
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Image 40 of Volume 22 (1782) 30 THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 1782 The committee, consisting of Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [James] Lovell, Mr. [Isaac] Motto, to whom was referred a plan for conducting the inspector's department reported by the…
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