Board of Treasury, April 8, 1786 : Sir, We do ourselves the honor of enclosing the report of this board upon the several references of Congress, relative to the establishment of a mint for the United States of America. ...

Title from opening lines of text. Evans gives incorrect title; correction made in Shipton & Mooney.

Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 961 (#527); but later volumes reject Dunlap as the printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, 753.

Signed on p. 5: Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston.

Evans 20042

Journals of the Continental Congress, 527

LC copy annotated on p. 1: M. Johnson. Annotated on p. 28: Mint.

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