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The Board of Treasury to whom was referred on the 7th July inst. a paper from le Sieur Marbois, charge des affaires of His Most Christian Majesty, dated 16th May last, report : that they have examined the purport of the said paper ...

By the United States in Congress assembled. June 3, 1784 : On the report of a committee consisting of Mr. Spaight, Mr. Gerry, Mr. Lee, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Sherman, to whom was referred a report of a committee on a report of the superintendant of finance, dated the 5th of November 1783, in answer to questions proposed by the commissioner for settling the accounts of the state of Pennsylvania with the United States, and also a report on the petition of James Smith, praying for a sum of money to be advanced to him on account. Resolved ...

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The committee consisting of Mr. Spaight, Mr. Gerry, Mr. Lee, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Sherman, to whom was referred a report of a committee on a report of the superintendant of finance, dated the 5th of November 1783, in answer to questions proposed by the commissioner for settling the accounts of the state of Pennsylvania with the United States, and also a report of a committee on the petition of James Smith, praying for a sum of money to be advanced to him on account, &c. submit to Congress the following report ...

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The final two paragraphs of this draft were rejected. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 27, p. 544-545.

Imprint supplied by Evans, who gives date June 3, 1784. Journals of the Continental Congress (v. 27, p. 720) give date April 13, 1784.

Evans 18833

Journals of the Continental Congress, 431

Wheeler, J.T. Maryland, 349

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In Congress, July 4, 1776, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled

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