By the United States in Congress assembled. March 17, 1785 : Whereas it must conduce to the preservation of public credit, and the equal distribution of justice, that the amount of the national debt be ascertained with the utmost expedition ... Resolved, that all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, be, and they are hereby required, within twelve months from the date hereof, to deliver a particular abstract of such claims to some commissioner ...
Summary
Two resolutions of the Continental Congress concerning the settling of accounts.
Imprint suggested by the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753; fomerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in v. 29, p. 918 (#460). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing.
Not in Evans.
Bristol B6188
Shipton & Mooney 44806
Journals of the Continental Congress, 460
LC copy signed in ms.: Chas. Thomson, secy.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Tags
Date
01/01/1785
Contributors
United States. Continental Congress.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain