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The Board of Treasury to whom was referred their letter of the 29th of June last, together with sundry letters from the comptroller of the state of Pennsylvania, to Thomas Smith Esq; commissioner of the loan-office in the said state, beg leave to report : that the act of the state of Pennsylvania of the 8th of March 1786, directs their treasurer to pay to the order of the United States ...
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Signed and dated: Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, Arthur Lee. July 19th 1786.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 964 (#544); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33. p. 753.
Evans 20044
Journals of the Continental Congress, 544
LC copy annotated on verso: Report of Board of Treasury ... to Comr of Loans Office of Penna. Lee 25 July, 1785.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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Date
01/01/1786
Contributors
United States. Board of Treasury.
United States. Continental Congress.
Osgood, Samuel, 1748-1813.
Livingston, Walter, 1740-1797.
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
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Library of Congress
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