The committee consisting of Mr. M'Henry, Mr. Read and Mr. Pettit, to whom were committed a motion of Mr. M'Henry, beg leave to submit the following resolution : That it be, and hereby is recommended to the several states, to vest the United States in Congress assembled, with the sole and exclusive right and power of establishing and regulating post-offices throughout the United States ...
Summary
Read September 26, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 764-765.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 927 (#497); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.
Evans 19298
Journals of the Continental Congress, 497
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Date
01/01/1785
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United States. Continental Congress.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
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