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Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1785
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[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress,
No. 38, folio 219. According to indorsement it was read this day.
December 27: The following committees were appointed: Mr. [William]
Houstoun, Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [John] Kean,
Mr .[Charles] Pettit and Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson, "to prepare and report An Ordinance for regulating the Post Office." This was a renewal of the committee of March 14 and to this renewed committee was also referred a letter of the Secretary at War, dated December ]3, requesting establishment of a post to Vincennes. This committee was again renewed February 25, 1786. Knox's letter is in No. 78, XIII, folio 617.
Mr. [Pierse] Long, Mr. [Rufus] King and Mr. [James]
Monroe, on memorial of Thomas Hutchins in behalf of Benjamin
Tupper, William W. Morris and others, surveyors in the Western Territory, praying reinbursement for necessary expenditures. A report was rendered September 14, 1786, and acted on September 25. The memorial, dated December 27, is in No. 41, IV, folio 301.
Mr. [Charles] Pettit, Mr. [John] Kean and Mr. [John Bubenheim]
Bayard, on letter of November 29 from John Wingrove on promoting the commercial interests of the United States in the East Indies. A report was rendered January 31, 1786.
Also, a memorial of Peter Allaire, of New York, proposing to supply copper coins, was referred to the Board of Treasury to report. It is in No. 139, folio 487. Committee Book No. 190.
Also, according to indorsement, was read a memorial of Henry Delay,
John Holes, Cornelius Ludlow, Benjamin Stites and Henry
Enochs, praying the grant of a tract of land in the Western Territory. It is in No. 41, II, folio 537.
Also a letter from John Hancock, accepting the office of President of Congress. It is in No. 58, folio 43.]
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1786
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The Committee [consisting of Mr. Charles Pettit, Mr. John
Kean, and Mr. John Bayard] to whom was referred a Letter from
Mr. John Wingrove together with a Recommendatory Letter in favour of the said Mr. Wingrove from the Honble.
John Adams, Report
That, however desirous your Committee may be to encourage the laudable Desire of
Mr. Wingrove to serve the United States
in India, they find themselves precluded from recommending a Compliance with his wishes at present by a general Resolution of
Congress, "That it is inconsistent with the Interest of the United States to appoint any Person, not a Citizen thereof, to the Office
of Minister, Chargé des Affaires, Consul, Vice-Consul, or to any other civil Department in a foreign Country."2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Charles Pettit, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, VI, folio 577.
According to indorsement it was read this day and on February 1 referred to the Secretary of Congress to take order. The Secretary acted thereon on February 2. The proceeding is entered in Resolve Book No. 123 by Benjamin
Bankson.]
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