13 December, Silas Condict John Francis Mercer David Howell 1783. Samuel Osgood Abiel Foster James Wilson 1783. Benjamin Huntington John Montgomery David Howell No appointment is recorded between 1783. Jeremiah Townley Chase BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES January 23. Proclamation of Treaty with Holland. 394. By the United States in Congress assembled:/ A Proclamation /------/ Done in Congress this twenty-third day of Janu-/ary, in the year of our Lord one thousand se-/ven hundred and eighty-three, ---- / /Elias Boudinot, President. Fo. 2 11. (on one side only) · / -- A copy is in the Library of Congress. The type-two leaves, six columnsmeasures 48 x 37.3 cms. 395. A State of the Receipts and Expenditures of Public Monies upon Warrants from the Superintendant of Finance, from the 1st of January, 1782, / to the 1st of January, 1783. / / [signed] Joseph Nourse, Register. / Register's Office, January 31st, 1783. / Oblong f°. Broadside. A copy is in the Library of Congress, Washington Papers. It measures 21 x 37 cms. February 17. Resolution Concerning State Lands. See under April 18, 1783. March 4. Piracies and Felonies on the High Seas. 396. An Ordinance / To amend an Ordinance, entitled, "An / Ordinance for establishing Courts for the trial of Piracies and Felonies committed / on the high seas. Narrow 8°. Broadside. A copy is in the John Carter Brown Library. It measures 22.2 x 12.7 cms. March 6. Report of Committee on Impost. 397. Resolved, That it be recommended to the several / states, as indispensably necessary to the restoration of / pubiic [sic] credit, 983 and the punctual and honourable dis-/charge of the public debts, to vest in the united / states in congress assembled, a power to levy use of the united states, a duty of five per centum ad / for the valorem, -- Fo. 3 ll. (on one side only) A copy with manuscript notes is in the Library of Congress, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, folio 411. Paul Leicester Ford lists this in his Bibliography as No. 328, under date of April 18, 1783, when the revised resolutions were adopted. March 18. Report of Committee on Impost. 398. March 18, 1783. / Resolved / That it be recommended to the several states, ---- / ---- / ‒‒‒‒ to invest in the United States in / Congress assembled, a power to levy for the use of the United States, the following duties upon goods Fo. 2 11. (on one side only) A copy with manuscript notes is in the Library of Congress, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, folio 415. As modified by the notes, the resolutions were adopted April 18. March 19. 399. Philadelphia, March 19. / [1783] Articles agreed upon by and between Richard Oswald, Esq. etc. Fo. Broadside in two columns. In ms. "A true copy. L. R. Morris, Sec in the Department for foreign Affairs." A copy is in the Massachusetts Historical Society. It measures 43.8 x 17.8 cms. April 11. Treaty with England. 400. By the United States of America / In Congress Assembled / A Proclamation / Declaring the Cessation of Arms, as well by Sea as by Land, agreed upon between the United States of America and his Britannic / Eleventh Day of / Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, this April, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven / Hundred and Eighty-three, F°. Broadside. This refers to the preliminary treaty. It is signed by Boudinot and Thomson. |