406. Address/ and / Recommendation / to / The States, / by / The United States in Congress / assembled. / Philadelphia: Printed 1783. / Boston: Reprinted, / By Order of the Hon. House of Representatives of the / Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1783. / A copy is in the Library of Congress. 8°. pp. 62. 407. Address / and / Recommendations / to / The States, / by / The United States in Congress / assembled. / Philadelphia, Printed: / Hartford: / Re-printed by Hudson & Goodwin, / M,DCC,LXXXIII. / 4°. pp. 50, 31, folding table. The additional pages are detailed accounts of Connecticut finances. 408. By order of Congress. / Addresses / and / Recommendations / to the States, /by the /United States / in Congress assembled. / Philadelphia: / Printed by David C. Claypoole. / London: reprinted / For J. Stockdale, in Piccadilly. / M,DCC,LXXXIII. / A copy is in the Library of Congress. 8°. pp. 91, (1) 409. Address/ and / Recommendations/to/ The States, /by/ The United States in Congress / Assembled. / Richmond: / Printed by Nicolson and Prentis / M,DCC,LXXXIII. / 8°. pp. 60, and more. An incomplete copy is in the Library of Congress, Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Vol. 923, No. 5. Missing after page 60. 410. Address/ and / Recommendations / to / The States, /by/ The United States in Congress / assembled. / Trenton: / Re-Printed by Isaac Collins, / M,DCC,LXXXIII. / A copy is in the New Jersey Historical Society. 12°. pp. 56. June 6. Virginia Land Cession. See under September 13. June 18. See under August 25, No. 412. See also Nos. 421 and 422. June 24. Proclamation convening the Congress at Princeton, on account of the mutiny of the Pennsylvania line. 411. By His Excellency, Elias Boudinot, Esquire, / President of the United States in Congress Assembled. / A Proclamation. / / Philadelphia, Printed by David C. Claypoole. F. Broadside. A copy is in the Library of Congress. It measures 34.5 x 28.5 cms. August 25. 412. His Excellency General Washington's Last Legacy. [His circular letter of June 18, 1783; and under it his address to President of Congress and reply, August 25, 1783.] F. Broadside in four columns. The Congress part runs across the four columns at foot. A copy is in the Massachusetts Historical Society. It measures 48.3 x 29.8 cms. September 13. Report on Virginia Cession of Land. 413. The committee, to whom were referred the act / of the legislature of Virginia, of the 2d of Ja-/nuary, 1781, and the report thereon, report ------ / Fo. 2 11. (on one side only) Reported by Rutledge, Ellsworth, Bedford, Gorham and Madison. The original draft is in Rutledge's handwriting. A copy, with manuscript notes, is in the Library of Congress, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 30, folio 565. According to the indorsement, it was delivered June 6, 1783, debated June 20, and agreed to September 13. September 18 and September 22. Reports on Indian Affairs. See under October 15, 1783. September 22. Proclamation in re Indian Lands. 414. By the United States in Congress / Assembled, / A Proclamation. / Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole. Fo. 11 September 25. Proclamation of Treaty with Sweden. 415. By the United States in Congress Assembled, / A ProclaPrinceton, September 25th, 1783. Elias Boudinot, mation / President. F. Broadside of five columns. A copy is in the Library of Congress. It measures 61 x 46 cms. October 15. Report on Indian Affairs. 416. The committee, consisting of Mr. Duane, Mr. / Peters, Mr. Carrol, [sic] Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Lee, / to whom was referred a report on Indian af-/fairs, ---- / ing detail of / facts and resolutions: submit the follow F. Broadside of two columns. A copy with manuscript notes is in the Library of Congress Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 30, folio 193. It measures 48 x 39 cms. The report was delivered September 18, debated, and finally agreed to October 15. . October 15. Additional Report on Indian Affairs. 417. The committee consisting of Mr. Duane, Mr. Peters, Mr. Carroll, Mr. Hawkins and Mr. A. Lee, to whom were referred a report on Indian affairs and the /several other papers ------ / beg leave to subjoin the following additional instructions / and propositions to their said former report: F. Broadside of two columns. A copy with manuscript notes is in the Library of Congress, Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 30, folio 195. It measures 41 x 34 cms. The report was delivered September 22 and agreed to October 15. October 18. Thanksgiving-day Proclamation. 418. By the United States in Congress assembled: / A Proclamation. Whereas it hath pleased the Supreme Ruler of all human Events, to dispose the Hearts of the late belligerent / Powers to put a Period to the Effusion of human Blood, ---- / / Done by the United States in Congress assembled. Witness his Excellency Elias Boudinot, our President, this eighteenth Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty three,---------- / New-London: Printed by Timothy Green, Printer to the Governor and Company. / F. Broadside. Followed by a proclamation by Governor Trumbull, dated November 7, 1783 This proclamation appoints the second Thursday in December (11th) as a day of Thanksgiving. Evans notes the original imprint, by Claypoole, Philadelphia; and also an imprint, Exeter, November 14, 1783, preceded by an order for the observance of the day in New Hampshire, signed by M. Weare. November I. Resolutions on Congressional Representation. 419. By the United States in / Congress Assembled. / November 1, 1783. / Fo. pp. 2. A copy is in the Library of Congress, signed by Thomson. It measures 32.5 x 20 cms. Half-Pay and Commutation. 420. A Collection of Papers, / relative to / Half-Pay / and / Commutation / of / Half-Pay, / Granted By / Congress / to the /Officers of the Army. / Compiled, / By Permission of His Excellency General Washington, / from the Original Papers in his Possession. / Fish-kill: / Printed by Samuel Loudon. / M,DCC,LXXXIII. 8°. pp. 36. A copy is in the Library of Congress. It begins with an extract of a representation made by General Washington to a Committee of Congress, January 29, 1778, and closes with a letter from Washington to the President of Congress, June 7, 1783. It includes the various resolutions of Congress during that period, on the subject of half-pay; the address and petition of the Officers of the Continental Army, the Newburgh addresses and the report of the Convention of Officers, 1783. 421. A Collection of Papers / relative to / Half-Pay, / and / Commutation Thereof, / granted by / Congress / to the / Officers of the Army. / Together with a / Circular Letter / from/ His Excellency General Washington, / to the several / Legislatures of the United States. / Boston: / Printed by Order of the General Court / of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. / M,DCC,LXXXIII. 4°. pp. 24. A copy is in the Library of Congress. It omits the memorial of the Officers to Congress, the Newburgh addresses, the report of the Convention of Officers, and some other papers that are in the Fish-kill publication (No. 420), but contains General Washington's "last official communication," addressed to Governor Hancock, and dated: Head-Quarters, Newburgh, June 11th, 1783. Half-Pay and Commutation; and Washington's "Last Official Address" to the states. 422. The Last Official / Address, / of His Excellency / General Washington, / to the /Legislatures of the United States. / To which is annexed, / A / Collection of Papers Relative to / Half-Pay, / and Commutation of / Half-Pay, / Granted by Congress to the / Officers of the Army. / Hartford: / Printed by Hudson and Goodwin. M.DCC.LXXXIII. 8°. pp. 48. A copy is in the Library of Congress. The "Last Official Address". -a circular letter to all the states-is addressed to Governor Trumbull; and the "Collection of Papers relative to Half-pay" includes the papers printed in the Fish-kill publication, No. 420 above. Journals. 1782-3. 423. Journal / of the / United States / In Congress Assembled, / containing / The Proceedings / from/ The First Monday in November 1782, /to/ The First Monday in November 1783. / Volume VIII. / Published by order of Congress. / Philadelphia: / Printed by David C. Claypoole. / M,DCC,LXXXIII. 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