TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1786. Congress assembled. Present as yesterday. 451 Congress resumed the consideration of a report of the board of treasury, on a requisition for the year 1786: And a motion was made by the delegates for South Carolina, to amend the said report, by adding thereto as follows: And whereas the United States in Congress assembled, by the Act of the 30 October, 1781, required the states to pay into the federal treasury, eight Millions of dollars, and by their requisition of the 27 April, 1784, suspended the operation of one half of the said requisition of the 30 October, and called on the states to compleat the payment of the other half; And by their act of the 27 September, 1785, required of the states to pay three fourths of the remaining half of the said requisition of the 30 October, 1781; therefore Resolved, That any state which shall have paid a sum exceeding the said state's quota of that part of the said requisition of the 30 October, 1781, which was not suspended by the requisition of the 27 April, 1784, and the completion of which was demanded by the last mentioned requisition, and also the said state's quota of that other part of the said requisition of the 30 October, 1781, which was called for by the requisition of the 27 September, 1785, shall have credit for the amount of the sums so exceeding the quotas above mentioned, on the present requisition: And on the question to agree to this Amendment, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, |