The grand committee consisting of Mr. Howell, Mr. Foster, Mr. King, Mr. Cook, Mr. Platt, Mr. Cadwallader, Mr. Henry, Mr. Bedford, Mr. M'Henry, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Williamson, Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Houstoun, appointed to report a requisition on the states for the supplies of the present year, beg leaveto [sic] lay before Congress, the following report.
Contributors: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- Appropriations and expenditures, 1785.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Read March 31, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 28, p. 214-220.
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 919 (#464), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
LC copy annotated largely in accord with form of resolution reached April 14 (wording of major revision differs from that of later drafts); committee members' names changed in ms. to reflect membership of the grand committee after April 6, 1785.
Evans 19308
Journals of the Continental Congress, 464