The committee consisting of Mr. Howell, Mr. Monroe, Mr. Pinckney, Mr. R.R. Livingston and Mr. Gardner, appointed to revise the institution of the office of the Secretary of Congress, and to report such alterations as they may judge necessary, beg leave to report the following draft of an ordinance
Subtitle: An ordinance for the regulation of the office of Secretary of Congress, and for extending it to the Home Department.
Contributors: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States. Continental Congress -- Officials and employees.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Evans 19295
Journals of the Continental Congress, 453
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 916 (#453),an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
LC copy has extensive ms. additions and annotations in the hand of Charles Thomson, bringing the text into the form passed March 31, 1785.