The grand committee, consisting of Mr. Livermore, Mr. Dane, Mr. Manning, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Symmes, Mr. Pettit, Mr. Henry, Mr. Lee, Mr. Bloodworth, Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Houstoun, appointed to report such amendments to the Confederation, and such resolutions as it may be necessary to recommend to the several states, for the purpose of obtaining from them such powers as will render the federal government adequate to the ends for which it was instituted, beg leave to submit the following report to the consideration of Congress ...
Contributors: Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819, former owner.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1786
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States.; United States. Continental Congress -- Powers and duties.
Notes: Bristol B6400
Shipton & Mooney 44996
Journals of the Continental Congress, 549
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Report recommending seven new articles to the Articles of Confederation, given Aug. 7, 1786. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 494-501.
Imprint suggested by JCC, v. 33, p. 753. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 31, p. 965 (#549). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of publication.
Not in Evans.
LC copy annotated on recto: Powers of Congress. Mr. Johnson.