The committee consisting of Mr. M'Henry, Mr. Read and Mr. Pettit, to whom were committed a motion of Mr. M'Henry, beg leave to submit the following resolution
Subtitle: That it be, and hereby is recommended to the several states, to vest the United States in Congress assembled, with the sole and exclusive right and power of establishing and regulating post-offices throughout the United States ...
Contributors: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Postal service -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Postal rates -- United States.
Notes: Evans 19298
Journals of the Continental Congress, 497
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Read September 26, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 764-765.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 927 (#497); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.