By the United States in Congress assembled, October 12, 1785
Subtitle: Whereas it is indispensibly necessary, for the support of the federal government, that the states should supply their quotas of money ... Resolved, that the several states be earnestly called on to compleat without delay the whole of their quotas of the requisitions last mentioned ...
Contributors: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Finance, Public -- United States -- History -- To 1789.; Debts, Public -- United States.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Evans 19291
Journals of the Continental Congress, 505
Resolution read October 12, 1785; "an edition of 60 copies was run off October 6"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 929.
Title from caption and opening lines of text.
Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 929 (#505), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753.
Followed on second leaf by: By the United States, in Congress assembled, September 4th, 1782 : On the report of a grand committee, consisting of a member from each state, resolved, that one million two hundred thousand dollars be quotaed on the states ...
LC copy signed in ms. at foot of each resolution: Chas. Thomson, secy.