The committee to whom was referred sundry letters and papers relative to commercial matters, submit the following circular letter and resolves
Subtitle: The trust reposed in Congress, renders it their duty to be attentive to the conduct of foreign nations ...
Contributors: Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by John Dunlap
Published: 1784
Place of publication: [Annapolis
Language: eng
Subjects: United States. Continental Congress -- Powers and duties.; United States -- Commerce.
Notes: Imprint supplied by Evans, who gives date April 30, 1784. "This report was read April 22, made the order of the day for Monday, April 26, and passed April 30"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 26, p. 320.
Includes two resolutions recommending that the legislatures of the several states vest Congress with powers to regulate foreign trade. The term of 15 years fixed in the resolutions is blank in this draft.
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Evans 18836
Journals of the Continental Congress, 433
Wheeler, J.T.  Maryland, 351