The committee consisting of [blank] to whom was referred a motion, submit the following report
Subtitle: To enable the commissioners of the continental loan-offices in the several states, to detect frauds in the negotiation of the certificates issued by the paymaster-general ... Resolved, that the Board of Treasury ... be directed to transmit ... lists of all the certificates issued by John Pierce, paymaster general ...
Contributors: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Securities -- United States -- Forgeries; Finance, Public -- United States -- History -- To 1789
Notes: Bristol B6190
Shipton & Mooney 44808
Journals of the Continental Congress, 447
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"This report was delivered and printed on some unknown date between January 31 and May 13 [1785] ... See Journals for February 2"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 915.
Listed twice by Bristol. B5976 suggests it was printed at Annapolis by John Dunlap in 1784.
Not in Evans.
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress.