By the United States in Congress assembled. March 17, 1785
Subtitle: Whereas it must conduce to the preservation of public credit, and the equal distribution of justice, that the amount of the national debt be ascertained with the utmost expedition ... Resolved, that all persons having unliquidated claims against the United States, be, and they are hereby required, within twelve months from the date hereof, to deliver a particular abstract of such claims to some commissioner ...
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.; United States -- Claims.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Bristol B6188
Shipton & Mooney 44806
Journals of the Continental Congress, 460
Two resolutions of the Continental Congress concerning the settling of accounts.
Imprint suggested by the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753; fomerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in v. 29, p. 918 (#460). Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of printing.
Not in Evans.
LC copy signed in ms.: Chas. Thomson, secy.