In Congress, March 25, 1777
Subtitle: Whereas by a resolve of Congress of the 3d of October, 1776, the commissioners of the loan-offices were directed to transmit to the Continental Treasurer once a month an account of the cash in their respective offices ... Resolved, that the several commissioners of the loan-offices hereafter make monthly returns to the Board of Treasury ...
Contributors: Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.; Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer.; Clarke, Joseph, recipient.; Cooke, Nicholas, 1717-1782, recipient.; Gibson, John, fl. 1777-1779, correspondent.; United States. Board of Treasury.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by John Dunlap
Published: 1777
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Finance, Public -- United States -- History -- To 1789.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Finance.
Notes: Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary.
Imprint from Evans.
Followed by: Treasury-Office, Philadelphia, March 25, 1777. Sir, In consequence of the above resolution, I am to inform you that it is the desire of the Board of Treasury, that you forthwith transmit them the state of your accounts ... Signed: John Gibson, auditor-general. To [blank] Esq; commissioner of the Loan-Office for the state of [blank].
LC copy recto has been completed in ink as follows: To Joseph Clarke, Esq; commissioner of the Loan-Office for the state of Road Island [sic]. Annotated on verso: To Joseph Clarke Esqr, commissioner of the Loan Office for the state of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations to the care of the Honorable Nicholas Cooke Esqr, governor of the said state. Providence. Annotated in another hand: From John Gibson Esqr. March 25th 1777.
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Evans 15657
Journals of the Continental Congress, 155