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- By the United States in Congress assembled, September 30, 1785. : Resolved, that it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the continental loan-offices in the respective states, to receive and keep the monies arising from continental taxes in the different states .
- By the United States in Congress assembled. April 23, 1784. : Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner
- By the United States in Congress assembled. April 23, 1784. : Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner, as nearly as such cessions will admit
- Proclamation : Whereas, in just punishment of our manifold transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all events to visit these United States with a calamitous war ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint the first Thursday in May next to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine .
- The United States in Congress assembled, April 27, 1784. : Congress resumed the consideration of the the report of the grand committee appointed to prepare and report to Congress, the arrears of interest on the national debt, together with the expences for the year 1784 .
- The committee to whom was referred the letter of the commissioners authorised to form treaties with the Indian tribes, having conferred with the said commissioners upon the subject of their letter, and the resolutions of 18th of March, directing a treaty to be held at Post St. Vincent, on the [blank] day of June next, report .
- The committee to whom were referred a letter of the [blank] of December from the Honorable Cyrus Griffin and John Lowell, Esquires, judges of the Court of Appeals, and a motion of Mr. Howell's, report .
- Proclamation : Whereas it becomes us humbly to approach the throne of Almighty God ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states, to appoint Thursday, the ninth of December next, to be a day of public and solemn thanksgiving ... Done in Congress, the twentieth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine .
- Proclamation. Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God the Father of all mercies ... : It is therefore recommended to the several states to set apart Thursday the seventh day of December next to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer ... Done in Congress, this eighteenth day of October, 1780 .
- The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish thus early purely to ease the impatience of our readers. Association, & c
- By the United States in Congress assembled. July 27, 1785. : Resolved, that the secretary of Congress apply to the executives of the several states, for thirteen copies of the legislative acts thereof, since the first of September, 1774 .
- By the United States in Congress assembled. Proclamation : At all times it is our duty to acknowledge the over-ruling providence of the great Governor of the Universe ... recommend, that Thursday the third day of May next, may be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer ... Done in Congress, the twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one .
- By the United States in Congress assembled. Proclamation : It being the indispensible duty of all nations, not only to offer up their supplications to Almighty God ... but also ... to give Him praise ... Therefore the United States in Congress assembled ... do hereby recommend ... Thursday the twenty-eighth of November next, as a day of solemn thanksgiving ... Done in Congress at Philadelphia, the eleventh day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty two .
- In Congress, August 16, 1779 : Resolved, that the cloathier general estimate the value of the several articles of soldiers cloathing at the prices they were respectively worth at the end of the year 1778 .
- In Congress, April 7, 1777 : Resolved, that there be one director general of all the military hospitals, which shall be erected for the Continental Army in the United States
- Constitutions des treize États-Unis de l'Amérique
- In Congress, April 3, 1776 : Resolved, that every person intending to set forth and fit out a private ship or vessel of war, and applying for a commission or letters of marque and reprisal for that purpose, shall produce a writing, subscribed by him, containing the name, and tonnage or burthen of the ship or vessel .
- In Congress, April 29, 1777. : Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states forthwith to order the sums advanced by them for recruiting the Continental battalions .
- In Congress, April 1, 1777 : For the better regulating the pay of the army, resolved, that the paymaster or deputy paymaster general shall pay no money but by warrants from the commanders in chief .
- Die Repräsentanten der Vereinigten Staaten von America, im Congress versammlet, an das Volk überhaupt, und an die Einwohner Pennsylvaniens und der angrenzenden Staaten insbesondere
- Im Congress den 29ten April 1778 : an die Officier und Soldaten in Diensten des Königs von Grossbrittanien, so keine Unterthanen des genanten Königs sind
- Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September 1774 : containing, the bill of rights, a list of grievances, occasional resolves, the association, an address to the people of Great Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitatants of the British American colonies
- The grand committee consisting of Mr. Howell, Mr. Foster ... : appointed to report a requisition on the states for the supplies of the present year, beg leave to lay before Congress, the following report
- The journals of the proceedings of Congress : held at Philadelphia, from January to May, 1776
- In Congress, Wednesday, April 3, 1776 : Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes
- Proclamation : ... resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint the first Thursday in May next to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, and in the third year of our independence
- The olive branch petition of the American Congress to George III, 1775 : and letters of the American envoys, August-September 1775
- In Congress, February 24, 1777 : Resolved, that the Board of War be directed to send letters ... to the colonels ... of the several regiments, now raising and recruiting in the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, ordering them ... to join the army under General Washington .
- In Congress, Baltimore, January 14th, 1777 : resolved, that the commissioners of the loan offices be directed to receive the bills of credit, heretofore emitted by the states in which they respectively hold their offices for such sums as shall be ordered by the Commissioners of the Treasury, or the Continental Treasurer, from time to time, for continental purposes, within such states respectively
- In Congress, August 6, 1777 : The Committee of Treasury report, that they have conferred with the managers of the States Lottery, and find that a considerable number of tickets remain unsold ... the Committee recommend the drawing to be postponed till the sixth day of November next; and that a further quantity of tickets be transmitted to the several states ... Resolved, that Congress concur with this report, and direct the Board of Treasury to cause the same to be carried into effect
- In Congress, August 26, 1776. Whereas, in the course of the present war, some commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the Army and Navy, as also private soldiers, marines and seamen, may lose a limb, or be otherwise so disabled .
- By the United States in Congress assembled, April 7, 1781. : Be it ordained, and it is hereby ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, that the following instructions be observed by the captains or commanders of private armed vessels, commissioned by letters of marque or general reprisals, or otherwise by the authority of the United States .
- By the United States in Congress assembled, March 23, 1787. : On the report of a committee appointed to consider the reductions necessary to be made in the civil list department. ... Resolved, that the sum to be allotted to the support of the household of the president of the Congress ... shall not exceed a sum .
- In Congress, February 15, 1777 : Resolved, that considering the situation of the New-England states, Congress approve of the measures adopted and recommended by the committee from the four New-England states for the defence of the state of Rhode-Island, and also of the measures to be taken for preventing the depreciation of their currency .
- Proceedings of the general Congress of delegates from the several British colonies in North-America, held in Philadelphia, September 1774
- The representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, to the people in general, and particularly to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and the adjacent states
- In Congress, Thursday, June 22, 1775 : Resolved, that a sum not exceeding two millions of Spanish mill'd dollars be emitted by the Congress in bills of credit for the defence of America
- In Congress, September 26, 1778 : Resolved, that a house be provided at the city or place where Congress shall sit, wherein shall be held the several offices of the Treasury .
- Philadelphia, in Congress, June 12, 1775. A proclamation for a continental public fast : to be observed by the inhabitants of all the English colonies on this continent ... Thursday, the 20th day of July next .
- Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
- To the inhabitants of the United States of America : Friends and countrymen. The present situation of public affairs demands your most serious attention, and particularly the great and encreasing depreciation of your currency
- Journals of Congress. Containing the proceedings from Sept. 5. 1774. To Jan. 1. 1776
- Journals of Congress : containing their proceedings from September 5, 1774, to [November 3, 1788]
- Journal of the proceedings of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775
- In Congress, October 8, 1778. : Resolved, that all limitations of prices of gold and silver be taken off
- In Congress. November 24, 1778. : Congress took into consideration the report of the committee of arrangement, and thereupon came to the following resolutions. .
- In Congress. December 6, 1775 : We the delegates of the thirteen united colonies in North America have taken into our most serious consideration a proclamation issued from the Court of St. James's on the twenty-third day of August last. .
- In Congress. December 11, 1776 : Whereas, the just war into which the United States of America have been forced by Great-Britain, is likely to be still continued ... the Congress hereby resolve, that it be recommended to all the states, as soon as possible to appoint a day of solemn fasting and humiliation .
- In Congress, October 3d, 1780 : resolved, that the regular Army of the United States, from and after the first day of January next, consist of 4 regiments of cavalry or light dragoons .
- In Congress, October 3d, 1776 : Resolved, that five millions of continental dollars be immediately borrowed for the use of the United States of America, at the annual interest of four per cent. .
- In Congress, October 17, 1777 : Resolved, that the premium of five dollars, offered by a resolution of Congress of the 31st of July last, for apprehending and securing deserters from the Continental Army, an addition be made of five dollars for each deserter so apprehended and secured
- In Congress, Monday, June 12, 1775 : ... This Congress ... recommend, that Thursday, the twentieth day of July next, be observed by the inhabitants of all the English colonies on this continent, as a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer .
- Secret journals of the acts and proceedings of Congress, from the first meeting thereof to the dissolution of the confederation, by the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Published under the direction of the President of the United States, conformably to Resolution of Congress of March 27, 1818, and April 21, 1820
- The Tory act
- In Congress, Monday, 30th June, 1777. : Congress, agreeably to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the letters from Abraham Ten Broeck, Esq ; .
- A decent respect to the opinions of mankind : Congressional State papers, 1774-1776
- In Congress, May 6, 1778 : Whereas Congress have received, from their commissioners at the Court of France, copies of a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, and of a Treaty of Alliance .
- A declaration by the representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in general Congress at Philadelphia, seting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms
- A proclamation : It having pleased Almighty God ... to bestow great and manifold mercies ... Resolved, that it be and hereby is recommended to ... the said states, to appoint Wednesday the thirtieth day of December next ... as a day of public thanksgiving ... Done in Congress, this 17th day of November, 1778
- In Congress, May 27, 1778 : establishment of the American Army
- A proclamation : Whereas Congress have received information and complaints, "That violences have been done by American armed vessels to neutral nations ... they do hereby direct, enjoin and command, all captains, commanders and other officers and seamen, belonging to any American armed vessels, to ... pay a sacred regard to the rights of neutral powers ... Given in Congress at York, in the state of Pennsylvania, this ninth day of May, anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight
- A proclamation for a continental fast. In Congress, Saturday, March 16, 1776 : ... The Congress ... do earnestly recommend that Friday the seventeenth day of May next be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer .
- In Congress, May 21, 1776 : Resolved, that all persons taken in arms on board any prize, be deemed prisoners, to be taken care of by the supreme executive power in each colony to which they are brought, whether the prize be taken by vessels fitted out by the Continent .
- An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America
- In Congress, May 2, 1780. : Instructions to the captains and commanders of private armed vessels, which shall have commissions, or letters of marque and reprisal
- In Congress, May 15, 1776. : Whereas His Britannic Majesty, in conjunction with the Lords and Commons of Great-Britain, has ... excluded the inhabitants of these United Colonies from the protection of the crown: ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies ... to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the Representatives of the people best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents
- In Congress, May 14, 1777. : Resolved, I. That the quarter-master general of the army be authorized and empowered to appoint one commissary of forage for the army, and one for each of the military departments therof .
- In Congress, March 6, 1779. : Resolved, that Congress, or such person or persons as they appoint to hear and determine appeals from the courts of admiralty, have necessarily the power to examine as well into decisions on facts, as decisions on the law, and to decree finally thereon .
- In Congress, March 5, 1779. : Resolved, that the quarter-master general, commissary-general of purchases, and cloathier-general ... are hereby authorised and directed to pay all certificates .
- In Congress, March 25, 1777 : 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 .
- In Congress, March 2, 1779. : the Board of War having represented, that application has been made to the board for arrearages of cloathing ... Resolved, that a proper person be forthwith appointed and commissioned, to settle and pay all accounts of arrearages of cloathing due to the troops of these states for the year 1777 .
- In Congress, March 15, 1779 : Resolved, that all officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers ... commissioned and inlisted since the 16th of September, 1776 ... be considered as parts of the quotas of the several states to which they did or shall respectively belong when so commissioned or inlisted
- In Congress, June 29, 1779. : As congresses are bound by every motive of policy and of public & private justice to maintain the credit of the paper money emitted by their authority on the faith of the United States .
- In Congress, June 28th, 1780. : Whereas Congress, on the eighteenth day of April last, resolved ... therefore resolved, that the principal of all loans, that have been made to these United States, shall finally be discharged, by paying the full current value of the bills when loaned .
- Secret journals of the acts and proceedings of Congress : from the first meeting thereof to the dissolution of the Confederation, by the adoption of the Constitution of the United States
- An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America
- An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United-States of America : Friends and Countrymen, three years have now passed .
- An ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States, North-west of the River Ohio
- In Congress, Friday, June 9, 1775. Resolved, that no obedience being due to the act of Parliament for altering the charter of the colony of Massachusetts-Bay ... it be recommended to the Provincial Congress to write letters to the inhabitants ... requesting them to chuse such representatives ... which Assembly and Council should exercise the powers of government .
- In Congress, February 3, 1778 : Resolved, that every officer, who holds or shall hereafter hold a commission or office from Congress, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation .
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- Vermont's appeal to the candid and impartial world : Containing, a fair stating of the claims of Massachusetts-Bay, New-Hampshire, and New-York. The right the state of Vermont has to independence. : With an address to the Honorable American Congress, and the inhabitants of the thirteen United States.
- United States Lottery : the scheme is, that this lottery consist of four classes, of one hundred thousand tickets each
- Records of the Revolutionary War : containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. to which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands
- To the dis-united inhabitants of the dis-United States (so called) of America. : Friends and deluded coutrymen, Having just been favoured with a sight of an extraordinary address from the Congress, dated the 26th of May last, signed John Jay, president .
- The rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America : being an answer to the declaration of the General Congress
- The national flag ; : Magna Charta ; Declaration of rights of American colonies, 1765 and 1774 ; Declaration of Independence ; Articles of Confederation ; Constitution of the United States ; Treaty with Mexico ; General Riley's proclamations, 1849 ; Act admitting California into the union ; Constitution of California, 1849 ; Constitution of California, 1879 ; Proposed amendments to the Constitution to be voted upon in November, 1910
- The Negro in the Continental Congress
- The Committee to whom was referred a motion of the delegates of the State of Connecticut, relative to a cession of part of that state's claim to western territory, beg leave to report the following resolutions .
- State of New-Hampshire. The Council and Assembly of said state, have ordered : that the following proclamation of the Hon'ble Continental Congress, for a general thanksgiving throughout the United States, be printed, and sent to the several religious societies in this state, to be observed, agreeable to the directions therein ... to set apart Thursday, the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise .
- In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 7, 1776 : your committee appointed for that purpose having deliberately considered the resolves of Continental Congress, of the first, third and fourth instant, for raising a body of militia for the defence of the colonies, in the present campaign, do report, that we have extracted from the said resolves such parts thereof as immediately relate to this colony .
- State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, June 20th, 1783. : the committee on the recommendations of Congress, report as their opinion, that the following resolutions of Congress and consequent requisition of the General Court, be printed in hand bills and directed to the selectmen of the several towns, parishes and places within this state, viz. .
- Journal of the proceedings of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775
- State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, June 17th 1779. : Voted, that the address from the Continental Congress to the inhabitants of the United-States of America, be forthwith printed, and dispersed throughout this state .
- State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, Nov. 14th, 1783 : Whereas the honorable Continental Congress have recommended that the second Thursday in December next, be observed as a day of public thanksgiving throughout the United States: ordered, that the following proclamation ... be forthwith printed ... and that the said day be accordingly observed throughout this state
- State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, March 27th, 1778 : Ordered, that the following proclamation of the Hon'ble Continental Congress ... be printed ... : A proclamation for a general fast, throughout the United-States of America. In Congress, March 7th, 1778 ... to set apart Wednesday the 22d of April next, to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer .
- Proceedings of grand committee of the legislature of the state of Vermont, at Charlestown, from the 16th to the 19th of October 1781. ... : the governor and council having joined the General Assembly in a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the report of the hon'ble Jonas Fay, Ira Allen, and Bezaleel Woodward, Esquires, who were appointed by the legislature ... to repair to the American Congress, with powers to propose to, and receive from them, terms for a union of this, with the United States, &c
- State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, November 1, 1782 : Ordered, that the following proclamation for a general thanksgiving on the twenty-eighth day of November instant, received from the honorable Continental Congress, be forthwith printed .
- Proclamation : Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God ... It is therefore recommended to the several states to set apart Thursday the seventh day of December next, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving ... Done in Congress, this eighteenth day of October 1780 ... Samuel Huntington, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary
- State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 10th, 1779 : Ordered, that the following proclamation of the honorable Congress, for a general fast, be printed, and sent to the several worshipping assemblies in this state .
- Laws of the colonial and state governments, relating to Indians and Indian affairs, from 1633 to 1831, inclusive : with an appendix containing the proceedings of the Congress of the Confederation ; and the laws of Congress, from 1800 to 1830, on the same subject
- Office for Foreign Affairs, 13th May, 1785. : the Secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred a letter of the 21st March last, from Richard Soderstrom, reports as his opinion, that no state is obliged by the laws of nations to receive or admit consuls from any foreign state ; and consequently every sovereign has a right to admit them on such terms and conditions only as he may think proper. ... All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay
- Savannah, 17th July, 1775. In Provincial Congress : Whereas His Excellency Sir James Wright, baronet, at the request of this Congress, hath been pleased to appoint Wednesday the 19th instant as a day of fasting and prayer ... and whereas ... the Continental Congress has issued the following proclamation ... This Congress, therefore, strongly recommends, that both days be kept in a most strict and religious manner .
- Office for Foreign Affairs, September 19, 1785 : the Secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, in obedience to the order of Congress of August 9, 1785, respecting the number of consuls necessary to be appointed, and for what foreign ports, reports, that in his opinion it would be expedient to have consuls in .
- Proceedings of the convention begun and held at Concord, in the county of Middlesex, in and for the state of Massachusetts-Bay, on the 14th day of July, 1779, for the purpose of carrying into effect the several interesting and important measures recommended by Congress, to the inhabitants of the United-States, in their late wise, seasonable and animating address
- Philadelphia, August 22, 1777. By an express arrived last evening from General Schuyler to Congress, we have the following important intelligence. .
- Providence, February 20, 1781 : This afternoon an express arrived here from Philadelphia, by whom we have the following important intelligence from South-Carolina, which was received at Philadelphia by an express from the Hon. Major-General Greene
- State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, April 14th, 1780 : Whereas the honorable Continental Congress have recommended that Wednesday the twenty-sixth instant be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer throughout the United-States: ordered, that the proclamation of the honorable Congress for observing the same be forthwith printed .
- State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 14, 1781 : Ordered, that the following proclamation be forthwith printed ... By the United States in Congress assembled. Proclamation ... that Thursday the third day of May next, may be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Done in Congress the twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one .
- Proclamation : Whereas it becomes us humbly to approach the throne of Almighty God ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint Thursday the ninth day of December next to be a day of public and solemn thanksgiving ... Done in Congress the twentieth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine ... State of Massachusetts-Bay. Council-chamber in Boston, November 3, 1779. Agreeable to the above recommendation of the Honorable Continental Congress ... do hereby appoint Thursday the ninth day of December next, to be observed ... as a day of public thanksgiving and praise .
- His Excellency General Washington's last legacy. : a circular letter from his Excellency George Washington, commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America, dated June 11 [i.e. 18], 1783. (Circular). Head-quarters, Newburgh, June 18, 1783
- Extract of a letter from General Gates, dated camp at Saratoga, October 18, 1777 : Sir, I have the satisfaction to present your Excellency with the convention of Saratoga ; by which His Excellency Lieutenant General Burgoyne has surrendered himself
- Definitive treaty : Sunday evening arrived the Lord Hyde packet, in 40 days from Falmouth, with the definitive treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America, signed at Paris, the 3d day of September, 1783
- Declaration of rights of American colonies, 1765 and 1774 ; : Declaration of Independence ; Articles of Confederation ; Constitution of the United States and Constitution of the state of California ; also summary of amendments submitted and vote for and against each amendment, 1883-1911
- Declaration of rights ; : Declaration of Independence ; Articles of Confederation ; Constitution of the United States ; Act of Congress admitting California into the union ; Constitution of the state of California (with citations) ; Proposed amendments to the Constitution to be voted upon in November, 1904 ; Magna Charta (in Latin and English)
- State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 12th, 1782 : Ordered, that the following proclamation be forthwith printed ... : A proclamation ... to call upon the several states to set apart the last Thursday in April next, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer ... Done by the United States in Congress assembled, this nineteenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two .
- Colony of New Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 12, 1776. : In order to carry the underwritten resolve of the hon'ble Continental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all males above twenty one years of age (lunaticks, idiots and Negroes excepted) to sign to the declaration on this paper ... M. Weare, chairman. .
- By the United States in Congress assembled: A proclamation : Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission ... a treaty of amity and commerce between ... the States General of the United Netherlands, and the United States of America, was, on the eighth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, concluded ... Now therefore ... all the citizens and inhabitants thereof, and more especially all ... seamen ... are hereby enjoined and required to govern themselves ... according to the stipulations above recited. Done in Congress this twenty-third day of January ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three .
- By the Hon. Major General Arnold, commander in chief of the forces of the United States of American in the city of Philadelphia, &c., A proclamation : In order to protect the persons and property of the inhabitants of this city from insult and injury, to secure the public and private stores which the enemy may have left in the city and to prevent the disorder and confusion ... His Excellency George Washington, in compliance with the following resolution of Congress, has thought proper to establish military law in this city
- By his excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor, captain-general, and commander in chief, in and over the state of Connecticut ... A proclamation : ... the thirteenth day of December next, to be set apart and religiously observed as a day of thanksgiving and prayer ... Given under by hand in Lebanon, this twenty-second day of November ... one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one .
- By his excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire governor, captain general, and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut ... A proclamation : Agreeable to the foregoing recommendation of Congress, I have thought fit ... to appoint, and do hereby appoint the first Thursday of May next, to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... Given under my hand, in the Council chamber at Hartford ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine .
- By His Excellency, Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor, and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut ... Proclamation : On consideration of, and in chearful compliance with the foregoing call of Congress ... appoint, the last Thursday of April instant, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer ... Given under my hand at Lebanon, this tenth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty two .
- By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor, captain-general and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut ... A proclamation : the Congress of the United States of America, by their resolve of the eleventh day of March last, having recommended ... I ... do hereby appoint, Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of this instant April ... a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer ... Given under my hand at Lebanon, this third day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty
- At a conference of the delegates in Congress for the states of New-York, New-Jersey and Pennsylvania, of the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania, the Committee of Inspection and Observation for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, and the field officers of the five battalions of the said city, &c. at the state-house in Philadelphia, on the 5th day of July, 1776, in pursuance of the following resolution of Congress, to wit. .
- Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union : between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia
- In Congress, July 4, 1776 : A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general congress assembled
- In Congress, July 4, 1776. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled
- In Congress, July 4, 1776. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled
- In Congress, July 4, 1776. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled
- In Congress, June 20, 1777 : Resolved, that a suitable person be appointed commissary, to receive all raw hides belonging to the United States ; and that he be authorised to exchange the same for tanned leather or mens shoes
- An account of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his whole army, prisoners of war to the United States
- A proclamation : It having pleased Almighty God through the course of the present year, to bestow great and manifold mercies on the people of these United States ... Resolved, that it be, and hereby is recommended to the legislative or executive authority of each of the said states, to appoint Wednesday the 30th day of December next, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving and praise. ... Done in Congress the 17th day of November 1778 .
- A decent respect to the opinions of mankind : Congressional State papers, 1774-1776
- A copy of a remonstrance, of the Council of the state of Vermont, against the resolutions of Congress of the 5th of December last, which interfere with their internal police
- War-Office, April, 25, 1785. : Sir, On the memorial of Captain Jesse Grant and Captain Jesse Cook, referred to me from Congress, I beg leave to report .
- In Congress, November 1, 1777 : forasmuch as it is the indispensible duty of all men ... it is ... recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States, to set apart Thursday, the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise ... State of Connecticut. By the governor. Agreeable to the above recommendation ... Given under my hand in Lebanon, the 4th day of December ... 1777
- War Office. September 12th, 1785. : the Secretary of War reports, that it may be a subject worthy the attention of Congress, whether it would not be necessary to appoint some confidential person ... either resident with the Six Nations, or upon the frontiers nearest to them, to whom they might apply, as the intermediate person between them and Congress
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