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 ...
United States. Continental Congress.
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
Dunlap, John, 1747-1812, printer.
Clarke, Joseph, recipient, addressee. DLC
Cooke, Nicholas, 1717-1782, recipient, addressee. DLC
Gibson, John, active 1777-1779, correspondent. DLC
United States. Board of Treasury.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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Broadsides Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1777. rbgenr
Broadsheet format (Printing) Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1777. rbpri
[Philadelphia : Printed by John Dunlap,
1777]
eng
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.
Evans
Journals of the Continental Congress,
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Finance, Public--United States--History--To 1789.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance.
United States Philadelphia.
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