1Draft of Report on the Powers of a Committee of Congress to Sit during Recess, [15 December 1775] (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee appointed to consider and prepare instructions for a committee who are to sit during the recess of Congress have agreed to the following Resolutions: Dft ( DLC : PCC , No. 23); in TJ’s hand; endorsed by Thomson: “Report made 15 Decr. 1775 … . No. 2. Report of the Comee app. to prepare instructions to the Comee. in Recess … .” Written on the back of the top half of a broadside...
2Report of Committee to Ascertain Unfinished Business before Congress, 23 December 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee appointed to examine the journals and state what business remains still before Congress unfinished, have agreed to the following report. Dft ( DLC : PCC , No. 23). Endorsed by Charles Thomson: “No. 1. Report of the Comee appointed to examine the Journal. Decr. 23. 1775.” The paper underwent several stages of amendment, which could not be fully represented except by a facsimile....
3Amendment to Report of Committee on Letters from Washington, Schuyler, and the Commissioners in Canada, [21 May 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
Strike out 3d. 4th. and 5th. Instead of 11th. substitute ‘that General Schuyler be informed that Congress have in view these two great objects, the Protection and assistance of our Canadian friends, and the Securing so much of that country as may prevent any communication between our enemies and the Indians. The means of effecting these purposes by fortifying proper posts, building armed...
4First Report of the Committee to Digest the Resolutions of the Committee of the Whole respecting Canada, &c., [17 June … (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved R. 1. pospon’d that the Commissioners for Indian affairs in the Northern department be directed to use their utmost endeavors to procure the assistance of the Indians within their department to act against the enemies of these colonies, that they particularly endeavor to engage them to undertake the reduction of Niagara, engaging on behalf of Congress to pay them 133 ⅓ dollars for...
5Additional Report of the Committee to Digest the Resolutions of the Committee of the Whole respecting Canada, [17 June … (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee to whom the reports from the Committee of the whole house was recommitted, have had the same under their consideration and agreed to the following resolutions. Resolved G. 1. that it is the opinion of this Committee that an experienced general be immediately sent into Canada, with power to appoint a deputy adjutant general, a Deputy Quarter master general, and such other officers...
6Report of the Committee on the Cedars Cartel, [17 June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee to whom were re-committed the Cartel between Brigadier General Arnold and Captain Forster for the exchange of prisoners and the several papers relating thereto have had the same under their consideration and agreed to the following report. Your committee having proceeded to make enquiry into the facts relating to the agreement entered into at St. Anne’s between Brigadier General...
7Report of the Committee to Draw Up Rules of Procedure in Congress, [before 10 July 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee appointed to draw up Rules and Orders for the Government of this House have agreed to the following report. iii . No Member shall read any printed Paper in the House during the sitting thereof without Leave of the Congress. vii . No Member shall speak more than twice in any one Debate without Leave of the House. ix . No Motion shall be debated until the same be seconded. x . When...
8IV. Report of the Committee, [2]0 August 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
The great Seal should on one side have the arms of the United States of America which arms should be as follows. The Shield has six Quarters, parti one, coupe two. The 1st. Or, a Rose enammelled gules and argent for England: the 2d Argent, a Thistle proper, for Scotland: the 3d. Verd, a Harp Or, for Ireland: the 4th. Azure a Flower de Luce Or for France: the 5th. Or the Imperial Eagle Sable...
9Report of a Plan to Invite Foreign Officers in the British Service to Desert, 27 August 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
The Congress proceeding to take into further consideration the expediency of inviting from the service of his Britannic majesty such foreigners as by the compulsive authority of their prince may have been engaged therein and sent hither for the purpose of waging war against these states, and expecting that the enlightened minds of the officers having command in those foreign corps will feel...
10Draft Report on the Value of Gold and Silver Coins, [2 September 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
The Committe to whom was recommitted a report from a Committee appointed to ascertain the value of the several species of gold and silver current in these states and the proportion they and each of them bear and ought to bear to Spanish milled dollars have taken the same into consideration and thereupon come to the following resolutions. Whereas the holders of bills of credit emitted by...