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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) REPORT ON COMMITTEE OF THE STATES 1 - The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786)
REPORT ON COMMITTEE OF THE STATES 1 - Thomas Jefferson, The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786) [1905]Edition used:The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5). Vol. 4.
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- Notes On Virginia ( Continued )
- Query Xii a Notice of the Counties, Cities, Townships, and Villages?
- Query Xiii the Constitution of the State and Its Several Charters?
- Query Xiv the Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws?
- Query Xv the Colleges and Public Establishments, the Roads, Buildings, &c.?
- Query Xvi the Measures Taken With Regard of the Estates and Possessions of the Rebels, Commonly Called Tories?
- Query Xvii the Different Religions Received Into That State?
- Query Xviii the Particular Customs and Manners That May Happen to Be Received In That State?
- Query Xix the Present State of Manufactures, Commerce, Interior and Exterior Trade?
- Query Xx a Notice of the Commercial Productions Particular to the State, and of Those Objects Which the Inhabitants Are Obliged to Get From Europe and From Other Parts of the World?
- Query Xxi the Weights, Measures and the Currency of the Hard Money? Some Details Relating to Exchange With Europe?
- Query Xxii the Public Income and Expences?
- Query Xxiii the Histories of the State, the Memorials Published In Its Name In the Time of Its Being a Colony, and the Pamphlets Relating to Its Interior Or Exterior Affairs Present Or Antient?
- Correspondence and Miscellaneous Writings 1783
- To Francis Eppes 1
- To General Washington
- To James Madison 1
- To James Madison 1
- To the French Minister. (chevalier De La Luzerne.)
- To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs. (robert R. Livingston)
- To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (robert R. Livingston)
- To James Madison 2
- To Francis Eppes 1
- To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (robert R. Livingston)
- To John Jay
- To James Madison 1
- To James Madison
- Proposed Constitution For Virginia 1
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Madison
- To Charles Carter
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Monroe 1
- To Martha Jefferson 1
- To James Madison
- Report of Committee On Unfinished Business 1
- Report On Definitive Treaty 1
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- Resolutions Relating to British Treaty. 1
- Report On Letters From the Ministers In Paris 2
- Report On Ceremonial For Washington 1
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- Report On Ratification of Treaty 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- 1784 - to James Madison
- Motion On Ratification of Treaty 1
- Fair Copy
- Rough Draft
- Resolution On Definitive Treaty 1
- Ratification of Definitive Treaty 2
- Draft For Proclamation Announcing Ratification of Definitive Treaty 1
- To Martha Jefferson 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To Oliver Pollock
- Draft of a Report On the Memorial of Zebulon Butler and Others 1
- Rough Draft
- Fair Copy
- Report On Letter From John Allan 1
- Draft of Report On a Committee of the States 1
- Report On Committee of the States 1
- To the Superintendent of Finance 1 (robert Morris)
- To James Madison
- Draft of Deed of Cession of Northwest Territory 1
- Report On Government For Western Territory 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Report On Reduction of Civil List 1
- Instructions For Negotiating With Indians. 1
- To George Washington
- To George Washington
- To James Madison 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Resolves On European Treaties 1
- Report of Government For the Western Territory 1
- Report On Cession of Western Territory. 1
- Report of the Arrears of Interest 1
- To George Washington
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison.)
- To George Washington
- Notes On the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage For the United States 1
- Motion On Steuben. 1
- Notes On the Permanent Seat of Congress. 1
- Resolutions For the Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia. 1
- Resolve On Continental Congress
- To George Washington
- To James Madison
- Report On Mercer 1
- Draft of “an Ordinance Establishing a Land Office For the United States” 2
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To Horatio Gates 1
- Report On Continental Bills of Credit 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Instructions to the Ministers Plenipotentiary Appointed to Negotiate Treaties of Commerce With the European Nations 1
- To James Monroe
- To Charles Thomson 1
- To James Madison
- To Benjamin Franklin 1
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Madison.
- To James Monroe
- To Charles Thomson 1
- To James Madison
- To James Monroe
- To Horatio Gates 1
- 1785 - to Nathanael Greene 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To James Monroe
- To James Madison
- To James Monroe
- To James Monroe
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To James Monroe 1
- To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
- To James Monroe
- To Mrs. Sprowle
- To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
- To Richard Henry Lee
- To the Virginia Delegates In Congress
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To N. and J. Van Staphorst 1
- To John Adams 1
- To Dr. Richard Price
- To John Jay
- To James Monroe 1
- To David Hartley
- To Mary Jefferson 1
- To Mrs John (abigail) Adams
- To Hogendorp (count Gysbert-charles Van)
- To N. and J. Van Staphorst
- To Phillip Mazzei
- Conference With the Count De Vergennes On the Subject of the Commerce of the United States With France. 1 1785.
- Correspondence 1786
- To Dr. James Currie
- To the Governor of Virginia. 1 (patrick Henry.)
REPORT ON COMMITTEE OF THE STATES
c. c.
The Commee. to whom was referred a report on the powers with which a Commee of the states should be vested during the recess of Congress and a Motion on the same subject have agreed to the following resolutions.
Resolved that the Commee. of the states which shall be appointed pursuant to the 9th. article of Confederation and perpetual union to sit in the recess of Congress for transacting the business of the United States shall possess all the powers which may be exercised by seven States in Congress assembled, except those of sending Ambassadors, Ministers, Envoys, resident-Consuls or Agents to foreign Countries or courts: establishing rules for deciding what captures: on land or water shall be legal & in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated.
Establishing courts for receiving & determining finally appeals in cases of capture, constituting courts for deciding disputes & differences arising between two or more states: fixing the standard of weights & measures for the United States: changing the rate of postage on the papers passing through the post offices established by Congress, and of repealing or contravening any Ordinance or Act passed by Congress.
Resolved that no question except for adjourning from day to day shall be determined without the concurrence of nine votes. That a chairman to be chosen by the Committee shall preside. That the officers of Congress when required shall attend on the sd. Commee. That the Committee shall keep a journal of their proceedings to be laid before Congress and that in these journals, which shall be published monthly & transmitted to the executives of the several States, shall be entered the yeas & nays of the members when any one of them shall have desired it before the question be put.
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