1. At this point JM deleted a clause, “that the same may be transmitted to the respective States, pursuant to the direction contained in the 9th Art. of the Confederation,” and transposed it, except for the last three syllables of “Confederation,” to the position indicated in n. 2, below.

2. Here JM inserted a dash and followed it by the clause quoted in n. 1, above. By so doing, he was able to delete the repetitious clause, “to be in like manner transmitted to the several States,” with which he had closed the motion in its original form.

3. By this article Congress was authorized “to borrow money, or emit bills on the credit of the united states, transmitting every half year to the respective states an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted” (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XIX, 219). Robert Morris apparently never embodied in one document a full compliance with JM’s motion, especially if the phrase “prior to the 1st. day of Jany. last” was intended to include the entire period of the Revolution since the first meeting of the Second Continental Congress rather than since the adoption of the Articles of Confederation on 1 March 1781. On the other hand, Morris prepared in July 1782 an elaborate report which was “the most important single state paper on public credit ever written prior to Hamilton’s First Report” on that subject (Clarence L. Ver Steeg, Robert Morris, pp. 124, 239, n. 11; JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXII, 429–46). Furthermore, under date of 18 November 1782, a report was published entitled A General View of Receipts and Expenditures of Public Monies, by Authority from the Superintendent of Finance, from the Time of his entering on the Administration of the Finances, to the 31st December, 1781 (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). description ends , XXIII, 889; NA: PCC, No. 137, III, 329, 333).