1Motion To Inform Foreign Ministers in Philadelphia, [21 November] 1782 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 36, I, 435–36). In JM’s hand. George Bond, deputy secretary of Congress, wrote below JM’s text, “Mr. Williamson Mr. Maddison Mr [Richard] Peters [Pa.].” The docket, also in Bond’s hand, reads: “Motion of Mr. Madison Novr 21. 1782 Referred to Mr Williamson Mr. Madison Mr Peters Acted on Novr. 25h. 1782.” See n. 10. All of the many and sometimes baffling corrections in this...
2Notes on Debates, 21 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
MS ( LC : Madison Papers). See Notes on Debates, 4 November 1782 , ed. n. A report was made by a Committee to whom had been referred several previous reports & propositions, relative to the salaries of foreign Ministers, delivering it as the opinion of the Committee that the Salaries allowed to Ministers Plenipoy: to wit £2500 Sterlg. would not admit of reduction; but that the Saly. allowed to...