1Report on Address to the States by Congress, [25 April] 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 24, fols. 335–46). Entirely in JM’s hand except for insertions, mentioned in footnotes, 5, 23, 25, and 41, by George Bond, deputy secretary of Congress. On 18 April, after adopting the plan for restoring public credit, Congress appointed a committee, JM chairman, Oliver Ellsworth, and Alexander Hamilton, to prepare an address to the states (NA: PCC , No. 186, fol. 95)....