Note on Motion on Illicit Trade with the Enemy, 17 June 1782
Note on Motion on Illicit Trade with the Enemy
MS (NA: PCC, No. 186, fol. 36).
Editorial Note
17 June 1782. On 14 June 1782 Congress named eleven of its members, including JM, to be a committee under Samuel Osgood’s chairmanship, “To devise & report ways & means to prevent an illicit trade with the Enemy.” Three days later this committee was “discharged on a Motion of Mr. Madison & the business referred to a comee. of five” (NA: PCC, No. 186, fol. 36; , XXII, 333 n.). For their recommendation, see Report on Illicit Trade with the Enemy, 19 June 1782.