Alexander Hamilton Papers

Continental Congress Report on Reduction of Expenses in the War Department, 7 April 1783

Continental Congress
Report on Reduction of Expenses in the War Department

[Philadelphia] April 7, 1783

The Committee1 appointed to consider and report such eoconomical measures as may be proper and necessary beg leave to report the following.2 Resolve3

That the Secretary at war in concert with the Commander in Chief be directed to consider and report to Congress as speedily as may be such measures as it will be proper to take in the present juncture for reducing the expences of The United States in the war department.4

AD, Papers of the Continental Congress, National Archives.

1. The committee consisted of H, Richard Peters, and Nathaniel Gorham.

2. The committee had been appointed on April 4, 1783, “to consider the means of reducing expenditures in the military department” (JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (Washington, 1904–1937). description ends , XXIV, 240, note 1).

3. This paragraph is not in the writing of H.

4. The report was passed, according to the endorsement, on April 7, 1783.

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    Continental Congress Report on Reduction of Expenses in the War Department, 7 April 1783
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    “Continental Congress Report on Reduction of Expenses in the War Department, 7 April 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0203. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 316–317.]