Your favor of the 9th Ult was duly recd. with its enclosure,(1) we have not as yet had an Oppertunity to present a Memorial touching the Subject matter of your communication: most of the time since we have been here, no more than seven States have been present, altho
It appears to me, the Genl. Assembly at their last Session, passd. an Act empowering their Delegates in Congress to apply to Congress in the Name & Behalf of the State, praying an allowance of the Charges mentioned by you on the Requisition of 1785. The Copy of this Act we need & have not as yet been favord. with.(2)
I beg you to apply to the Secretary for it & forward it as soon as possible. 'Tis doubtful whether we shall understand this Business so well as we ought to & still more doubtful whether we shall be able to accomplish the Desires of the State; if we can once bring the Treasury board into our Veiws on the Subject, our Courage will revive.
I send by Mr. Fowler the journals for -- 86.
No News worth communicating.
I am Gentn. with the Highest Respect & Esteem, Your very humbl Sert., S. M. Mitchell
RC (MH-H: bMS Am 1649.5). Addressed: "Committee of Pay-Table, Hartford."
1 This January 9 letter, signed by committeemen Eleazer Wales and Oliver Wolcott, Jr., and their letter of the same date to Gov. Samuel Huntington, which they enclosed, are in the Peter Force Miscellany, DLC. The letter to Huntington also had an enclosure with it -- Connecticut's "Account Current with the United States," signed by Paymaster General John Pierce, December 20, 1786. Connecticut wished to claim credit on its Continental quota for payments made to the Connecticut Line, but there is no record in the journals or the papers of Congress that the state's delegates ever submitted the claim.
2 "A true Copy of Record" of this act, dated only October 1786, is also in the Peter Force Miscellany, DLC.