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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...and the balances ultimately paid in specie; and if, upon final adjustment, any state was found to have supplied more than its quota under the call, the value of the surplus was to be paid for in specie, and interest allowed at the rate of six per cent, a year; while, if any state failed in delivering its quota, it was to be charged with the aggregate sum of the deficiency, and pay to the United States a like interest thereon. None of the states complied with this call, nor did anything approximating to a compliance. Later in the year, on experienced a like extremity at any period of the war. We have often felt temporary want from accidental delays in forwarding supplies, but we always had something in our magazines and the means of procuring more. Neither one nor the other is at present the case. This representation is the result of a minute examination of our resources. --washington to President Reed, December 16th 1779. Our provisions are in a manner gone. We have not a ton of hay at command, nor magazines to draw from. Money is extremely scarce, and worth little when we get it. We have been so poor for a fortnight that we could not forward the public despatches for want of cash to support the expresses. --General Greene to President Reed, February 29th 1780. the 4th of November, a similar requisition was made for taxes amounting to ten millions of dollars in gold or silver, or money of the new emission, --or specific articles enumerated in the call and to be supplied at fixed prices, and upon terms the same as those which accompanied the call of the 25th of February. In the interim between these two dates, several appeals were made to particular states; September 15th notably, when Massachusetts, New Hampshire and...

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