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Resolution by the Continental Congress concerning state quotas of money for the war
United States. Continental Congress
September 10, 1782
Volume 16, Page 413

No. 2 REFERRED TO ABOVE.
[From Executive Letter Book.]

By the United States
In Congress Assembled,
September 10th, 1782.

Resolved:

That the 1,200,000 Dollars to be raised for the payment of the Interest of the Domestic Debt of the United States be apportioned to the several States according to the following Quotas, viz:

New Hampshire
48,000
Massachusetts
192,000
Rhode Island
28,000
Connecticutt
133,000
New York
54,000
New Jersey
66,000
Pennsylvania
180,000
Delaware
16,800
Maryland
132,000
Virginia
174,000
North Carolina
88,000
South Carolina
72,000
Georgia
14,400
CHARLES THOMPSON,
Secretary.