REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO WHOM WAS REFERRED, ON THE 18th INSTANT, THE PETITION OF JOHN MOUNTJOY
1800 · [Philadelphia]
by [Revolutionary Claims]
[Philadelphia], 1800. 4pp. Dbd. Stab holes in gutter. Near fine. A report on a peculiar case involving the Secretary of War and land warrants. Captain Mountjoy, who had served in the Revolutionary War, was entitled to a land warrant of desirable land. A clerk had removed his valid land warrants and sold them. In response to a query, Charles Lee, the Attorney General, makes it clear that the Secretary of War cannot reissue the land warrant for the same services. It would, however, be appropriate "for Congress to prescribe regulations under which warrants for land may be a second time granted in all cases of this kind...when justice shall require it." The committee subsequently grants Mountjoy "land warrant, No. 2492, for 300 acres of bounty land." EVANS 38870. ESTC W21642. (Inventory #: WRCAM41343)