I have the honor to transmit to Your Excellency herewith enclosed a copy of a report which I made to Congress in Obedience to their Order of the 2d of this Month.(1)
If I have omitted any of the Acts passed by your State, in compliance with the recommendations specified in the order, I shall take it as a favour if Your Excellency will be pleased to inform me thereof and transmit to me a copy of the Acts that are omitted.
With great respect, &c.
1 For Congress' January 2 order and Thomson's January 4 report on the states "which have complied in whole or in part with the revenue System of Apl. 18th, 1783, The recommendation of Congress of the same date for an alteration of the 8th of the Arts. of Confed. and the act of the 30th of Apl. 1784, recommending the vesting of certain commercial powers in Congress," see JCC, 30:6-10. For the broadside copy of the report that Thomson enclosed, see JCC, 31:957; PCC Miscellaneous Papers, M332, reel 9, fols. 593-95; and Pa. Archives, 1st ser. 10:732-35.