Ohio in the Time of the Confederation



tion as your Honorable body may think reasonable
for the time expended in your service.
  You[r] Memorialist is emboldened to ask this
from the confidence that Congress cannot permit
their servants to suffer in their own fortunes, while
exerting themselves in promoting the public interest,
and a consciousness that they have used their utmost
endeavors to effect the surveys in the western couin-
try upon the most extensive scale.
  Your Memorialist having been under the necessity
of applying to the Geographer of the United States
for considerable sums of money to defray his un-
avoidable extra expences, he prays that your honor-
able body would enable him to discharge the same.
  Your Memorialist as in duty bound shall ever
pray. -
                                 Benja Tupper.
Ohio
  Novr 10th 1786
[Indorsed:]    N0 27
            Mem' B. Tupper
            Read 20 March 1787
              Referred to the
              Board of Treasury to
              report. -
            see. Journal Octr 3d 1787
  [P. S.]1"4 An Account of my Expenditures while
endeavouring to Execute Surveys in the Western
Territory of the United States agreeable to the Ordi-
nance of Congress of the 20th of May 1785. -
To Sundry disbursements on my Journey to Pitts-
  104 From the Papers of Continental Congress, no. 41, iv, 307.



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