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207. The State of the National Debt (1781) BY DUANE, SHARPE, AND WOLCOTT

HE committee, consisting of Mr. Duane, Mr. Sharpe, and Mr. Wolcott, appointed to estimate and state the amount of the debts due from the United States, with the necessary estimates for the current year, as near as can be done, in order that the same may be laid before the respective legislatures, report,

That they have attended to this business ; but from the unsettled condition of the publick accounts they can only give a general view of the publick debts.

By returns made to the board of treasury up to the 10th February, 1781, it appears that from the opening of the loan offices to the first day of March, 1778, there has been borrowed, the