Report of the Committee of Claims : to whom was referred on the 21st ultimo, the petition of the corporation of Rhode Island College : together with the former reports thereon : 17th February, 1800, committed to a Committee of the whole House on Wednesdy next

Report of the Committee of Claims : to whom was referred on the 21st ultimo, the petition of the corporation of Rhode Island College : together with the former reports thereon : 17th February, 1800, committed to a Committee of the whole House on Wednesdy next

[Philadelphia : Printed by William Ross, 1800]

4 p. ; 22 cm.

L2008F58 1800

(OCoLC)13457787

Includes text of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, dated January 31, 1795.
The petition seeks compensation for the damages to the "edifice of the college of Rhode-Island" [now Brown University] during its occupation by the Continental Army & French troops during the war. It notes that the U.S. troops used the college building as a barrack & the French troops used it as a military hospital.

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