Lengthy abstract of the minutes of the Continental Congress, by the longtime secretary of that body. "In Congress, August 26th, 1780. Congress took into consideration the report of the Comee. appointed to divise ways and means for preventing the further issue of certificates... Whereas a large and immediate supply of money is necessary for carrying on the operations of the war and for the payment of debts due for supplies... Resolved that it be earnestly recommended to the several states to take the most speedy & effectual measures in their power for drawing in their respective states of the Continental bills of credit to be destroyed either by a tax to be collected immediately or by exchanging for them new bills..."