[Philadelphia] Wednesday, August 21, 1776
A letter to the Committee of Secret Correspondence was laid before Congress and read.
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to revise the resolutions of Congress, respecting the place where prizes are to be carried into, and to bring in such farther resolutions as to them shall seem proper:
The members chosen, Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson, Mr. [Robert] Morris, and Mr. J[ohn] Adams.
1. Ford, ed., JCC, V, 692, 694.