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salt, sulphur, and cloth. In addition to the bounties,
premiums were also offered to those persons who could ac-
complish these tasks in the shortest amount of time.^^ By
such efforts, the delegates sought to make North Carolina
not only a self-supporting colony, but also to free it from
a binding, and possibly crippling reliance on foreign pro-
ducts.
Having successfully, if only temporarily, completed the
major tasks confronting them, the Congress turned its atten-
tions to matters of a more continental concern. One such
matter was the debate involving a proposed plan of confedera-
tion which had been pl-esented to the Continental Congress by
Benjamin Franklin on July 21. As the Philadelphia Congress
anticipated that the proposed plan would become the subject
of serious debate at the next session in Philadelphia, and
desired the opinions of the various colonies, William Hooper,
returning home for the Hillsboro Cojagress, presented the plan
to the delegates,After deliberating the issue, the Pro-
vincial Congress passed a resolution declaring that the plan
was "not at present eligible," and that the delegates from
North Carolina should be instructed to withhold their consent
61f
Journal of the Provincial Congress of August, 1775.
pp. 37-W.
65Ibid.
^Burnett, Letters of Members of the Continental Con-
gress, II, 90-91, '• J — •*
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