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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
A letter, of 4, from Major General St. Clair, and
A letter, of 5th, from his excellency, J. Reed, were read.2
[Note 2: 2 St. Clair's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, IX, folio 439; Reed's is in No. 69, II, folio 323.]
A letter from the Board of War was read; Whereupon,
At a Board of WarJany. 5th. 1781
Present Mr Peters.
Genl. Cornell
The Board having considered the last paragraph of the enclosed letter from Genl. Washington, beg leave to report:
Resolved, That Ignatius Penet be appointed a lieutenant in Colonel Armand's partizan corps.3
[Note 3: 3 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, VI, folio 43.]
A letter, of this day, from the Board of War, was read, which being referred to a committee, the said committee brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Pensylvania, in favour of the commissary general of military stores, for fifty thousand dollars of the old emissions, to be applied as the Board of War shall direct, for which the said commissary general is to be accountable.4
[Note 4: 4 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 29, folio 195. The Board of War's letter is in No. 147, VI, folio 47.]
The committee to whom was referred the letter of December 11th, from J. Pearce, delivered in a report, which was read, and, after debate,
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The Committee to whom was referred the letter from Mr J. Pierce, Deputy Pay Master Genl. report it as their opinion, that the said Letter be referred to the Board of Treasury.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing, of James Duane, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, V, folio 179.]
Ordered, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed, to be taken up on Monday next.
Ordered, That four members be added to the committee appointed to report a plan for the revision and new arrangement of the civil executive departments of the United States under Congress.
The members, Mr. [James] Duane, Mr. [Thomas] Burke, Mr. [Thomas] McKean, Mr. [James Mitchell] Varnum.
Resolved
That it be recommended to the Commander in Chief to appoint and send in to New York a Commissary of Prisoners as soon as possible, and that the Quarter Master General take the proper measures for notifying the several States of such appointment by having the same inserted in the Publick Prints;
Resolved That it be recommended to the Executives of the States respectively who have officers prisoners with the enemy at New York or on Long Island to send in to the care of our Commissary of Prisoners there, a sufficient sum in specie to defray the expence of their Officers' maintenance while in captivity and charge the same to account of the United States. And that where any State cannot conveniently procure specie, they be permitted to send in the following articles viz:
Lumber, Boards, Scantling, Iron, Hemp, Pitch and Tar--to be consigned to our Commissary of Prisoners or agent at the place.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of John Sullivan, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, VI, folio 335. It was a report on letters of General Washington, Brigadier Irvine, and Colonels Mathews and Ely; it was read January 6, and was referred, the indorsement says, to Madison, Montgomery and Root. Seeante, December 18, 1780, andpost January 8.
A letter of this day from the Board of War, giving an account of the bills of exchange that have passed through their paymaster's hands, was read, as the indorsement indicates. It is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, VI, folio 51.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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