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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Resolved, That the five hundred thousand dollars, which by a resolution of the 24th instant were ordered to be transmitted for the use of the State of Georgia to the executive authority thereof, be sent to Joseph Clay, Esq. pay master to the department of South Carolina and Georgia; and that he be directed to pay the same to the order of the governor and executive council of the said State of Georgia, established agreeable to the constitution of the said State, or in case no such establishment shall have been made, to be otherwise disposed of as the said J. Clay, Esq. with the advice of Major General Lincoln, or the commander of the forces in that department for the tune being, shall judge most conducive to the service and welfare of the said State of Georgia.1
[Note 1: 1 In transmitting this resolution to Governor Glascock, Jay wrote: "Permit me to observe that the transactions of Persons who may undertake to act as spies for us ought to be kept as secret as possible, and not unnecessarily exposed to the risque of detection; your Letter upon this subject was rather too particular."]
A letter, of 17 March last, from W. Lee, Esq. was read.
A motion was made by Mr. [John] Witherspoon, seconded by Mr. [James] Searle,
That the dispatches of this day be postponed, that Congress may proceed to the business of finance.
On which, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Henry] Laurens,
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So it passed in the negative.
Congress proceeded in reading the dispatches, when
Another letter from W. Lee, Esq. was read, dated Frankfort on the Mayn, in Germany, March 8, and Paris, March 16.
A letter, of 26, from the president of the State of Delaware, was read,1 informing that the act of that State, prohibiting the exportation of flour, grain, &c. expires the 1st day of September, &c. Whereupon,
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 70, folio 709.]
On motion of Mr. [Henry] Marchant, seconded by Mr. [William] Paca,
Resolved, That the president of the State of Delaware be informed, it is the wish of Congress that the embargo might be continued until he shall be further informed from Congress.
A petition of Elizabeth Preston, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War, and that they take order thereon.
A memorial of Garret Rapalje was read:
Ordered, That the consideration thereof be postponed until the memorialist shall produce a letter of recommendation from Governor Livingston.
A letter, of the 29, from John Hazelwood & Co. was read:2
[Note 2: 2 The petition of E. Preston, dated August 26, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, VI, folio 222; that of Rapalje, dated August 28, is in No. 41, VIII, folio 276; the letter of Hazelwood, in No. 78, XI, folio 451.]
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Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of 27, from the governor of New Jersey, enclosing a letter to him from Mr. Musco Livingston, was read:
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Marine Committee.
A letter, of 27, from Jonas Fay and Paul Spooner,1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, I, folio 263.]
And two letters, both of 26 April last, from Arthur Lee, Esq. were read.2
[Note 2: 2 One of these letters is printed in theDiplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), III, 139.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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