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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Resolved, That there be paid to John Carter, or order, the sum of 1,380 dollars, the same being in full of a bill of exchange in his favour, dated at Albany, March 24, 1777, and drawn by John Pierce, Junr. assistant pay master; and that the same be charged to the account of Jonathan Trumbull, Junr. deputy pay master general in the northern department, agreeable to the tenor of the said bill.
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Resolved, That an order for twenty thousand dollars be drawn on Michael Hillegas, Esqr. treasurer, at Baltimore, in favour of Jonathan Hudson, for public service; he to be accountable1.
[Note 1: 1 Hudson's letter asking for this sum is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XI, folio 149.]
A letter, of the 27 April, from Elias Boudinot, with a counterfeit thirty-dollar bill inclosed, was read:
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of Treasury.
Agreeable to the order of the day, Congress resumed the consideration of the report from the Committee of the whole on the articles of confederation; and, after some time spent thereon,
Resolved, That the further consideration thereof be deferred till to morrow.
For the better managing the Interests of the United States, Shall be Instituted a General Council and Council of State to form a Congress.
The General Council Shall consist of Delegates chosen by the Several States in Such manner as is or Shall be provided by their respective Laws and Constitutions in the following proportions.
The Council of State Shall consist of one Delegate from every State to be chosen in manner provided by their respective Laws and Constitutions.
Every act Edict and ordinance Shall be first moved in the General Council and read three times and three times assented to by a majority of all the voices of which the Council ought to be composed. Every act, Edict and ordinance so assented to Shall also be assented [to] by a majority of all the voices of which the Council of State ought to consist before the Same Shall be binding on the States.
And every act, Edict and ordinance So assented to Shall be binding on all and Every of the United States: Provided, the Same Shall be within the Powers hereafter Expressly given to the United States in Congress assembled. Except in the following cases, that is to say, Where any War is to be waged or acts of hostility commenced, or authorized against any Prince, State or People not having declared
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War against all or any of the United States, or invaded any of the Same by Acts of Hostility against the Coasts, Ports Fortresses or Dominions of any of the United States: every act, Edict or ordinance declaring Such War Shall be assented to by three fourths at the least of all the voices of which the general Council ought to consist, and of nine voices at the least in the Council of State before the Same Shall be held binding on the United States or any of them, to any intent or purpose, and every State dissenting from Such War Shall be no further bound thereby than to refuse any aid or protection to the Enemy with whom the other States may be at War, which Dissent every State Shall be at liberty to make by her delegate in the Council of State, and every Such State Shall be Excluded from all Benefits resulting from Such War, and Exempted from all Expences attending the Same.
(Endorsement)
Burke's amendments to Confederation proposed on the Qu: Shall the Congress consist of two houses, passed in the Negative. So whole dropt.
Congress Executive Body resembling King &c:
Idea of Distinctions resembling British Constitution.1
[Note 1: 1 This paper is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 47, folio 37. It is in the writing of Thomas Burke.]
Resolved, That two thousand dollars be advanced to the State of Rhode Island; the said State to be accountable.
Ordered, That Mr. B[enjamin] Rumsey have leave of absence.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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