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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
A letter, of 12, from General Washington; and
One, of 7, from the governor of Virginia; and
One, of 20 March, from Major General Greene, were read.2
[Note 2: 2 Washington's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, X, folio 73; the Virginia letter is in No. 71, II, folio 97; a copy of Greene's letter is in No. 172, I, page 105.]
On motion of Mr. [Thomas] Bee, seconded by Mr. [Joseph] Montgomery:
Ordered, That a committee of three be appointed to confer with the supreme executive council of Pensylvania and the Board of War, and devise means for putting the Pensylvania line in motion:
The members, Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, Mr. [Joseph] Montgomery, Mr. [Thomas] Bee.
A letter, of 13, from the Board of War, was read, enclosing a letter, of 2, from Colonel Clark:3
[Note 3: 3 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 60, folio 29.
On the same day a letter of 16 on the same subject from the Board of War was read and referred to the Board of War. It is on folio 23.]
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of War to take order, so far as the stores requested can be conveniently spared.
The report of the committee ∥consisting of Mr. Varnum, Mr. Clark and Mr. Van Dyke∥ on the letters from the Board of War and the paymaster general, of 30th of March last, was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
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Resolved, That in settling the accounts of officers returned from captivity, the auditors consider their pay to the first of August last, in bills of the old emissions, agreeable to the usual mode of paying the army; and from the said first day of August, till such officers returned from captivity or rejoined their corps, in bills of the new emissions issued agreeable to the resolution of the 18 March, 1780:
That subsistance money be allowed to the said officers, at the rate of one-sixth of a dollar per ration, in specie; and that the monies paid to them by the commissary of prisoners, pursuant to former resolutions, be charged as so much advanced.
Resolved, That the states who have not considered their said officers in captivity, in settling the depreciation accounts of their lines of the army, receive and adjust their demands for depreciation in the same manner as though they had not been in captivity.
Resolved, That the demands of officers retiring from service in pursuance of the last reform of the army, and who were not attached to the line of any particular State, whether for pay, subsistance, forage or depreciation, be adjusted by the auditor of the army in some one of the departments or districts: that the balances respectively due be certified in specie value, and duplicates be transmitted to the Board of Treasury; that in settling the depreciation accounts, the resolution of Congress of the 28 day of June last, be considered as the scale.
Resolved, That all warrants issued by the Board of War, in favour of officers returned from captivity, for specie, contrary to the tenor of these resolutions, be recalled.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of James Mitchell Varnum, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 28, folio 43.]
The committee ∥consisting of Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Smith, Mr. Mathews,∥ to whom was referred the letter, of 26 March last, from the governor of Virginia, delivered in a report; Whereupon,
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Ordered, That Governor Jefferson be informed, in answer to his letter of the 26 March last, that it is incompatible with the rules established by the United States in Congress assembled, for Colonel Davis to exercise a civil appointment whilst he retains his rank in the army,
but that he is permitted in case it be his option to resign the latter without forfeiting any of the other provisions or emoluments reserved to officers of equal rank reduced by the late assignment.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of John Sullivan, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 20, II, folio 259.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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