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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Resolved, That General Schuyler be empowered and directed to draw warrants for the payment of the arrears due to the Pensylvania and Delaware militia, as well as to the Maryland militia, who were called into the service of the Continent during the course of last winter.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated April 11, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, I, folio 117.]
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Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on the means of introducing better discipline in in the army, and, after debate,
Ordered, That the same be re-committed, and that two members be added to the said committee.
The members chosen, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, and Mr. [William] Duer.
Resolved, That a clerk be appointed to the Committee of Secret Correspondence.
Resolved, That the style of the Committee of Secret Correspondence be altered, and that, for the future, it be styled the Committee for Foreign Affairs:
That a secretary be appointed to the said committee, with a salary of 70 dollars a month:
That the said secretary, previous to his entering upon his office, shall take an oath, to be administered by the president, "well and faithfully to execute the trust reposed in him, according to his best skill and judgment, and to disclose no matter, the knowledge of which shall be acquired in consequence of such his office, that he shall be directed to keep secret;" also, the oath prescribed for officers of the army, and passed the 21st day of October, 1776; and that a certificate thereof be given by the president, and lodged with the secretary of Congress.
Congress proceeded to the election of the said secretary, and, the ballots being taken,
Thomas Paine was elected.
The Committee of Treasury reported,
That there is due to Dr. William Smith, continental druggist, for sundry medicine purchased by him for public use, the sum of 2,820 30/90 dollars, and for sundry medicine supplied by him for the use of the brig Lexington, the sum of 131 38/90 dollars, both sums making 2,952 28/90 dollars:
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That there is due to Dr. William Currie, for sundry medicine supplied the sick of the 4th and 6th Virginia regiments, the sum of 99 66/90 dollars,
That there is due to T. Batell, for the maintenance of Lieutenant Ball, a British prisoner, the sum of 24 55/90 dollars, for the payment of which a warrant should be drawn on the commissioner of the loan office for the State of Delaware:
That there should be advanced to the State of Delaware, and paid to the Hon'ble John M'Kinley, Esq. president of the said State, the sum of 1,500 dollars, for the use of a guard, ordered by Congress, to be placed at Lewistown, &c. and that the same be drawn for on the commissioner of the loan office for the said State.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, I, folio 119.]
Ordered, That the said sums be paid accordingly.
Resolved, That 10,000 dollars be advanced to the delegates of Georgia, for the use of that State, which is to be accountable.
It being represented to Congress by the delegates of Maryland, that there is imminent danger of an insurrection in the counties of Somerset and Worcester, and that the insurgents may be joined by disaffected persons in the county of Sussex, in the state of Delaware; and, application being made by the said delegates, for a continental batallion to be placed in the county of Somerset, to overawe and quell the insurgents,
Resolved, That a committee of four be appointed to devise ways and means of suppressing the disaffected persons spirit of toryism in the counties of Somerset, Worcester, and Sussex, and preventing them from taking measures prejudicial to the cause of the United States.
The members chosen, Mr. [William] Duer, Mr. S[amuel] Adams, Mr. [James] Wilson, and Mr. [Benjamin] Rumsey.
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Resolved, That two members be added to the Committee of Foreign Affairs. The members chosen, Mr. Lovell, Mr. Heyward.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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