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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Resolved, That Mr. T[homas] Adams be added to the Committee of Commerce.
A report from the Board [of War] was read; Whereupon,
Resolved, That Brigadier Stark be employed in the northern department, under the command of General Gates.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That 500 dollars be paid to John Brown, for the use of Robert Morris, Esq. to discharge four bills of 125 dollars each, drawn by John Ashe, treasurer of North Carolina, dated 10 May last, in favour of James Payneville; the State to be charged therewith:
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That 1166 60/90 dollars be advanced to Cornelius Harnett, Esq. a delegate from North Carolina, upon his application, and charged to the said State:
That 30,000 dollars be advanced to Dr. Potts, and that a warrant issue in his favour on Thomas Smith, Esq. commissioner of the continental loan office in the State of Pennsylvania, for the farther sum of 70,000 dollars, for the use of the hospital in the middle district; for which sums the said Dr. Potts is to be accountable:
That 1,500,000 dollars be advanced to Jeremiah Wadsworth, Esq. commissary general of purchases, for the use of his department, he to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 235.]
Resolved, That the president and supreme executive council of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, be requested to order the commissioners by them appointed to make purchases of wheat and flour, to desist in making any further purchases of those articles, and to make returns forthwith to Mr. Wadsworth, commissary general of purchases, and to the Board of War of the purchases they have made.
The committee to whom was referred the representation of the council and assembly of New Jersey, brought in a report; Whereupon,
Resolved, That so much of the representation as relates to the supporting that State with a body of continental troops, be submitted to General Washington, commander in chief:
That the State of New Jersey be requested to complete only three regiments of infantry, in the manner recommended by the resolutions of 26 February last, and that the committee of Congress, lately at camp, do arrange the officers of the said State accordingly.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of Gouverneur Morris, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 20, I, folio 315.]
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A letter from the Board of War was read; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the Board of War be empowered to order and appoint general courts martial as often as occasion requires, for trying officers and others under arrest, agreeably to the rules and articles of war, in the place where Congress may sit, and that the said courts report their proceedings to the Commander in Chief.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee of the whole, and the first paragraph being read, a motion was made,
"That an establishment of half pay be made for the military officers commissioned by Congress who now are, or hereafter may be, in the service of these states; and shall continue therein during the war, and who shall not be annexed to any corps of established troops, or hold any office of profit under the United States, or any of them; and that such establishment take place after the conclusion of the present war:"
Whereupon, the agreement entered into the 1st inst. was called for and read, and thereupon a question was moved and put, whether that motion is in order, consistent with the said agreement and the subsequent decision of Congress, that the report of the committee of the whole should not be entered on the journal?
And the yeas and nays being required,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
The motion was then received and read by the President, and after debate,
Resolved, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed till to morrow.
Ordered, That Mr. [James] Forbes have leave of absence.
Ordered, That Mr. [Thomas] Burke have leave of absence.
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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