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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment.
The Congress agreeable to the order of
The committee appointed to consider what posts are necessary to be occupied in the colony of New York, and by what number of troops it will be necessary proper they should be guarded, brot. in their report, which being read was referred to the committee of the whole.
The Congress then Agreeable to the order of yesterday ∥the day,∥ the Congress resolved themselves into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the state of America. And after some time spent therein the President resumed the chair and Mr. [Samuel] Ward from the committee reported, that they had taken the matter into consideration, but not having come to any resolutions they had desired him to move for leave to sit again to Morrow.
Resolved that this Congress will to Morrow again resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to take into consideration the State of America.
Adjourned till to morrow at 9 o'Clock.
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