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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 --SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment.
The president laid before the Congress a letter from the convention of New Jersey, which was read, and referred to the committee of the whole.2
[Note 2: 2 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 68, folio 9. It inclosed a copy of the Resolution of the House of Commons, February 20, and was referred to the committee of the whole.]
Information being given, that there is a gentleman in town who can give the Congress a full and just account of the state of Affairs in Canada;
Ordered, That he be introduced, and he was accordingly introduced. After he withdrew the Congress agreeable
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to the order of the day resolved itself into a committee of the whole and after some time spent therein,
The committee appointed to dra[ugh]t a letter to the inhabitants of Canada, informed the committee that they had performed that service, and as there was an opportunity of sending it by the gentleman just introduced by a safe conveyance in a few days, they desired to have an opportunity of reporting the letter; whereupon the President resumed the chair and the commtee reported their letter, weh was read, and after some debate, recommitted [to the same committee.]
Upon motion, Agreed, That Mr. [George] Washington, Mr. [Philip] Schuyler, Mr. [Thomas] Mifflin, Mr. [Silas] Deane, Mr. [Lewis] Morris and Mr. S[amuel] Adams, be a committee, to consider of ways and means to supply these colonies with Ammunition and military stores and to report immediately.
Upon motion, The Memorial of Robert Murray and John Murray, desiring to be restored to their former situation with respect to their commercial priviledges, was taken into consideration, and after some time spent thereon,
Resolved, That where any person hath been or shall be adjudged by a committee, to have violated the continental association, and such offender shall satisfy the convention of the Colony, where the offence was or shall be committed, or the committee of the parish of St. John's, in the Colony of Georgia, if the offence be committed there, of his contrition for his offence, and sincere resolution to conform to the Association for the future, the Sd convention, or committee of the parish of St. John's aforesd, may settle the terms upon which he may be restored to the favour and forgiveness of the public, and that the terms be published.
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Ordered, That this be made public.1
[Note 1: 1 Printed in the Pennsylvania Packet, 27 May 1775.]
∥Resolved, That the order of the day be postponed till Monday.∥
Adjourned till Monday, at nine o'Clock.
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