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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 --MONDAY, JULY 3, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment.
Sundry letters from the Convention of New York, Genl. Schuyler1 and a certifyed copy of a letter from Thos. Gage to Govr. Martin, were laid before the Congress, and read.2
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 153, I folio, 1.]
[Note 2: 2 Letters from General Schuyler, dated New York, June 28 and 30, 1775, are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 153, I, folios 1 and 10. One from the Convention of New York, dated June 29, 1775, covering a copy of a letter from the South Carolina Committee of Intelligence, dated June 6, and a copy of a letter from General Gage to Governor Joseph Martin, dated April 12th, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 153, I, folios 17 and 21, but the Gage letter is not to be found. A second letter from the Convention dated June 29, 1775, on powder, is in the same volume, folio 23.]
Agreeable to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Samuel] Ward reported that the Committee had come to a Resolution which they ordered him to report, but not having finished they had desired him to move for leave to sit again.
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The report from the Committee being read, the final determination of it was, at the request of the Colony of South Carolina, deferred till to Morrow.
Resolved, that the 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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