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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 --TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment.
The report of the Committee on Indian Affairs was resumed and, after some debate, the same was deferred till to Morrow.
On Information that there were two companies of rifflemen raised in Lancaster instead of one,
Resolved, That both the companies be taken into the continental service.
On motion, Resolved, That the delegates from Pennsylvania have liberty to treat with and employ 50 Hussars, who have been in actual service, and send them forward to join the troops before Boston under Genl. Washington.
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"An address and Application from delegates of the several of the deputies from the different parishes of the Islands of Bermuda," to the Congress, was presented and read.1
[Note 1: 1 This address is not found in the Papers of the Continental Congress.]
The order of the day was postponed and the Congress adjourned till to Morrow at nine o'Clock.
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