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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, SEPTEMBER 18, 1775
Met according to adjournment.
On motion made, Resolved, that a ∥secret∥ Committee be appointed to contract and agree for the importation and delivery of any quantities of gunpowder, not exceeding, in the whole five hundred tons.
That in case such a quantity of gunpowder cannot be obtained, then to contract for the importation of as much saltpetre with a proportionable quantity of sulphur, as with the powder they may procure will make up the quantity of five hundred tons.1
[Note 1: 1 See John Adams's Notes of Debates in this volume.]
That the said committee be impowered to procure forty brass field pieces, six pounders.
That the said Committee be empowered to contract for the importation and delivery of any number not exceeding twenty thousand good plain double bridled musquet locks.
That the said Committee be empowered to contract for the importation of ten thousand stand of good arms.
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That the said Committee be enabled to draw orders on the continental treasurers for sufficient sums of money to defray the expence of such contracts.
That the sd. Committee consist of nine, five of whom to be a quorum.
That the business be conducted with as much secresy as the nature of the service will possibly admit.
Resolved, That this Congress will to Morrow proceed to the election of the said Committee.
The committee appointed to settle the accounts of the rifflemen, reported that they had recd. and examined the accounts of Mr. West and Mr. Donaldson, amounting both to the sum of £1,988. 17. 8. pensyl. curry = 5, 303 2/3 dollars, which was money by them advanced for the purchase of riffles, shirts, &c. for the privates of several companies, which is regularly charged to the men, and for blankets and ammunition supplied them, on accot. of the continent.
Agreed, That the committee pay the above accounts.
An express arrived with letters from Genl Schuyler, dated Isle-an-Noix, 8 Septr, which were read.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 153, I, 125. An Address to the Inhabitants of Canada by Schuyler was enclosed.]
Resolved, That the Congress will to Morrow resume the consideration of the letters from Genl Washington, also the letters from Genl Schuyler.
Adjourned till to Morrow.
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