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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, OCTOBER 31, 1775
Sundry letters from Genl Schuyler 6, 13 [18], 14, and 19 [20] Inst, with sundry papers enclosed, were read.2
[Note 2: 2 Letters dated October 14, 18 and 20, read on this day, are in Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 153, I, folios 210, 218 and 222. The letter of October 6 is not found.]
The Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the trade of these colonies, and after some time spent therein, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Samuel] Ward reported, that they had come to certain resolutions which he was desired to report, but not having come to a conclusion, desired him to move for leave to sit again.
The report of the committee being read,
Resolved, That the consideration of the report of the Comee. be referred till to Morrow and that this matter be the first thing taken up, and that it be not interrupted by any new motion.
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Resolved, That the consideration of the appointmt of field officers for the Jersey battalions be postponed to Friday next.
A Member from Pennsylvania laid before the Congress a resolve of their Assembly, in the following words:
In Assembly, October 28, 1775.
The House taking into their further consideration the resolve of Congress, for raising a battalion in this province, for general service, find it necessary that moneys should be advanced by the several captains for that purpose.
Resolved, Therefore, that the Congress be requested to order a sufficient sum of money to be put into the hands of the Committee of safety of this province, to be immediately applied in raising said battallion.
Extracts from the minutes,
Charles Moore, Clerk of Assembly.
Resolved, That the consideration thereof be referred to Friday next.
∥The order of the day being renewed,
Adjourned to ten o'clock to Morrow.∥
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