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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, MARCH 5, 1776
Sundry letters being received, were read.
2 letters from General Schuyler, dated 26th and 27th of February, with 4 papers enclosed, among which a letter from James Deane to General Schuyler, dated 24 February:2
[Note 2: 2 The letters from Schuyler are in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 153, II, folios 19, 27.]
Resolved, That the said letter from Mr. Deane to General Schuyler be referred to a committee of three.
The members chosen, Mr. [Edward] Rutledge, Mr. [George] Wythe, and Mr. W[illiam] Livingston.
A letter from General Wooster, 21 February, 1776.
The Congress took into consideration the report of the committee to whom was referred among other things, the memorial of a number of inhabitants of the county of Northumberland,brought in their report, which bein[g] read and agreed to the same as follows, Whereupon,
Resolved, As the said memorial relates merely to disputes between the memorialists and other inhabitants of
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said county, and to complaints against justices of the peace of the said county, and the common courts of judicature, and especially the legislature of the colony of Pensylvania, being altogether competent for remedying the grievances complained of, that the said memorial with the papers therewith delivered, be transmitted to the general assembly of said colony.
Agreeable to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the letter from General Washington of the 14 February, with the enclosed letter from Lord Drummond to General Robertson, and after some time the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison reported, that the committee have had under consideration the letter from General Washington and the letter from Lord Drummond to General Robertson, but have come to no resolution thereon.
Resolved, That the letter of General Washington, so far as has not come under consideration of the committee of the whole, be referred to the committee to whom the letters from the General, dated 24 and 30 January were referred.
The order of the day being renewed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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