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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 --WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1776
A letter from the convention of New Jersey, dated 2 July; and a letter from the commissioners of Indian affairs in the southern department, dated Augusta, 21 May, together with an account of their expences, and the minutes
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of their conference with the Indians in that department, ∥were laid before Congress, and read:∥1
[Note 1: 1 The letter from the Convention [Provincial Congress] of knew Jersey is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 68, folio 161.]
Resolved, That the account of the commissioners be referred to the Board of treasury.
The Congress took into consideration the letter from the convention of New Jersey; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the committee of safety of Pensylvania be requested to send as many of the troops of their colony as they can spare, to Monmouth county, in New Jersey, to the assistance of the inhabitants of that colony, and to be subject to the orders of the commander in chief; the said troops to be allowed the same pay and rations as the troops in the service of the continent, from the time of their march until they return:
Resolved, That a circular letter be written to the committees of inspection of the several counties in Pennsylvania, where troops are raised, or raising, to form the flying camp, requesting them to send the troops by batallions, or detachments of batallions, or companies, as fast as raised, to the city of Philadelphia, except those raised in the counties of Bucks, Berks, and Northampton, which are to be directed to repair, as aforesaid, to New Brunswick, in New Jersey:
Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be sent to General Washington, and that he be directed to appoint a proper officer to the command of the flying camp, and also direct proper persons to supply the men with rations.
Resolved, That the Marine Committee be empowered to contract with shipwrights, to go to Lake Champlain, on the following terms: To allow each man at the rate of 34 dollars and two-thirds
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per month; one month's pay to be advanced, upon their giving security, if required:
Each man to be allowed, one ration and a half, and one half pint of rum, a day:
Their tools and arms to be valued:
Two-thirds of their wages to be paid, monthly, to whomever they shall leave the power of receiving it:
Their pay to commence from the day they sign articles, and continue until they are discharged, with an allowance of one day's pay for every twenty miles, between the place where discharged, and their respective homes.
Resolved, That Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin and Mr. [James] Wilson, two of the commissioners for Indian affairs in the middle department, be authorized to discharge the bills drawn by Mr. Morgan on the commissioners of that department.
Agreeable to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration, the Declaration; ∥and, after some time,∥ the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison reported, that the committee, not having finished, desired leave to sit again.
Resolved, That this Congress will, to morrow, resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration, the Declaration.
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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