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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 31, 1776
Resolved, That 20,000 dollars be advanced to Mr. James Mease; he to be accountable:
That Mr. J. Mease be directed to pay to John Pollock one thousand pounds, Pensylvania currency, [=2666 dollars and two-thirds,] and that the same be charged to the account of the committee of Inspection of Cumberland, who are to be accountable.
Resolved, That the committee for providing medicines be directed to provide, and send forward, such a quantity of medicines as may be necessary for the Hospital in the northern army:
That the said committee be directed to procure and send forward such a quantity of medicines as may be necessary for the hospital in the southern department.
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The Board of War brought in a report, which was taken into consideration: Whereupon,
Resolved, That five tons of musquet powder be sent immediately to General Washington at New York:
That the commissary general be directed to furnish with rations, and the deputy pay master general, in the state of Massachusetts bay, be ordered to pay, any militia, which the general assembly of that state shall think proper to call in, to replace the continental troops ordered from thence.
The committee appointed to enquire into the causes of the miscarriages in Canada, brought in a farther report, which was taken into consideration: Whereupon,
Resolved, That the conduct of Colonel Nicholson, who commanded the post at Point Levi, and who, after the determination of the council of war to retire from before Quebec, is said to have deserted his said command, and left the party to shift for themselves, be submitted to a court of enquiry:
That the committee be discharged from so much of Colonel Easton's petition, as prays a settlement of his accounts, and that the same be referred to the Board of Treasury.
The committee appointed to take into consideration the state of North Carolina, brought in their report, which was taken into consideration: Whereupon,
Resolved, That four tons of gun powder and six four pounders, or such others as can be procured, to the weight proper for field pieces, be immediately sent to North Carolina:
That the delegates of that colony [state] employ some proper person, as a commissary, to purchase, in this city, or the neighbourhood thereof, cloathing for the troops raised in that colony [state] for the continental service:
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That the three independent companies of rangers, raised in that state, be taken upon the continental pay and establishment, and that their pay and appointment be as already resolved by the convention of that state, and that they rank as the rangers raised in South Carolina and Georgia.
Resolved, That an order for 266 2/3 dollars be drawn on the treasurers, in favour of Colonel James Easton; to be accounted for by him on the final settlement of his account:
That two months' pay be advanced to Monsieur St. Martin; he to be accountable.
The Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration the articles of Confederation; and, after some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [John] Morton reported, that the committee, not having come to a conclusion, desired leave to sit again.
Resolved, That this Congress will, to morrow, again resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration the articles of confederation.
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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