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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, AUGUST 12, 1776
Sundry letters being received were read; viz,
One of the 8th from General Washington, with sundry papers enclosed;
One from Brigadier General Mercer, of--, with one enclosed from Colonel Dickinson to him:1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of Washington is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, II, folio 363. It is printed inWritings of Washington, (Ford), IV, 331.]
Resolved, That the letter from General Washington, with the papers enclosed, be referred to the Board of War:
That the letter from Brigadier General Mercer, with the enclosed letter from Colonel Dickinson, be communicated to the convention of Pensylvania.
Sundry resolutions, passed by the convention of New York, were laid before Congress, and read.
Also a letter from a gentleman at Cape François, in Hispaniola, July 23, was laid before Congress and read:
Resolved, That it be referred to the Secret Committee.
Resolved, That the delegates of North Carolina be empowered to send by water, at the risque of the Continent, the military stores necessary for that state.
On application of one of the parties,
Resolved, That the hearing the appeal against the sentence passed on the schoonerThistle, be postponed to Monday, the 26th instant.
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The council of Safety of Pensylvania having recommended Lewis Linkensdorf to be first lieutenant1 and
[Note 1: 1 In the margin is written by Francis Hopkinson: "Before appointed adjutant to the same Battalion, and Bernard Hubley appointed in his room. Page 65." [See 15 August, 1776,post.]]
Philip Schrauder, as second lieutenant of the fifth company of Germans, to be raised in that state,
Resolved, That he be accepted, and that a commission be granted to him accordingly.
A letter of the 3d, from the council of Virginia, and one of the same date, from Brigadier General Lewis, being received, were read.2
[Note 2: 2 The letter of Lewis is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 159, folio 242. That of the Council of Virginia is in No. 71, I, folio 53.]
Agreeable to the order of the day, Commodore Hopkins attended, and was admitted; when the examination, taken before the Marine Committee, and the report of the said Committee in consequence thereof, were read to him; and the commodore being heard in his own defence, and having delivered in some further answers to the questions asked him by the Marine Committee, and two witnesses being, at his request, introduced and examined, he withdrew.
The Congress then took into consideration the instructions given to Commodore Hopkins, his examination and answers to the Marine Committee, and the report of the Marine Committee thereupon; and, the farther defence by him made, and the testimony of the witnesses; and, after some debate, the farther consideration thereof was postponed.3
[Note 3: 3 See John Adams, Autobiography,Works, III, 65.]
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.4
[Note 4: 4 Samuel Adams and William Whipple left Philadelphia this day.]
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