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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, JUNE 10, 1776
Sundry letters and papers were laid before Congress, and read;
Two from General Washington, of the 7 and 8, together
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with copies of twenty letters and papers from General Schuyler and others :1
[Note 1: 1 The letters of Washington are in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, II, folios 5 and 9. They are printed inWritings of Washington (Ford), IV, 113, 115.]
A letter from the commissioners in Canada, May 17; and,
One from Herman Allen.
Resolved, That the said letters and papers be referred to the committee appointed on the 6th, to consider sundry letters that day read.
A letter from Stephen Moylan, expressing his grateful thanks to Congress for appointing him to the office of quarter master general; and
Also a letter from the convention of New York of the 7th, ∥were laid before Congress, and read.∥2
[Note 2: 2 The letter from the convention of New York is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 67, I, folio 364.]
Resolved, That the pay of the continental troops, in the middle department, be henceforth the same as that of the troops in the eastern.
Resolved, That this Congress will to morrow morning proceed to the appointment of a deputy pay master general for the eastern department.
Agreeable to order, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration the resolutions to them referred; and, after some time spent thereon, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison reported, that the committee have had under consideration the resolutions to them referred, and have come to a resolution, which he read.
The Congress took into consideration the report from the Committee of the whole: Whereupon,
Resolved, That the consideration of the first resolution be postponed to this day, three weeks [July 1], and in the mean while, that no time be lost, in case the Congress agree thereto, that a committee be appointed to prepare a
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declaration to the effect of the said first resolution, which is in these words: "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown: and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
Resolved, That the committee be discharged.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.1
[Note 1: 1 "Congress never were so much engaged as at this time; business presses on them exceedingly. We do not rise sometimes till six or seven o'clock."William Whipple to John Langdon, 10 June, 1776.]
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