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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 --FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1776
Resolved, That 3,000 dollars be paid to Adam Bonfield, or order, and charged to the account of J. Trumbull, deputy pay master general in the northern department, it being in full of a draught in his favour by said Jonathan Trumbull, dated at Albany, 15 October, 1776.
The Board of War brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Resolved, That commissions be granted to fill up the vacancies in the 4th, 5th and 6th Virginia batallions,
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agreeable to the list given in to the Board of War by General Stephen.
Resolved, That 3,000 dollars be advanced to the delegates of Georgia, for the use of that state; the said delegates to be accountable.
A petition from sundry ship joiners, was presented to Congress, and read, and referred to the Marine Committee.
Resolved, That the Board of War be directed to order four companies of the Virginia batallion on the eastern shore, to march, under the command of a field officer, to Dover, in Delaware government, there to remain till farther orders.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on the ways and means of supplying the treasury; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the sum of one million five hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars be raised by a lottery, to be drawn in the city of Philadelphia, upon the plan offered by the Committee.1
[Note 1: 1 In margin is written: "Reconsidered 16 Novr., when another plan was proposed."]
Resolved, That a sum of money be raised by way of a lottery, for defraying the expences of the next campaign, the lottery to be drawn in the city of Philadelphia:
That the committee who brought in the plan report, be directed to complete the same by prepare the plan of a lottery, to fix the number of managers, the time when the lottery is to be drawn, and the security by them to be given, and report to Congress.
Resolved, That the remainder of the report be postponed till to Morrow.
Resolved, That the Board of Treasury be directed to lay before Congress, once every week, an account of what part of the last emission of money remains unexpended.
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Resolved, That the Board of War be directed to supply the delegates of Georgia, for the use of that state, with a quantity of military stores, first informing Congress of the quantity applied for.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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