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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 --SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1776
Resolved, That the committee appointed to consider the letter from General Schuyler, dated the 10th of December, be directed to send a suitable person or persons to Mr. Livingston, owner of the foundery in the state of New York, and to Governor Trumbull, under whose direction is the foundery at Salisbury; and also to the council of the state of Massachusetts bay, to procure such cannon and ordnance stores, as are required by the general in his said letter; as being immediately necessary for the northern department.
Congress then resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration the report of the committee on the plan of obtaining foreign assistance, and after some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee reported that the committee have had under consideration the report to them referred, and have come to sundry farther amendments, which he was ready to report.
Resolved, That the report be received and taken into consideration to Morrow.
Resolved, That to Morrow be assigned for appointing more general officers.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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