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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 --SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1777
Resolved, That the determination on the sentence of the court martial, passed on Colonel Duncan Donald Campbell, be referred to General Gates for his approbation or disapprobation; any thing in a former resolve, referring it to General Schuyler, to the contrary, notwithstanding.2
[Note 2: 2 See under October 16, 1776, Vol. VI, 882.]
Resolved, That 1,066 2/3 dollars be advanced to Henry Hollingsworth, for the purpose of supplying the troops from Virginia on their march to Philadelphia; he to be accountable.
That 266 2/3 dollars be advanced to Captain John Jamison, and 266 2/3 dollars to Major Theodorick Bland, both of the light horse from Virginia, for defraying the expence of the troops under their command; they to be accountable.
It being represented in Congress, that persons disaffected to the American cause, have, through inadvertence, been employed as deputy post masters and post riders; which, if true, must be attended with the most mischievous effects;
Resolved, That the post master general be, and hereby is directed to transmit to Congress, a list of names of the
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persons so employed, and by whose recommendations they were introduced, that Congress may consider, and, if necessary, take order thereon; and that he assign reasons why the late resolves of Congress, for regulating the post office, are not carried into execution.
Resolved, That an Indian agent be appointed for transacting business between the United States and the several Indian nations and tribes in Nova Scotia, and the country to the northward and eastward thereof; and that Tuesday next be assigned for electing one.
Resolved, That a committee of three four be appointed to prepare a plan resolution to regulate the impressing of waggons and horses for the public service:
The members elected, Mr. R[ichard] H[enry] Lee, Mr. [Roger] Sherman, Mr. [John] Witherspoon and Mr. [Samuel] Adams.
An appeal being lodged against a sentence passed in the court of admiralty for the State of Rhode Island, in the libel Job Pierce qui tam vs. the brig Phoenix:
Ordered, That the hearing and determining the said appeal be referred to the committee appointed on the 4th instant.
Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration the state of the treasury and the means of supporting the credit of the continental currency, and after some time spent thereon the president resumed the chair, and Mr [Thomas] Nelson reported that the Committee have had under consideration the matters referred to them.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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