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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 --WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1777
A letter, of the 31 of March, from General Washington, and one, of the 19th of the same month, from the chevalier de Preudhomme de Borré, were read.2
[Note 2: 2 The letter of Washington is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, IV, folio 47.]
Ordered, That the letter from General Washington be referred to the Board of War.
The Board of Treasury brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
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Resolved, That the pay master, and deputy pay master general, at the end of every month, after the first of May next, shall make up rolls, containing the names of the general and other officers of the army, to which they respectively belong, who are not comprised in the regimental abstracts, excepting only the commander in chief of the several departments, who shall respectively examine such rolls, and issue their warrants on the pay master or deputy pay master general, for the sums due on the same.
That the commanders in chief of the several departments be directed to order payment to such officers and detachments of the army, as shall, at any time, be ordered to other departments, to be made to the day of their marching or leaving the camp, and that certificates be given by the respective pay master or deputy pay master general, mentioning the names of such officers and corps, together with the time to which they are paid, which certificates shall be delivered by the commanding officer of the respective detachments, or by such officers as shall be ordered without detachments, to the pay master or deputy pay master general of the department to which they are ordered, to enable him to examine and make up their future rolls and abstracts.
The committee appointed to confer with Generals Gates and Greene, brought in a report, and requested leave to sit again.
Ordered, That leave be granted, and that Mr. J[onathan] B[ayard] Smith be added to the said committee.
Congress proceeded to the election of a third brigadier, and, the ballots being taken,
Colonel Ebenezer Learned was chosen.
Ordered, That a copy of the letter, this day received from General Washington, be sent to the council of State
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of Pensylvania and to the governors of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, and that Governor Johnson, ∥of Maryland,∥ be requested to give orders for the immediate removal of the powder and military stores at Annapolis to the town of Frederick, in Maryland, and the powder and military stores at Baltimore, to the town of Carlisle, in Pensylvania, and take measures to have this done with all possible expedition.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the ∥medical∥ committee on the hospital, and, after debate,
Ordered, That the said report lie on the table ∥for farther consideration.∥
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to revise Dr. Shippen's plan for the regulating the hospital, and report thereon.
The members chosen, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Mr. [Thomas] Burke and Mr. J[ohn] Adams.
Mr. [Jonathan Dickinson] Sergeant applying for leave of absence, to visit his family,
Resolved, That leave be granted.
Resolved, That the Board of War be empowered to grant such reward, as they shall judge proper, to the pilots who discovered and informed against James Molesworth.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Friday next.
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