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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, AUGUST 30, 1777
A letter, of the 29, from General Washington, at Wilmington, was read.2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, V, folio 5. It is printed in part inWritings of Washington (Ford), VI, 58.]
A memorial from Captain Wendel Oury was presented to Congress:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
Agreable to the order of the day, Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole. The president left the chair. Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison took the chair of the committee. The president resumed the chair, and Mr. Harrison reported, from the committee that they have had under consideration the matter referred to them, and have made some progress therein, but, not having come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again.
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Resolved, That Congress will on Monday next resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to consider farther the report of the treasury, on the ways and means of raising supplies, &c.
The Board of War report, "that there are in Philadelphia between two and three thousand arms which might, in a short time, be repaired, if workmen could be procured to perform the service, but, as great numbers of the artificers are in the militia, but few of those arms will be speedily repaired, unless the workmen are permitted to leave the field, and work on the arms;"1 Whereupon,
[Note 1: 1 The original report added: "Wherefore that it be earnestly recommended to the Supreme Executive Council to order all the workmen they can possibly procure to repair" &c.]
Resolved, That General Washington be directed to detach from the militia, as soon as possible, such a number of workmen as he shall think necessary to repair, with despatch, the arms now in the city of Philadelphia, as there is no other mode of supplying the demands of the militia of Pensylvania, Delaware and Maryland states, great, numbers of whom are now in the field without arms.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, I, folio 337. The members of the Board present were: Samuel Adams, James Wilson and William Duer.]
On report of the Board of War,
The Board taking into their Consideration Genl. Washington's Letter of the 28th. Inst. recommending Count Du Pulaski to the Notice of Congress,
Beg leave to report, that the said Count De Pulaski, beTo Lie appointed to the Command of the Horse with the rank of a Brigadier General.
Ordered, That the petition of John Young, "for leave to depart from the Continent," be rejected.
That Congress will thankfully receive into Pay and Service all Militia Men who will turn out to oppose the common Enemy on this important. occasion, but to avoid great Inconveniences all persons going into
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the Field as Militia, are to be bound by the same Rules, and to serve the same Length of time, with those of the particular State to which such Persons respectively belong whose Tour of Duty it is to run out at this time.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, I, folio 341. The members of the Board present were: John Adams, Samuel Adams, Francis Lightfoot Lee, James Wilson, George Clymer and William Duer.]
A motion was made to advance a sum of money to the delegates of Georgia:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury. The Medical Committee brought in a report which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the several issuing commissaries be directed to furnish the director general, or any of the deputy directors, or their assistants, with such provisions as any of them shall, from time to time, demand by an order in writing, for the use of any temporary hospital which shall be established, which order, with the receipt of the steward endorsed thereon, shall be a sufficient voucher for such issuing commissary, who is also required to keep such vouchers separate, and make a separate entry of the same in his books, charging the director who ordered the same therewith.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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