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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, SEPTEMBER 10, 1777
A letter, of the 8, from General Washington, eight miles from Wilmington; one, of the 9, from Dr. Shippen, director general of the hospital; also, a return of sundries received from Christiana, seized by Colonel E. Blaine, deputy commissary general of purchases, for the use of the continental army, were read:2
[Note 2: 2 The letter of Washington is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, v, folio 33. It is printed inWritings of Washington (Ford), VI, 67.]
Ordered, That the letter from Dr. Shippen, and the return, be referred to the Board of Treasury.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Ordered, That there be advanced to Anthony Butler, agent to Major General Mifflin, quarter master general, agreeable to his application by letter to Congress, dated
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6th instant, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the use of his department, and for which he is to be accountable:
Ordered, That there be advanced to William Buchanan, Esqr. commissary general of purchases, one hundred thousand dollars for the use of his department, and for which he is to be accountable:
Ordered, That there be advanced to John Mackenzie, State prisoner, 20 dollars, to defray his travelling expences to Fredericktown, in Maryland, to which place he is ordered to repair by the Board of War.
Ordered, That there be advanced to Lieutenant Chevalier de la Colombe, for his pay as lieutenant from 1st December, 1776, to 1 September, instant, being nine months, the sum of 243 dollars, for which he is to be accountable:1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, I, folio 419.]
Ordered, That there be advanced to Colonel Dugan, by the hands of his wife, 300 dollars on account of his arrears of pay, and for which he is to be accountable:
Ordered, That there be advanced to the Secret Committee two thousand five hundred dollars, for which they are to be accountable, and that the same be paid by a warrant on the loan office for the State of Rhode Island.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of James Duane, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, 1, folio 421.]
Ordered, That the quarter master general be directed, as soon as may be, to lay his accounts before the Board of Treasury, in order for adjustment, and immediately lay before Congress, a list of all deputies and assistants employed in the quarter master's department, and how and where employed.
In consequence of an adjustment by the commissioners ∥of claims,∥ the auditor general reports,
That there is due to Dr. John Morgan, late director general of the American hospitals, the balance of his
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account current as adjusted by the commissioners of accounts at Hartford, the 12 July last, the sum of 613 40/90 dollars, and the farther sum of 200 dollars which he advanced to Dr. Warren, surgeon of the general hospital, to defray expences, &c. which sum was stolen from the said Warren, as per certificates taken on oath before the commissioners at Stamford, and which the Board of Treasury agrees should be allowed to Dr. Morgan;
Also the pay of director general from the 31 December, 1776, to, the 12 July, 1777, being 194 days, at 6 dollars per day, which time he employed in taking accounts, and delivering up the medicines, hospital stores, &c settling accounts with the surgeons, mates, &c attending the commissioners at Hartford, 1,164 dollars; for 1,179 rations from 31 December, 1776, to 10 May, at 8/90 dollar, 104 72/90 dollars, and for 567 rations, from 10 May to 12 July, at 10/90, 63 dollars, making in the whole 2,145 22/90 dollars:
That there is due to George Everson, his account for removing military stores from different parts of the Jersey to Philadelphia, &c. last winter, also expences and wages as assistant commissary of military stores, from the 10 July, 1776, to 16 January, 1777, he having been employed in that capacity by Governor Livingston, and the commissary general of that department, the sum of 272 63/90 dollars:
That there is due to Adam Good, for 46 meals supplied continental troops on their march to camp, the sum of 5 18/90 dollars:1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, I, folio 423.]
Ordered, That the said accounts be paid.
A memorial from Captain Jost Driesbach, and a letter from John Smith to R[ichard] H[enry] Lee, Esqr. were laid before Congress:
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Ordered, That they be referred to the Board of Treasury.
Congress proceeded to the election of a pay master for the North Carolina light horse, in the service of the Continent; and, the ballots being taken,
William Hardy was chosen.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report from the committee of the whole: Whereupon,
The house was moved, "that the interest which shall arise after the date of this resolution on certificates already issued be paid in bills of exchange;"
The question put,
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So the question passed in the affirmative.
∥The resolution of the committee of the whole was read and agreed to, viz.
Resolved, That the interest which shall arise after the date of this resolution on loan office certificates already
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issued, or which shall be issued before the 1st day of March next, be annually paid at the respective loan offices, in bills of exchange on the commissioners of the United States in Paris, at the rate of five livres of France for every Spanish milled dollar due for interest as aforesaid, or in continental bills of credit, at the option of the respective lenders:∥
Ordered, That the resolution now agreed to be published.
Ordered, That five members be added to the committee appointed to consider the letter of S. Hopkins, and the proceedings of the committees from New Hampshire, Massachusetts bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York:
The members chosen, Mr. [James] Duane, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Mr. [Henry] Marchant, Mr. [Robert] Morris, and Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer.
Ordered, That the committee be instructed to prepare an earnest recommendation to the several states to proceed to taxation, and that the said committee prepare an estimate of the quotas to be raised in each State by such taxation, having regard to their present circumstances, condition and abilities, but without respect to the quota hereafter to be assigned to each State for defraying the expence of the war.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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