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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 --THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1777
A letter, of the 13th, from General Washington, with a copy of the judgment of a court of enquiry, appointed to examine into the conduct of Major General Sullivan in the expedition commanded by him to Staten Island in the month of August last, and sundry other papers; also, a letter of the 10, from Jonathan Trumbull, Junr. deputy pay master general in the northern department, at Albany, and one, of the 14th, from General Mifflin, at Reading, with sundry papers enclosed, were read.2
[Note 2: 2 The letter of Washington is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, V, folio 105.]
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Ordered, That 2,249 dollars be paid to Messrs. Livingston & Turnbull, or order, in discharge of a bill, in their favour, drawn by J. Bradford, dated Boston, August 27, 1777, on the Marine Committee, expressed to be for value received for the naval department in the service of the United States, the said J. Bradford to be accountable.
Ordered, That the letter from General Washington, with the papers enclosed, be referred to the Board of War, and that the judgment of the court of enquiry be published.
Ordered, That the letter from General Mifflin and J. Trumbull, Esqr. be referred to the Board of Treasury.
Ordered, That a warrant for two hundred thousand dollars be drawn on the commissioner of the loan office for the State of Massachusetts bay, in favour of Jonathan Trumbull, Junr. deputy pay master general, for the use of the army in the northern department, and for which the said J. Trumbull is to be accountable.
Ordered, That a copy of General Washington's letter of the 13th, and returns relative to cloathing wanted for the army, be sent by express to each of the states of Massachusetts bay, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pensylvania, Maryland and Virginia, and they be respectively requested to send the General, with all possible despatch, as many of the several articles mentioned in the return as can be collected and are not immediately wanted for their respective regiments which have not joined the army aforesaid, and to order the officers in the cloathier's department, in the states aforesaid, to use their utmost exertions in forwarding the cloathing in their possession.
Adjourned to 4 o'Clock.
Four o'Clock, p.m.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on departments relative to the war office, and the same being read over and debated by paragraphs, it was moved and agreed that the first be postponed.
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The second and third paragraphs, the question being severally put, were agreed to. The 4th passed with an amendment. The 5th was agreed to. The 6th was amended and passed. The 7 was agreed to. The 8th was amended and passed. The 9th, 10th and 11 were agreed to. The 12 was amended and passed. after which a new paragraph was moved to be inserted, and agreed to. The 13th was agreed to, after which two new paragraphs were moved to be inserted, the first of which was agreed to; to the second, it was moved to add these words: "and papers of the said board except the returns of the army, military stores or provisions;" instead of which it was moved that it should be expressed thus the following addition should be made: "and to take copies thereof excepting copies of returns of the armies, provisions or military stores, which shall not be delivered to any member without the order of Congress;" and the yeas and nays being required:
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So it was resolved in the affirmative, and the paragraph with the amendment was agreed to.
The 14 was amended and passed.
∥The farther consideration of the report being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow
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