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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, OCTOBER 18, 1777
A letter, of the 12th, from General Gates, at Saratoga, with sundry papers enclosed, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 154, I, folio 272.]
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Committee of Intelligence.
Resolved, That all letters, returns and despatches relative to the public affairs of these United States, in the department of the Treasury Board, the Board of War, the Marine Committee, the Commercial Committee, the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and all other committees and departments, be, in future, directed to Congress or the president; any resolution of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Committee of Commerce laid before Congress a letter from Mr. Bingham, at Martinico, containing a copy
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of sundry resolutions passed by the assembly of the State of Georgia, 26 May last, and sundry other papers, which were read; Whereupon,
Congress, taking into consideration a resolve of the house of assembly of Georgia, of the 26 of May last, purporting, "that Captain de la Playne be empowered to engage two or three engineers of character, with some officers for the artillery service, and that there be delivered to him some blank continental commissions, which he may bestow on such officers as he shall think proper for recruiting men, both soldiers and sailors, which business, if completed, the officers and men shall be received into the continental batallions and service of that State; and that he do also receive cadets according to the usual custom of the army."
Resolved, That Congress highly disapprove of the continental commissions being sent abroad in the manner and for the use mentioned in the said resolve, as well as of the design to recruit soldiers for the continental service in foreign parts, without application to Congress, and permission from the princes and governments within whose dominions such recruits may be obtained.
Ordered, That this resolve be transmitted to the American commissioners at Paris, by the Committee for Foreign Affairs:
That a copy be sent to the State of Georgia.
Ordered, That the said letters and papers be referred to the Board of War.
A letter from William Shippen, director general, to the Medical Committee, was laid before Congress and read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
∥The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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