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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 --FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1777
Letters of the 1st, and 12 September, from Captain N. Biddle, of the Randolph, the first containing charges against Lieutenant Panatiere de la Falconer; one, of the 26 August, and one, of the 12 September, from John Dorsius; and, two letters of intelligence respecting stores and cloathing, were read:1
[Note 1: 1 The letters of Nicholas Biddle are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, II, folios 237 and 241. Three of Dorsius are in No. 78, VII, folios 113, 117, and 127. Two anonymous letters on stores are in No. 78, I, folios 121 and 125.]
Ordered, That everything relative to the intelligence now received respecting stores and cloathing be kept secret.
That the Committee of Commerce be authorized and directed to pursue such measures as they judge proper in consequence of the intelligence now received.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Ordered, That there be paid to James Hays, in discharge of a bill of exchange assigned to him, drawn by John Ashe, Esqr, public treasurer of the State of North Carolina, on the continental treasurer, 250 dollars, being for pay and subsistence of the continental troops raised in that State; the said sum to be charged to the State of North Carolina and being in part of the money heretofore appropriated for the use of that State.
Adjourned to 4 o'Clock P. M.
Four o'Clock, P. M.
Met.
Resolved, That Monday next be assigned for appointing commissioners to audit and settle the accounts of Georgia against the United States.
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The Board of War brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon, it was moved,
"That the consideration of the report of the Board of War, respecting the Baron de Kalb, be postponed; that a copy of the Baron's letter to R[ichard] H[enry] Lee, Esqr. of the 28 September, and of General Conway's letter to Congress of the 25 September, be transmitted to General Washington, and that General Washington direct an enquiry to be made into the priority of rank between the Baron de Kalb and General Conway in France, and report the same to Congress:" And the question being put, and the yeas and nays required:
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So it passed in the negative.
The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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