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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, DECEMBER 5, 1777
Mr. Francis Lewis, a delegate from New York, attended and took his seat.
A letter, of the 25 November, from General Gates at Albany, with sundry papers enclosed relative to the enemy's retreat from Ticonderoga and Mount Independence, ∥was read:∥2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 154, I, folio 300.]
Ordered, That the said letter, with the papers enclosed, be referred to the Committee of Intelligence.
A letter, from Captain John Barry, Bordentown, 26 November, enclosing the proceedings of a court martial, held on board the ship Lyon November 25, was read:3
[Note 3: 3 This letter and proceedings of the court martial are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No, 78, II, folios 303 and 307.]
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Ordered, That the same be referred to the Marine Committee.
Some intercepted letters from Owen Jones to sunday persons at Lancaster were laid before Congress, and thereupon1
[Note 1: 1 This sentence was erased, but is repeated in the entry for Monday.]
A motion on being made, and for some time debated,
Ordered, That the same be referred to a committee of three.
The members chosen, Mr. [Francis] Dana, Mr. [William] Duer, and Mr. [John] Harvie.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of James Mease, Esqr. cloathier general, for fifty thousand dollars, for the use of his department; he to be accountable:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, Esqr. commissioner of the loan office for the State of Pensylvania, in favour of James Mease, Esqr cloathier general, for 20,000 dollars, for the use of his department, he to be accountable.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Captain William Peery, for 2,400 dollars, for recruiting and paying an independent company to be stationed at Lewistown, agreeable to the determination of the Board of War; Captain Peery to be accountable.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Nathaniel Appleton, Esqr. commissioner of the loan office for the State of Massachusetts bay, in favour of the Marine Committee, for 50,000 dollars, to be transmitted to the navy board at Boston; the said Marine Committee to be accountable:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Joseph Clarke, Esqr. commissioner of the loan office for the State of Rhode
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Island, in favour of the Marine Committee, for 50,000 dollars, to be transmitted to the navy board at Boston; the said committee to be accountable.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Martin Breneisy, one of the messengers of Congress, ∥door-keeper,∥ for 84 48/90 dollars, for his attendance from 4th October to I December, and for cleaning the rooms, &c.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Robert Towers, for 1,094 dollars, for his services acting as commissary of military stores and continental armourer, from 19 November, 1775, to the 19 May, 1777, agreeable to a resolution of Congress, passed the 18 September last.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, I, folio 513.]
∥The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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