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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 --MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1777
A letter of the 11, and one of the 22, from Thomas Mullens, brigade major, to General Conway, with a certificate in his favour from Lord Sterling and General Sullivan; one from the Brigadier de Roche Fermoy; and one from Mens. de Kermovan; two from the Chevalier de Boucher; and one from the Viscount de Laumagne, were read:
Ordered, That they be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of the 29 November, from General R. Howe, at Charleston, South Carolina, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
[r. [Nathaniel] Folsom, a member from New Hampshire, laid before Congress a paragraph of a letter from an officer of the troops from that State, in the army under General Washington, representing the distresses of the said troops for want of cloathing:
Ordered, That the said paragraph, together with the remonstrance lately received from the council and assembly of Pensylvania, be referred to the Board of War.
A letter of [November 25] from Colonel David Mason, at Williamsburg, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XV, folio 287.]
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Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
Resolved, That all such gold and silver as shall be received in consequence of the resolution of Congress of the 19, for provisions or other necessaries supplied by the public to prisoners in the power of the United States of America, shall be forthwith paid into the continental treasury, subject to the future order of Congress.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report: Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Lieutenant Colonel Failly for 300 dollars, to be advanced him on his pay, he to be accountable:
That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, Esqr. commissioner of the continental loan office in the State of Pensylvania, in favour of Elias Boudinot, Esqr. commissary general of prisoners, for 10,000 dollars, advanced him upon application of the Board of War; the said commissary general to be accountable:
That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Major James Armstrong Wilson, for 500 dollars, for recruiting two independent companies to be under his command, ordered to be stationed at Carlisle; the said Major Wilson to be accountable:
That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Captain John Fr. Mercer, for 1,834 2/3 dollars, being the balance of bounty, cloathing, and blankets due to 53 noncommissioned officers and privates of the third Virginia regiment, now under the command of the said Captain Mercer, who is to be accountable for this sum.
Ordered, That the said sums be paid.
Ordered, That the report of the committee, respecting the establishment of a French legion, be postponed.
∥The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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