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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, APRIL 27, 1778
A letter, of 24, from Major Lee, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XIV, folio 225.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of 20, from Colonel G. Baylor, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
Resolved, That General Washington be authorized to call, if he thinks proper, the commander of the artillery to the council ordered to be convened for settling such a plan for the general operations of the ensuing campaign, as General Washington shall deem consistent with the general welfare of these states.
The Board of Treasury, to whom was referred the certificate of Brigadier Smallwood, in favour of the Rev. Mr. J[oseph] Montgomery, brought in a report; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the Rev. Mr. J. Montgomery be allowed the pay of a brigade chaplain for the time of his service in that capacity, agreeably to Brigadier Smallwood's certificate, viz. from June last.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, dated April 25, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 249.]
Resolved, That the Rev. Mr. J. Montgomery be appointed chaplain to Brigadier Smallwood's brigade.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That 250,000 dollars be paid to Mr. Joseph Nourse, pay master to the Board of War and Ordnance,
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to be by him transmitted to Ebenezer Hancock, Esq. deputy pay master general, for the use of his department; he to be accountable.
Resolved, That the Board of War and Ordnance transmit to General Heath proper directions with respect to the route, by which he is to send to the treasurer the hard money belonging to the United States.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated April 25, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 249.]
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee of the whole, respecting a provision for the officers after the war; Whereupon, it was moved, and
Resolved, That nothing contained in the foregoing resolution shall be construed to extend to prevent the United States from redeeming, at any time, the half-pay of such officers as they judge proper, by paying them a sum equal to six years half-pay.
Sundry amendments being made in the report;
Ordered, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed.2
[Note 2: 2 In the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XIII, folio 65, is a copy of a letter from George Johnston to Robert Morris, dated House of Commons, February 5, 1778, in the writing of Charles Thomson, and which is endorsed as having been read in Congress April 27.]
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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