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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 --THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1778
Resolved, That Mr. John Mease and Mr. Joseph Bullock, be appointed managers of the United States' lottery.
Resolved, That the salary of the secretary of the Board of War and Ordnance, be 1,200 dollars per annum.
A letter, of 28, from Mr. Matthew Clarkson, at camp, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
Resolved, That no commissioned officer in the army of the United States, who shall be honored with a brevet commission, shall be entitled, by virtue of such brevet commission, to any higher rank in the regiment, troop, or company to which he belongs, than he before held therein; such brevet commission giving rank only upon detachments from the line, and in general courts martial; nor shall such brevet officer be entitled to receive any additional pay in consequence of such brevet promotion.
Resolved, That Major Ebenezer Stevens, in consideration of his services and the strict attention with which he discharged his duty as commanding officer of artillery in the northern department, during two campaigns, take rank by brevet as a lieutenant colonel of foot, and that he be commissioned accordingly.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report: Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Mr. Joseph Nourse, pay master to the Board of War
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and Ordnance, for 100,000 dollars, to be by him forwarded to Ebenezer Hancock, Esq. deputy pay master general in the eastern district, for the use of his department; for which he is to be accountable:
That another warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of the said Mr. Joseph Nourse, for 100,000 dollars, to be by him transmitted to Colonel Benjamin Flower, commissary general of military stores, for the use of his department; for which he is to be accountable:
That another warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of the said Mr. Joseph Nourse, for 250,000 dollars, to be by him transmitted to Peekskill, and delivered to Jonathan Trumbull, Jun. Esq. pay master, or in his absence, to his deputy there; the said J. Trumbull to be accountable:
That a warrant issue on Derk Ten Broek, Esq. commissioner of the continental loan office in the State of New York, in favour of the said Jonathan Trumbull, Jun. Esq. for 100,000 dollars, for the use of his department, and for which he is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 257.]
Congress proceeded to take into consideration the state of America with respect to foreign nations, when sundry letters and papers were called for and laid upon the table, and the reading thereof begun and continued to one o'clock.
Three o'Clock, p. m
The letters and papers called for being read, a motion was thereupon made.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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