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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 --WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1778
A letter of the 28th, from Jacob Rush, requesting to resign his office of deputy secretary.
One, of the 26th, from the council of Pensylvania; and one of the 26th, from Gouverneur Morris, at camp, were read:3
[Note 3: 3 The letter of Rush is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XIX, folio 201; that of Morris is in No. 78, XV, folio 295.]
Ordered, That the two last be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of the 23 December from S. A. Otis, directed to J. Mease, ∥cloathier general,∥ with one enclosed of the 10 December from J. Trumbull, was read:
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A letter, from Henry Hay, of the 12th, with return of cannon found at Ticonderoga inclosed, &c. was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
One offrom E. Allen towas read.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report, ¶which being read,¶ Whereupon, on motion,
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee appointed to take into consideration the state of Georgia.
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In pursuance of an adjustment of accounts by the commissioners of claims, the auditor general reports,
That there is due to Captain Benjamin Williams, acting as pay master to the Virginia and North Carolina troops in this town, by the appointment of the Board of Treasury, for the balance of the pay due to a detachment of the 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, and 16 regiments of Virginia troops; for an advance to a drill serjeant, and for his services as pay master from the 1st to the 27 instant the sum of 80 dollars:1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 45.]
Ordered, That the said account be paid.
Resolved, That the resignation of J. Rush be accepted.
Resolved, That the Marquis de La Fayett, or the general officer commanding an expedition into Canada, be furnished with bills of exchange drawn by the President of Congress on the commissioners of the United States in France to the amount of thirty thousand French livres; the said sum to be by him appropriated in such manner, as his own prudence may suggest, and the exigencies of affairs shall render conducive to the public interest.
The committee to whom the petition from Isaac Zane, &c., was referred, and who were directed to confer with the petitioners, reported verbally that they have had a conference with them.
The committee appointed to hear the Petition of Isaac Zane, Joseph Janney, Benjamin Wright, &c., beg leave to report:
That they have heard the Petitioners who have committed their Sentiments to writing in the form of an Address, which, with a Testimony, given forth from a yearly meeting of Friends held at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, by Adjournments, from the 29th day of the ninth month to the 4th of the tenth month inclusive, 1777, agreeably to their request, your committee herewith present to Congress.2
[Note 2: 2 This preamble of a report, in the writing of William Ellery, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 53, folio 77. A petition of Zane and others, dated January 27, is on folio 79.]
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Ordered, That the consideration of this matter be postponed till to morrow.1
[Note 1: 1 These two paragraphs are in the writing of Charles Thomson.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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