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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, JANUARY 29, 1778
A letter, of the 28th, from Brigadier Fermoy, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
In pursuance of an adjustment of accounts by the commissioners of claims, the auditor general reports,
That there is due to Brigadier General Thompson, for sundry advances made upon his credit by Mr. Freeman and Mr. Cord, merchants in Quebec, to sundry officers and wounded soldiers, who were made prisoners there, the sum of 2,343 33¾/90 dollars, which sum is to be accounted for as follows, viz.
Colonel Christopher Green, for himself and officers, 1,340 31/60 dollars; Captain now Colonel Daniel Morgan, 421 21/60 dollars; Captain now Colonel John Lamb, 229 12 ½/60 dollars; Lieutenant now Major Francis Nichols, 64 53/60 dollars; Captain Moses M'Clane, 34 39/60 dollars; army, for advances to wounded soldiers, 252 46/60 dollars; add ½ to the fractions, 11¼ of a dollar; making in the whole, 2,343 33¾/90 dollars:
That there is due to Brigadier General Thompson, for his pay from the 1st of May to the 31st of December, 1777, and for his rations from the 1st March to the 31st July, the sum of 1,164 dollars:2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 47.]
Ordered, That the said account be paid.
The Committee of Treasury brought in a report: Whereupon,
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Resolved, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of the delegates of the State of New York, for thirteen hundred dollars, advanced upon the application of the Honorable William Duer, a delegate of that State, the said State to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 49.]
A memorial from Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dyer, was read, representing his early and continued services in the army, and his loss of health, for the recovery of which he had obtained from the general, a furlow for six weeks, and praying, as his furlow is near expiring, and his state of health is such as renders him utterly unable to bear the fatigues of the service, that, for that reason, he may have leave to resign his commission:2
[Note 2: 2 This paragraph is in the writing of Charles Thomson. The memorial is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, II, folio 433.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
Congress resumed the consideration of the petition of Isaac Zane, &c.; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the prisoners now at Winchester in the State of Virginia, who have been apprehended by the government of Pensylvania, in consequence of the resolutions of Congress of 28 August, 1777, be discharged from their confinement on their taking and subscribing either the oath or affirmation of allegiance as prescribed by the laws of Pensylvania, or the following oath or affirmation, at the option of the persons confined, viz.
"I, A. B. do swear, or affirm, that I acknowledge myself a subject of the State of Pensylvania, as a free and independent State, and that I will, in all things, demean myself as a good and faithful subject ought to do."
Ordered, That the President write to the governor of Virginia, and inform him of this resolve.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee appointed to devise effectual means to prevent
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persons disaffected to the interest of the United States, from being employed in any of the important offices thereof, and after debate,
Ordered, That it be re-committed.
A motion being made for preventing abuses by officers in the civil departments of the army,
Ordered, That it be committed to the foregoing committee.1
[Note 1: 1 These three paragraphs are in the writing of Charles Thomson.]
Three o'Clock, p. m
A letter, of the 16, from Edenton, from Messrs. Hewes and Smith, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A letter, of the 19th, from F. Hopkinson, one of the commissioners of the Navy Board, concerning the conduct of Captain Barry, was read: Whereupon,
It was moved, that it be
Resolved, That Captain Barry be not employed on the expedition assigned to his conduct by the Marine Committee, till further orders of Congress.
It was previously moved to add after the word "conduct," by the approbation of Congress, and the question being put, it was resolved in the affirmative.
The question was then put on the motion as amended, and the house being equally divided, it passed in the negative.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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