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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 --TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1778
A petition from James Wilson, administrator of Samuel Allen, was read, praying that the commissioners of claims be directed to settle his account for a team of Samuel Allen employed and lost in the public service:
Ordered, That the prayer of the petition be granted.
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Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on the system of the commissary of purchases, and after some progress made therein,
Resolved, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed to Thursday next.
The committee, to whom the letters and papers from the Board of War were referred, brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the Board of War instruct the Marquis de la Fayette, who is charged with an expedition or irruption into Canada, that, considering the length of the rout into that country in an inclement season, he be particularly attentive to have his men well cloathed and so supplied with provisions, as effectually to guard against any misfortune which might happen for want of these necessary articles; and, in case he shall fail of obtaining forces which he shall judge competent, or supplies sufficient for them, that he carefully attend to these contingencies and regulate his conduct according to the probability of success, without exposing his troops to any very great or very apparent hazard, and report the reasons of his conduct to the Board.
A letter, of the 20, from Brigadier Parsons, relative to the treatment of the Vantassels, by the enemy, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 161, folio 331.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee appointed to enquire into the conduct of the enemy, in regard to the prisoners who have fallen into their hands.2
[Note 2: 2 A letter of Elisha Warner, dated Providence, January 16, 1778, was read on this day. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXIII, folio 443.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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