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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 --SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1778
A letter, of the 15 December from Jonathan Trumbull, Junr. Esqr., deputy pay master general, northern department, was read, enclosing a draught in his favour on N. Appleton, Esqr., commissioner of the loan office, State of
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Massachusetts bay, dated October 16, 1777, returned for want of pay:1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of Trumbull is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXII, folio 545.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A letter, of the 7 ∥December∥ from P. Colt, Esqr. at Boston, and one, of the 16 of the same month, from Mr. Colt at New Haven, to W. Buchanan, Esqr. commissary general of purchases, were laid before Congress and read:
Ordered, That they be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of the 26 December, from the navy board, at Bordentown, with sundry papers enclosed, respecting the conduct of Lieutenant Henessy, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Marine Committee.
Resolved, That General Washington be authorized to appoint such a number of aids de camp, as he may, from time to time, judge necessary; and if he thinks proper, to appoint them out of the corps already established and to make choice of regimental officers for that purpose, if he thinks proper; any thing in former resolutions of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.
Adjourned to 3 o'Clock P.M.
Three o'Clock, p. m.
A petition from Daniel Lush, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A letter, of the 29th December, from Brigadier Weedon, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 159, folio 380.]
Ordered, To lie on the table.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the Treasurer in favour of the Board of War, for 200,000 dollars, to be
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transmitted by them to Jonathan Trumbull, Jun. deputy pay master general ∥in the northern department,∥ for the use of his department, the said pay master to be accountable:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the Treasurer in favour of John Brown, Esqr., for 13,359 dollars, for the purpose of discharging Thomas Cushing's order on the Hon. Henry Laurens, Esq. president of the Marine Committee, for that sum, in favour of Andrew and James Caldwell, & Co. dated Boston, 6th December last, and expressed to be for the use of the continental ships building in Massachusetts bay; the said Marine Committee to be accountable:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the Treasurer in favour of Mr. Caldwell, for six hundred and seventy five dollars, in discharge of John Ashe's two drafts, dated North Carolina, 27th March last, in favour of Francis Brice, one for 275, and the other for 400 dollars and drawn on the continental treasurer, the State of North Carolina to be accountable, and the sum to be considered as part of the 500,000 dollars heretofore appropriated for the use of that State.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 3.]
Congress resumed the consideration of the ∥second∥ resolutions agreed to in a committee of the whole, on the report of the committee to whom were referred the letters that passed between General Heath and General Burgoyne, and the letter from General Burgoyne to General Gates. The following amendments were made: Strike out "to these States;" after the word "distinct," add "and explicit."
"Therefore, That the embarkation of Lieutenant General Burgoyne, and the troops under his command, be suspended
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till a distinct and explicit ratification of the convention of Saratoga shall be properly notified by the court of Great Britain."
The yeas and nays were required, and the question put on the resolution as amended.
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
Ordered, That the report of the committee on which the resolutions passed by the Congress are grounded, be re-committed.
Resolved, That Monday next be assigned for appointing auditors of accounts in the northern and eastern departments, and for the army in the middle department.
∥The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,∥
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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