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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, MARCH 24, 1778
A letter, of 27 January, from Colonel Gansevoort, and one, of the 12 instant, from Brigadier Learned, requesting leave to resign his commission, were read:2
[Note 2: 2 The letter of Learned is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XIV, folio 203.]
Ordered, That the letter from Colonel Gansevoort, be referred to the Board of War.
Resolved, That the resignation of Brigadier Learned be accepted.
A letter, of 23 January, from the council of Massachusetts bay, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of the 10, and one of the 12, from Major General
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Heath, were read, the former enclosing copies of the following letters, viz. one of the 4th, from Captain Dalrymple to Lieutenant General Burgoyne; one of the 8th, to General Burgoyne, and General Burgoyne's answer of the 9th, and sundry letters that passed between Major General Heath and Captain Dalrymple; also a request of Lieutenant Colonel Sutherland, of the 47th regiment.1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of the 12th is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 57, folio 239.]
Ordered, That so much of the letter of the 10th, as relates to money, be referred to the Board of Treasury.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of John Bradley, for 20,000 dollars, to be conveyed to John Baynton, Esqr. deputy pay master general for the western district; the said pay master to be accountable:
That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Thomas Stuart, for 10,500 dollars, to discharge a draught of his excellency Richard Caswell, governor of North Carolina, on the treasurer, dated Newbern, 22 December, 1777, for 10,000 dollars, in favour of William Skinner, Esqr. treasurer of the northern district of the said State, expressed to be for the purpose of purchasing leather and deer-skins, agreeably to a resolve of Congress; and John Ashe's draught on the treasurer, dated 18 April last, for 500 dollars, in favour of Major Hardy Murfree, expressed to be for the use of the continental troops; the said State to be accountable.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 181.]
Five o'Clock, p. m.
A motion was made, that Congress sit but once a day, from nine in the morning to two in the afternoon, precisely; Whereupon, the previous question was moved, and, the same being put, passed in the affirmative.
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The main question being then put, and the yeas and nays required,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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