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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, MAY 12, 1778
A letter, of 10, from Udney Hay, sundry papers enclosed, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 The letter from Hay is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, IV, folio 273.]
Ordered, That the same be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris, Mr. [Francis] Dana, and Mr. [Charles] Carroll.
A letter, of the 10, from Colonel George Morgan, at York Town, was read:3 Whereupon,
[Note 3: 3 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No, 163, folio 337.]
Resolved, That so much of the said letter as relates to his accounts, together with his accounts accompanying the same, be referred to the Board of Treasury:
That so much of the said letter as relates to Indian affairs, be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs:
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That the Board of War be directed to make enquiry into the causes of the loss of the boats on the Ohio, mentioned in the said letter, and report thereon to Congress.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee of the whole, respecting an allowance to officers after the war, and after some time spent thereon, the farther consideration thereof was postponed till to morrow.
Adjourned to 10 o'clock ∥to Morrow∥.
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