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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 --MONDAY, MAY 18, 1778
A petition from sundry inhabitants of the county of Bedford, in the State of Pensylvania, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter and petition from David Laird, were laid before Congress.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, IV, folio 154.]
Ordered, That they be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of this day, from William Turnbull, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A letter, of the 15, from William Bowley, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee of Commerce.
A letter, of the 16, from the Board of War, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, II, folio 33.]
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Charles] Carroll, Mr. J[onathan] B[ayard] Smith, and Mr. G[ouverneur] Morris.
A letter, of 26 April, from Governor Caswell, ∥of North Carolina,∥ was read, informing that the two houses of
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assembly of that State have unanimously acceded to the confederation.
A petition from Jacob Gerhard Deriks was read, praying to be "honoured with a colonel's commission."1
[Note 1: 1 This petition is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, II, folio 285; the letter of Smith is in No. 78, XX, folio 213.]
Ordered, To lie on the table.
A letter, of the 11, from Thomas Smith, of Bedford county, to James Smith, Esq. delegate from Pensylvania, was laid before Congress, and read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War, and that they be authorized, in conjunction with General Washington, to take such measures for affording present relief to the western frontiers as can be adopted, consistent with the present state of the main army.
The committee lately sent to camp, laid before Congress a plan for regulating the army:
Ordered, That to morrow be assigned for taking the same into consideration.
A letter, of 26 March, from the board of war of the State of Massachusetts bay, with an extract of a letter of 30, from Mr. Gardoqui & Sons, at Bilboa, were read:2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 65, I, folio 292.]
Ordered, That the same be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. G[ouverneur] Morris, Mr. [Charles] Carroll, and Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry.
A petition from sundry German officers, in the service of the United States of America, was read;3 Whereupon,
[Note 3: 3 This petition, dated May 6, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, V, folio 69.]
Resolved, That the Rev. Mr. Henry Miller be appointed a chaplain to the Germans in the main army; and that he be allowed the pay and privileges of a brigade chaplain, without being confined to any particular brigade.
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York Town, May 18, 1778.
The Commissioners of Claims at the Treasury Office, having liquidated and rendered to the Auditor General, the undermentioned account, he begs leave to report the same to Congress for allowance.
There is due to Major William West, his pay from the 13th July, 1777, to the 28th of April, 1778, inclusive, being 9 months and 15 days, at 50 Dollars per month, 475 Dollars.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 291. It is endorsed: "Read, and postponed 30th, after having been recommitted and returned in the original state. Motion for Board of War to enquire."]
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock lite ¶to Morrow.¶
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