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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 --FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1778
Resolved, That the committee appointed to examine and extract resolutions from the journals for publication, be discharged from that service.
Ordered, That the secretary deliver to the auditor general such of the journals of Congress as he shall, from time to time, judge necessary, for extracting resolutions relative to the department of auditors of the army, passed since the first of January, 1777.
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The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That upon the application of the Board of War and Ordnance, 27,520 dollars be paid to Joseph Nourse, pay master of the said board, to be by him transmitted to Brigadier M'Intosh, for the purpose of raising two regiments in the states of Virginia and Pensylvania, for the defence of the western frontiers, agreeably to the resolution of the 2d May last; Brigadier M'Intosh to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 345.]
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on the letter of the 27 May, from J. Wadsworth, and after some progress being made thereon,
Resolved, That it be re-committed, and that two members be added to the committee;
The members added, Mr. [Richard Henry] Lee and Mr. [Francis] Dana.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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