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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, JUNE 9, 1778
A letter, of the 7, from General Washington, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. R[ichard] H[enry] Lee, Mr. S[amuel] Adams, and Mr. H[enry] Marchant.
A letter, of the 3d, from General Gates, with fifteen papers enclosed; Also, a letter, of 29 May, from General Schuyler, at Albany, with three papers enclosed, were read:1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of Washington is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, VI, folio 83; that of Gates, in No. 154, I, folio 370; and that of Schuyler, in No. 153, III, folio 330.]
Ordered, That the letter from General Schuyler, with the papers enclosed, be referred to the Board of War:
That the letter, from General Gates, with the papers enclosed, except ∥those numbered∥ 4, 5, and 6, be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [William Henry] Drayton, Mr. [Richard Henry] Lee, and Mr. S[amuel] Adams.
Ordered, That the Board of War be discharged from proceeding on the letter of 26 May, from General Sullivan, and that it be referred to the foregoing committee.
Ordered, That so much of General Gates's letter as relates to establishing a magazine of flour in the eastern department, be referred to the Board of War.
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A letter, of 24 May, from Brigadier Stark, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee above appointed.
A letter, of 25 May, from Major General Marquis de la Fayette, with sundry papers enclosed, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 The letter of Stark is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 162, folio 211; that of Lafayette is in No. 156, folio 9.]
Ordered, That so much as relates to Mons. Touzard and Mons. de Normont, be referred to the Board of War.
A letter of the 5, from the Marquis de la Fayette, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Thomas] McKean, Mr. [John] Witherspoon, and Mr. [Roger] Sherman.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That 50,000 dollars be advanced to Dr. Isaac Forster, deputy director general in the eastern district, for the use of his department; and for which he is to be accountable.
That 250 dollars be paid to Andrew Armstrong, in discharge of a bill drawn by John Ashe, treasurer of the State of North Carolina, dated 22 May, 1777, in favour of Edmund Gambell, expressed to be for the service of the United States; the State of North Carolina to be accountable.
Resolved, That four members be added to the Board of Treasury:2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 351.]
The members chosen, Mr. [Thomas] Heyward, Mr. [Henry] Marchant, Mr. [John] Wentworth, and Mr. [Roger] Sherman.
The Committee of Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of Mons. Dorré, report, that the memorialist hath produced to the Committee a promissory note, by
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him subscribed, and which accompanies the report, payable to Congress on the loth day of January next, for the sum of one thousand pounds, continental currency, meaning thereby one thousand pounds, Pensylvania currency, or 2,6662/3 dollars, which promissory note is also undersigned by the honble. George Plater, Francis Lightfoot Lee, John Banister, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Esqrs. Colonel Thomas Hartley, honble. W. H. Drayton, John Mathews, Daniel Roberdeau, William Duer, and Gouverneur Morris, Esqrs. as security for the above sum; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the sum of 2,666 60/90 dollars be advanced to the honorable George Plater, and the other subscribers, to be by them appropriated to the use of the memorialist, if they think proper, they to be chargeable for the re-payment thereof, at the time mentioned in the said note.
Three o'Clock, p. m.
Whereas doubts have arisen as to the sum which shall be paid for the rations which now may be due and owing to officers in the service of these states, and also as to the vouchers for drawing the same, by reason whereof the intentions of Congress with respect to such officers are frustrated:
Resolved,1 That the value of the rations due since the first day of last January, till the first instant be estimated at one third of a dollar; and that the officers do present their accounts to the pay master general, or deputy pay masters general, who shall adjust and pay the same; provided, always, that the said officers shall make oath to their accounts respectively, which oaths the said pay masters
[Note 1: 1 The original report read: "Value of rations be estimated as follows, viz: From the Commencement of the War to the first Day of January, 1777, at one eighteenth ninth of a Dollar; from thence to the first Day of July, 1777, at one sixth of a Dollar; thence to the first Day of January, 1778, at one fourth of a Dollar."]
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are hereby empowered and directed to administer, and transmit the said accounts, with the receipts thereon, to the treasury.1
[Note 1: 1 These paragraphs formed part of the report presented June 4, and are in the writing of Gouverneur Morris. In the margin is noted "Recommitted, 4 P. M."]
Resolved, That the deputy director general of the hospital in the eastern department shall, as heretofore, in the absence of the director general, superintend the medical affairs of that department, till the further order of Congress.
The committee of arrangement brought in a report on the department of the cloathier general, which was taken into consideration, and some progress being made therein,
Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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