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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, JULY 21, 1778
A letter of the 3d April, one Of the 5 May, and one of the 6th May, from Bernardo de Galves, Governor of New Orleans, directed to Messrs. Robert Morris and William Smith; and a letter of 4th July, from J. Morain, late captain of the sloop Bernardo, from Mississippi, at Edenton, North Carolina, with an invoice of her cargo; and sundry letters and papers from Mr. Pollock, at New Orleans, were laid before Congress and read:
Ordered, That they be referred to the Committee of Commerce.
A letter, of 23 June, from the council of Massachusetts bay, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in No. 65, I, folio 320. It is indorsed: "So much as relates to cloathing the troops of that State referred to the Board of War, who are to take such measures and give such orders therein as they judge proper. August 8, 1778."]
Ordered, That so much as relates to money, be referred to the Board of Treasury; and the remainder to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Francis] Dana, Mr. [Joseph] Reed, and Mr. [Roger] Sherman.
Pursuant to the powers in them vested, the delegates of North Carolina signed the ratification of the articles of confederation, in behalf of their State.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on John Gibson, Esq. auditor general, in favour of Mr. J[ohn] Penn, for one thousand and seventy one dollars, in discharge of three bills of exchange, drawn on the continental treasurer by John Ashe, treasurer of the State of North Carolina, one dated 29 January, 1777, in favour of Thomas Craike, for two hundred and fifty dollars; one other, dated 9 May,
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1777, in favour of Cosmo Medici, Esq. for 321 dollars; each of which is expressed to be for cloathing the continental troops in that State; the other dated 9 May, 1777, in favour of Thomas Donaho, for five hundred dollars, and endorsed by him to Robert Williams, and expressed to be for the service of the United States; which several bills are to be charged to the State of North Carolina, in part of the grant in favour of the said State, for five hundred thousand dollars.
That Isaac Howell be appointed superintendent of the making of Paper, for Loan Office Certificates and Bills of Exchange.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 415.]
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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