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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 28, 1778
A letter, of 27, from Captain Manly, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Marine Committee.
A memorial from Captain Josiah Stoddard, and a petition from Captain Stoddard and other officers of the cavalry; a letter of 24, from Major General Gates; one, of 28 June, from Brigadier Samuel H. Parsons, in favour of the Chevalier de la Neuville and Major Noirmont de la
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Neuville; also a letter from the Chevalier de la Neuville, were read:
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of War.
The Committee of Commerce laid before Congress a letter of 5 March, from Stephen Sayre, at Copenhagen, and one of 20 March, from C. A. Fabricius, with a paper of intelligence, which were read:
Ordered, That the paper of intelligence be referred to the Committee of Intelligence; and that the letters be returned to the Committee of Commerce, and that they be directed to report thereon.
A letter, of 27, from Colonel Knoblauch, a Prussian nobleman, with sundry papers enclosed, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XIII, folio 459.]
Ordered, That the same be referred to a committee of three; and that they be directed to confer with Colonel Knoblauch:
The members chosen, Mr. R[ichard] H[enry] Lee, Mr. G[ouverneur] Morris, and Mr. [James] Lovell.
A representation from John Beatty, Esq. commissary general of prisoners, respecting the distressed state of the officers, prisoners in the hands of the enemy, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This representation, dated July 24, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, III, folio 13.]
Ordered, To lie on the table.
Papers relative to the monument for the late General Montgomery were laid before Congress:
Resolved, That they be referred to the delegates of New York.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of John Gibson, Esq. auditor general, for the sum
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of twenty thousand dollars, to enable him to discharge the residue of a warrant of the President of Congress on him, dated 13 September last, in favour of the continental Navy Board, for 50,000 dollars; the said auditor general to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 425.]
Ordered, That the quarter master general furnish the Hon. the Sieur Gérard, minister plenipotentiary of his most Christian majesty, with such and so many horses and such forage as he shall direct; and that he deliver from time to time, special accounts of the prices of the said horses and forage to the Board of Treasury.
A memorial from Bryan Lefferty, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
Congress resumed the consideration of the answer to the Sieur Gérard's intended speech, and after some time spent thereon,
Ordered, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed till to morrow.
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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