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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, OCTOBER 6, 1778
A letter, of 23 September, from Messrs. Otis and Andrews, to the Board of War, was laid before Congress, and read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 31, folio 3.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee on the cloathing department.
A motion was made,
That the honourable Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee, and John Adams, Esquires, or any one of them, be directed forthwith to apply to Dr. Price, and inform him, that it is the desire of Congress to consider him as a citizen of
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the United States; and to receive his assistance in regulating their finances. That if he shall think it expedient to remove, with his family, to America, and afford such assistance, a generous provision shall be made for requiting his services.
The question being put, and the yeas and nays being required by Mr. President [Henry Laurens],
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
Mr. [Nathaniel] Scudder, a delegate from New Jersey, attended and took his seat in Congress.
The Committee of Commerce brought in a report: Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of the Committee of Commerce, for sixteen thousand six
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hundred sixty-six and two-thirds dollars, to be by them transmitted to John Langdon, Esq. continental agent at Portsmouth, in the State of New Hampshire, for the purpose of lading the French shipDutchess de Gramont, and other contingent charges.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of Mr. J[ames] Lovell, for account of John Hancock, Esq. for three hundred dollars, being so much advanced by him to William Dodd and Patrick M'Closky, for public service, and passed to their accounts in the treasury office, and that the said sum be charged to Mr. Hancock.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 605.]
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on finances, and made some progress therein.
Three o'Clock, p. m.
A letter, of 25 September, from Mr. J. Baynton, pay master at Fort Pitt, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A letter, of 24 September, from Andrew Lewis and Thomas Lewis, Esqrs. commissioners at Fort Pitt, ∥was read,∥ together with their proceedings at a treaty held with the chiefs of the Delaware nation, and an agreement or confederation entered into between them and the said chiefs, and other papers:
Ordered, That the same be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [John] Harvie, Mr. [William Henry] Drayton, and Mr. [John] Mathews.
A letter, of 20 August, from Governor Houston, of Georgia, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 73, folio 218.]
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Ordered, That the same, together with the letter of 5 September, from Major General R. Howe, be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [William Henry] Drayton, Mr. [Edward] Telfair, and Mr. [Henry] Marchant.
Resolved, That the commissary general of prisoners be directed to take immediate measures to effectuate the exchange of the survivors of Lieutenant Colonel Baylor's party, taken prisoners by the enemy, and that they, being exchanged, be ordered to repair to the Board of War.1
[Note 1: 1 In the margin is written: "Repealed."]
Resolved, That Governor Livingston be requested to use his utmost diligence in obtaining the best information, upon oath, of the treatment of thelate Lieutenant Colonel Baylor and his party by the enemy, who attacked them; specifying the time in which the attack was made.
Ordered, That the consideration of the report of the Committee on finances be postponed till to morrow.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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