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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 --THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1778
Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth, a delegate from Connecticut, attended and took his seat.
A letter, of 25 September, from Peter Colt, Esq. deputy commissary general of purchases, in the eastern district, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, V, folio 225.]
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [John] Witherspoon, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, and Mr. [Roger] Sherman.
A motion was made, that the proceedings of the court martial upon General St. Clair, and the papers accompanying it, be referred to a committee:
A motion was made to amend by adding the words "of the whole house:"
On which the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [William] Duer,
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So it passed in the negative.
The main question was then put: and the yeas and nays being required by [William] Duer,
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So it passed in the negative.
Ordered, That one hundred copies of the proceedings of the court martial for the trial of Major General St. Clair,
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together with his defence, be printed for the use of the members.
Three o'Clock, p. m.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on finance: and,
On motion made to postpone agreeing to that part of the report, viz. "That all limitations of prices of silver and gold be taken off;" the determination of which was yesterday postponed at the request of a State:
The yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry,
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So it passed in the negative.
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On the question to agree to that part of the report, above recited, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
On motion,Resolved, That the resolution of the 6, for the immediate exchange of the survivors of Colonel Baylor's party, taken prisoners by the enemy, be and it is hereby repealed; and that the commissary general of prisoners be notified thereof, and directed to govern himself in the exchange of prisoners as if no such resolution had ever passed.
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Resolved, That the Board of War be directed to pursue the most Speedy and Effectual Measures for removing the Troops under the Convention of Saratoga, from the State of Massachusetts Bay, to such part of the State of Virginia as they shall judge proper, and that they give the Necessary Orders for Building Temporary Barracks for their Accommodation, and employing such Guards as they shall Deem expedient for the good order and safe keeping of the said Troops.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of Francis Dana, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, I, folio 13. It is endorsed: "Read, debated, and postponed, 8 October, 1778."]
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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