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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 --MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1778
The proceedings of the court martial on the trial of Major General Schuyler, were laid before Congress:
Ordered, To lie on the table.
On motion, That Congress come to the following resolutions:
"Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness:
"Resolved, That it be, and it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several states, to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof, and for the suppressing of theatrical entertainments, horse racing, gaming, and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and a general depravity of principles and manners.
"Resolved, That all officers in the army of the United States, be, and hereby are strictly enjoined to see that the good and wholesome rules provided for the discountenancing of prophaneness and vice, and the preservation of morals among the soldiers, are duly and punctually observed."
The previous question, being moved on the preamble and the first resolution, passed in the negative.
The question being then put on the first resolution with the preamble, and the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Daniel] Roberdeau,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
On the question put to agree to the second resolution,
The yeas and nays being required by Mr. G[ouverneur] Morris,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
On motion to re-consider the first resolution, the question being put, and the yeas and nays being required by Mr. G[ouverneur] Morris,
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So it passed in the negative.
Three o'Clock p. m.
A letter, of this day, from Colonel G. Morgan, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 163, folio 313. It is endorsed: Rec'd in Congress ¾. passed 12 A. M.: the same day, read 3 o'Clock P. M.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
In consequence of an adjustment by the commissioners of claims, the auditor general reports,
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That there is due to Frederick Bicking, a balance of one thousand seven hundred and forty and thirty-three ninetieths dollars, for eighty-four reams of money paper:
That there is due to the Rev. Mr. Lotbinier, his pay and subsistence as chaplain to Colonel James Livingston's regiment, from 11 September to 10 October, 1778, inclusive, sixty dollars:
That there is due to Joseph Ward, commissary general of musters, for cash he advanced for postage of letters on public business, from 10 April, 1777, to the 1st September, 1778, fifty-nine and forty-five ninetieths dollars:1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, II, folio 617.]
Ordered, That the said accounts be paid.
An appeal from the judgment of a court of admiralty for the State of Delaware, on the libel "Thomas Godwin, &c.versus schoonerFortune," was lodged with the secretary.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee of arrangement, and some progress being made therein,
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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