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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, DECEMBER 21, 1778
The motion on Major General Lee's letter, of 17th, was called for, and the question put thereon.
Passed in the negative.
The order of the day being called for,
The amendment moved, in lieu of the 4 proposition, was read, in the words following:
"That such bills be received into the treasury in order to be exchanged by bills of equal value, to be provided for the purpose of exchanging them on or before the first day of June next:"
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On the question ∥to agree to the amendment,∥
The yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Thomas] Burke,
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So it passed in the negative.
An amendment was made to strike out the words "office certificates," and change "for" into "on;" question put, resolved in the affirmative.
A motion was made to strike out the words "either on loan or;"
And on the question, that those words stand part of the report,
The yeas and nays being required by Mr. [William] Ellery,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
An amendment being made by transposition, and the question being put on the proposition as amended,
4.Resolved, That they be received until the first day of June next, into the continental loan offices, either on loan or to be exchanged, at the election of the owners, for other bills of the like tenor, to be provided for that purpose.
5.Resolved, That the bills lodged in the said offices, to be so exchanged, be there registered, and indented certificates thereof given to the owners by the respective commissioners of the said offices:
On the question to agree to this resolution, the yeas and nays being required by the President [John Jay],
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
At a Board of War,20th. December, 1778.
Present, Mr. [Francis Lightfoot] Lee, Mr. [William] Duer, Mr. [John] Harvie, and Mr. [Joseph] Jones.
The Board taking into Consideration the petitions of Colonels Green and Summer and other Officers in the Army, who have lost their horses in actual service, beg leave to report to Congress,
That every Officer in the Army of the United States whose Duty requires his being on horseback in time of Action be allowed the sum ofDollars as a compensation for any horse he shall have killed by the Enemy in Battle. This Resolution to have Retrospect, and the Quarter Master General to be authorized to pay the said sum, to the respective sufferers, on the fact being properly authenticated.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, VII, folio 45. A resolution embodying the recommendation was adopted January 8, 1780.]
∥Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.∥
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