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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, AUGUST 24, 1779.
A letter, of this day, from J. Connolly, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of July 22d, from Major General Lincoln, was read:
Ordered, That so much thereof as respects the appointment of a deputy commissary general of purchases for South Carolina, be referred to the committee for superintending the quarter master and commissary's departments.
A letter, of July 10, from William Glascock, president of Georgia, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 Connolly's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, V, folio 407; that of Glascock, in No. 73, folio 240.]
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On motion of Mr. [John] Mathews, seconded by Mr. [Henry] Laurens,
Resolved, unanimously, That the executive council of Georgia be assured of the determination of Congress to give them all possible support: and that 500,000 dollars be transmitted without delay, for the use of that State, to the executive authority thereof; for which the said State is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of John Jay, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, IV, folio 121.]
A letter, of 15th July, from the Governor of South Carolina, and one, of the 16th of July from D[avid] Oliphant, Esq. director general &c. in the State of South Carolina, with a copy of his commission inclosed, were read:2
[Note 2: 2 The South Carolina letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 72, folio 510; that of Oliphant, on folio 518; the commission on folio 514.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Medical Committee, and that they report with all convenient speed.
A representation from the delegates of Virginia was read:
The Delegates from the State of Virginia represent to Congress, that application is made to them by the Board of Trade in that State, to procure on account of the State, a Sum of Continental Money, to be paid into the Hands of John Moss, Esquire, Agent for the said State in the City of Philadelphia, for the purpose of purchasing supplies of Cloathing and other necessaries for the immediate use of the Troops of that State in the Continental Army; and that it is proposed by the said Board of Trade to repay the Money, by answering the Bills or orders of the Treasury for the amount of the Sum borrowed, payable in the said State, or otherwise as Congress may direct: Wherefore the said Delegates request that a warrant issue on the Treasurer for the Sum of four hundred thousand Dollars, in favor of John Moss, esquire, Agent as aforesaid; the said State to be accountable:
Resolved, the Board of Treasury report a Warrant agreeably to the foregoing Request.3
[Note 3: 3 This representation, in the writing of Meriwether Smith, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 71, I, folio 269.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
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A letter, of August 5th, from Thomas Chittenden, and one of the 20th, from Jonas Fay and Paul Spooner, with two papers enclosed, were read.
On motion of Mr. [Thomas] M'Kean, seconded by Mr. [Samuel] Holten,
Resolved, That copies of the following papers be delivered to Jonas Fay and Paul Spooner, as private persons, viz.1
[Note 1: 1 Here Thomson resumed the entries.]
[Note 2: 2 Chittenden's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, I, folio 247; that of Fay, on folio 253; Van Corlandt's, on folio 259.]
Adjourned to 10 oClock to Morrow.
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