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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 --WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1779
A letter, of 4, from Major General Gates, and one, of 17th, from General Washington, were read:
Ordered, That they be referred to the Board of Treasury.
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Another letter, of 17, from General Washington, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 The letters of Washington are in theWashington Papers, A, IV, pt. II, folios 47, 49. One is printed in theWritings of Washington (Ford), VII, 452.]
Ordered, That so much thereof as relates to the troops in Virginia, be referred to the Board of War; the remainder to the Marine Committee.
A petition of Joshua Griffith and David Brooks was read, praying for a reheating of their cause before the Committee on Appeals:2
[Note 2: 2 This petition is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, III, folio 216.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Appeals.
A petition of A. Murphy and others, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Marine Committee, and that they be directed to take such order thereon as they judge proper.
A letter, of 18, from C. Hele, was read:3
[Note 3: 3 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XI, folio 421.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee on the letter from Admiral Gambier.
Resolved, That the Marine Committee be authorised and directed to put Lieutenant C. Hele on his parole, in such place as they shall think most conducive to the public good.
A letter, of 16, from T. Johnson, governor of Maryland, enclosing copy of a letter to him from James McCay, John Nicholson and Thomas Saunders, of the same date; and a letter, of this day, from Charles Pettit, enclosing a letter to him from Colonel Henry Hollingsworth, at the head of Elk, dated 18, were read.4
[Note 4: 4 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 70, folios 321, 325.]
According to the order of the day, Congress proceeded to the consideration of that part of the report of the Board of Treasury, relative to the raising supplies and supporting the credit of the continental currency.
On considering the resolution,
That these United States be called upon, in addition to the sum required by a resolution of Congress of the 2d of
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January, for their respective quotas ofmillion of dollars, to be paid into the continental treasury before the first day of January next, in the proportion following.
A motion was made by Mr. [John] Dickinson, seconded by Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris, that the blank be filled with the word "sixty."
On which the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris,
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So it passed in the negative.
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A motion was then made by Mr. [John] Penn, seconded by Mr. [John] Armstrong, that the blank be filled with the words "forty-five."
On which the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
Adjourned to 10 oClock to Morrow.
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