| PREVIOUS | NEXT | NEW SEARCH |
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1779
A letter, of 1st, and one, of 2d, from Mons. Holker, enclosing sundry papers, were read:
Ordered, That copies thereof be transmitted to the president and supreme executive council of Pensylvania, and that they be requested to take the same into consideration that fight may be done.
A motion was made by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, seconded by Mr. [Henry] Laurens, That John Dunlap be directed forthwith to attend at the bar of this Housea to answer to such questions as shall be proposed to him relative to a publication in hisPensylvania Packet of this date, under an introduction signed "Leonidas"
On which, the previous question being moved by Mr. [John] Penn, seconded by Mr. [William] Sharpe, the yeas and nays were required by Mr. [Henry] Laurens,
Page 800 | Page image
{table}
So it passed in the affirmative, and the main question was set aside.
A letter, of 2d, from J. Prowell, was read;1 Whereupon Congress came to the following resolution:
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XVIII, folio 227.]
It being represented to Congress, that their resolution of the 5th of June last, vacating the commission of major granted to Captain Prowell, in the 11th Pensylvania regiment, has been misunderstood;
Resolved, That the sole reason for vacating the said commission was the claims of elder captains in the Pensylvania line over whom it appeared, that he had been promoted by mistake; and not any fault or want of merit in Captain Prowell, of whose character as a useful officer, Congress entertain a favourable opinion.2
[Note 2: 2 These resolutions, in the writing of Pickering, but not apparently offered as a report from the Board of War, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, III, folio 497]
Page 801 | Page image
A letter, of this day, from Henry Shrupp, ensign in the German battalion, was read, desiring leave to resign his commission:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XX, folio 427.]
Resolved, That his resignation be accepted.
The Board of War, to whom was referred the letter of 25 June, from A. Henderson, report,
That the resignation of Captain Alexander Henderson, deputy commissary of military stores, be accepted.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, III, folio 499.]
Resolved, That Congress agree to the said report.
The commissioners of claims report,
That there is due to Robert Jewell, for his pay and the pay of his two assistants, keepers of the State prison in this city, from the 6th of March, to the 23d June, 1779, inclusive, and also for cash advanced by him for sundries, as per account and vouchers, nineteen hundred and eighty four dollars and 6/90.
That there is due to Paul Fooks, Esq. for his salary as interpreter for the French and Spanish languages, from the 2d December, 1778, to the 2d instant, being six months, at 100 dollars, six hundred dollars.3
[Note 3: 3 This report, dated June 27, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 427.]
Ordered, That the said accounts be paid.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. R[oger] Sherman, one of the delegates of the State of Connecticut, on his application, for two thousand dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. S[amuel] Huntington, one of the delegates of the State of Connecticut, on his application, for fifteen hundred dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.
Page 802 | Page image
Whereas by a resolution of Congress, passed the 22d day of May last, upon application of the State of Connecticut, a warrant issued on the treasury in favour of their delegates, for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the said State to be accountable, and to repay the same to the commissioner of the continental loan office, in the month of August next, with interest at six per cent. And whereas his excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. governor of the said State, has represented to Congress, that before the arrival of the said money, other provision was made for the purpose of the said application, but as orders for recruiting their quota of the deficiency of the continental army are issued, and no money transmitted for that purpose, the general assembly of the said State request that Congress will charge the said State with the said loan, not as a loan according to the first intention, but on account of recruiting and cloathing their quota of the deficiency of the continental troops aforesaid, without any charge of interest:
Resolved, That the said request be complied with, and the money so received be charged to the said State as so much advanced for recruiting and cloathing their quota of the deficiency of continental troops, and for which the said State is to be accountable.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer of the State of Connecticut, in favour of his excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. governor of the said State, for two hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of supplying cloathing for their quota of troops in the Continental line, to be paid out of moneys in the hands of the said treasurer, collected for the use of the United States; for which sum of 200,000 dollars the said State is to be accountable.
Resolved, That his excellency the governor and council of Connecticut be requested, if they shall judge it expedient,
Page 803 | Page image
to make a further allowance in addition to what has already been made by Congress, to Jesse Brown, whilst riding express in the service of the United States, charging such allowance to the states aforesaid.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated July 2, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 441.]
Congress proceeded to the consideration of the report of the committee on the memorial of Captain J. G. Duarti, and some time being spent thereon,
Adjourned to 10 oClock on Monday.
PREVIOUS SECTION .. NEXT SECTION .. NAVIGATOR
| PREVIOUS | NEXT | NEW SEARCH |