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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 --FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1779
A memorial of the officers and citizens, prisoners on Long Island, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This memorial, dated June 18, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, VII, folio 255.]
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Samuel] Huntington, Mr. [Thomas] McKean, and Mr. [Henry] Marchant.
A letter, of June 4, from Brigadier Count Pulaski, was read:3
[Note 3: 3 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 164, folio 102.]
Ordered, That so much thereof as relates to money be referred to the Board of Treasury, and the letter to the Board of War.
On a report from the Board of War,
Resolved, That the resignation of Lieutenant Andrew Caldwell, of Captain Coren's company of laboratory artillery men, be accepted.4
[Note 4: 4 This report, dated July 21 (present, Pickering and Peters), is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, III, folio 553.]
Whereas in the unsettled state of public affairs, during the contest with Great Britain, the necessities of the United Colonies or States induced their officers in sundry places, to take possession of divers lots or pieces of ground in many of the United Colonies now States, and barracks, hospitals, stables, store houses and other buildings have been erected thereon, sometimes without the express consent of the proprietors of the land, many of whom now either claim exorbitant rents, or attempt to seize upon and hold or remove the buildings which
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were so built without the express consent of the said proprietors, or where terms have been agreed on and the times for which the grounds were taken are expired:
Resolved, That it be recommended to the legislatures of the respective states, to make effectual provision by laws for the preservation of the buildings belonging to the United States within their respective jurisdictions, and for the punishment of those who shall seize upon or injure the same: and that in cases where there are considerable buildings which cannot be removed with convenience to the public, the proprietors of the ground be obliged to suffer the buildings to remain thereon, at least during the war, receiving therefor such compensation as shall be1 allowed by indifferent and proper persons duly appointed and authorized to appraise and value the same: that all grounds or places occupied for the purposes of defence, although the property of individuals, shall remain during the war appropriated (if not before that time abandoned by orders of the proper authority,) for the military purposes intended by their being possessed by the troops: and that no encroachments shall be made on the said grounds or places; but the officer commanding at the post shall remove all such encroachments on the dependencies of the garrison, the forts or any out-works thereof, so that such extent of ground shall remain unoccupied for any private purpose round the forts or garrisons, as the defence of the same posts may require; [and that compensation be made to the
[Note 1: 1 At this point the original report continued: "agreed on by the Quarter Master General, his deputies or assistants, at the posts or places where the buildings are erected, and the owners of the soil, or any persons on their behalf; and where voluntary agreements can't be made, appraisers be appointed by the executive powers of the State (on application of the Quarter Master General or his assistants, or the owner or owners of the soil, or any person on his, her or their behalf) who shall value, appraise and fix the rent, or yearly sum, which, according to circumstances, from time to time, the United States shall pay, and the proprietor be obliged to receive, for the use and occupation of the site of the buildings, or so much of the ground as is or shall be necessarily occupied or held therewith for public purposes."]
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proprietors of such grounds in the manner herein before mentioned:]1
[Note 1: 1 The words in brackets are inserted in the origial report by John Jay.]
That where permanent buildings are erected with the consent of the owners of the ground, and no price is agreed on or transfer made thereof, if voluntary agreements cannot be made, the appraisers so to be appointed as herein before mentioned, shall value and appraise the ground on which such building is erected, according to circumstances, and on receipt or tender of the amount of such appraisement, the said ground be vested in and considered as the property of the United States, in fee simple or otherwise, according to the estate held therein by the proprietor or former occupant thereof.2
[Note 2: 2 On the margin, against this paragraph, is written: "Referred to [Edmund] Randolph, [Samuel] Huntington and [James] Duane." See under July 24, p. 883,post.]
And whereas divers persons become possessed of the property of the United States, either expressly delivered to their care on public roads from an impossibility to transport the same to the place or places of destination by badness of roads, breaking down of teams or other causes, or by finding or taking the same:
Resolved, That it be also recommended to the said legislatures to make provision by law, to oblige persons possessed of horses, cattle, stores, or other]3 property belonging to the United States, to deliver the same on demand to the proper officer, or in case no demand is made, to give notice thereof in a limited time to the executive power of the State wherein they reside, or to the nearest quarter master, commissary or public agent, and imposing heavy fines on such who neglect or refuse so to do; and in cases of felonies committed on the property of the United States, that persons guilty thereof be brought to immediate and exemplary punishment.4
[Note 3: 3 Words inserted by John Jay.]
[Note 4: 4 This report, dated July 21 (present, Pickering and Peters), is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, III, folio 545.]
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The Board of War having reported a plan for regulating the hide department, Congress took the same into consideration; and thereupon,
Resolved, That whensoever the business of the hide department shall require it in any State, the Board of War be authorized and directed to appoint a proper person to be commissary of hides therein, removable by the said Board for mismanagement, or when by the alteration of circumstances in the particular State no such officer is further necessary: provided, that when the business of the department will admit of it, two or more states may, by the said Board, be put under the direction of one commissary:
That the Board of War draw up instructions, from time to time, for the direction and government of the commissaries of hides in the respective states, and they are hereby enjoined to regulate their conduct by such instructions:
That it be recommended to the executive powers of the respective states, in which commissaries of hides are thought necessary to be appointed, to superintend their conduct, and in case of delinquency to suspend the person acting in that office, informing Congress, or the Board of War thereof, and of the reason on which such suspension is founded:
That the cloathier general have the superintendence of the commissaries of hides, and that he be allowed a clerk extraordinary to enable him to transact the business with the said commissaries, who shall make returns at least quarterly to the cloathier general, and he shall draw the whole of the returns received from the several commissaries into a general return, and transmit the same quarterly to the Board of War:
That the cloathier general supply monies, from time to time, to the commissaries in the respective states, to enable them to perform their contracts and pay their assistants and clerks; and that he be furnished with money accordingly by the Board of Treasury, upon estimates signed by the Board of War:
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That the respective commissaries of hides have so many assistants and clerks, as in the opinion of the Board of War the circumstances of their business shall, from time to time, require:
That the pay of a commissary of hides be a sum not exceeding 300 dollars per month, one ration a day, and the value of three rations more, as it now is, or hereafter shall be settled for officers in the line, and forage for one horse:
That the pay of an assistant commissary be a sum not exceeding 140 dollars per month, one ration a day,the value of one ration more as abovementioned, and forage for an horse.
Previous to passing the above resolution,
A motion was made by Mr. [Henry] Marchant, seconded by Mr. [Nahaniel] Peabody, to strike out the words, "the value of one ration more, as above mentioned", and on the question, shall those words stand? the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Henry] Marchant,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
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Resolved, That the pay of a clerk be a sum not exceeding 100 dollars per month, one ration a day, and the value of one ration more as aforesaid.
That reasonable travelling charges (to be settled at least every three months by the auditors of accounts,) be allowed to the commissaries of hides and their assistants, whensoever the business of their department obliges them to travel.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated June 2 (present, Pickering and Peters), is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, III, folio 378. On folio 377 is a letter from the Board, dated July 23, explaining the report.]
The committee appointed for regulating and retrenching the expences of the departments, brought in a report, which was read.
Ordered, That 60 copies be printed for the use of the members.
Report of the Committee for regulating Departments, &c.
Resolved, That it be recommended to these United States to levy by assessments, in kind or otherwise, as may be for each most expedient, before theday ofnext, and afterwards annually during the present war, to the amount ofmillions of Spanish milled dollars, in the following commodities, good and merchantable, at the following prices, to wit,
Resolved, That it be recommended to these states to levy as great a part as is possible of the amount aforesaid in provisions, and in such proportions as will most advance the public service.
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Resolved, That the quotas of the said amount to be supplied by the states respectively, shall be as follows, to wit,
Resolved, That every state shall also be credited for its quota, or any part thereof, if the same be supplied in the following imported articles, to wit, woolen cloaths, linnens, hose, shoes, hats, sail cloth, tent cloth, cordage, wine, rum, brandy, molasses, sugar, tea, coffee, salt, jesuit's bark, antimony, quicksilver, opium, cantharides and other necessary medicines.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the several states to supply the said articles in such proportions as will most advance the public service.
Resolved, That each state supplying any of the said imported articles shall be credited for them at an advance ofon the prime cost, and an addition offor insurance.
Resolved, That all the accounts between these states relating to their quotas of the supplies aforesaid, of every kind, shall be kept and finally settled in Spanish milled dollars, and the balances finally paid in the same, or in gold or other saver of equal value.
Resolved, That if it shall appear, upon an adjustment of the quotas of the several states, that any state has supplied more than its due proportion, every such state shall be paid the value of the surplus at the rates aforesaid, specifically in Spanish milled dollars, or in gold or other silver of equal value, with interest at six per centum per annum from the time such surplus supplies shall have been received into the public magazines: and every state which shall have failed to supply its due proportion shall be charged with the deficiency at the rates aforesaid, and the like interest thereon, from the time the same ought to have been delivered into the public magazines, to be paid specifically in Spanish milled dollars, or in gold or other silver of equal value, all which balances to or from any state shall be discharged in the order following, that is to say,
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The balances of the first year to conclude on the day on which the quotas are required to be compleated withinyears after the conclusion of the present war, and the balances of the second and every succeeding year respectively at equal distances of time from the period at which the balances respectively accrued.
Resolved, That all such commodities as shall be levied in manner aforesaid be brought to convenient landings on navigable waters, or to such convenient mills and places within each county, town or district, as the legislature shall appoint, at the expence of the state or the inhabitants supplying the same, which-ever to the state shall appear most expedient and equitable: that thence the same be conveyed at the expence of the United States. And for the expediting of the conveyance of such supplies to the places where they may be required, that the commissioners of each state, hereafter mentioned, be authorised and directed by the legislature thereof, whenever a passage through the same may be expedient, to receive on due notice the supplies from the commissioners of any other state, and to convey the same towards the place where they will be necessary for the public service, in the same manner as if they had been at first provided therein, which commissioners are to give receipts to those delivering such supplies, mentioning the sorts, number or quantity and quality of the articles received.
Resolved, That it be recommended to these states respectively to make effectual provision for transporting the said commodities: that the states respectively be allowed for every ton weight by land carriage per mileand for every ton weight by water carriage per mileand so in proportion for a greater or less quantity; and the amount of all carriage performed by any state for the United States shall be credited at the rate aforesaid as part of the quota of such state; and where the same, together with the other supplies furnished by any state, shall exceed the said quota, every such state shall have credit for the same and be reimbursed specifically in Spanish milled dollars or in gold or other silver of equal value, in like manner and at like periods as mentioned in the eighth foregoing resolution.
Resolved, Thatlight, swift, well armed and appointed vessels be stationed in the Bay of Chesapeak, andin the sounds of North-Carolina, to convoy and protect the vessels which may be employed in transporting public stores.
Resolved, That a sufficient number of commissioners be appointed by the legislature of each state, with proper powers to superintend and
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manage the collecting, storing, securing, removing, shipping, and otherwise applying to the uses hereafter mentioned respectively the said commodities.
Resolved, That such articles as will be required for the use of the armies or fleets of these United States, or of their allies, shall be placed by the said commissioners under the direction of the board of war, in such stores or magazines that they may be in the quickest, easiest, cheapest and most effectual manner applied to such uses; and that the said commissioners shall take effectual care that every barrel of flour shall be plainly branded on one head, so as to show the miller's name, the quality of the flour, whether superfine, common or ship stuff, the net weight contained in each barrel, and the initial letters of the commissioners names; and that each barrel of beef or pork be branded in like manner, to show the said initials, and the net weight of the meat contained therein.
Resolved, That such articles as shall not be required for the uses aforesaid, or from local circumstances cannot be applied to them, and are not of a perishable nature, shall be placed in such stores and magazines that they may be in the best manner secured, and most conveniently conveyed to market, to be disposed of for the benefit of these states.
Resolved, That such articles as shall not be required for the uses aforesaid, and are of a perishable nature, shall be sold or exchanged with the approbation of the board of war, or of the supreme magistrate of the state, if the board be too remote to be consulted in due time, for such articles as are immediately necessary for the said uses, if local circumstances will permit their being applied to the same in proper time, otherwise they shall be sold or exchanged for such enumerated commodities as are not perishable, which are to be secured in stores or magazines as aforesaid.
Resolved, That all such articles, not of a perishable nature, which shall be levied as aforesaid, or which shall be obtained by sale or exchange, as is mentioned in the next foregoing resolution, and not required for the uses aforesaid, shall be appropriated to the purpose of raising a fund for discharging all contracts for gold or silver which have been or hereafter shall be made on account of these states.
Resolved, That the said commissioners shall every month render to the board of treasury an account, whereof a duplicate shall at the same time be delivered to the chief magistrate of the state, by which they are appointed, of all their proceedings relative to
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the articles mentioned in the next preceding resolution, and regular returns of all such articles, exactly specifying the sorts, quantity or number and quality thereof then in the public stores or magazines, and the situation of such stores or magazines; and shall pay obedience to all such directions as they shall from time to time receive from the said board concerning the management and disposal of the articles so appropriated.
Resolved, That the said commissioners be also authorised and directed, upon requisition from the board of war, to contract for and purchase such farther supplies of the commodities, in the first and fourth resolutions enumerated, as may be necessary for the uses before mentioned; and that if Congress shall at any time judge proper to recommend an embargo on produce, then it shall be also recommended to every state to pass laws for confiscating all articles imported into the same contrary to the laws of the state from which they are imported; and that if any state be permitted, notwithstanding such embargo, to procure the produce of another state, all purchases of such produce be made by the same commissioners.
Resolved, That for ascertaining the duties of such commissioners, the quartermaster general and commissary general shall, in the month of October annually, transmit information to the board of war of all the particular articles of the supplies, specifying the sorts, quantity or number and quality, which will be necessary in their several departments for the ensuing campaign; and the said board shall issue orders to such and so many of the commissioners as shall by them be deemed expedient, for putting themselves in condition, by sale, exchange or purchase of commodities, to furnish the supplies so required: and the quartermaster and commissary general shall from time to time issue requisitions to such of the commissioners, as by the returns shall appear to be in condition to comply with the same, for all the necessary supplies for the army, directing the transportation of the same to such magazines and places as the exigencies of the service shall render necessary; and the commissioners respectively shall pay obedience to such requisitions and directions.
Resolved, That the said commissioners shall every month make returns, whereof duplicates shall at the same time be delivered to the chief magistrate of the state by which they are appointed, to the board of war of all supplies received by them and then in the
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stores or magazines, specifying the sorts, quantity or number and quality, and the situation of such stores or magazines, except such as are mentioned in theresolution preceding, and all which have been issued during the month, mentioning when and to whom they have been delivered, and all articles purchased, sold or obtained by exchange under any of the foregoing resolutions, the time when such purchase, sale or exchange was made, the names of the persons dealt with therein, their places of abode, the sorts, quantity or number and quality of the articles, and the prices or terms of the bargain; and also an account of all the vessels, boats and carriages employed by them, the names of the owners and their places of abode, the time they were employed, and the prices given; that they also make monthly returns to the quartermaster general and commissary general of the supplies then in the stores or magazines, specifying them as aforesaid, and the situation of such stores or magazines.
Resolved, That the several states do require security by bond and oath from the commissioners by them respectively appointed for the due and faithful discharge of their duties, and that no commissioner shall keep, own, or in any manner whatsoever directly or indirectly be interested in any boat, shallop, vessel, waggon or cart, or in any waggon, horse or cart horse, or the hire thereof, in any manner employed in the removal or transportation of public supplies of any kind.
Resolved, That the commissioners shall be allowedper cent. on the rated value of all the commodities to be levied as aforesaid, and of all the supplies which they shall purchase; such allowance not to exceed what it would amount to at the rates aforesaid, and not to be less than the same, notwithstanding they the said commissioners may have procured them at a lower rate: that an allowance ofper cent. upon all savings that shall be made by procuring supplies under the rated prices, be given to the commissioners respectively who shall make the same, and the said commissioners shall receive at their election respectively, all the said allowances either in bills of credit as the same shall become due or in Spanish milled dollars, or in gold or other silver of equal value, at the same periods as when the balances due to and from the states for the year in which their respective services shall be performed become payable, with interest on the same at the rate aforesaid.
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Resolved, That the said commissioners account with such persons as shall be by Congress authorised for that purpose, who shall report thereon to the board of treasury for re-examination; and on thus accounting the said commissioners shall produce receipts for all sums paid and for all articles delivered by them.
Resolved, That the board of war shall, as occasion may require, appoint judicious persons to purchase such waggons and horses as may be necessary for the public service.
Resolved, That the quartermaster general give directions and orders to the waggonmaster's department, that the same may assist and cooperate with the commissioners of the several states in the best and most effectual method for the removal and transportation of supplies.
Resolved, That the quartermaster general may employ artificers, whose attendance in the army shall be indispensibly necessary, and no others.
Resolved, That all camp equipage, and all other such articles of every kind, not hereinbefore enumerated, as have heretofore been provided by the quartermaster general, shall hereafter be provided by the commissary of military stores, under the direction of the hoard of war.
Resolved, That the commissary general of military stores shah make monthly returns of all the stores to the board of war, specifying the sorts, quantity or number and quality, and shall deliver none to any person whatever but by order of that board, specifying them in like manner.
Resolved, That all such necessary supplies of provisions as are not in the foregoing resolutions enumerated, shall be procured by the commissary general.
Resolved, That there be one quartermaster general:
One deputy quartermaster general for the main army:
One for every separate army:
One quartermaster for every division of the army:
One for every brigade:
One for every battalion:
One foragemaster general for the main army:
One deputy for every separate army:
One forage master for each brigade:
One for head-quarters and staff:
One for the commissary's department:
One waggonmaster general for the main army:
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Two deputies for the main army:
One deputy for every separate army:
One conductor to head-quarters:
One to the staff:
One to each brigade of the army:
One to each brigade of waggons belonging to the commissary's department and the forage department:
And that all other officers in the quartermaster's department be discontinued:
That every quartermaster general, deputy quartermaster general, foragemaster general, and deputy foragemaster general, and waggonmaster general, and deputies, and every conductor take an oath and give bond to the board of war, in such sums as the said board shall direct, for the due and faithful discharge of their respective duties; nor shall any of the said officers, who are hereby required to take an oath and give bond, be deemed duly qualified to execute the respective office or to receive the pay and emoluments appertaining thereto, until such oath be taken and certificate thereof be lodged in the hands of the next superior officer of the staff department, and until bond be given as aforesaid, and the same lodged as aforesaid: and every officer with whom such bond and certificate shall be lodged is hereby required and enjoined to transmit the same to the board of war withindays after the same shall be lodged, on pain of being dismissed from the service.
Resolved, That the offices of commissary general of purchases and commissary general of issues be discontinued: that there be one commissary general, whose duty it shall be to receive and issue provisions, and to procure them as is directed in theresolution preceding:
That there be one deputy for the main army:
One for every separate army; each of which deputies shall take an oath and give bond for the due and faithful performance of their respective duties, under like rules and restrictions, mutatis mutandis, as are laid down in the last preceding resolution respecting the officers in the quartermaster's department: and the commissary general or his deputies may employ drovers, who on receiving his stock from the commissioners of any state shall give receipts for the same, and shall receive from the commissioners with the stock invoices thereof, which they shall deliver respectively to the commissary general or one of his deputies; and such stock shall be killed
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under the direction of the commissary general or one of his deputies, and the hides and useful offal be delivered to the commissary of hides, under the regulations made by Congress October 11th, 1777.
Resolved, That the quartermaster general and commissary general, and each of their deputies, be allowed one clerk.
Resolved, That no post shah be established in any state for issuing rations of any kind, unless the quartermaster general or one of his deputies shall certify in writing to the chief magistrate thereof that such a post is indispensibly necessary for the public service; whereupon the said magistrate may, if he thinks such post necessary, establish the same:
That no rations shall be issued to the staff except in camp: that rum or whiskey be not paid for as parts of rations if not drawn.
Resolved, That no person shall hold two offices in the quartermaster general or commissary general's departments, or receive pay, rations or subsistance, on pretence of holding two offices, under pain of being dismissed with infamy, and forfeiting all his pay during the whole time he was in empolyment:
That no person holding an office in the quartermaster general's or commissary general's departments, shall, while holding the same, keep, own, or be in any manner whatever interested in any boat, shallop, vessel, waggon or cart, or in any waggon, horse or cart horse, or the hire thereof, employed in the removal or transportation of supplies, or be engaged in, or carry on any kind of trade, commerce or traffic whatever on his private account, under the penalty last above mentioned.1
[Note 1: 1 One of the printed copies of this report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 39, II, folio 62. A copy in the writing of Thomas Burke is in No. 28, folio 251, endorsed "September 1, 1779." Burke was not a member of the committee from which this report emanated; and from the fact that his copy is without corrections or additions, it may be assumed that he made it for some purpose connected with another report dealing with the same subject. See under July 9, pp. 812--815,ante.]
The Board of Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Major General Greene, quarter master general, on the application of Charles Pettit, Esq. assistant quarter master general, for five millions of dollars, for the use of his department; and for which he is to be accountable.
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That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Thomas Smith, Esq. commissioner of the continental loan office in Pensylvania, for two millions of dollars, for the purpose of redeeming bills of the emissions of May 20th, 1777, and April 11, 1778; he to be accountable.
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of John Levinus Clarkson, clerk to the Board of Treasury, for five hundred dollars, on account of his salary; for which he is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated July 23, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 493.]
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of R. Smith, Esq. one of the commissioners of claims at the Treasury, for two thousand dollars; for which he is to be accountable.2
[Note 2: 2 These paragraphs formed a report from the Board, dated July 21, in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 495.]
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Joseph Nourse, Esq. assistant auditor general at the Treasury, for fifteen hundred dollars; for which he is to be accountable.
Resolved, That the Board of Treasury be authorised to employ and agree with a copper plate printer on such terms as they shall judge reasonable.2
The Board of Treasury report, that they have appointed Francis Swaine, Henry Epple, Michael Kimmell, Jacob Graff, Jun. Christopher Baker, David Shaffer, Jun. Michael Shubart, Henry Kammerer, James Wilson, Jacob Schreiner, and Charles Cist, signers of bills of credit.3
[Note 3: 3 These names were reported to Congress on July 9 and 10, and are in thePapers of the Continental Congress, III, folios 461 and 467.]
The commissioners at the Treasury report,
That there is due to the officers and privates of the invalid regiment commanded by Colonel L. Nicola, for their pay and subsistance, for the month of May last, the sum of two thousand two hundred and forty seven dollars and 2/90.
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That there is due to David C Claypoole, for Printing copies of the Journals of Congress, from the 4th. of May to the 9th. instant, twelve thousand three hundred and seventy three
RecommittedThat he hath received from the Treasurer as appears by the Books on 3rd June, 1779, six thousand
Which leaves a balance due him of six thousand three hundred and seventy three dollars.
That there is due to Nathan Rice, his Account for Expences from South Carolina to this City with despatches for Congress,Postponed one thousand two hundred and seventy nine and 30/90
That he hath received from John Lewis Jarvis Deputy pay Master General, Southern Department, by virtue of General Lincoln's order one thousand
Which leaves a balance due Nathan Rice of two hundred and seventy nine and 30/90 dollars
That there is due to Christian Rice, lieutenant of the fourth battalion of Pensylvania militia, his expences for conducting Lieutenant Cameron, a British prisoner, from the Yellow Springs to Reading, by order of Doctor Kennedy, fifty seven dollars and 64/90.
For three privates five horses and six Waggons pressed by order of Cole Evans to transport Baggage &c1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated July 19, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 485.]
Ordered, That the said accounts be paid.
Ordered, That so much of their report as relates to D.C. Claypole be re-committed, and that so much of said report as relates to N. Rice, be postponed.
A number of resolutions relative to finance being offered for the consideration of the House, by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry,
Ordered, That the same be referred to a committee of five:
The members chosen, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Mr. [William Churchill] Houston, Mr. [Samuel] Huntington, Mr. [Joseph] Hewes, and Mr. [Meriwether] Smith.
Adjourned to 10 oClock to Morrow.2
[Note 2: 2 A petition of Jean Laugeay, dated July 23, was read this day. It is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, IV, folio 204.]
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