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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 --THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1779
A letter, of 11, from the honble Sr Gérard, was read, enclosing a letter, of 11 July, from Marquis Bouillé, at Martinique.
Ordered, That a copy of the same be referred to the Committee of Commerce.
A letter, of 5th, from General Washington, was read, enclosing an arrangement of the officers in the line of Massachusetts bay troops, as settled by a board of general officers:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, VII, folio 469.]
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of 21 June, from Major General Lincoln, was read.
A petition of Thomas Keaton and others, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Marine Committee, and that they take order thereon.
A letter, of 11, from Charles Pettit, was read.
A resolution of the supreme executive council of Pensylvania [dated August 11] was laid before Congress, and read:2
[Note 2: 2 Lincoln's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 158, folio 259; the resolution of the Pennsylvania Council, in No. 69, II, folio 103.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee on the quarter master and commissary general's departments.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. John Penn, one of the delegates of North Carolina, on his application, for two thousand dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.
The Marine Committee, to whom was referred the petition of Francis Chevalier de la Nos, Jules Anne le Moine, Chevalier de Neufville, &c. report, that they have examined into the matter complained of in the said memorial, and find the facts therein set forth to be truly stated: Whereupon Congress came to the following resolution:
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Whereas Francis Chevalier de la Nos, Jules Anne le Moine, Chevalier de Neufeille, Julien Bouchaud, and Joseph Jacob du Tetre, subjects of his most Christian Majesty, have by due course of law recovered judgment against John Douglass, late commander of the privateer schooner called theHunter, by commission under Congress, for the sum of nine thousand seven hundred and eighty pounds sterling for injuries they had sustained from the said John Douglass, while acting under pretext of his said commission, in seizing and taking the said Francis Chevalier de la Nos, Jules Anne le Moine, Chevalier de Neufeille, Julien Bouchaud, and Joseph Jacob du Tetre, their vessel and cargo; and that since the said judgment was obtained, the said John Douglass hath absconded out of the State of Pensylvania and eluded the said judgment, and prevented redress for the said injuries committed; therefore,
Resolved, That the bond given at the time the said John Douglass obtained his said commission be put in suit, and that his said commission be vacated and made void; and also that the said John Douglass be not admitted to hold any commission under these United States, on board any ship or vessel of war, until such time as he shall surrender himself and abide the said judgment against him, or procure the same to be reversed or set aside by due course of law.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on the report of the Board of War, respecting Colonel Knobelauch; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the same be referred to the Board of Treasury, and that they take order thereon.
An account of Captain Joseph Traversee against the United States, was laid before Congress:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
Mr. [Jesse] Root, a delegate from Connecticut, attended, and took his seat in Congress.
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Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on a farther allowance for the officers of the army; and farther amendments being moved:
Ordered, That the report, with the amendments, be referred to a committee of five:
The members chosen, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Mr. [James] Duane, Mr. [Meriwether] Smith, Mr. [Jesse] Root, and Mr. [Thomas] Burke.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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