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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, SEPTEMBER 15, 1779.
The delegates of North Carolina laid before Congress a letter from Brigadier General Hogan, which was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of this day, from the honble Sieur Gérard, minister plenipotentiary of France, was read, desiring, in the course of this week, an audience, in order that he may take his leave:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is printed in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), III, 315.]
Resolved, That Friday next be assigned for granting a private audience to the honble Sieur Gerard, minister plenipotentiary of France, in order to his taking leave.
Resolved, That this private audience be in full Congress.
Another letter, of this day, from the said Minister Plenipotentiary, was read, informing that "he has constituted the Sieur James Wilson advocate general of the French nation, in order that he may be charged with all the causes and matters relative to navigation and commerce."
A letter, of 5, from J. Wadsworth, commissary general, to the committee of Congress appointed to superintend that department, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXIV, folio 79.]
Ordered, That it be referred back to the said committee.
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. [John] Jay, one of the delegates for the State of New York, on his application, for three thousand dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.
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That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. S[amuel] Huntington, one of the delegates for 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 Colonel B. Flower, commissary general of military stores, on the application of the Board of War and Ordnance, for five hundred thousand dollars, for the use of his department, to be issued from time to time from the Treasury as the necessities of the department shall require; for which the said commissary general is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated September 11, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 633.]
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. N[athaniel] Scudder, one of the delegates for the State of New Jersey, on his application, for one thousand dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Richard Philips, steward to the President of Congress, for five thousand dollars, on his application; for which he is to be accountable.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, dated September 13, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 637.]
Treasury Office, September 15, 1779.
The Committee on the Treasury, having considered a Letter, of the 13th instant, from Anthony Butler Esqr., Agent for General Mifflin, late Quarter Master General, enclosing another, of the 29th. of August last, from James Thompson, Assistant Quartermaster General, together with an abstract of Wages due to the Waggon Department while under the direction of General Mifflin, amounting to 12.000 dollars, and requesting a warrant for this sum, beg leave to report the following resolution:
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Major General Mifflin, late quarter master general, for twelve thousand dollars, on the application of Anthony Butler, Esq. his agent, to enable the said General Mifflin to discharge
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agreeable to an estimate of James Thomson, assistant quarter master general, the wages due to the waggon department, while under his direction; and for which General Mifflin is to be accountable.
That a warrant issue on Nicholas Gilman, Esq. commissioner of the continental loan office in New Hampshire, in favour of Lydia Emerson, administratrix of Moses Emerson, deceased, late commissioner of accounts for the middle department, for one thousand dollars, being the sum allowed to each of his colleagues, James Stevenson and Samuel Downe, Esquires, and that the account of the said Moses Emerson be credited for three hundred and eighty two dollars and 30/90, being the amount of his funeral charges.
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of the delegates for the State of South Carolina, on their application, for ten thousand dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.
That the warrant issued the first instant, in favour of Joseph Carleton, pay master to the Board of War and Ordnance, for one million of dollars, be cancelled; and that in lieu thereof a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, Esq. commissioner of the continental loan office in Pensylvania, for six hundred thousand dollars and another warrant on the treasurer, for four hundred thousand dollars, in favour of the said Joseph Carleton, to be applied by the Board of War to the purchases of cloathing for the army; the said Joseph Carleton to be accountable.
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. W[illiam] Whipple, one of the delegates for the State of New Hampshire, on his application, for three thousand dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.
The Committee on the Treasury, having according to order considered a letter, of the 2d of August last, from General Washington, enclosing one of the 21st of August from Colonel Richard Butler, beg leave further to report:
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Resolved, That a copy of Colonel Butler's letter of the 21 August, which was enclosed in General Washington's letter of the 23 of the said month, and referred to the Board of Treasury, be transmitted to the auditors of the main army, who are directed to allow him 2316 dollars, the sum mentioned in his letter, on his making oath to the facts set forth in the same.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 653.]
Treasury Office, September 10th., 1779.
The Committee on the Treasury, to whom was referred a letter of the 8th. instant from the Board of War, the first part of which represents the impropriety of making them accountable for the monies granted by warrants from Congress for the purposes of purchasing necessaries for the army, and requests that the stile of a warrant of the first instant issued in their favour for one million of dollars, to enable them to purchase Cloathing for the Army for which they stand accountable, may be altered and that Joseph Carleton, their pay master, may be made accountable, for the same, having considered that part of said Letter beg leave to report
Resolved, That all applications in future for moneys for the use of the different departments under the direction of the Board of War, be made to the Treasury by the pay master of the said Board, who is instructed to have them previously certified by the Board of War; and that for all sums granted in consequence of such applications the said pay master be accountable.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 629.]
The commissioners report,
That there is due to the reverend Mr. Lotbinier chaplain to Colonel Livingston's regiment, for his pay and subsistance, from the 11th to the 31st August last, inclusive, 21 days, at sixty dollars per month, forty two dollars:3
[Note 3: 3 This report, dated September 14, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 645.]
Ordered, That the said account be paid.
Ordered, That the report of the commissioners on the accounts of John Baynton, pay master in the western district,
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be referred to the Board of Treasury, who are empowered and directed to take order thereon.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on further ways and means of supplying the treasury, and some time being spent thereon,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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