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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 --SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1779.
Mr. J[ames] M'Clene, a delegate for the State of Pensylvania, attended and took his seat in Congress.
Mr. Robert R. Livingston, a delegate for the State of New York, attended and produced the credentials of his appointment, which were read, as follows:
State of New York,
In Senate, October 15th, 1779.
Resolved, that this Senate do concur with the honble. the House of Assembly in their Resolution on the Subject of "appointing a Delegate from this State in General Congress for the present Year, in the stead of the honble. John Jay, Esqr, appointed Minister from the United States to the Court of Madrid."
Resolved, that this Senate do concur with the honble. the house of Assembly "that a special Occasion does now exist on which the Chancellor and Judges of the Supreme Court may be elected Delegates to
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the General Congress: And that, of the Chancellor and Judges of the Supreme Court, one should on this Occasion be elected a Delegate to continue in Office until the first Day of April next."
Resolved, if the honble. the House of Assembly concur herein, that if any Question be put in Congress when only one of the Delegates of this State shall be present, the Vote of such Delegate on the Question shall be the Vote of this State: Provided always that the Attendance of three of the said Delegates, as required by the former Resolutions of the Senate and Assembly, be considered in full force,
Ordered, that Mr. Van Schaick carry a Copy of the aforegoing Resolutions to the honble. the House of Assembly.
October 18th.
A Message of the honble. the House of Assembly, by Mr. Pell and Mr. Purdy, was received; informing, "that they concur with this Senate in the Resolution of the 15th Instant authorizing any one of the Delegates of this State, present in Congress, when a Question shall be put, to give the Vote of this State."
Resolved, that the honble. Philip Schuyler, Esquire, be and hereby is declared duly nominated and appointed a Delegate from this State in the Congress of the United States of America, in the stead of the honble. John Jay, Esquire, for the present Year.
Resolved, that the honble. Robert R. Livingston, Esquire, Chancellor of this State, be and hereby is declared duly nominated and appointed a Delegate, on the present special Occasion, from this State in the Congress of the United States of America; to continue in his said Office of Delegate until the first Day of April next.
By Order of the Senate.
Pierre Van Cortlandt, President.
Attest:
Robert Benson, Clerk.1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, New York, Credentials of Delegates.]
Congress took into consideration the report of the Medical Committee on the hospital staff; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the director general, deputy directors general, the assistant deputy directors, the physicians and surgeons general of the hospitals and army, the senior surgeons, the second or junior surgeons, the apothecaries general and
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apothecaries mates or assistants, the hospital chaplains, regimental surgeons and mates, mates of the military hospitals, commissaries, assistant commissaries, pay masters and stewards of the hospital, who shall have been in the service for the space of one year, and are at present employed in the same, shall each be entitled annually to draw cloathing from the stores of the cloathier general, in the same manner and under the same regulations as are established for officers of the line by a resolution of Congress of the 26 day of November, 1777.
Resolved, That until the further order of Congress, the following officers of the military hospital shall be entitled to subsistence, in like manner as is granted to officers of the line by a resolution of the 18th day of August last, and in the following proportions, viz. each deputy director general, 500 dollars per month; each assistant deputy director, 400 dollars; each physician general and surgeon general, 500 dollars; each physician and surgeon general, 500 dollars; each senior surgeon, 400 dollars; each junior surgeon, 300 dollars; each apothecary general, 400 dollars; each apothecary's assistant or mate, 100 dollars; each commissary, 300 dollars; each commissary's assistant, 200 dollars; each clerk, who is to be pay master, 200 dollars; each steward, 100 dollars; each chaplain, 400 dollars;
The same to commence from the 18 day of August last.
Resolved, That all the said officers of the military hospital and all regimental surgeons and their mates who shall continue in the service to the end of the present war, shall be entitled to quotas of lands respectively, in like manner as is stipulated, in favour of officers of the line by the resolution of theday of, which quotas shall be ascertained and apportioned according to the rate of subsistance above granted.
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Resolved, That all mates necessarily employed in the military hospital or army shall, during service, be entitled to the same subsistence as is given to regimental mates, viz. 100 dollars per month.
Resolved, That the remainder of the report be re-committed.
The committee, to whom was referred the letter, of 17 October last, from Mr. P[hilip] Schuyler, brought in a report:
Ordered, That it be taken into consideration on Tuesday next.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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