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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, DECEMBER 17, 1779
A letter, of 13th; and one, of 14, from General Washington, were read:
Ordered, That the letter of the 13th, with the papers enclosed, be referred to the committee on the letters from Mr. Wadsworth and Mr. Champion supplies.
A letter, of 12, from Major General Greene, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 The Washington letters are in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, VIII, folios 227, 243; that of Greene, in No. 155, I, folio 188.]
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Thomas] Burke, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry and Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth.
A return of provisions and stores issued at Philadelphia, from the 1st to 26 November, inclusive, being laid before Congress, and
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A motion grounded thereon being made by Mr. [William Churchill] Houston, and seconded by Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry,
Ordered, That the return and motion be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [William Churchill] Houston, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry and Mr. [John] Penn.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. W. Ramsey, one of the clerks in the chamber of accounts, on his application, for two thousand dollars on account of his salary:
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. Patrick Ferral, clerk in the auditor general's office, on his application, for two thousand five hundred dollars, on account of his salary.
The Board of Treasury, to whom was re-committed their report on Mr. Milligan's letter, report,
That after maturely reflecting upon the ordinance for establishing a Board of Treasury, it appears evident to them that Congress intended the auditor general and his assistant should examine the accounts and vouchers reported upon by the chambers of accounts, as a check; which, in the opinion of the Board, is of too much importance to be dispensed with, and in order that the intention of Congress may be fully complied with, the Board beg leave to observe, that the assistant auditor general should not be confined to the posting of the books, as the ordinance directs, but that this duty be performed hereafter by a clerk properly qualified; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the duty of keeping and stating the public books at the treasury be assignable, as often as necessary, to the first clerk in the auditor general's office, that the assistant auditor general may be the better enabled to attend to other parts of his duty.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, dated December 16, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 907.]
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On motion of Mr. [Roger] Sherman, seconded by Mr. [Thomas] Burke,
Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to obtain estimates of the supplies necessary to be procured for the use of the army for the year ensuing, in the commissaries' and quarter masters' departments, and also for the support of the war, and report to Congress the quantities and kinds which each State ought to furnish as its quota thereof.
Resolved, That when the legislature of any State shall have undertaken to procure its quota of any of the articles required, all purchases of such articles by the commissaries and quarter masters in such State be discontinued:
The members chosen, Mr. [James] Searle, Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth, Mr. [Thomas] Burke, Mr. [Robert R.] Livingston, and Mr. [Cyrus] Griffin.
The following gentlemen were put in nomination for the office of secretary to the minister plenipotentiary to the court of France:
Mr. G[ouverneur] Morris, by Mr. [John] Mathews; Mr. [James] Lovell by Mr. [William] Ellery; Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton by Mr. [James] Lovell, and Colonel Stewart by Mr. [George] Plater.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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