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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 --MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1779
A letter, of 15, from General Washington, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, VIII, folio 247. It is printed in Writings of Washington (Ford), VIII, 138.]
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Roger] Sherman, Mr. [James] Forbes and Mr. [Robert R.] Livingston.
Ordered, That the committee confer with the president and supreme executive council of Pensylvania.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee, to whom was referred the report of the Committee on the Treasury of 5th November last:
Ordered, That both reports be referred to a committee of the whole.
Congress was then resolved into a committee of the whole, and after some time, the President resumed the chair and Mr. [George] Plater reported that the committee have had under consideration the reports to them referred, but have come to no resolutions thereon and desire leave to sit again:
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Resolved, That to morrow Congress be resolved into a committee of the whole to consider farther the reports referred to them.
The committee on the letter, of the 16, from the president and supreme executive council of Pensylvania, delivered in a report.1
[Note 1: 1 See under December 27, p. 1411, post.]
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That on the application of Chaloner and White, agents for Jeremiah Wadsworth, Esq. commissary general of purchases, a warrant issue in his favour on John Stevens, Jun. Esq. treasurer of the State of New Jersey, for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in part of the monies raised in the said State for the use of the United States, for the use of his department; for which he is to be accountable.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, dated December 20, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, III, folio 919. The paragraphs printed under December 22, p. 1401, post, formed part of this report.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to morrow.
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