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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, JANUARY 22, 1780
The Board of Admiralty having laid before Congress a return of the officers of the navy:
Ordered, That the same be referred back to the Board, and that they report on the expediency of stopping pay and rations or subsistance to all officers and mechanics of the admiralty not in actual service; preserving to the former their rank in the navy.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. J[ames] Searle, one of the delegates for the State of
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Pensylvania, for five thousand dollars, on his application; for which the said State is to be accountable.
That a warrant issue on John Lawrence, commissioner of the continental loan office, for the State of Connecticut, for three one million of dollars, arising from the sale of bills of exchange in favour of Jeremiah Wadsworth, late commissary general of purchases, to be by him transmitted to Henry Champion, deputy commissary general of purchases in the eastern department, for which he is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 49.]
Congress proceeded to the election of another commissioner. and the ballots being taken, General Thomas Mifflin was elected.
The committee to whom was referred the return of rations issued in Philadelphia, delivered in a report.
Congress proceeded to the election of judges of the Court of Appeals; and the ballots being taken, the President informed Congress, that Mr. [George] Wythe, Mr. [William] Paca and Mr. [Titus] Hosmer, were duly elected; Mr. Hosmer and Mr. Paca having an equal number of votes.
A letter of 19th, from General Washington, and two of 19, from Major General Greene, were read.2
[Note 2: 2 Washington's letter, dated January 18, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, VIII, folio 351; Greene's letters are in No. 155, I, folios 200 and 204.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock on Monday.
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