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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, FEBRUARY 18, 1780
A letter, of the 5th, from General Schuyler was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 153, III, folio 503.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A memorial from John Holker, Esquire, agent for the marine of France, &c., was read, accompanied with an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Admiralty for the State of Massachusetts Bay, on the libel John Tucker versus the ship Le Vern:
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Committee on Appeals.
Congress took into farther consideration the report of the committee for estimating supplies, and in debating the following paragraph, viz. "All stall fed beef that shall be delivered after the first of January, and before the first of July, 7½ dollars per net hundred weight,"
A motion was made by Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth, seconded by Mr. [William] Floyd, to strike out "7½" and in lieu thereof, insert "8½"
On the question shall the words moved to be struck out, stand,
The yeas and nays were required by Mr. [Nathaniel] Peabody,
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So it passed in the negative, and the words were struck out.
It was moved to insert "eight,"
Question put,
It passed in the affirmative.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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