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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, JANUARY 3, 1780
The committee, to whom was referred the report of the Board of Treasury; of the 21 December last, for a grant of a million of dollars to Colonel B. Flower, commissary general of military stores, brought in a report; Whereupon,
Resolved, That on the application of the Board of War and Ordnance, a warrant issue on David Rittenhouse, treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania, for one million dollars, being part of the monies raised by the said State for the use of the United States, in favour of Colonel Benjamin Flower, commissary general of military stores; to be by him appropriated for discharging indispensable contracts already made in his department; and for which sum he is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of William Floyd, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, II, folio 293.]
A letter, of this day, from J. Wadsworth; was read, enclosing a copy of his letter of the same date to the Commander in Chief.2
[Note 2: 2 Wadsworth's letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXIV, folio 159.]
The Board of War; to whom was referred the letter of 6th December last, from Andrew Harper; brought in a report; Whereupon;
Resolved, That the sum of ninety-six dollars be allowed to Andrew Harper, for his services from August 1st, to December 11, 1779; he being during that period employed in extra duty by General Hogan, while commanding in Philadelphia.3
[Note 3: 3 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, IV, folio 1.]
A report of the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. J[ohn] Mathews, a delegate for the State of South Carolina, on his application, for five thousand dollars; for which the said State is to be accountable.
That on the application of Mr. C[yrus] Griffin, delegate for the State of Virginia, a warrant issue on the treasurer, in
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favour of John Moss, agent for the said State, for one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to enable him to pay for certain supplies of cloathing, and other necessaries purchased for the use of the troops of the said State in the continental army; the said State to be accountable for that sum till repaid, and for the repayment thereof.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the board of trade of the State of Virginia, in favour of Charles Pettit, assistant quarter master general, on account of Major General Greene, quarter master general, for one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to reimburse the like sum this day lent to the said State, for which the said quarter master general is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 3.]
The order of the day being called for, to determine the place to which Congress will on the last Saturday in April, adjourn.
A motion was made by Mr. [James] Forbes, seconded by Mr. [Cyrus] Griffin, that the consideration thereof be postponed to the last Monday in February; on which, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [James] Searle,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr. [Robert R.] Livingston, seconded by Mr. [John] Mathews,
Resolved, That the Board of Treasury publish the determination of Congress with respect to the drawing of bills of exchange, agreeable to the resolution of the 27 December last; the terms upon which they are to be sold, and the time on which they will be ready for sale, together with the names of the persons appointed to dispose of the same.
According to order, Congress took into consideration the report of the Medical Committee, viz.
That each and every officer hereafter mentioned and described in this resolve, belonging to the medical department in the hospitals, or army, who is now in the service of the United States, and shall continue therein during the war, and not hold any office or profit under the United States, or any of them, shall after the conclusion of the war, be entitled to receive, annually, for the term of seven years, if they shall live so long, viz; the physicians general, surgeons general, the physician and surgeon general of the army, the deputy directors general, each, a sum equal to the half pay granted and extended to a colonel in the line of the army by a resolve of Congress, of the 15 of May, 1778; the senior surgeons and physicians, assistant deputy directors, and the apothecary general, each, a sum equal to the half pay of a lieutenant colonel, granted and extended by the resolve aforesaid; the junior or second surgeons of the hospitals and the regimental surgeons, each, a sum equal to the half pay of a major in the line, granted and extended as aforesaid; the mates of the regimental surgeons, the apothecary's mates, or assistants, each, a sum equal to the half pay granted and extended to a
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lieutenant in the line of the army, by the resolve aforesaid; the whole of the foregoing allowances are to be subject in every respect to the same rules, restrictions and limitations, upon which the half pay of the aforementioned officers of the line was granted and extended by the said resolve, of the 15 of May, 1778.
That each of the aforementioned and described officers in the medical department, or their legal representatives, respectively, shall be entitled to the like quantity of lands with the aforementioned and described officers of the line, in due proportion to the sums granted to them respectively by the preceding resolve, upon the same conditions, and subject to the same rules, restrictions and limitations, as the grants of lands to the aforementioned officers of the line, by a resolve of Congress of the 16 September, 1776.
On the question to agree to the first proposition for granting half pay, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Roger] Sherman,
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So it passed in the negative.
On the question to agree to the second proposition for granting lands, the States were equally divided, and the question lost.
Adjourned to 10 o'clock to Morrow.
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