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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, MARCH 13, 1780
A letter, of 24 January from H. Laurens to the Committee of Foreign Affairs was laid before Congress and read, and returned to the committee.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is printed in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), III, 467.]
A letter, of 2, from S. Steward to the Committee of Commerce was laid before Congress and read:
Ordered, That it be returned to the Committee of Commerce, to take order.
A letter, of 21 February, from G. Wythe was read, declining the office of judge of the Court of Appeals.2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXIV, folio 183.]
Mr. [Cyrus] Griffin, a delegate for the State of Virginia, laid before Congress sundry resolutions of the general assembly of that State; one dated, November 10, one of the 23, and two of the 24 December, last.3
[Note 3: 3 The resolution of November 10, 1779, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 70, folio 349.]
Ordered, That the resolution of the 10th November be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Messrs. John Biddle, Isaac Howell, Peter Thomson, Isaac Snowden and Nathaniel Falconer, inspectors of the continental press, on their application, for five thousand dollars each, for which they are respectively to be accountable.
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Richard Phillips, steward to the President of Congress, for five thousand dollars, for which he is to be accountable.
That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. E[lbridge] Gerry, one of the delegates for the State of Massachusetts Bay, on his application, for ten thousand dollars, for which the said State is to be accountable.
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That a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Mr. John Collins, one of the delegates for the State of Rhode Island, on his application, for two thousand dollars, for which the said State is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 131, the last paragraph being on folio 133.]
On motion,
Resolved, That the order of the day for fixing upon a place to which Congress will adjourn on the last Saturday in April next, be postponed.
The committee, to whom was referred the reports on finance brought in a report, which was read and referred to a Committee of the Whole.
Whereupon, Congress was 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 report referred to them, but not having gone through the same, desire leave to sit again.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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