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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 --THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1780
A letter, of 5th, from E. Blaine, commissary general of purchases, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 165, folio 311.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee appointed to ascertain proper salaries for the purchasing commissaries, &c.
A memorial from Colonel N. Gist, in behalf of the officers of his corps, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This memorial, undated, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, III, folio 461.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A petition of Joseph Mead was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee of Commerce to take order thereon.
A representation from the legislature of the State of New Jersey;3
[Note 3: 3 This representation, dated December 25, 1779, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 68, folio 515.]
A letter, of 19th November, from G. Morgan, and a petition from Thomas Bentley, were read.4
[Note 4: 4 Bentley's petition, dated January 4, 1780, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, I, folio 201; Morgan's letter is in No. 163, folio 345.]
On the question to agree to the question, the determination of which was yesterday postponed, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [John] Mathews,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
Congress proceeded in the consideration of the report respecting the establishing a court of appeals.
The Committee on the Post Office delivered in a report.
That upon a conference with the Gentlemen of the post office, your Committee are of opinion until the farther orders of Congress that the surveyors of the post office be allowed their reasonable expences in travelling the roads an account of such expences to be rendered every three months to the post master General upon oath, and that a late resolution of Congress giving 40 dollars a day be repealed.
Resolved, that as the business of the post office will henceforward be greatly accumulated, and its revenue at least twenty times increased, that the post master General be allowed at the rate of 10,000 dollars a year until the farther order of Congress, being only ten times the original salary.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 61, folio 465. It is endorsed by Thomson: "The first part passed January 7, 1780; latter part relative to postmaster general postponed."]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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