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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, JUNE 8, 1780
A letter, of 5, from the committee at headquarters was read, with sundry estimates and papers enclosed:2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 39, I, folio 55. It was transcribed in the Committee Book, 1780, Proceedings of the Committee appointed the 13th of April, 1780, folio 26.]
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Ordered, That the letter and estimates be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. J[oseph] Jones, Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth and Mr. [Thomas] Bee.
A letter, of 7th December last, from Captain J. Paul Jones, on board the Alliance in the Texel, was read, accompanied with sundry papers:
Ordered, That the same be referred to the Board of Admiralty to report thereon.
A letter, of December 30, 1779, from Mr. Dumas, at the Hague, was read.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is printed in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), III, 452.]
A letter, of this day, from the Board of War was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Timothy] Matlack, Mr. [Thomas] Burke and Mr. [Abraham] Clark.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Treasury Office, June 7, 1780.
Upon a reference from Congress to reconsider their order of the 6th instant "for issuing a warrant on the Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office for the State of Pennsylvania in favour of Gabriel Ogden for fifty thousand three hundred and seventy eight dollars and sixty ninetieths of a dollar payable in Loan office Certificates and to be charged to the Commissary General of Military Stores" The Board of Treasury Report,
Ordered, That in lieu thereof a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, commissioner of the continental loan office for the commonwealth of Pensylvania, in favour of Gabriel Ogden, for one hundred and thirty seven thousand four hundred and eighty seven dollars and 75/90, payable in loan office certificates, and to be charged to the commissary general of military stores.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 329.]
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That on the application of Charles Pettit, assistant quarter master general, approved by the Board of War, a warrant issue on Samuel Patterson, treasurer of the State of Delaware, in his favour on account of Nathaniel Greene, Q. M. G. for thirty thousand dollars (part of the monies raised in the said State for the use of the United States), to be applied in the department of the said quarter master general; and 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 331.]
The committee, appointed to confer with the Honorable the Minister of France, to whom was re-committed their report, brought in another report, which was read; Whereupon,
That the Minister of France has communicated to your Committee, that as Mons. de Corny Commissary of the troops of his Most Christian Majesty will go into the State of Connecticut to procure some supplies, it would be convenient for him to receive there an advance of money from these United States, either in Continental Bills, or the bills of that State, to be replaced in specie, on the arrival of the fleet from France, and the Minister engages that the monies which shall be so advanced by these United States to Mons de Corny shall be replaced in Specie as above mentioned.
Upon which communication your Committee beg leave to submit to the consideration of Congress the following Resolution, viz.
Resolved, That the governor of the State of Connecticut, be and he is hereby authorised to receive, on account of these United States, out of the monies raised by that State, more than sufficient to discharge the draughts heretofore made by Congress, and to comply with the requisition of Congress, of the 20th of May last or out of the bills struck pursuant to the resolution of Congress of the 18th of March last to be lodged in the Continental loan office in that State for the use of the United States, or out of the bills that shall be compleated and lodged in the continental loan office in that State for the use of the United States, pursuant to a resolution of Congress, of the 18 of March last, one
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million two hundred thousand dollars of the bills now in circulation, or thirty thousand dollars of the bills last mentioned, or a proportion of each, on the application of Monsr. de Corny, commissary of the troops in the service of his Most Christian Majesty, and advance the same to him, taking his receipts to replace the same in specie in the treasury of these United States, when required by Congress; the said receipts to be transmitted to the Treasury Board as soon as possible.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Oliver Ellsworth, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 25, I, folio 200. It was also entered in the manuscript Secret (Domestic) Journal. It is printed in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), III, 773.
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On motion of Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth, seconded by Mr. [Thomas] Burke,
Resolved, That John Lawrence and Rhoderick Lawrence be appointed commissioners on the part of the United States, either of them to endorse the bills that shall be emitted by the State of Connecticut, pursuant to the resolution of Congress of the 18th of March last.
The following gentlemen were put in nomination for commissioners of the Board of Admiralty:
Mr. John Collins, by Mr. [Robert R.] Livingston; Mr. Thomas Woodford, by Mr. J[oseph] Jones; Mr. John Deshon, by Mr. B[enjamin] Huntington.
Treasury Office June 7. 1780
Whereas Bills of Exchange drawn on account of the United States are Subject to many accidents, which may prevent the holders thereof from receiving the benefits to which they are Justly entitled, and no general provision has yet been made for the renewal of Such Bills, which may be done without danger to the Public and with great convenience to Individuals; the Board of Treasury beg leave to Submit the following resolution.
Resolved, That Bills of Exchange drawn on account of the United States be renewed in favor of the original drawees under direction of the Board of Treasury on the following conditions viz:
1. That every renewed Bill bear an Express condition in the face of it, that any one Bill from one to the highest number inclusive
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being paid, all the other numbers as well of the original as of the renewed Sets Shall be void.
2. That the persons requiring the renewal, Shall enter into bond to the Commissioner of the loan office whence the original Bills issued with two or more Sufficient freeholders as Securities, in double the amount of the value of the bills claimed to be renewed, with condition to indemnify the United States against the holders of the first Set, Should the Same be demanded, and protested by reason of the payment of one of the renewed bills.
3. That the Loan officer, who Shall issue any renewed Set of Bills of Exchange, Shall receive from the person requiring Such renewal, the Sum that he is entitled to receive for preparing and issuing the original Set, and also one dollar in Specie on the value thereof in current money for indemnifying the United States against the expense of the transaction.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 34, folio 85. The endorsement shows that it was postponed.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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