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Journals of the Continental Congress --WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1780


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Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1780

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A letter, of 28 June, from Governor Livingston, of New Jersey was read.1

[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 68, folio 561.]

Congress resumed the consideration of the report on the quarter master's department, and some progress being made therein:

Ordered, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed.

The Committee of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the letter, of the first, from the honble H. Laurens, brought in a report; Whereupon,

Resolved, That the request of Mr. H. Laurens that the thirty two barrels and one firkin of indigo mentioned in his letter, of the first, may be on his own account and risque, and not on that of the United States, as mentioned in the resolution of the 23 of March last, be complied with; and that the papers be sent to the Board of Treasury, that the necessary entries may be made in the books.2

[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of William Churchill Houston, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19. III, folio 415.]

[Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.]

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