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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, JULY 6, 1780
Mr. Richard Howly, a delegate for the State of Georgia, attended and produced the credentials of his appointment, which are as follows:
Georgia In Assembly January 11th. 1780
Resolved that in Case it should be found Necessary to depart the State by His Honor Richard Howly Esquire Governor that in that case, he shall have a right to Join in the Representation of this State in Congress during the ensuing Year, and untill others shall be appointed.
Extract from the Minutes
Attest
Geo Seegar
C. H. A.
Wm. Glascock
Speaker1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Georgia, Credentials of Delegates.]
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Treasury Office July 3, 1780
Whereas the late necessities of the Southern Army under the command of Major General Lincoln rendered it expedient to draw bills on the President of Congress, which by a resolution of Congress of the twenty third day of March last, are ordered to be accepted by the Board of Treasury on the terms therein prescribed; and whereas several Bills under the description aforesaid are daily presented for acceptance of which no advice has been received, nor can be furnished until General Lincoln reaches his papers already sent before him to some place in New England, and whereas many inconveniences will arise from suffering the said Bills to be protested, or from delaying the payment thereof. The Board beg leave to submit the following Resolution.
Resolved, That the Board of Treasury be authorized to accept, without advice, such bills, drawn by Major General Lincoln on the President of Congress, as, in their discretion, shall be deemed proper, and may have been or hereafter
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may be presented within one month from this date, at which time it is expected a complete and accurate return of the bills aforesaid will be made by General Lincoln.
Ordered, That on the application of the Medical Committee, a warrant issue on the treasurer, in favour of Jonathan Potts, purveyor of military hospitals, for twenty thousand dollars for the purpose of purchasing necessaries for the hospitals in the middle department; and for which the aforesaid Jonathan Potts is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 409.]
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the committee on the quarter master's department, and in debating the paragraph for fixing the pay of the quarter master general, which in the report was stated at 166 dollars, per month, in addition to his pay as an officer in the line,
A motion was made by Mr. [Thomas] McKean, seconded by Mr. [John] Fell, to strike out 166 and insert 100.
On the question shall 166 stand, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Samuel] Holten,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
Congress proceeded in the consideration of the report, and some progress being made,
Ordered, That the farther consideration thereof be postponed.
Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, on the letter, of the 1st, from Mr. Laurens, wherein they report, as their opinion,
That it is highly expedient that the hon. H. Laurens do repair to Europe, without loss of time, in order to enter on the discharge of the commission to negotiate a loan, to which he has been appointed by Congress.1
[Note 1: 1 This resolution was also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs. The report, in the writing of William Churchill Houston, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, III, folio 415.]
Resolved, That Congress agree to the said report.
On motion of the delegates for the State of Pensylvania, in pursuance of instructions from the president and supreme executive council of the said State,
Resolved, That the Board of Treasury be directed to supply the president and supreme executive council of the State of Pensylvania with bills of exchange, drawn on the Minister of the United States at the Court of France, to the amount of one thousand pounds sterling, for which the said State is to be accountable.
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The committee on the letter, of 8 June, from Governor Trumbull, delivered in their report.
Treasury Office July 5, 1780
The Board of Treasury beg leave to Report,
That in pursuance of a Resolution of Congress of the 23d day of November last the sum of one hundred thousand and twenty five pounds eleven shillings sterling in Bills of Exchange at six months sight on the Hon'ble John Jay Esquire Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Madrid have been prepared under the directions of this Board. That all the said Bills have been sold, or reserved for the use of American Prisoners, or deposited in the Pennsylvania Bank, except about ten thousand pounds sterling; also that in pursuance of the aforesaid Resolution the sum of one hundred thousand one hundred and thirty six pounds five shillings and nine pence sterling in Bills of Exchange at six months sight on the Hon'ble Henry Laurens Esquire, Commissioner of the United States of America in Amsterdam, have been prepared in like manner,--the whole of which, has been disposed of, or deposited in the Pennsylvania Bank, from which Representation, if Congress are determined to make further draughts, they may be enabled to judge of the propriety of giving immediate directions.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 413. It is indorsed: "Read July 6, 1780."]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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