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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, SEPTEMBER 21, 1780
A letter, of 20, from Henry Carberry, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
The committee on the letters from Gen. Washington, brought in a farther report; Whereupon,
Resolved, That it be recommended to the State of Maryland to send immediately to the main army, five hundred head of neat cattle, over and above the quantity of meat required by the resolution of the 25 of February last; and that the State be informed, that Congress will draw upon the loan officer in the said State for the payment of the same, out of the new bills reserved for the use of the United States:
Congress resumed the consideration of the report on the letters from General Washington, and the following paragraph being debated, viz.
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And in case the full quota of each state, respectively, shall not be enlisted and brought into the field by the first day of December next, that until recruits for the war shall be obtained, the deficiencies be supplied by the states respectively, by men to serve for not less than one year, after they join the army, unless sooner relieved by the recruits inlisted for the war.
On the question to agree to this, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [John] Mathews,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.1
[Note 1: 1 At this point were entered in the Journals the resolutions on the formation of the army, printed under October 3, 1780, post. In the margin Thomson has noted: "By a vote of the house, on reading the journals next morning, it was resolved that this be taken of[f] the journal until the Committee shall make a farther report."]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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