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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, OCTOBER 12, 1780
A letter, of 7, from General Washington was read, enclosing the proceedings of a board of general officers on the examination of Major John André, adjutant general of the British army, taken as a spy within the American lines, and other papers1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, IX, folio 209. It is printed in part in the Writings of Washington (Ford), VIII, 472.]
Ordered, That the letter be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [John] Sullivan, Mr. [Theodorick] Bland and Mr. [John] Mathews.
Ordered, That the proceedings of the board of general officers on the case of Major André be referred to the Committee of Intelligence.
The Committee on Estimates and Ways and Means, to whom was referred the report of the Board of Treasury respecting cloathing, delivered in a report, which being read, was taken into consideration, and some progress being made therein.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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