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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 26, 1780
On motion of Mr. [Abraham] Clark, seconded by Mr. [John] Fell,
Ordered, That the resolutions passed yesterday on the report of the committee on Colonel Pickering's letter, of 29 September, be reconsidered.
A letter, of this day, from E. Blaine, commissary general, was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 165, folio 373.]
Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [James] Duane, Mr. [Samuel] Adams, Mr. [John] Fell.
A motion was made by Mr. [James] McLene, seconded by Mr. [John] Hanson, respecting the printing of the Old and New Testament:
Resolved, That it be recommended to such of the States who may think it convenient for them that they take proper measures to procure one or more new and correct editions of the old and new testament to be printed and that such states regulate their printers by law so as to secure effectually the said books from being misprinted.3
[Note 3: 3 This motion, in the writing of James McLene, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 29, folio 194.]
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Ordered, That it be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [James] McLene, Mr. [Thomas] McKean and Mr, [James] Duane.
The delegates for the State of Massachusetts Bay laid before Congress an account of John Scollay, for the education and maintenance of the late General Warren's three younger children, from 1 December, 1777, to 1 October, 1780:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A letter of this day from Colonel J. White, was read:
Ordered, That the same, together with the report of the Board of Treasury respecting the accounts of the said J. White be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [George] Walton and Mr. [Francis] Kinloch.
The committee, to whom was referred the letter, of this day, from E. Blaine, commissary general of purchases, delivered in a report; whereupon, Congress agreed to the following resolution.
Whereas the commissary general of purchases has represented to Congress, that 5000 bushels of salt, which is lodged in the public magazines in the State of Massachusetts Bay, is immediately wanted for public service; that a dispute has arisen whether it is the property of the United States or of Abraham Livingston, continental agent in South Carolina, and that it has been agreed that it should remain in store until the determination of Congress should be known: and whereas it is impracticable to ascertain the grounds of Mr. Livingston's claim, he being now a prisoner of war in Charlestown:
Resolved, therefore, That the said salt be delivered to the commissary general of purchases, or his order, for the public use; and if it shall hereafter appear that the salt, or any part of it, is the rightful property of Mr. Livingston, that he shall receive a just compensation for the same.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of James Duane, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 379.]
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Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee of Estimates and of Ways and Means, and the following paragraph being under debate,
That it be recommended to the several states to levy in the proportions hereafter mentioned a tax equal in value to six millions of silver dollars, to be paid partly in the specific articles, and at the prices hereafter enumerated, and the residue in gold or silver, or bills of credit of the emissions directed by the resolution of the 18 of March last. The sense of the House was required whether the words,
"or bills of credit of the emissions directed by the resolution of the 18 of March last" shall stand part of the report; and on the question shall those words stand, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Abraham] Clark,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
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The committee on the letter, of this day, from E. Blaine, C. G. delivered in a farther report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That the clause of the commissary general's representation respecting the purchase of barrels, be referred to the Board of Treasury; and that the clause for enabling him to procure an additional number of cattle be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of James Duane, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 383.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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