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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 --WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1780
Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott, a delegate for the State of Connecticut, attended and took his seat.
E. Blaine, commissary general, having returned the petition of Jacob Watson with a certificate thereon:1
[Note 1: 1 This certificate, indorsed on Watson's petition, of November 27, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, VIII, folio 204.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A petition of James Worral; and
A letter from Thomas Edison, of this day, were read:2
[Note 2: 2 Worral's petition, undated, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, VIII, folio 213; Edison's letter is in No. 78, VIII, folio 357.]
Ordered, That they be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A petition of David Lard, Samuel Henderson and Nathaniel Torbert was read:3
[Note 3: 3 This petition, dated November 29, 1780, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, IV, folio 228.]
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That on the application of Charles Pettit, Assistant Q. M. G., approved by the Board of War, a warrant issue on the treasurer in his favour for twenty four thousand dollars, to enable him to discharge an order drawn by Thomas Chase, late deputy Q. M. at Boston, dated June 9, 1780, on Nathaniel Greene, late quartermaster general, in favour of M. de Capitaine, aid de camp of Major General, the Marquis de la Fayette; for which sum the said Nathaniel Greene, late Q. M. G. is to be accountable.4
[Note 4: 4 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 729.]
The Board of War, to whom was referred the letter, of 21, from Colonel Pickering, Q. M. G. delivered in a report; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the act of Congress, of the 8th of January last, providing for the payment of officers' horses killed in action, be extended to such officers entitled to keep them,
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who shall have their horses wounded and disabled in action; provided the horses so wounded and disabled be delivered to the department of the quartermaster general.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 147, IV, folio 709.]
Mr. [Thomas] Bee withdrew the name of Mr. Pinkney, whom he had nominated for the office of secretary to the embassy of the Court of Versailles, and nominated Mr. J[ohn] Mathews for that office.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Resolved, That two commissioners be appointed to act, in conjunction with the treasurer, in examining, counting and burning the continental bills of credit paid in by the several loan officers, to be destroyed under the direction of the Board of Treasury:
That the treasurer and commissioners aforesaid, take proper care to select all counterfeits, if any may happen to be among the bills so brought in to be destroyed.
Ordered, That the remainder of the report be postponed.
The committee on the memorial of John Henderson, in behalf of O. Pollock, delivered in a report.
The Committee to whom was referred the memorial of John Henderson in behalf of Oliver Pollock Agent at New Orleans beg leave to submit the following Report,
That it appears by a letter from Don Bernardo de Galvez Governour for his Catholick Majesty at New Orleans dated 22d. July last, that the said Governor from a disposition to be serviceable to these United States has advanced several sums and Effects to Oliver Pollock agent for Congress at New Orleans to the amount of 74,087 Dollars, That he advanced these sums even at a time when he was greatly straitened for money and expected that the reimbursement was to have been made in flour and remitted for the use of his province.
That by a letter from our minister plenipotentiary at the Court of Spain, Governour Galvez is recommended to the particular attention
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of Congress from the attachment which his Family at Madrid have shewn to the Interest and Independance of the United States.
That it appears from the Certificate of the Committee of Commerce that a ballance is due from the United States to Mr Pollock for advances by him to the amount of 37,836¼ Specie Dollars. That in the account so settled 50,318 Dollars of the money lent by Governour Galvez is included; That 23,669 dollars, the remainder of his advances, appears to your Committee to have been applied for the exclusive use of the State of Virginia; and is not chargeable to the United States.
That your Committee are of opinion that a letter ought to be written by the President to Governour Galvez acknowledging in respectful terms his good disposition towards these States and his services and assuring him that Congress are sincerely disposed to cultivate the strictest Friendship with his Catholick Majesty and all his subjects.
Resolved, that bills of exchange be drawn on the minister plenipotentiary of these United States at the Court of Madrid in favor of Pollock for 37,836 specie dollars, payable atdays sight in full of the ballance of his account.
The Committee subjoin the Draft of the letter to Governor Galvez.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of James Duane, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 50, folio 317. The draft of the letter to Galvez is not with the report.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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