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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, DECEMBER 13, 1780
A letter, of 6, from Doctor Bloomfield and Doctor Scott, two hospital physicians, was read, enclosing their commissions, and desiring that their resignations be accepted.3
[Note 3: 3 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, IV, folio 53.]
Ordered, That their resignations be accepted.
The committee, to whom was referred the letter, of 6th, from the supreme executive council of Pensylvania, delivered in a report, which was read; and after debate,
Ordered, That it be re-committed.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the treasurer in favour of John Levinus Clarkson, clerk to the Board of Treasury, for ten thousand dollars for the contingent expences of the treasury, for which sum he is to be accountable.4
[Note 4: 4 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, IV, folio 751.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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