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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 --FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1781
The delegate for the State of New York laid before the house instructions from the legislature of that State, which were read:3
[Note 3: 3 These instructions, dated March 28, 1781, are in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 67, II, folio 366.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the committee on the letter of 28 March, from the governor of the State of New York:
The report of the committee, ∥consisting of Mr. Ward, Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Motte,∥ on the memorial of Colonel Hazen, and the letter of March 1 from General Washington, was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the Board of Treasury be, and they are hereby directed to settle and adjust the depretiation that is due to Colonel Moses Hazen, the officers and men belonging to his regiment that are not considered as a part of either of the United States' quotas, and give them loan office certificates for the sums that may be found due to them, payable in three years from the first day of January last, with interest; the depretiation to be calculated by the same scale by which the State of Massachusetts calculated the depretiation due to the troops of that State.
Resolved, That twenty-four dollars, in bills of the new emission, be paid to each non-commissioned officer and
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private soldier belonging to Colonel Moses Hazen's regiment, who is not considered as belonging to the quota of either of the United States.
Resolved, That the arrears of pay due to Colonel Moses Hazen's regiment, be paid up in the same manner the battalions belonging to the respective states are paid, and be supplied with clothing in the same proportion that other continental troops are supplied.
Resolved, That Colonel Hazen's regiment be recruited to its original establishment so soon as the finances of the United States will admit of the same being done.
Resolved That Col. Moses Hazen be promoted to the rank of Brigadier by Brevet, in the armies of the United States; and that such other promotions be made in Col. Hazen's regiment as the Commander in Chief shall judge just and necessary.
Resolved, That it be, and hereby is recommended to the States of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, to make good the depretiation of the monthly pay of the officers and soldiers belonging to Colonel Moses Hazen's regiment that are considered as a part of the quota of the respective states aforesaid, in the same manner they have made good the depretiation to the officers and soldiers in the battalions belonging to the line of those states respectively.
Otherwise they will not be entitled to consider them any longer as a part of their quotas the resolved of the fifteenth of March 1779 notwithstanding. And in case all or either of the States aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to comply with this resolve for the term of thirty days from and after theday ofnext the Board of Treasury are hereby to settle with all such men Colonel Hazens regiment as belong to such delinquent state or states in the same manner they are directed to settle with the men in said regiment that are not considered as any part of the quota os either of the United States and also pay non commissioned officer and private soldier twenty-four dollars in the bills of the new emission.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Artemus Ward, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, VI, folio 341, except the last two paragraphs. Another copy of the whole report, also in Ward's writing, is in No. 19, III, folio 91.]
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Ordered, That so much of the report as relates to the promotion of Colonel Hazen be referred to the committee on General Washington's letter, of 10 December last.
An account of Richard Philips, audited in the auditor general's office March 29, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury to take order.
Ordered, That the report of the committee on Mr. R. Morris's letter, of 13 March, be re-committed:
That two members be added in the room of those absent:
The members, Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [James] Madison.1
[Note 1: 1 A petition from John Paul Schott was read, as the indorsement indicates. It is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 42, VII, folio 93.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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