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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, JANUARY 19, 1781
According to the order of the day, Congress was resolved into a Committee of the Whole, and, after some time spent therein, the President resumed the chair, and Mr. [Theodorick] Bland reported that the Committee have had under consideration the reports referred to them, and have made some progress; but, not having come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again:
Ordered, That to Morrow at 11 o'Clock Congress be resolved into a Committee of the Whole, to consider farther the reports on finance.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Thomas Harwood, commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Maryland, in favor of John Pierce, paymaster general, for one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one dollars in the bills of credit emitted pursuant to the act of Congress of the 18 March last, to enable him to discharge a warrant drawn on him by the Board of War, in favour of Captain Daniel Pendleton, for the like sum, being on account of the pay of his company of artificers now marching for the southern army, from the first of August, 1780, to 1 January, 1781, and for which sum the said paymaster general is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, V, folios 35 and 41.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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