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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 --TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1781
The committee to whom was referred the letter of Colonel Armand, of the 24, delivered in a report, which was read:
The Committee to whom was referred the letter of Colo Armand of the 24th Instant beg leave to submit the following resolution,
Resolved, That the money for purchasing horses for Colo Armand's legion, be paid to the Commanding Officer of the Legion who is to take instructions from the Commander in Chief as the rule of his conduct in purchasing the horses. The price is not to exceed an hundred and fifty dollars nor is the purchaser to be allowed for any horse which shall not be approved by such Inspector as the Commander in Chief shall appoint.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of John Sullivan, undated, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, I, folio 89.]
Ordered, That it be re-committed.
A letter, of 26, from Mr. Lotbinier, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
The delegates of Georgia laid before Congress a letter from Peter Deveaux, which was read:3
[Note 3: 3 Lotbinier's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XIV, folio 415; Deveaux's letter is in No. 78, VII, folio 347.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War to take order.
Congress was resolved into a Committee of the Whole, and after some time the President resumed the chair, and Mr. [John] Mathews reported that the Committee have had
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under their farther consideration the reports on finance, but not having come to a conclusion desire leave to sit again:
Ordered, That to Morrow Congress be resolved into a Committee of the Whole to consider farther the reports on finance.
On the application of Mr. [Richard] Howly, a delegate for the State of Georgia;
Ordered, That a warrant issue in his favour on Thomas Smith, commissioner of the continental loan office in the State of Pensylvania, for twelve thousand dollarsin lieu of the warrant drawn in his favour on the treasurer, the 12th day of December, 1780, for a like sum, which is to be be canceled, the State of Georgia to be accountable.
A report of the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Treasury OfficeJanr. 29th. 1781
A certificate from the commercial Committee dated November 24th. 1780 signed John Fell certifying a balance due to James Warren for 32,553 dollars and 2/90ths of a dollar in common money--and also £62. 0.0 sterling, "due to the owners of theLively, Capt Dupee for freight from Bilboa," which certificate was on the 28th. of November last "referred to the Board of Treasury to devise ways and means for paying the money certified to be due to Mr. Warren" whereupon the Board submit the following resolution:
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Henry Gardner, treasurer of the State of Massachusetts, for thirty two thousand five hundred and fifty three dollars and two-ninetieths of a dollar, old emissions, in favour of the Committee of Commerce (being part of the monies raised in the said State for the use of the United States) which sum when paid to be credited on the warrant drawn in favour of the treasurer of the United States in pursuance of an act of Congress, of the 29 June last, to enable them to pay that sum to James Warren, the balance due to him as certified by the said committee and for which the said committee is to be accountable;
That an account be opened in the treasury books forThe Owners of the Lively, and that the said account be credited
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for sixty-two pounds sterling, the sum due to them, as certified by the Committee of Commerce, for freight from Bilbao, to bear an interest of six per cent. per annum until paid.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, V, folio 75.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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