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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, MARCH 21, 1781
Mr. [William Churchill] Houston, a delegate for New Jersey, and Mr. [Nicholas] Van Dyke, a delegate for the State of Delaware, attended and took their seats.
A letter, of 18 February, from William Malcolm, was read:1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XVI, folio 135.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of this day, from Colonel J. Wood; and
A letter, of 20, from Lieutenant Colonel Du Buysson, were read:2
[Note 2: 2 Wood's letter is in the Washington Papers,Letters to Washington, No. 96, folio 135; Dubuysson's is on folio 133.]
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Ordered, That they be referred to the Commander in Chief.
A letter, of this day, from J. Wilkinson, was read, with an account of the officers in the Cloathier's department; and
A letter, of 21, from the Board of War:1
[Note 1: 1 Wilkinsoh's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXIV, folio 245; the Board of War's letter, dated February 21, 1781, is on folio 253.]
Ordered, That the same, together with the report of the Board of Treasury, of the 15 day of February last, be referred to the committee on the arrangement of the cloathier's department.
A representation of Henry Bedkin was read:2
[Note 2: 2 This representation, dated March 20, 1781, is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 43, folio 19.]
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
The consideration of the letter of 13, from Mr. R. Morris, being resumed, a motion was made by Mr. [John] Mathews, seconded by Mr. [Thomas] Burke,
That the superintendant of finance be, and he is hereby empowered to appoint and remove at his pleasure, his assistants in his peculiar office or chamber of business in immediate connexion with him; it being first determined by the United States in Congress assembled, that such assistants so to be appointed, are necessary, and what the salary of each shall be.
On the question to agree to this, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Samuel] Adams,
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It was resolved in the affirmative.
Ordered, That the remainder of Mr. Morris's letter be referred to a committee of three:
The members, Mr. [William Churchill] Houston, Mr. [Thomas] Burke, Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
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The Board of Treasury beg leave to report.
Ordered, That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Pennsylvania, in favor of David C. Claypoole, printer to the United States in Congress assembled, for nine hundred and seventy-four dollars of the new emissions in full of his account settled by the commissioners, the 17th instant, for printing the Journals of Congress, &c.1
[Note 1: 1 This paragraph was entered by George Bond.]
And sundry copies of the inspectors, Medical, and Army arrangements from the 9 of Sept. 1780 to the 8 inst: and for the Penna. Packet supplied Congress and the several boards under them from the 2nd. of Sept. last to the 1st. instance.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No, 136, V, folio 183.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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