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Journals of the Continental Congress --MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1781


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MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1781

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The House 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 under their farther consideration the matters to them referred, but have not come to a conclusion.

A letter, of 4th, from General Washington, was read.

A letter, of 31 March, from the governor of Virginia, was read:3

[Note 3: 3 Washington's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 152, X, folio 63; the Virginia letter is in No. 71, II, folio 87. A letter of March 26, from the governor of Virginia, was also read on this day; it is in No. 71, II, folio 75, and was referred to the committee, as the indorsement shows. The letter of 31 was referred to the Board of War, April 12.]

Ordered, That it be referredto the Board of War a committee of three:

The members, Mr. [John] Sullivan, Mr. [Meriwether] Smith, Mr. [John] Mathews.4

[Note 4: 4 A letter of Ephraim Blaine, dated this day, was read, as the indorsement indicates. It is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 165, folio 397.]

Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.

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