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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, MAY 15, 1781
The committee of the week delivered in a report; Whereupon,
The Committee for the Week Report
Referred to the Board of War.
Ordered, To lie on the table till Congress determine whether Officers on the Staff be allowed Depreciation.
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[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Samuel Johnston, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 427.]
Ordered, That the letter of Captain de Segoignè and others be referred to the Board of War;2
[Note 2: 2 This letter, dated May 14, 1781, and signed by De Sigougné and three others, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXI, folio 65.]
That the letter from N. Barber lie on the table.
A letter, of 6, from John Moylan, signifying his acceptance of the office of cloathier general;3 and
[Note 3: 3 Barber's letter, dated May 2, 1781, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, IV, folio 171; Moylan's is in No. 78, XVI, folio 191.]
A letter, of 29 January, from W. Carmichael; were received.
Ordered, That a letter from Mr. Lotbiniere be referred to the Board of Treasury to take order.4
[Note 4: 4 Carmichael's letter is printed in the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Wharton), IV, 242. Lotbinière's letter, addressed to Major General Sullivan, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XIV, folio 423; a translation of part of it, in Sullivan's hand, is en folio 419.]
The committee on the letter of 8th, from General Washington, delivered in a farther report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That the Board of Admiralty deliver to the order of the Commander in Chief ten of the heavy cannon imported for the seventy-four gun ship at Portsmouth, for the use of the garrison at Rhode Island.
Ordered, That the remainder of the letter, together with the report of the committee on the letter, of 2 December, from the honorable Doctor Franklin, and the memorial of the honorable the Minister of France, be referred to the committee on the motion of Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, and that the committee to whom the report aforesaid was re-committed be discharged.
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That on the application of Mr. I[saac] Motte, one of the delegates for the State of South Carolina, a warrant
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issue in his favour on Thomas Smith, commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Pensylvania, for five hundred and twenty-five dollars of the new emissions, for which the State of South Carolina is to be accountable;1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 136, V, folio 307.]
That a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, commissioner aforesaid, in favour of John L. Clarkson, clerk to the Board of Treasury, for three hundred dollars of the new emission, to defray the contingent expences of the treasury office, for which sum the said J. L. Clarkson is to be accountable.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No, 136, V, folio 309.]
According to the order of the day, the house proceeded to the election of officers in the hospital department for the southern army, and the ballots being taken, Dr. David Oliphant was elected deputy director; Peter Fayssoux chief physician of the hospital; James Brown chief physician of the army; Robert Johnston and William Reed, hospital physicians; having been previously nominated by Mr. [John] Mathews.
A report of the Medical Committee was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Resolved, That all such officers of the medical department, appointed under the directorship of Dr. Oliphant, as are now in captivity in South Carolina and Georgia, and have the charge of the sick prisoners in those states, be continued in their respective offices as heretofore, and be considered as vested with the same powers, and entitled to the same privileges and emoluments, as they had and enjoyed before their captivity, to extend no further than to the troops and hospitals now within the enemy's lines.3
[Note 3: 3 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 22, folio 39.]
The report of the committee ∥consisting of Mr. Bland, Mr. Carroll, Mr. Van Dyke∥ on the motion of Mr. [James] Madison was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
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Ordered, That warrants issue in favor of John Pierce, paymaster general, upon the loan offices of the States of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, in bills of the new emission, arising from the four-tenths of the ten millions issued in pursuance of the act of the 18 March, 1780, and that the same be applied to the paying the lines of the said states respectively, viz. on the commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Delaware, for twenty-five thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars; on the commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Maryland, for one hundred and twenty-four thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars; and on that for the State of Virginia, for two hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars; for which sums the said J. Pierce, paymaster general, is to be accountable.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of James Madison, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, I, folio 179.]
The report of the committee appointed to devise farther ways and means, &c., was again taken into consideration, and after debate:
Ordered, That it be re-committed.
A motion was made by Mr. [Theodorick] Bland:
Ordered, That it be referred to the said committee.
Ordered, That a member be added to the Board of Admiralty:
The member, Mr. [Daniel of St. Thomas] Jenifer.
On motion of Mr. [John] Mathews, one of the delegates of South Carolina:
Ordered, That the Board of Treasury carry to the debit of the State of South Carolina the sum of £16097.13.3, Pensylvania currency, equal to forty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars and 3/90, being so much due from Mr. J[ohn] Mathews, one of the delegates of the said State, to the United States in account with Jacob Hiltzeimer.
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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