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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, AUGUST 1, 1781
The committee of the week made report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a letter, of 26 July, from John Wereat, with the papers enclosed, be referred to a committee of three:
The members, Mr. [Samuel] Livermore, Mr. [Daniel of St. Thomas] Jenifer, Mr. [John] Mathews;
That the letter of the 27th of July from Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General, addressed to the President of Congress, with its enclosures, be also referred to a special committee.
That a letter, of 27 July, from Colonel T. Pickering, with the papers enclosed, be referred to the Board of War;2 and
[Note 2: 2 This letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XVIII, folio 423.]
That a letter, of 31 July, from Monsr. de Roquebenne, be referred to the Board of Admiralty Committee of Commerce.3
[Note 3: 3 This report, in the writing of Jonathan Elmer, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 205.]
On motion of Mr. [Roger] Sherman, seconded by Mr. [James Mitchell] Varnum,
Ordered, That the Committee on the Post Office, the superintendant of finance, and postmaster general, prepare and report the state of the present expences of the Post Office, and a system for regulating the same in future.
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The committee to whom was referred the communications of the honble. the Minister plenipotentiary of France, delivered in a report.1
[Note 1: 1 This paragraph was also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
Ordered, That on the application of Mr. [William] Sharpe, a delegate for the State of North Carolina, a warrant issue on Thomas Smith, commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Pensylvania, in favour of Griffith Rutherford, brigadier-general, andIsaacs, a colonel of militia of the State of North Carolina, lately arrived in this city from captivity at St. Augustine, for the sum of three thousand dollars new emission, to be charged to the said State of North Carolina.
Ordered, That a member be appointed to the Board of Treasury in the room of Mr. T[homas] Smith, who is unable to attend on account of sickness:
The member, Mr. [Ezra] L'Hommedieu.
A motion was made by Mr. [James Mitchell] Varnum, seconded by Mr. [Ezra] L'Hommedieu,
That a committee be appointed to enquire into the facts mentioned in the intercepted letter of the 7th February last, from Lord George Germain to Sir Henry Clinton, and report the result of their inquiries to Congress.
A motion was made by Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, seconded by Mr. [John] Sullivan, that that motion be postponed;
On the question for postponing, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [James Mitchell] Varnum,
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So the question was lost.
On the question to agree to the motion, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [James Mitchell] Varnum,
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So the question was lost.
The committee to whom was referred the report on General Sullivan's letter delivered in a report.
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The Committee to whom was referred Major General Sullivan's letter of the --, report the following Resolutions:
The United States in Congress assembled--considering the merit and faithful services of Major General Sullivan in the Army of the United States, from the commencement of the War until the day ofwhen he resigned his office of Major General merely on account of his ill state of health occasioned by the fatigues and hardships which he underwent in the said service,
Resolved, That it be recommended to the State of New Hampshire, to make good to him the depreciation of his pay for the time he continued in service in like manner as has been done for the officers in the line of said State now in service.
Resolved, That each State who shall advance more money than its proportion in making good the depreciation to their Citizens, in Continental service, shall be allowed for the same in account with the United States.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Roger Sherman, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, V, folio 451. Another copy is in No. 41, IX, folio 261.]
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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