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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 --THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1781
On a report of the committee appointed to confer with the Commander in Chief:
Resolved, That the Commander in Chief be informed that it is the earnest desire of Congress that he should take the most effectual measures for procuring the exchange of his excellency Thomas Burke, governor of North Carolina, for some of the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, not military, who were made prisoners of war under the capitulation of York in Virginia, and that he report to Congress his proceedings therein;1
[Note 1: 1 This resolution was also entered in the manuscript Secret (Domestic) Journal.]
Resolved, That the Commander in Chief be directed to obtain the fullest information he can, respecting the powers and conduct of a set of men who stile themselves, the board of directors to the associated loyalists in New York, and report thereon to Congress.
On report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [William Churchill] Houston, Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell and Mr. J[oseph] Jones, to whom was referred a letter of 24 November, from the governor of the State of New York,
Ordered, That the Secretary at War furnish to the order of Mr. [William] Floyd, one of the delegates for the State of
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New York, two tons of gun-powder, and charge the same to the said State.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Ezekiel Cornell, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 20, I, folio 379.
A memorial of George Glentworth and others, supernumerary physicians and surgeons of the general hospital, was presented this day and referred to the Secretary at War, as the indorsement shows. It is dated December 17, 1781, and is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, III, folio 483.]
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