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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, AUGUST 30, 1781
The report of the committee ∥consisting of Mr. Sherman, Mr. Mathews, Mr. Randolph∥ on the letter, of 25, from the lieutenant governor and sundry members of the privy council of South Carolina, was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
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The Committee to whom was re-committed the letter from the Lieutenant Governor, and members of the Privy Council of the State of South Carolina, having conferred with the Superintendent of Finance--Report the following Resolutions:
Ordered, That a warrant be drawn on the treasurer to advance to the Hon. Christopher Gadsden, lieutenant governor of the State of South Carolina, and the Hon. Thomas Ferguson, Richard Hutson, Benjamin Cattel and David Ramsey, members of the privy council of the said State, the sum of two hundred and sixty-six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar specie, each, on their application, and charge the same to the account of the said State:
Ordered, That the Board of War furnish the Hon. Christopher Gadsden, Thomas Ferguson, Richard Hutson, Benjamin Cartel and David Ramsey, with a waggon and team to carry their baggage to South Carolina.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Roger Sherman, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 20, II, folio 409.]
The ordinance relative to captures was again taken into consideration for a second reading, and some farther progress being made therein:
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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