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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, NOVEMBER 15, 1781
On a report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, Mr. J[oseph] Jones, Mr. N[oble] W[imberly] Jones, to whom was referred a letter from the officers returned from Charlestown:
The Committee to whom was referred the letter from the officers of the South Carolina and Georgia line, report the following,
Resolved, That Congress will reimburse the expences incurred by the officers returned from Captivity, on their removal from Charles Town to Philadelphia.
Ordered, That the said letter be referred to the superintendant of finance, to take order for the discharge of three months' subsistance, in addition to the pay ordered by the resolve of Congress of 29 September last:
That the comptroller settle the accounts of the officers from Charlestown, for the expences incurred by them on their removal to Philadelphia.
Resolved, That the Board of War supply the officers with such cloathing as the public stores will admit on account of the states to which they belong.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Daniel Carroll, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 20, II, folio 411.
A letter, of November 9th, from Major General Heath, was read on this or an approximate date. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 157, folio 411.]
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