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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, JULY 31, 1782
A committee, consisting of Mr. [John Taylor] Gilman, Mr. [Jonathan] Jackson, Mr. [David] Howell, Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer, Mr. [James] Duane, Mr. [John] Witherspoon, Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [Thomas] McKean, Mr. [John] Hanson, Mr. [Arthur] Lee, Mr. [Hugh] Williamson, Mr. [John] Rutledge, and Mr. [Edward] Telfair, being a member from each State, appointed to take into consideration and report the most effectual means of supporting the credit of the United States, reported,
"That it is their opinion, and therefore they recommend, that Congress decide upon the cessions from Connecticut, New York, and Virginia."
The report being read, a motion was made by Mr. [John] Witherspoon, seconded by Mr. [James] Duane,
That Wednesday next be assigned to take the report made by the grand committee into consideration.
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And on the question to agree to this, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [John] Witherspoon,
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So the question was lost.
1782, July 31.
A motion of Mr. [Jesse] Root seconded by Mr. [Silas] Condict:
Whereas Congress by their resolution of day of Oct. 1780 did in consideration of the merit and sufferings of the officers of the army grant to those who should continue in service to the end of the war or be deranged in pursuance of a resolve of thedayofhalf pay for life;
And whereas application is made by some of those officers for an adjustment of their half pay and Congress having no funds provided for discharging the same;
Resolved, That it be recommended to the several States to carry into effect the resolution of Congress of theday of Oct. 1780
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granting half pay for life in regard to the officers in the lines of their respective States; and every State which shall settle with the officers belching to their respective lines in regard to their half pay aforesaid and cause the U. States to be exonerated therefrom, shall be discharged from contributing any thing towards the half pay of officers in the line of any other State.
Moved by Mr. Bland, seconded by Mr. Clymer, to strike out "Shall be discharged" &c. to the end and insert, "Shall be credited in their annual quota to the amount of the half pay of the officers so settled with."1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of Jesse Root, except the date and the line following it, and the last paragraph, which were written by Charles Thomson, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, VI, 501. The indorsement states that consideration was "postponed till the first Wednesday in January next," and on January 8, 1783, it was referred to a Grand Committee.]
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