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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 1, 1782
Pursuant to the resolution of the 27 of February last, the Superintendant of finance reports, that he has appointed William Denning, esq. a commissioner for settling the accounts of the quartermaster's department.2
[Note 2: 2 The Superintendent's letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 137, I, folio 721.]
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [Ralph] Izard, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, and Mr. [James] Duane, appointed to consider and report the most just and practicable means of reducing the expenditures of the United States in the several departments, and to whom was referred a plan for regulating the department of the adjutant general:
Resolved, That the adjutant general be appointed by Congress from the general officers, colonels, lieutenant colonel commandants, or lieutenant colonels in the army; his pay shall be one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; he shall receive four rations per day, and twenty-five dollars and one-third of a dollar per month subsistance.
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He shall have liberty to take from the army four soldiers for servants, for each of whom he may draw one ration per day. The said soldiers shall receive their clothing and pay with the regiments to which they respectively belong.
The adjutant general shall also be allowed forage for four riding horses, and be furnished with two four-horse and one two-horse covered waggons for the transportation of his official papers, his own, his assistants' and clerk's baggage. He shall have two assistants and one clerk, to be appointed by himself, and approved of by the Commander in Chief. The assistants shall be majors or captains in the army; the pay of each shall be fifty dollars per month, one ration and a half per day, eight dollars per month subsistance, and forage for two riding horses. The assistants shall be allowed each six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar per month for servants' wages, and the cloathing and rations allowed to a private soldier. The clerk shall be a subaltern or volunteer in the army; his pay shall be forty dollars per month, he shall draw one ration per day, and receive six dollars and one-third of a dollar per month subsistance:
That there be as many deputies adjutant general of the rank of field officers as there may be seperate armies in the United States, that consist of one or more divisions, to be appointed occasionally by the commanding officer of such army, whose names shall be returned to the Commander in Chief for his approbation:
[That the deputy adjutants-general shall each receive seventy-five dollars per month pay, two rations per day, and twelve dollars and two-thirds per month subsistance, forage for three riding horses, one four-horse and one two-horse covered waggons, for the transportation of their official papers, their own and assistants' baggage.
They shall also each have liberty to take two soldiers from the army as servants, for each of whom they may draw one ration per day, which soldiers sha1l receive their clothing and pay with their respective regiments.
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The deputy adjutants general shall each appoint one assistant, of the rank of major or captain, who shall be approved of by the commanding officer under whom they serve. The assistants appointed and approved as aforesaid, shall each receive the same pay and allowances as are given above to an assistant of the adjutant general:
That there be one major of brigade to each brigade in the armies of the United States, whether of cavalry, artillery or infantry, who shall be appointed by the Commander in Chief or commanding officer of a seperate army as occasion may require, upon the recommendation of the adjutant general, or deputy adjutant general as the case may be, and they shall each receive the same pay and allowances, as is given to the assistants of the adjutant general by the foregoing resolutions:
That the provisions hereby made for the respective officers aforesaid, shall be in full compensation for their services, and of all pay and allowances to which they may be entitled from their rank in the army:
These regulations shall take effect on the first day of January next, and from thenceforth that all acts, resolutions, pay and appointments heretofore made in any wise respecting the department of adjutant general and brigade majors, shall cease and are hereby repealed.]1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Samuel 0sgood, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 21, folio 279; a copy is on folio 283. The portion in brackets was entered in the Journal by Benjamin Bankson, a clerk in the secretary's office.]
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