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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, FEBRUARY 28, 1782.
The report of the Committee relative to the inhabitants of the district of country known by the name of New Hampshire Grants, debated.
[Motion of Mr Ezekiel Cornell, Mr William Floyd]
Resolved, That all promotions hereafter made of Colonels or Lieutenant Colonels to the rank of Brigadiers or of Brigadiers to the rank of Major Generals shall not entitle the officers so promoted to any additional half pay or allowance of land on account of such promotion. And that such of the present Brigadiers as shall be promoted to the rank of Majors General shall only be entitled to the half pay of Brigadiers and to the allowance of lands allowed to brigadiers by the Resolution of the 12th) of August 1780, and that such of the present Colonels or Lieut. Colonels as shall be promoted to Negatived the rank of Brigadiers and from thence to that of Major Generals shall only be entitled to the allowance of lands and
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half pay assigned to Colonels or Lieut. Colonels Commandant any resolution heretofore passed to the contrary notwithstanding.
Resolved, That Brigadier Generals James Clinton, William Moultrie, Lachlan McIntosh, and Henry Knox be and they Postponed are hereby promoted to the rank of Major Generals.
Resolved, That Colonel Otho Williams of the Maryland line be and he is hereby promoted to the rank of Brigadier Postponed General.1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of Ezekiel Cornell, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, I, folio 267. It was presented this day, and, according to the indorsement, "assigned for Monday next."]
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