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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, MARCH 14, 1782
On a report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Edmund] Randolph, Mr. [Abraham] Clark and Mr. [William] Ellery, to whom was referred a report on a letter of the 4th, from Colonel Pickering, quartermaster general:
Resolved, That so much of the resolution of the 30th of October, 1780, as continues to Major General Greene the power which had been given to Major General Gates by a resolution of the 14th of June, in the same year, of appointing the officers in the quartermaster general's department for the southern army, be repealed.
The resolutions of the 15 of July, 1780, providing for the appointment of one deputy quartermaster only for a separate army, and the southern service requiring an additional one:
Resolved, That the quartermaster general be, and he is hereby, authorised to appoint, out of the line of the army, an additional deputy quartermaster for the southern army, who shall be subordinate to and under the command of the other deputy quartermaster for the said army, and whose pay shall be the same with that allowed to the deputy quartermaster by the aforesaid resolutions of the 15 of July, 1780.
Resolved, That the principal deputy quartermaster to the southern army be allowed, during actual service, 75 dollars per month, and four rations per day, in addition to his pay and subsistance as an officer in the line, until the further order of Congress.
Resolved, That the officer who has conducted the quartermaster general's department in the southern army, since General Greene has had the command thereof, be allowed for his past services the same emoluments with those granted to the principal deputy quartermaster in the preceding resolution.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Edmund Randolph, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, V, folio 165.]
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On the question for agreeing to allow the sum of seventy-five dollars per month to the principal deputy quartermaster to the southern army,
The yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Abraham] Clark,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
A motion was made by Mr. [Abraham] Clark, seconded by Mr. [Silas] Condict, to add to the foregoing resolutions as follows:
"And whereas the business of the quartermaster general being considerably lessened by the present mode of supplying the army in general by contract, and it being at all times proper to establish the pay and emoluments of officers, as near as possible proportioned to their ranks and services:
"Resolved, That for the above reasons, the pay and allowance of the quartermaster general be reduced from 3492 dollars per annum, and rations and other allowances
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estimated at 1904 dollars per annum, to the same pay and allowance in future of a major general."1
[Note 1: 1 This motion, in the writing of Abraham Clark, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, IV, folio 29--1]
On this motion the previous question was moved by the State of Connecticut, seconded by the State of Rhode Island; and on the question to agree to the previous question, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Abraham] Clark,
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So it is resolved in the affirmative.
The Committee of the Week [Mr. William Floyd, Mr. Nicholas Eveleigh, Mr. George Partridge,] beg leave to report,
That the memorial of Alexander Power praying for an allowance for two months and two days pay be referred to the Secretary at War.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of William Floyd, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 32, folio 323. According to the indorsement it was passed on this day,
The memorial of Alexander Power, dated Philadelphia, March 13, 1782, is in No. 41, VIII, folio 156.]
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