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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 --FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1782
On a report from the Secretary at War:
War Office May 3rd. 1782.
Sir,
To the two companies of Artificers now in this City (making the whole about fifty men) there are attached a Surgeon and a Surgeon's mate. As part of these companies will be detained in this town, part are now at Fort Pitt, part will be sent to Virginia and part of them will join the army under General Greene, this dispersion will render it unnecessary to retain the Surgeon and mate longer in the service.
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Should Congress be of this sentiment, and deem some compensation due to their past services they will please to resolve,
Resolved, That as the dispersed situation of the corps of artificers commanded by Captain Wyley, will no longer require the services of Dr. A. McCoskey, surgeon, and Dr. W. McCoskey, his mate, they be considered as reduced and retiring from service on the 10th instant and that the surgeon be entitled from that day to receive the same emoluments heretofore allowed to surgeons and mates retiring under the resolvesof the 3d and 21st October 1780 to all the emoluments heretofore allowed to reduced regimental surgeons.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, I, folio 303.]
A report from the Secretary at War, which was yesterday brought in, and on which no order was made, being taken up by the President, the order of the day was called for by the State of Virginia, and a motion was made by Mr. [James] Madison, seconded by Mr. [Theodorick] Bland,
That the sense of the house be taken, whether it be in order to take into consideration a report from the Secretary at War which was read yesterday by the secretary, and has since lain on the table, unless the same be called for by a member.2
[Note 2: 2 This motion, in the writing of James Madison, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, I, folio 297.]
On which the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [James] Madison,
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So the question was lost.1
[Note 1: 1 On this day, according to the indorsement, a letter of the Secretary at War, dated May 3, enclosing a letter of April 27 from General Washington, was referred to Mr. [Elias] Boudinot, Mr. [Samuel John] Atlee, Mr. [John] Rutledge. It is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, I, folio 313, and the enclosure on folio 309. According to Committee Book No. 186, "The several papers referred to Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Atlee and Mr. Rutledge" were, on June 21, committed to Mr. [Elias] Boudinot, Mr. [Samuel John] Atlee, Mr. [John] Lowell, Mr. [Ralph] Izard, Mr. [William] Few.]
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