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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, MAY 16, 1782
On a report from the Secretary at War,
War Office May 15th, 1782.
Sir,
The office of Purveyor is vacant in the Southern Department. I wish Congress would come to the choice of some person to fill it.
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Should a Surgeon now there be elected it will be requisite to replace him by sending on another, in doing which no time should be lost as the sickly season is fast approaching, when the services of every Surgeon will probably be required.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, I, folio 351.]
Resolved, That a purveyor be appointed for the southern army, and that Thursday next be assigned for the election.
War Office May 8th 1782.
Sir,
His Excellency General Washington has represented the evils which will arise from the want of a Deputy Paymaster at Camp, should none be sent. His observations I think are just and the measure necessary.
I beg leave to submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing the following resolve,
Resolved, That the paymaster general be, and he is hereby, authorised to appoint a deputy paymaster to reside with the main army.2
[Note 2: 2 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, I, folio 341. It was referred to Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [Joseph] Montgomery, Mr. [Philemon] Dickinson to report the pay of the deputy paymaster according to the indorsement.]
The Committee of the Week [Mr. Richard Law, Mr. William Floyd, Mr. George Partridge] report,
That the petition of Hannah Sweers, praying that the lands and other property taken from her husband by order of the Board of War, to indemnify the United States may be sold and that he may be discharged from his bonds be referred to the Secretary at War to take order
That the memorial of Nicholas Reib of the Corps of Artificers relative to his pay lie on the table.3
[Note 3: 3 This report, in the writing of George Partridge is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, I, folio 349. It is undated, but Nicholas Rieb's memorial, dated May 15, is in No. 41, VIII, folio 318, and, according to the indorsement, was read May 16, and ordered to lie on the table.
A letter of the same day, from George Bond, Deputy Secretary, was read. It was referred to Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [John Morin] Scott, Mr. [Philemon] Dickinson, "to confer with the Superintendant of Finance and report the salaries of the civil list." It is in No. 78, IV, folio 303.]
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