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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 29, 17822
[Note 2: 2 Here Charles Thomson resumes the entries in the Journal.]
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [John] Rutledge, Mr. [Joseph] Montgomery and Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, appointed to confer with the Superintendant of finance respecting the providing packets:
The Committee do report, That the ship Washington may be bought on reasonable and advantageous terms, and is, as your Committee are well informed, a swift sailing vessel fit for a Packet to and from Europe. They therefore recommend, that the Superintendant of Finance be directed to take order for purchasing and employing her for that purpose.3
[Note 3: 3 This report, in the writing of John Rutledge, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 26, folio 343.]
Resolved, That the Superintendant of finance be directed to take order for purchasing and employing the ship Washington for the purpose of a packet to and from Europe.
The Secretary at War, to whom was referred a memorial of Lieutenant Colonel Antil, reported, that by the reform of the army which will take place on the first day of January next, Lieutenant Colonel Antil will become a supernumerary officer and must then retire, and as his services in the intermediate time may be dispensed with, and the indulgence he solicits may without injuring the public interest be granted, that it be resolved, that Lieutenant Colonel Antil be permitted to retire from service with the emoluments granted to retiring officers by the resolutions of Congress of the 3 and 21 of October, 1780.4
[Note 4: 4 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 149, I, folio 623. The memorial of Colonel Edward Antill, dated March 4, 1782, is on folio 619, and, according to the indorsement, was referred to the Secretary at War on August 22.]
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A motion was made by Mr. [Samuel John] Atlee, seconded by Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, that the report be referred back to the Secretary at War to take order,
And on the question to agree to the motion, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. Clark [David] Howell,
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So the question was lost.
On the question to agree to the report, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [David] Howell,
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[Note 1: 1 The rest of the vote is entered in the Journal by George Bond.]
So it passed in the negative.
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