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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, SEPTEMBER 13, 1782
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Ezekiel] Cornell, Mr. [Theodorick] Bland and Mr. N[oble] W[imberly] Jones, to whom was referred a letter of 11, from the Secretary at War:
Resolved, That the Commander in Chief, Superintendant of finance and Secretary at War take order for carrying into executive the expeditions as mentioned in a letter from the said Secretary at War of the 11 instant, provided that money necessary for defraying the expence be advanced by the State of Pennsylvania in such a manner as not to derange or interfere with the present plans of the said Superintendant of finance.
Resolved, That the Secretary at War take order for carrying into execution the expeditions mentioned in his said letter, so far as the Commander in Chief shall have approved of employing therein the recruits of the Pensylvania line or other continental troops.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of a clerk, the last paragraph being in that of Charles Thomson, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 27, folio 189. The Secretary at War's letter, in reference to two expeditions against the Indians, is in No. 149, I, folio 679.]
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