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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 --TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1782
On the report of the committee, consisting of Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, Mr. [Ralph] Izard, Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, and Mr. [James] Duane; appointed to consider and report the most just and practicable means of reducing the expenditures of the United States:
Whereas by the resolutions ofrepealing all former resolutions respecting the quartermaster general's department, and establishing the pay and emoluments in that department, no allowance of rations is made to the officers employed therein, therefore,
Resolved, That the quartermaster general be allowed fifteen rations per day:
That the deputy quartermaster with the southern army be allowed twelve rations per day:
That all assistants in the quartermaster's department be allowed, each of them, two rations per day including what they may be entitled to draw in the line of the army:
That the waggonmaster, commissary of forage for the main army, and the commissary of forage for the southern army, be each of them allowed five rations per day:
That the deputy waggonmaster with the southern army, be allowed four rations per day:
That the waggon conductors be each of them allowed a ration and a half per day:
That the directors of the artificers be allowed each of them three rations per day, and the sub-directors each of them two rations per day:
And that the foregoing rations shall be inclusive of what the several officers aforesaid may be entitled to draw in the line of the army.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Samuel Osgood, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 22, folio 169.]
On a motion made by the delegates of Maryland,
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Resolved, That Congress do, in behalf of the United States, accept all the right, title, interest, jurisdiction, and claim of the State of New York, as ceded by and contained in the instrument of writing executed for that purpose by the agents of New York, dated the first March, 1781.1
[Note 1: 1 This resolution, in the writing of Daniel Carroll, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, I, folio 401. The vote is indorsed on the resolution.]
On the question to agree to this, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Daniel] Carroll,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.2
[Note 2: 2 The following motion, in the writing of Eliphalet Dyer, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 36, I, folio 409. It is dated October, 1782:
[Mr Dyer's Motion Respecting the acceptance of New York cession.]
Provided nevertheless that in accepting the cession of the State of New York as aforesaid nothing therein shall be construed or understood to confirm or agree to the limitation or restriction of the boundaries of the said State of New York, but that the remaining limits or boundaries of the State of New York with respect to every other State be considered as undecided and by no means to have or be construed to have any no influence in any future decision or determination of the remaining limits of the State of New York.
On this day, according to the indorsement, was read a letter of October 25, from Lieutenant Colonel Cambray. It is in No. 78, VI, folio 151.
Also, a letter from General Washington, dated ]lead Quarters, October 25, reporting intelligence from New York. It is in No. 152, XI, folio 1.
Also, another letter from him of the same date enclosing copies of letters from Count de Vergennes in reference to Captain Asgill. It was referred to Mr. [John] Rutledge, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, Mr. [Joseph] Montgomery, Mr. [Elias] Boudinot, Mr. [James] Duane. It is on folio 5.]
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