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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, NOVEMBER 5, 1782
On motion of Mr. [David] Howell, seconded by Mr. [Samuel] Osgood,
Resolved, That all committees appointed by the last Congress, and having business before them, be, and they are hereby, authorised to proceed in the same, and that they make report as soon as may be.
The credentials of the delegates of New Jersey, were read; by which it appears, that at a joint meeting of the council and assembly at Trenton, on the 30 October, 1782, the Hon. E[lias] Boudinot, A[braham] Clark, J[onathan] Elmer, S[ilas] Condict, and Fred[erick] Frelinghuysen, were elected, and any two or more of them empowered to represent and
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vote in behalf of that State in the Congress of the United States of America, from the 5 of November, 1782, to the 5 November, 1783, unless a new appointment shall sooner take place.
New Jersey
Trenton October 30th 1782.
The Council & Assembly proceeded to the election of five Delegates to represent the said State in Congress when
The honble. Elias Boudinot
Abraham Clark
Jonathan Elmer
Silas Condict and
Frederick Frelinghuysen Esqrs.
were duly elected.
Resolved therefore that the said Elias Boudinot, Abraham Clark, Jonathan Elmer, Silas Condict & Frederick Frelinghuysen Esqrs. or any two or more of them be empowered to represent & vote in behalf of this State in the Congress of the United States of North America from the fifth day of November next, until the fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty three, unless a new appointment shall sooner take place.
It is nevertheless expected that three of the Delegates do constantly attend in Congress unless prevented by sickness or other accident.
By order of Joint Meeting
John CoxChairman.1
[Note 1: 1 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, New Jersey, Credentials of Delegates. It was entered in No. 179, Record of Credentials, and not in the Journal.]
Reconsidered. On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood and Mr. [Philemon] Dickinson, to whom were referred a report of the Secretary at War [of the 29th of October] on the case of Captain Schreiber and a memorial of the said Captain Schreiber:
Resolved, That the Commander in Chief be authorised to obtain the exchange of Captain Schreiber, late of the corps of Engineers, and Captain Second, late of Pulaski's corps, the resolution of the 16 day of October last notwithstanding, and that they have leave of absence.
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Your Committee having considered the paragraph of the said report relative to officers prisoners of war to who are citizens of the States and who have been deranged in pursuance of the resolutions of the 3d and 21st day of October, 1780, and Struck out. 7th day of August last are of opinion that the pay of such officers should continue until they are exchanged but the their rations and other emoluments cease from the time that their derangement respectively took place except where such officers shall be restrained within the lines of the enemy.
Resolved, That all foreign officers while in captivity be entitled to draw full pay and subsistence (notwithstanding Struck out. they shall have been deranged by any past or future resolution of Congress) until exchanged.
The committee having considered the report of the Secretary at War respecting the invalid regiment report,
Ordered, That the Secretary at War lay before Congress, as soon as may be, a particular stale of the invalid corps.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of a clerk, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, V, folio 295.
The following motion, in the writing of Samuel Osgood, and undated, is in No. 36, IV, folio 283:
Resolved, That the Secretary at War Commander in Chief be and hereby is empowered to exchange Capt. Scriber and Capt. Segond two foreign officers deranged from the Service of the United States.
That it be referred to the Secretary at War who is directed to consult the Commander in Chief and take order if deemed expedient.]
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Joseph] Montgomery, Mr. [Theodorick] Bland, Mr. Daniel] Carroll, Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer, and Mr. [John] Witherspoon, to whom were referred a letter of the 16 September last, from Governor Clinton, a deposition of Joel Bigelow, and a memorial of Charles Phelps, with sundry papers therein enclosed and referred to.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee, consisting of Mr. [George] Clymer, Mr. [Daniel] Carroll, Mr. [Abraham] Clark, Mr. [Samuel] Livermore, and Mr. [Richard] Law, as entered on the journal of the 17 of April last; and the resolution proposed by this committee being read and debated,
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A motion was made by Mr. [David] Howell, seconded by Mr. [Eliphalet] Dyer, to postpone the consideration of the resolution proposed by the committee, in order to consider the following proposition:
That the preliminary required of the people, inhabiting the territory called Vermont, by a resolve of August 20, 1781, as indispensably necessary to the recognition of their independence, has been complied with on their part.
A division was called for, and on the question to postpone the consideration of the resolution proposed by the committee, and the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [James] Duane,
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So it was resolved in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, seconded by Mr.Madison [William] Blount,
Resolved, That the resolution passed this morning respecting Captains Schreiber and Second be reconsidered.
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