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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, JANUARY 9, 1784.
Congress assembled: Present as before.
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [William] Ellery, Mr. [Edward] Hand and Mr. [Richard Dobbs] Spaight, to whom was referred a memorial of the late Major-General Sullivan:
The Committee consisting of Mr [William] Ellery, Mr [Edward] Hand and Mr [Richard Dobbs] Spaight to whom was referred the memorial of the late Major General John Sullivan with its enclosures, submit the following Resolves:
Whereas, in the Act of Congress passed theof April, 1780, allowing depreciation to the line of the Army on their original pay it is provided, "That no person shall have benefit of this resolution except such as were engaged during the War or for three years and are now in service or shall hereafter engage during the War," and the Memorialist had resigned and was not in service on the 11th. day of April, 1780, and whereas on the 2d. day of August, 1781, Congress passed a negative on the following question: "That it be recommended to the State of New Hampshire to make good to Genl. Sullivan the depreciation of his pay for the time he continued in service in the like manner as has been done for the Officers in the line of the said State now in service." Therefore--
Resolved, That Congress cannot consistently with those Acts allow the Memorialist depreciation on his pay for the time he continued in service--Postponed.
Ordered, That a petition of Nathaniel Greenwood for pay while a Prisoner, be referred to the Agent of Marine to report.2
[Note 2: 2 This order was entered only in the journal kept by the Secretary of Congress for the Superintendent of Finance: Morris Papers, Congressional Proceedings. According to the record in Committee Book No. 186, a report was delivered February 2.]
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Resolved, That so much of the said memorial, as respects the payment of fifteen hundred dollars, granted to him by Congress, by their act of 31 July, 1781, be referred to the Superintendant of finance, to take order.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Richard Dobbs Spaight, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, V, folio 453. Sullivan's memorial is in No. 41, IX, folio 253.]
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