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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, JUNE 10, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [William] Grayson, Mr. [Pierse] Long and Mr. [William] Ellery, to whom were referred two applications of Udney Hay,
Resolved, That the application of Udney Hay, for promotion, be referred to the Secretary at War to report; and,
That his application respecting a mode of settling his accounts, be referred to the commissioner for settling the accounts in the quarter master's department.
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [William] Houstoun, Mr. [John] Beatty and Mr. [David] Howell, to whom was referred a letter of 7 March, from Thomas Hutchins, geographer of the United States,
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Resolved, That in settling the accounts of Mr. Thomas Hutchins, geographer to the United States, he be allowed four dollars and four rations a day, from the time of his accepting his commission, to the 3d day of November, 1783, and that he be allowed four dollars a day, from that period to the 27 day of May, 1785, deducting therefrom the time he was employed and paid by the state of Pennsylvania.1
[Note 1: 1 On this day, as the indorsement states, was read a petition of Frederick Weissenfels. It is dated June 10 and prayed to be put upon the footing of foreign officers or to be given some civil or military appointment. It is in No. 42, VIII, folio 326.
On this day, according to Committee Book No. 190, the Committee of May 2 on the letter of April 29, from the Secretary at War in reference to the pay of the troops at Fort McIntosh and the Artillery at West Point, was discharged and the matter referred to the Secretary at War.]
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