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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 --THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1786.
Congress assembled. Present as before.
On a report of the secretary at war and commissioner for army accounts, on the memorial of Jesse Cook and Jesse Grant,
Office of Army Accounts,
July 6th, 1786.
The Commissioner for Settling the Accounts of the Army to whom was referred the Memorial of Jesse Cook and Jesse Grant, begs Leave to report:
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That by Virtue of a resolution of your honorable House of the 16th. of April, 1781, Your Commissioner hath settled the Accounts of the Memorialists, who have been allowed their Old emission money agreeable to the usual mode of paying the Army and also their Subsistence from which was deducted the Supplies made by the Commissary of prisoners.
That your Commissioner omitted the settlement of their depreciation in Consequence of the above mentioned resolution and also their pay after the first of August, 1780, to the date of their exchange, for the reason that the state of Connecticut settled with Line for that time,
That your Commissioner in his settlement with these Officers considered the Warrant of the Governor of the State and the Certificate of the Secretary at War that they were appointed Captains to be a Sufficient Authority for him to settle their Accounts as such so far as they lay in his department.
That the Memorialists have Obtained their Depreciation and pay from the State of Connecticut, as Lieutenants, but their petition for the difference between the depredation of Lieutenants and Captains has for some reason unknown to your Commissioner been negatived by the Legislature of the State.
And Therefore that the real Subject of Complaints of Memorials, and which the report of the Secretary at War has a tendency very justly to remove is that the State be Authorized to Settle with them as Captains and Lieutenants.
Jno. Pierce.1
[Note 1: 1 This report is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 62, folio 145. According to indorsement it was read July 6. The report of the Secretary at War was read June 1.
Also, according to indorsement, was read the report of the committee of July 5 on the lists of negroes carried away by the British. It was adopted August 9 and is there spread verbatim on the Journal.
July 6: The following committee was appointed: Mr. [James] Monroe, Mr. [William Samuel] Johnson, Mr. [Charles] Pinckney, Mr. [Rufus] King and Mr. [Nathan] Dane, on "The report of the board of treasy. viz. Requisition for 1786." This was the report dated June 22 and read June 27, for the consideration of which July 5 had been assigned. See post, August 2.
Committee Book No. 190.]
Resolved, That it be recommended to the state of Connecticut, to settle with Jesse Cook and Jesse Grant, late
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officers in the service of the United States, the depreciation of their pay as captains, from the time they were entitled to that rank, to the first day of August 1780, and also for their pay as captains, from the said first day of August, to the 25th October, 1780, when they returned from captivity.
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