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Extracts from the Journals of Congress.
Monday, April io, 1780.
ON motion of Mr. Schuyler, seconded by
Mr. Matthews,
Resolved, That when Congress fliall be
furnifhed with proper documents to liqui
date the depreciation of the Continental Bills of Cre
dit, they will, as soon thereafter as the Rate of the
public finances will admit, make good to the line of
the army and the independent corps thereof, the de
ficiency of their original pay occalioned by such de
preciation ; and that the money and articles hereto
fore paid or furnifhed, or hereafter to be paid or fur
nifhed by Congress or the states, or any of them, as
for pay, subsistence, or to compensate for deficienccs,
shall be deemed as advanced on account, until such
liquidation as aforefaid shall be adjusted; it being the
determination of Congress that all the troops serving
in the continental army shall be placed on an equal
footing; provided, That no person shall have any
benefit of this resolution, except such as were engag
ed during the war or for three years, and pre now in
service or shall hereafter engage during the war.
Resolved, That a Committee of three be appoint
ed to report a proper compensation to the ftaff of the
army, in confcquence of the depreciation of the
currency :
The members chosen, Mr. Holten, Mr. Peabody,
and Mr. Burke.
April 12. The consideration of the draught of in
ftrudions to the Committee to be appointed to go to
Camp, was resumed, and the fame being amended to
read as follows :
Gentlemen,
YOU are to confer with the Commander in Chief
on the fubjefts contained in the resolution for your
appointment, and such others as are committed to
your charge by the following instructions:
ift. You are to consult him on the propriety of re
ducing the number of regiments : You may, with his
advice, reduce, incorporate or unite to Bate lines the
several additional corps.
xd. You, together with the Commander in Chief,
are to limit the number of horses to be kept by the of
ficers of the line and regimental Bass, and to make
such regulations, with refped to the soldiers employ
ed as servants, as will, as far as is confident with the
convenience of the officers they serve, enable the U
nited States to avail themselves of their services as
soldiers.
3d. Together with the Commander in Chief, you
are to suggest such measures and to form luch plans,
for the general advantage of the officers and soldiers,
with refpedt to clothing and necessary supplies, as will
tend to remove all jult ground of complaint, which
Congress sincerely lament that there Should be any
room for, and to adapt them to the abilities and cir
cumstances of these United States, and immediately
to lay them before Congress.
4th. You are to consult with the Commander in
Chief and the Commissary and Quartermaster Gene
ral about the defeats of the present system, the abuses
to which it is liable, and the belt method of reform
ing the fame. —In doing this you will pay a particu
lar attention to the report referred to you in your ap
pointment, and adopt, amend or alter the fame, in
such manner as shall upon full consideration appear to
you most advifeable ; and you are hereby fully empow
ered to carry into execution any plan for conducting
the Quartermaster and Commissary departments,
which, upon advice with the Commander in Chief
and the heads thereof, you shall approve; always re
flecting that supplies are to be drawn forth by the re
spective states, agreeably to the resolutions of the 25th
of February last.
sth. You are to enquire minutely into the manage
ment of the hospitals and medical department, and,
after consulting the Commander in Chief and Direc
tor-General, you are empowered to difeharge unne
cessary officers ; to retrench expences ; to abolish pur
veyorfhips, unless where they shall appear absolutely
• necessary ; to contrive modes for checking their ac
counts, and to limit the number of horses which the
officers of that department shall be permitted to keep,
providing that they be as few as potable, bearing in
mind that the resources of the country are much drain
ed, and that it is more expedient that individuals
should feel temporary inconveniencies than to involve
our affairs in a general ruin.
6th. You are to enquire into the management of the
hide department, and to reform or abolish the fame,
fubßituting contrasts in lieu thereof; if upon advising
with the Commander in Chief, it shall appear molt
salutary.
7th. You are to pay particular attention to the de
partment of ordnance and military Bores, and, after
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consulting with the Commander in Chief and the heads
of the departments, to lay down such rules for the
management thereof as to you shall seem necessary.
Bth. After the establishment of general regulations
you shall visit the different posts, as far as you shall
judge necessary, in order to fee the fame carried into
execution ; in doing of which you are vested with
joint and separate powers.
You are at liberty to call to yoUr assistance any offi
cers in the service of the United States, whose ex
pences shall be borne by the states.
You are to abolish unnecessary posts; to ereft o
thers ; to difeharge useless officers; to stop rations
improperly issued ; and are hereby further authorifed
to exercise every power which may be requisite to
effect a reformation of abuses, and the general ar
rangement of thole departments which are in any wife
connected with the matters committed to your charge.
You are from time to time, to inform Congress of
the measures you have taken in consequence of these
powers and instructions, and to transmit them lifts of
the names and occupations of the persons you shall
difeharge, and of those new officers, if any, which
you shall find necessary to appoint.
On the question to agree to the whole,
The yeas and nays were required, and
It was resolved in the affirmative.
The Board of Treasury representing that the daily
business of the office engrosses the whole of their time
and attention, so that they cannot forward the execu
tion of the order of Congress of the 18th of March last,
with the necessary dispatch;
Resolved, That the Board of Treasury be discharg
ed from that duty, so far as relates to the preparing
of the bills to be struck in pursuance of the resoluti
ons of the said 18th of March ; and that a Committee
of two be appointed to expedite it ;
The members chosen Mr+ Ellsworth & Mr. Kinloch.
April 13. Congress proceeded to the election of a
Committee to proceed to Head-Quarters, and the
ballots being taken,
Mr. Schuyler, Mr. Matthews, and Mr. Peabody
were elected.
April 14. On motion of Mr. Livingston seconded
by Mr. Matthews,
Resolved, That Congress return their thanks to
General Mifflin, and Colonel Pickering, for their at
tention to the business committed to them, manifeft
ed in their plan for the arrangement of the ftaff de
partments; and that they be informed that Congress
have referred their report to a Committee, who are
to consult with the Commander in Chief and the heads
ofthe ftaff departments, on the fame, and such alte
rations as the circumstances of the army may render
necessary.
Resolved, That General Mifflin and Colonel Pick
ering be informed, that the remainder of the business
referred to them must, from the necessity of adapting
it to such plans as may be finally concluded on, be
referred to the Committee who are to proceed to
Head-Quarters.
7° H A T Loan-Office Certificates, destroyed thro'
A.accident, be renewed at the office whence they
firlt issued, and delivered to the persons who shall ap
pear to have been the holders of them at the time
they were destroyed, on the following terms, viz.
I. That all Certificates so destroyed be advertised
immediately in the news-papers of the itate where
the accident happened, and, if they have been taken
out at the Loan-Office of a different Bate, in the
news-paper of such Bate also ; and in every case where
no news-paper is printed in a Bate, then in one or
more of those which circulate most generally therein ;
which advertisement shall be continued fix weeks,
and shall contain the numbers, dates, sums, names
in which the Certificates were taken out, and the
time when, the place where, and the means by which
they were destroyed.
2. That a copy of the advertisement be lodged in
the Loan-Office whence the Certificates issued, to
gether with such testimony as can be procured, as
certaining the time when, the place where, and the
means by which the destruction happened ; whig co
py and testimony shall be duly certified by the Loan-
Officer, to be laid by the party claiming the renewal,
before the Board of Treasury, who shall finally decide
on the fufficiency thereof.
3. That the party claiming the renewal enter into
bond to such Loan-Officer on behalf of the United
States, with two or more fufficient freeholders as se
curities, in double the amount of the value of the
Certificates claimed to be renewed, with condition
to indemnify the United States against the holders of
In CONGRESS, May 10, 1780.
Resolved,
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the Certificates said to be destroyed, should any such
afterwards appear.
4. That no Certificates be renewed before the ex
piration of three months after the publication of the
advertisement above mentioned.
5. That where a demand is made by virtue of a
letter or warrant of attorney, such letter or warrant
be firft legally proved and recorded, and an authenti
cated copy lodged in the Loan-Office where the de
mand is made;
6. That the renewed Certificates be of the fame
tenor and date with those destroyed, and that the
payments of interest, where any have been made, be
regularly endorsed as they appear on the Loan-Office
books ; and that they bear a mark to diftinguilh them
from the originals, which mark shall be entered in
the Loan-Office books.
Ordered, That the Board of Treasury prepare and
forward to the refpeCtive Loan-Officers, the form of
a bond with the necessary inftruaions to direCt them
in the execution of the aforefaid resolution ; and that
they Bate the sum to be paid by the applicants to the
United States for Certificates renewed, and the fees
to be taken by the Loan-Officer.
ExtraCt from the minutes,
GEO. BOND, Dep. Secy.
r rHE Court of Admiralty advertised to be held at
'Mountholly on the firft day of June next, is
postponed until the eighth of the fame month, then
to be held at the fame place—of which all persons
concerned are to take notice.
May 23, 1780. By order of the Judge,
JOS. BLOOMFIELD, Reg.
MRS. Jemima Crane takes this method of ac
quainting her friends and employers, that the
has taken lodgings at Mr. Peter Crolius's, where She
will with alacrity attend the calls of those ladies who
will please to favour her with their practice ; in which
flie has had hitherto the good fortune to give fatis
faction, and hopes the success the has met with, and
her unwearied study and endeavours to render her
knowledge in the art of midwifry, as compleat as the
nature of it will admit, will prove powerful induce,
ments to engage the good opinion of the public in
general. She flatters herfelf that the step She has
lately taken will remove all exceptions which her sex
might have to employing her, and prevent any invi
dious reflections on her past unfortunate history, and
charitably dispose the candid to look upon her with
an eye of favour and humanity. j^w
Trenton, May 24, 1780.
THE Vacation of Queen's College at Hillfbo
rough, in the county of Somerset, and of the
Grammar School in the city of New- Brunswick,
is expired; and the business of each is again com
menced. —Good lodgings may be procured in both
places at as low a rate as in any part of the Bate.
By order of the Faculty,
JOHN TAYLOR, Clk. pro. tem.
Hillfborougl;, May 25, 1780. 3W35
WAS STOLEN from the fifhery, near the mouth
of Tyhickan Creek, on the Delaware, in the
night of the 13th inst. Seven Barrels of Salt SHAD,
the property of the United States. The barrels are
made of black oak ftaves. Any person giving infor
mation to the subscriber of the fame, shall receive
Five Hundred Dollars reward and all reasonable ex
pences, paid by me
May 15. William M'Calla, C. P. B. C.
LAMPBLAC K,
Wholesale and Retail,
Writing Paper by the Ream,
TO BE SOLD by the Printer hereof.
— •
STRAYED from Princeton, New-Jersey, a black
yearling mare COLT, well grown, small star, X
white foot; said colt is a natural trotter. Whoever
takes up and secures said colt, so that the owner may
have her again, shall receive Two Hundred Dollars
reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by the sub
scriber, living in Hopewell. 3 w
May 9 , 1780. FOSTER -WATERS'
NTE
A GOOD SCHOOLMISTRESS, who can teach
Reading, and most kinds of Needle-work, Knit
ting, &c. Apply to the Printer of this Paper.
[Numb. 127.]