July 31,

Christopher Vaught and others, disaffected and dangerous persons, fined,

1656

Aug. 2,

County Committees in the State to cause Inventories of the estates of Refugees to be made, and all perishable articles to be sold,

1657

9,

Ordinance for keeping open the communication between New-Jersey and New-York, by way of Ferries over Passaick and Hacken-sack Rivers,

1660

11,

Ordinance for detaching one half the Militia of the State,

1662

16,

County Committees required to furnish lists of the prisoners of war within their districts,

1663

17,

Bills of Credit of the Continental Congress made a legal tender within the State of New-Jersey,

1664

19,

Assistance and encouragement to Dr. Samuel Bard, in the erecting of Salt Works in the State,

1664

Isaac Low and Joseph Stockton restored to the rights and immunities of other good subjects,

1665

20,

Report of Thomas Hutton, heretofore appointed to search for Lead and Sulphur Mines, and Flint Quarries,

1665

1776.

May 13,

Letter from General Washington, of the 9th, read and referred to the Committee on Qualifications,

1667

Letter from George Morgan, read and referred to the Standing Committee on Indian Affairs,

1667

Leave granted Mrs. Connolly to visit her husband in Jail,

1667

Proceedings of the Committee of Secret Correspondence laid before the Congress,

1667

14,

Committee on Letters from General Washington, General Schuyler, and Daniel Robertson,

1668

Council of Massachusetts requested to set Dr. Church at liberty, on taking his cognizance and parole,

1668

Instructions of the Assembly of Rhode-Island to their Delegates in Congress,

1669

The five Battalions now in Massachusetts to be filled up, and three additional Battalions raised in the Eastern Department on Continental pay,

1670

One Battalion to be raised in New-Hampshire,

1670

15,

Preamble to the Resolution of the 10th instant, recommending to the several Colonies to establish new forms of Government,

1671

16,

Committee on Letters from the Commissioners in Canada, General Schuyler, and General Washington,

1671

General Washington requested to repair to Philadelphia, to consult with the Congress,

1671

Horatio Gates elected Major-General, and Thomas Mifflin Brigadier-General,

1671

One of the additional Battalions ordered on the 14th to be raised in Massachusetts, and another in Connecticut,

1672

Report on the Letters referred on the 14th instant,

1672

18,

Report on General Lee’s Letters, April 19th and May 7th,

1672

Petition from Joseph Trumbull,

1673

Committee on regulating the price of Salt,

1674

Secret Committee directed to send a vessel to the West-Indies, to procure, if possible, ten thousand muskets,

1674

Mrs. Connolly directed not to leave Philadelphia till further orders of Congress,

1674

20,

Credentials and Instructions of the Delegates from Georgia,

1674

Committee on a Letter of the 10th from General Lee,

1675

Committee on the Resolutions of the Convention of South-Carolina, respecting the Battalions raised in that Colony,

1675

Proceedings of Committee of Secret Correspondence, read, under the injunction of secrecy,

1675

21,

Committee on Letters from General Washington, with Treaties for the employment of Germans and Hessians against America, and other papers,

1675

Regulations for the treatment of Prisoners,

1676

1776.

May 21,

Report on the Letter from General Lee, of 10th May,

1677

Report of Committee on the Letters from Generals Washington and Schuyler, and the Commissioners in Canada,

1677

22,

Committee to inquire into the conduct of Commodore Hopkins,

1678

Instructions to General Schuyler,

1678

An emission of five millions of Dollars, in Continental Bills of Credit, ordered,

1680

Report on the Gold and Silver coins current in the Colonies, and the proportions they ought respectively to bear to a Spanish milled dollar,

1681

23,

Committee to confer with Generals Washington, Gates, and Mifflin,

1681

General Washington ordered to attend in Congress to-morrow,

1682

24,

Captain Heman Allen, of Lieutenant-Colonel Warner’s Battalion, paid for sundry disbursements for the use of his Company,

1682

Pay and Rations to the persons employed in the Commissary-General’s Department, in the Continental Army,

1682

Report of Committee appointed to confer with the Generals,

1683

Committee directed further to confer with the Generals; and Mr. Robert R. Livingston added to the Committee,

1684

General Washington attended the Congress, and directed to attend again to-morrow,

1684

Sundry Resolutions of the Maryland Convention laid before Congress,

1684

25,

General Washington attended the Congress,

1684

Committee to confer with the Generals, and to concert a plan of military operations for the ensuing campaign,

1684

Lieutenant-Colonel Burbeck dismissed from the Continental service,

1685

One Battalion of Germans to be raised,

1685

Deputies from four of the Six Nations of Indians to be admitted to an audience on Monday next,

1685

The Congress and the Generals to attend a review of the Philadelphia Associators on Monday morning,

1685

Report of Committee appointed to confer with the Generals on the measures for preventing the enemy’s communication with the upper country from Canada,

1686

27,

Secret Committee directed to forward one ton of gunpowder, sent for the defence of the western frontier,

1686

The Indians admitted to an audience,

1687

Delegates from North-Carolina and Delegates from Virginia laid before the Congress Instructions of their respective Conventions, respecting the Independence of the United Colonies,

1687

28,

Colonel Turbutt Francis to attend the next conference with the Indians, and interpret for them,

1687

Report of Committee on regulating the price of Salt,

1687

29,

Report of Committee appointed to confer with the General on the ensuing campaign,

1687

Committee to prepare an animated Address to the People,

1688

30,

Resolution on regulating the price of Salt,

1689

Report on the Letter of Joseph Woodward, and the Petition of the Inhabitants of the New-Hampshire Grants,

1689

Reward to the Riflemen who brought the late intelligence from England,

1690

Six of the heaviest Cannon at Newport, and fourteen of the heaviest Cannon at New-London, belonging to the Continent, to be transported to Philadelphia,

1691

Report of the Committee of Conference with the Generals, referred to a Committee of the whole Congress,

1691

31,

Further Report from the Committee of Conference,

1692

June 1,

Report of the Committee of the whole Congress on the Report of the Committee appointed to confer with the Generals,

1693

Six thousand Militia to reinforce the Army in Canada,

1693