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A decent respect to the opinions of mankind : Congressional State papers, 1774-1776
A declaration by the representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in general Congress at Philadelphia, seting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms
A proclamation for a continental fast. In Congress, Saturday, March 16, 1776 : ... The Congress ... do earnestly recommend that Friday the seventeenth day of May next be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer ..
An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America
An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America
By the United States in Congress assembled. April 23, 1784. : Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner ..
By the United States in Congress assembled. April 23, 1784. : Resolved, that so much of the territory ceded, or to be ceded by individual states, to the United States, as is already purchased, or shall be purchased, of the Indian inhabitants, and offered for sale by Congress, shall be divided into distinct states in the following manner, as nearly as such cessions will admit ..
Die RepraÌsentanten der Vereinigten Staaten von America, im Congress versammlet, an das Volk uÌberhaupt, und an die Einwohner Pennsylvaniens und der angrenzenden Staaten insbesondere
In Congress, April 1, 1777 : For the better regulating the pay of the army, resolved, that the paymaster or deputy paymaster general shall pay no money but by warrants from the commanders in chief ..
In Congress, April 3, 1776 : Resolved, that every person intending to set forth and fit out a private ship or vessel of war, and applying for a commission or letters of marque and reprisal for that purpose, shall produce a writing, subscribed by him, containing the name, and tonnage or burthen of the ship or vessel ..
In Congress, April 7, 1777 : Resolved, that there be one director general of all the military hospitals, which shall be erected for the Continental Army in the United States ..
In Congress, August 26, 1776. Whereas, in the course of the present war, some commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the Army and Navy, as also private soldiers, marines and seamen, may lose a limb, or be otherwise so disabled ..
In Congress, Baltimore, January 14th, 1777 : resolved, that the commissioners of the loan offices be directed to receive the bills of credit, heretofore emitted by the states in which they respectively hold their offices for such sums as shall be ordered by the Commissioners of the Treasury, or the Continental Treasurer, from time to time, for continental purposes, within such states respectively
In Congress, February 15, 1777 : Resolved, that considering the situation of the New-England states, Congress approve of the measures adopted and recommended by the committee from the four New-England states for the defence of the state of Rhode-Island, and also of the measures to be taken for preventing the depreciation of their currency ..
In Congress, February 24, 1777 : Resolved, that the Board of War be directed to send letters ... to the colonels ... of the several regiments, now raising and recruiting in the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, ordering them ... to join the army under General Washington ..
In Congress, July 19, 1776. Resolved, that a copy of the circular letters and of the declarations they enclosed from Lord Howe to Mr. W. Franklin, Mr. Penn ... be published in the several gazettes, that the good people of these United States, may be informed of what nature are the commissioners and what the terms ..
In Congress, July 31, 1777 : Resolved, that it be recommended to the executive Authorities of each of the United States to divide their respective States into Districts, and to appoint a proper Person in each District to recruit Men to fill up the Regiments raised in such State ..
In Congress, June 10, 1777 : Resolved, I. That for supplying the Army of the United States with provisions, one commissary general and four deputy commissaries general of purchases ; and one commissary general and three deputy commissaries general of issues, be appointed by Congress. ..
In Congress, March 25, 1777 : Whereas by a resolve of Congress of the 3d of October, 1776, the commissioners of the loan-offices were directed to transmit to the Continental treasurer once a month an account of the cash in their respective offices ... Resolved, that the several commissioners of the loan-offices hereafter make monthly returns to the Board of Treasury ..
In Congress, May 15, 1776. : Whereas His Britannic Majesty, in conjunction with the Lords and Commons of Great-Britain, has ... excluded the inhabitants of these United Colonies from the protection of the crown: ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies ... to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the Representatives of the people best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents ..
In Congress, May 21, 1776 : Resolved, that all persons taken in arms on board any prize, be deemed prisoners, to be taken care of by the supreme executive power in each colony to which they are brought, whether the prize be taken by vessels fitted out by the Continent ..
In Congress, May 27, 1778 : establishment of the American Army
In Congress, Monday, June 12, 1775 : ... This Congress ... recommend, that Thursday, the twentieth day of July next, be observed by the inhabitants of all the English colonies on this continent, as a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer ..
In Congress, October 17, 1777 : Resolved, that the premium of five dollars, offered by a resolution of Congress of the 31st of July last, for apprehending and securing deserters from the Continental Army, an addition be made of five dollars for each deserter so apprehended and secured ..
In Congress, October 3d, 1780 : resolved, that the regular Army of the United States, from and after the first day of January next, consist of 4 regiments of cavalry or light dragoons ..
In Congress, Wednesday, April 3, 1776 : Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes
In Congress. December 30, 1776 : It appearing to Congress that it will be extremely difficult, if not impracticable, to supply the army of the United States with bacon, salted beef and pork, soap, tallow and candles ... Resolved, that none of the said articles ... be exported from any of the United States after the fifth day of January next, until the first day of November next ..
In Congress. November 24, 1778. : Congress took into consideration the report of the committee of arrangement, and thereupon came to the following resolutions. ..
Instructions to the officers appointed to recruit in New-York, for the service of the United States of America
Journal of the proceedings of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, September 5th, 1774 : containing the Bill of Rights, a list of grievances, occasional resolves, the association, an address to the people of Great Britain, a memorial to the inhabitants of the British American colonies, and, an address to the inhabitants of the province of Quebec : to which is added, (being now first printed by authority) an authentic copy of the petition to the King
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789.
Know ye, that we have granted, and by these presents do grant, licence and authority to John Foster Williams mariner, commander of the [blank] ... to fit out and set forth the said [blank] in a warlike manner, and by and with the said [blank] and the crew thereof ... to attack, subdue and take all ships and other vessels whatsoever carrying soldiers, arms ... or any other contraband goods to any of the British armies or ships of war employed against these United States ..
Proceedings of the general Congress of delegates from the several British colonies in North-America, held in Philadelphia, September 1774
Resolves of the Honourable Continental Congress
The Tory act
The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish thus early purely to ease the impatience of the public : Association, &c. ..
To the inhabitants of the United States of America : Friends and countrymen. The present situation of public affairs demands your most serious attention, and particularly the great and encreasing depreciation of your currency ..
To the inhabitants of the province of Quebec : from the Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774

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