Excerpt from Journals of the Continental Congress, Vol. 18: 1774-1789 The Committee to whom was referred General Gates letter of the of August last report: That it be earnestly recommended to the States of Maryland, Vir ginia and North Carolina, to lay up with all possible despatch, in such places as the Commanding officer of the Southern Army shall request of them respectively, magazines of provisions and forage for an Army of fifteen thousand men for six months, and that Congress Will speedily send forward to each state their respective proportions of the said provisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.