Resolved, That the deputy director-general of the hospital in the eastern department shall, as heretofore, in the absence of the directorgeneral, supervise the medical affairs of that department till the further order of Congress.

August 14, 1778.

Resolved, That the resolution of Congress of the 9th of June last authorizing the deputy director-general of the hospital in the eastern department, in the absence of the director-general, to superintend the medical affairs of that department be, and it is hereby, repealed; and that the said hospital for the future be under the same regulations as the hospitals in the other departments.

Resolved, That the director-general be directed, to enquire into the state of the hospital in the eastern department, and give proper orders for the good government and economy thereof, and discharge unqualified and supernumerary officers, if any there be.

October 20, 1778.

Whereas, by a resolution of Congress of April 22nd, 1777, it is provided that the several commanding officers of parties, detachments, or corps on their march to or from camp shall send to the military hospitals such of the officers and soldiers as, from time to time, are unable to proceed, unless from the distance of the hospitals or other causes it shall at any time be necessary to deliver them to the care of private physicians or surgeons, in which cases the deputy director-general shall discharge the reasonable demands of the physicians and surgeons conducting, agreeably to the said resolve.

And whereas no provision is therein made for discharging the accounts of other persons who have been or may be employed by proper officers for taking care of and providing for such officers and soldiers;

Resolved, That the deputy directors-general, respectively, be authorized and instructed to discharge such of the said accounts as shall appear to be reasonable and just, provided that each person who may hereafter be employed to provide for officers and soldiers as aforesaid shall give earliest notice thereof to the deputy director-general, or the physician or surgeon-general of the district, in order for the speedy removal to the military hospitals.

November 24, 1778.

Resolved, That all officers and persons employed on the staff shall receive for subsistence money one-third of a dollar for each extra ration heretofore allowed them.

January 23, 1779..

Resolved, That the director-general of the medical department be authorized and instructed to enjoin the several deputy directors, physicians, and surgeons-general, and other officers under his superintendence to attend and perform such duties, at any post or place, as a

change of the position of the Army, or other circumstances, may, from time to time, make necessary, and shall be required by the Commander in Chief, notwithstanding such deputy director, physician, or surgeon is, by the general arrangement of the hospital, attached to a particular department; and that in case of any dispute concerning their seniority or precedence, the director-general shall determine the same in the first instance, the party supposing himself aggrieved being at liberty to appeal for redress to the medical committee.

Resolved, That the director-general be authorized and instructed to supply, for the use of the regimental surgeons, such medicines and refreshments as may be proper for the relief of the sick and wounded before their removal to a general hospital, and to be dispensed under the care and at the discretion of the physician and Surgeon-General of the Army.

March 10, 1779.-"Col. C. Hall is appointed to superintend the hospital at Brunswick and relieve Col. Beauford." (Orders, General Headquarters, Middle-Brook.)

March 16, 1779.

Resolved, That all warrant officers on the civil staff of the Army be put on the same footing with commissioned officers in respect to arrests, trials, and punishments.

April 13, 1779.-"Lt. Col. Dabney is appointed to superintend the hospitals in Jersey." (Orders, General Headquarters, Middle-Brook.)

Resolved,

May 11, 1779.

That all staff officers who serve with the Army shall be allowed clothing on the same conditions as officers in the line, provided they engage for a year or longer.

May 18, 1779.-"Major Stevenson is appointed to relieve Col. Dabney in the superintendency of the hospitals in New Jersey." (Orders, General Headquarters, Middle-Brook.)

June 2, 1779.-"Lieutenant-Col. Simms, is appointed to superintend the hospitals in Pennsylvania." (Orders, General Headquarters, Middle-Brook.)

June 12, 1779.-Dr. John Morgan, director-general and chief physician of the general hospitals of the United States, was removed January 9, 1777, by reason of the general complaints of persons of all ranks in the Army, but on the report of the medical committee to Congress August 9, 1777, that body resolved, June 12, 1779, "That Congress are satisfied with the conduct of Dr. John Morgan while acting as director-general and physician in chief in the general hospitals of the United States," and ordered the publication of the resolution.

August 11, 1779.

Resolved, That the half pay provided by the resolution of the 15th of May, 1778, be extended to continue for life; and that the holding of a civil office under the United States, or any of them, shall be no bar to prevent any officer from receiving the same.

August 18, 1779.

Resolved, That until further order of Congress the said officers [of the Army] be entitled to receive monthly for their subsistence money the sums following, to wit: Each colonel, 500 dollars; every lieutenant-colonel, 400 dollars; every major, 300 dollars; every captain, 200 dollars; every lieutenant, ensign, and surgeon's mate, 100 dollars.

Resolved, That until the further order of Congress the sum of 10 doilars be paid to every noncommissioned officer and soldier monthly for their subsistence in lieu of those articles of food originally intended for them and not furnished.

August 30, 1779.-"Lt. Col. Adams is appointed to superintend the hospitals in Pennsylvania and Jersey." (Orders, General Headquarters, Moore's House.)

October 24, 1779.-Lieutenant Colonel Williams is appointed to superintend the hospital in Albany." (Orders, General Headquarters, Moore's House.)

October, 27, 1779.

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Resolved, That the director-general, each of the deputy directorsgeneral, each physician and surgeon-general, each senior physician and surgeon, each junior surgeon, each apothecary-general apothecary's assistant in the hospital of the United States shall be entitled to draw clothing annually from the stores of the clothiergeneral in the same manner and under the same regulations as are established for officers of the line by a resolution of the 26th day of November, 1777.

Resolved, That until the further order of Congress the said officers. of the military hospital shall also be entitled to subsistence in like manner as is granted to officers of the line, to be estimated in the following ratio:

1st. The director-general to receive the same subsistence as a colonel in the line.

2d. The deputy directors-general, the physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries general, the same as lieutenant-colonels.

3d. The senior physicians and surgeons, the same as majors. The junior surgeons and apothecaries' assistants, the same as captains, and to commence from the said 18th day of August. Resolved, That the mates of the military hospital shall, during service, be entitled to the same subsistence as is given to regimental surgeons' mates by the resolution of the 18th day of August last.

October 28, 1779.-Resolution of October 27, relative to Medical Department reconsidered and recommitted to the Medical Committee.

November 20, 1779.

Resolved, That the director-general, deputy directors-general, the assistant deputy directors, the physicians and surgeons-general of the hospitals and Army, the senior surgeons, the second or junior surgeons, the apothecaries-general and apothecaries' mates or assistants, the hospital chaplains, regimental surgeons and mates, mates of the military hospitals, commissaries, assistant commissaries, paymasters and stewards of the hospital who shall have been in the service for the space of one year, and are at present employed in the same, shall each be entitled annually to draw clothing from the stores of the clothiergeneral in the same manner and under the same regulations as are established for officers of the line by a resolution of Congress on the 26th day of November, 1777.

Resolved, That until the further order of Congress the following officers of the military hospital shall be entitled to subsistence in like manner as is granted to officers of the line by a resolution of the 18th day of August last, and in the following proportions, viz: Each deputy

director-general, 500 dollars per month; each assistant deputy director, 400 dollars; each physician-general and surgeon-general, 500 dollars; each physician and surgeon-general, 500 dollars; each senior surgeon, 400 dollars; each junior surgeon, 300 dollars; each apothecary-general, 400 dollars; each apothecary's assistant or mate, 100 dollars; each commissary, 300 dollars; each commissary's assistant, 200 dollars; each clerk, who is to be paymaster, 200 dollars; each steward, 100 dollars;

The same to commence from the 18th day of August last.

Resolved, That all mates necessarily employed in the military hospital or Army shall, during service, be entitled to the same subsistence as is given to regimental mates, viz, 100 dollars per month.

November 22, 1779.-The medical committee was instructed to revise the several resolutions relating to the hospital department, digest and arrange them with such amendments as will make the whole consistent and conformable to the alterations made by Congress in the original system.

November 22, 1779.—“Major Cochrane, of the New York troops, is appointed to relieve Lieutenant-Colonel Williams, superintending the hospital at Albany." (Orders, General Headquarters, Moore's House.)

November 26, 1779.

Resolved, That the returns for clothing for officers in the medical staff (regimental surgeons and their mates, who are to draw with the regimental staff, excepted) be signed by the director-general or the physician-general and surgeon-general of the district, and such clothing shall be delivered either by the clothier-general, or any subclothier in the State in which the officer to receive clothing shall reside, as is provided in the cases of other staff officers not taken from the line.

December 8, 1779.-"Doctor Latimer [is] appointed a senior surgeon in the flying hospital." (Orders, General Headquarters, Morristown.)

December 24, 1779.-"The honorable the Board of War, having procured a small supply of shirts and linen and directed the distribution of them among the officers of the staff, who are not adopted by any State: The clothier-general is to deliver them upon returns signed by the heads of the following corps and departments at the rate directed by a resolution of Congress of the 25th of November last, surgeons of the general and flying hospital Headquarters, Morristown.)

(Orders, General

January 27, 1780.

Resolved, That the issuing commissaries be respectively directed not to deliver rations or parts of rations to any hospital commissary, unless on returns signed by him and countersigned by the principal physician or surgeon of the respective hospitals, specifying the names and stations of the persons for whom, and for what time, the rations are drawn, and that the hospital commissary be also required to annex to each ration the receipts of the persons to whom he shall have delivered the provisions drawn on the last return.

February 25, 1780.

Resolved, That Doctor David Oliphant, director-general of the hospitals in the State of South Carolina, be, and he is hereby, directed to make monthly returns to the medical committee, agreeable to the resolutions of Congress of the 7th of April, 1779, and that he cause a duplicate thereof to be delivered monthly to the commanding officer,

for the time being, of the southern army, and that the director-general of the hospitals to the Army of the United States be furnished with a copy of this resolution.

March 23, 1780.-" A subaltern officer from Genl. Hand's brigade is to be sent to Phukemin to-morrow to superintend the hospital there in place of Lieut. Leonard.” (Orders, General Headquarters, Morristown.)

May 23, 1780.

Resolved, That the director-general, or in his absence, deputy director-general, of the hospitals in the eastern district, be, and he is hereby, directed to have a suitable house at or near the post of New London, in the State of Connecticut, for the reception of such sick American prisoners as shall from time to time be exchanged and landed in that neighborhood, and that one senior surgeon or physician and a suitable number of mates be occasionally employed therein, as the number of sick shall increase or diminish.

June 26, 1780.

Whereas it is represented by the medical committee that difficulties arise in the hospital department from the arrest of the director-general, Resolved, therefore, That the medical committee be, and are hereby, authorized to take proper measures for carrying on the business of the said department, and that all medical gentlemen and others attached to the said department pay obedience to the orders of the said committee.

June 26, 1780.-Dr. William Shippen, jr., was charged, June 15, 1779, with malpractice and misconduct in office. He was tried, but acquitted, and restored to his position as director-general October 6, 1780.

July 6, 1780.-"Doctor Hagan, senior surgeon in the general hospital, is appointed to do duty in that capacity in the flying hospital.” (Orders, General Headquarters, Pracaness.)

July 14, 1780.-"Colonel Spencer is appointed to superintend the hospitals in Jersey. (Orders, General Headquarters, Pracaness.)

July 21, 1780. Congress accepted the resignation of Dr. W. Brown, physiciangeneral.

August 22, 1780.

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Whereas it is of the utmost importance effectually to prevent the -destruction, waste, embezzlement, and misapplication of the public upon which the existence of the armies of these United States may depend, and no adequate provision hath been made for the just punishment of delinquents in the departments of the purveyor of the hospitals,

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Resolved, That every person in any of the said departments intrusted with the care of provisions or military or hospital stores, or other property of these United States, who shall be convicted at a general court-martial of having sold, without a proper order for that purpose, embezzled, or willfully misapplied, damaged, or spoiled, any of the provisions, horses, forage, arms, clothing, ammunition, or other military or hospital stores, or property belonging to the United States of America, shall suffer death or such other punishment as shall be directed by a general court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, at the discretion of such court; and every person in any of the said departments, intrusted as aforesaid, who shall be con