Excerpt from The Committees of the Continental Congress Chosen to Hear and Determine, Appeals From Courts of Admiralty: And the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture, Established by That Body When Washington learned of this action he wrote to the President of Congress: The resolves relating to captures made by Continental armed vessels only want a court established for trial to make them complete. 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 technology 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.