Docno: ADMS-06-04-02-0115-0002-0017
Author: Adams, John
Author: Continental Congress, Board of War
Date: 1776-07-16
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16 July. The congress resolved that the new positions of sergeant major, quartermaster
sergeant, drum major, fife major, and paymaster be created at the regimental level;
that payment be made to each member of the Con•
{ 256 } necticut light horse for the maintenance of his mount; that General Schuyler be directed
to work to free the army of smallpox; that the Pennsylvania Provincial Convention
take proper measures to secure lead for the Flying Camp; that commissioners be appointed
to audit the accounts of the army in New York and that in the north; and that General
Washington be informed of the application of its recently passed bounty system (
JCC, 5:563–566; Note: Additional resolutions immediately following and concerning appointments
to and reinforcements from the Flying Camp and the need of the army at New York for
reinforcements from Connecticut may have proceeded from the same report).