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• State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, August session, 1777 It is voted and resolved, that the continental officers and soldiers, raised by this state, be supplied in camp with rum, sugar and coffee, at the prices affixed to those articles in the act against monopoly and oppression, passed by this Assembly at the second session held in Deemeber last, with the additional charge of transportation.
• In Congress, May 22, 1779 Resolved, that all Continental officers who are or may be exchanged and not continued in the service be, after such exchange, considered as supernumerary officers, and entitled to the pay provided by a resolution of Congress of the twenty-fourth of November last.
• In Congress, August 16, 1779 Resolved, that the cloathier general estimate the value of the several articles of soldiers cloathing at the prices they were respectively worth at the end of the year 1778.
• In Congress, January 9, 1779 Resolved, that the commissary general of prisoners be furnished with money from time to time by the Treasury Board for the purpose of subsisting the officers and soldiers of the United States while in captivity and in the actual possession of the enemy.
• In Congress, March 2, 1779 The Board of War having represented, that application has been made to the board for arrearages of cloathing ... Resolved, that a proper person be forthwith appointed and commissioned, to settle and pay all accounts of arrearages of cloathing due to the troops of these states for the year 1777.