The Virginia Gazette

FRIDAY, October 4, 1776.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.

In CONGRESS, Sept. 16, 1776.

RESOLVED, that 88 battalions be enlisted as soon as possible, to serve during the present war; and that each state furnish their respective quotas, in the following proportion, viz. New Hampshire 3, Massachusetts Bay 15, Rhode Island 2, Connecticut 8, New York 4, New Jersey 4, Pennsylvania 12, Delaware 1, Maryland 8, Virginia 15, North Carolina 9, South Carolina 6, Georgia 1.

That 20 dollars be given as a bounty to each non-commissioned officer and private soldier who shall enlist to serve during the present war, unless sooner discharged by Congress.

That Congress make provision for granting lands, in the following proportions, to the officers and soldiers who shall so engage in the service, and continue therein to the close of the war, or until discharged by Congress, and to the representatives of such officers and soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy. Such lands to be provided by the United States, and whatever expense shall be necessary to procure such land, the said expense shall be paid and borne by the states in the same proportion as the other expenses of the war, viz.

To a colonel 500 acres, a lieutenant-colonel 450 ditto, a major 400 ditto, a captain 300 ditto, a lieutenant 200 ditto, an ensign 150 ditto, and each non-commissioned officer and soldier 100 acres.

That the appointment of all officers, and filling up vacancies (except general officers) be left to the governments of the several states; and that every state provide arms, clothing, and every necessary for its quota of troops according to the foregoing estimate. The expense of the clothing to be deducted from the pay of the soldiers, as usual.

That all officers be commissioned by Congress.

That it be recommended to the several states, that they take the most speedy and effectual measures for enlisting their several quotas. That the money to be given for bounties be paid by the paymaster in the department where the soldier shall enlist.

That each soldier receive pay and subsistence from the time of their enlistment.

SEPTEMBER 18, 1776.

Resolved, that if rations be received by the officers or privates in the continental army, in money, they be paid at the rate of eight ninetieth parts of a dollar per ration.

That the bounty and grants of land offered by Congress by a resolution of the 16th instant, as an encouragement to the officers and soldiers to engage to serve in the army of the United States during the war, shall extend to all who are or shall be enlisted for that term; the bounty of ten dollars, which any of the soldiers have received from the continent on account of a former enlistment, to be reckoned in part payment of the 20 dollars offered by said resolution.

That no officer in the continental army shall be allowed to hold more than one commission, or to receive pay but in one capacity.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1776.

That the adjutants of regiments in the continental army be allowed the pay and rations of captains, and have the rank of first lieutenants.

In order to prevent the officers and soldiers who shall be entitled to the lands hereafter to be granted, by the resolution of Congress of the 16th, from disposing of the same during the war,

SUPPLEMENT TO THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE.

PRINTED BY ALEXANDER PURDIE.

Resolved, that this Congress will not grant lands to any person or persons claiming under the assignment of an officer or soldier.

By order of the Congress,

John Hancock, president.