Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1776 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Page 697 | Page image Maltbay, first lieutenant, and David Phipps second lieutenant of the said frigate; -- Wilson to be first lieutenant of the Washington , John Nicholson second lieutenant of ditto; John Hodge to command the Montgomery frigate, at New York. Resolved , That they be accepted, and that commissions be granted to them accordingly. Resolved , That the Secret Committee be directed to deliver to Major Nichols, a number of musquets, sufficient to arm the marines raising under his command in this city. The Board of Treasury reported, that there is due, To Robert Jewell, for a writing desk, stools, &c. for the use of the war office, the sum of 31 60/90ths dollars: To John Bates, for 120 camp kettles, delivered to Colonel Clement Biddle, deputy quarter master general, 160 dollars: To John Bogart, for the expences of burying a soldier of Captain Harman's company, and for maintenance and nursing of him, and one other soldier, belonging to Captain Willet's company, both of the 1st Pensylvania batallion, 19 30/90ths dollars; and for the expences of guards escorting powder, &c. 5 31/90ths dollars; the whole amounting to twenty four and 61/90ths of a dollar; and to be paid to Joseph Burrell: To Oswald Eve, for surveying the inlets to the northward of Cape May, by order of a committee of Congress, the sum of 224 55/90ths dollars: To Richard Bache, Stephen Paschall and Michael Hillegas, for superintending the press from December 13, 1775, to February 3, 1776, at printing the second emission of continental bills of credit, and of the ten thousand dollars, struck for the purpose of exchanging torn and ragged bills, forty five days, at 2 dollars each, agreeable to a resolve of Congress, the sum of 270 dollars: