[Extract]
The Council met
Lancaster, Tuesday, March 17, 1778.
. . . Ordered, That the Commissaries for the Navy Department, who have heretofore been employed, be allowed three ⅌ Centum on the amount of their Purchases, in full for their Services in buying and issuing Provisions & Liquors.
LB, PHarH, RG 27, Minute Books of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council, vol. 6, 231.
