[Baltimore] Tuesday, February 25, 1777
Congress having received information that a quantity of woolens hath been brought into the port of Baltimore, by a privateer belonging to the State of New York, which are fit for the army, and immediately necessary for cloathing and supplying the new raised levies;
Resolved, That the Board of War be directed to appoint proper persons to appraise the said woolens, in order that the value of the same may be paid to the State of New York, or that a like quantity of woolens be supplied that State from the cloathier general; and that the Board of War give directions for having the cloth, thus obtained, made up quickly as possible into soldiers' cloaths.
1. Ford, ed., JCC, VII, 152-53.