[Philadelphia] Wednesday, July 3, 1776
Resolved, That the Marine Committee be empowered to contract with shipwrights, to go to Lake Champlain, on the following terms:
To allow each man at the rate of 34 dollars and two-thirds per month; one month's pay to be advanced, upon their giving security, if required:
Each man to be allowed one ration and a half, and one half pint of rum, a day:
Their tools and arms to be valued:
Two-thirds of their wages to be paid, monthly, to whomever they shall leave the power of receiving it:
Their pay to commence from the day they sign articles, and continueuntil they are discharged, with an allowance of one day's pay for every twenty miles, between the place where discharged, and their respective homes.
Agreeable to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration, the Declaration; and, after some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison reported, that the committee, not having finished, desired leave to sit again.
Resolved, That this Congress will, to morrow, resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration, the Declaration.