Committee of Supplies directed to furnish Colonel Benedict Arnold

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On the application from the Committee of Safety relative to supplying Col˙ Arnold with one hundred Pounds, and sundry Warlike Stores,

Ordered, That Mr˙ Greenleaf, Mr˙ Gill and Mr˙ Patridge, be a Committee to take said application into consideration, and report.

The Committee on the application from the Committee of Safety reported. The Report was read and accepted, and is as follows:

"In Provincial Congress, Waterfown, May 3, 1775.

"Resolved, That the within request of the Committee of Safety be granted, and that the Committee of Supplies be, and they hereby are directed to furnish Colonel Benedict Arnold with ten Horses, two hundred pounds of Gunpowder, two hundred pounds of Lead Balls, and one thousand Flints, at the expense of the Colony; and that said Committee draw upon Henry Gardner, Esquire, Receiver General, for one hundred Pounds, in favour of said Arnold, and take his receipt for the whole, said Arnold to be accountable therefor to this or some other Congress, or future House of Representatives."