April 23

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In Committee of Safety, April 23, 1776.

Present: John Nixon, Chairman, John Cadwallader, Owen Biddle, George Clymer, Joseph Parker, Daniel Roberdeau, Samuel Howell.

By order of the Board Robert Towers was directed to deliver to Mr˙ Bidwell one ton of Crude Sulphur for refining.

By order of the Board an Order was drawn on the Committee of Accounts for three hundred Pounds, in favour of Captain Richards or Captain Falconer, for the use of the Alarm Committee, the expenditure of which they are to be accountable for.

By order of the Board an Order was drawn on the Committee of Accounts, in favour of Mr˙ Owen Biddle, (for account of the Powder-Mill building by order of Congress,) for five hundred and fifty Pounds, the expenditure of which Captain Cowperthwaite and Mr˙ Clement Biddle is to be accountable for.

Upon application of Colonel Miles, for a sum of Money for the use of the Pennsylvania Battalions under his command, by order of the Board an Order was drawn on Michael Hillegas, Esq˙, Treasurer, in favour of Colonel Samuel Miles, for one thousand Pounds.