Malcom

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Colonel Malcom applied to this Congress for payment for the Battalion commanded by him while employed at the Works and Fortifications in and about this City of New-York; and he produced General Putnam' s order of the 12th day of April last, directing the Battalion to continue in service, and carry on the said Works, and full proof of their having sedulously continued in the publick service.

Ordered, That the sum of nine hundred Pounds in gross, be advanced and paid, on the credit of the Continental Congress, by Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq˙, Treasurer of this Colony, to Colonel Malcom, commanding officer of the Battalion of Minute-men of the City and County of New-York, employed by Major-General Putnam, by order under his hand of the 12th day of April last.