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In Congress, December 23, 1775.
The Committee appointed to inquire what articles are necessary for the Army, beg leave to report that, in their opinion, the following goods and stores are absolutely necessary, and ought to be imported as soon as possible, viz:
Your Committee having also taken into consideration the best ways and means for supplying the Continental Treasury with silver and gold, beg leave to Report, that the sum of $160,000 be laid out in the produce of these Colonies and exported, agreeable to the Resolves of this Congress, to proper ports in Europe and the West-Indies, and there disposed of for gold and silver, to be imported into the Continental Treasury as soon as may be.
Report of the Committee of Congress appointed to inquire what articles are necessary for the Army
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Sterling
60,000 striped blankets, suppose 5s.
£15,000 00
120,000 yards 6-4 broadcloth, the colours to be brown and blue, from 3s˙ to 6s˙, average 4s.
24,000 00 10,000 yards ditto, of different colours, for facing, at 4s.
2,000 00
3,000 pieces duffield, or some such cloth, at 90s˙ per piece,
13,500 00
100,000 sorted needles, 5s.
25 00
50,000 ditto, none very fine, 5s.
12 10
10,000 ditto, for sail cloth, 10s.
500
3,000 pieces raven' s duck, 25s.
3,750 00
3,000 pieces ticklenburgs, 65s.
9,750 00
1,500 pieces osnaburgs, at 55s.
4,125 00
1,000 pieces vittery, (a French manufacture,) 55s.
2,750 00
4,000 pieces Hamburgh dowlass, 20s.
4,000 00
20,000 stand of arms, 25s.
25,000 00
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300 tons of lead, £18,
£ 5,400 00
1,000,000 flints, 5s˙ per 1,000,
250 00
1,500 boxes tin, 40s.
3,000 00
Iron wire, properly sorted for it,
500 00
Medicines, surgeon' s instruments, lints, and bandages,
2,000 00
500 sheets copper, of different sizes, average at 36s.
900 00
£116,467 10