Mustermasters

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Afternoon.

The Order of the Day was read.

Ordered, That Mr˙ Dix, Mr˙ Gill, and Doctor Sawyer, be a Committee to sort and count the votes for two Muster-Masters; who reported, that General John Whitcomb and Colonel Benjamin Lincoln were unanimously chosen.

The Report of the Committee respecting the appointment of Muster-Masters, was accepted, and is as follows, viz:

Resolved, That General John Whitcomb and Colonel Benjamin Lincoln be, and hereby are appointed Muster-Masters in the Massachusetts Army, whose business it shall be to pass muster on every Soldier that shall be enlisted into said Army, and by no means to accept of any but such as are able-bodied effective men; and also examine if their Arms and Accoutrements are in proper order. And said Muster-Masters are hereby directed and empowered to receive from Henry Gardner, Esq˙, Receiver-General, or his successors in office, twenty Shillings, lawful money, for each and every Non-commissioned Officer and Private Soldier thus mustered and sworn, who shall appear with their Arms and Accoutrements; and shall give Bonds to said Receiver-General, with sufficient surety, for such Moneys drawn out of the Treasury; and shall forthwith pay out said sum of twenty Shillings as advance pay to each and every Non-commissioned Officer and Private Soldier; and on producing Receipts from them to said Receiver-General, said Bonds shall be cancelled.

Resolved, That the consideration of the Pay of the Muster-Masters be referred to some future time.