An act for recruiting by voluntary inlistment [sic] the three regiments of this state in the service of the United States ... Council Chambers [ Trenton?] June 1779

An act for recruiting by voluntary inlistment [sic] the three regiments of this state in the service of the United States ... Council Chambers [ Trenton?] June 1779

1779

[4] p. ; 34 cm.

MSS L1994.1.426

(OCoLC)31992062

At foot of p. [3]: Council Chamber June 9th 1779 [signed] Jn. Stevens, President; House of Assembly June 3rd 1779 [signed] Caleb Camp, Speaker.
Dockted on p. [4]: House of Assembly ... This bill having been three times read in this House is passed [signed] Jos. Phillips, Clk. House; Council Chamber June 9th 1779. This bill with the amendments having been three times read in Council & passed [signed] B[owes?] Reed.
Pursuant to the 9 March 1779 resolution of Congress that required individual states to provide fighting men, this act calls for the enlistment of 365 "able bodied and effective volunteers ... into the three regiments of this state in the service of the United States, to continue ... during the present war with Great Britain."
Establishes pay for recruiting officers (20$ for every recruit) and for enlistees ($250 in addition to the $200) and "bounty of cloathing and land given by the resolutions of Congress."

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