1. The enclosed resolution of 4 May expressed Congress’s approval of Rhode Island’s raising a battalion of 1,500 troops for one year, on Continental pay and subsistence and at a bounty not exceeding $150 per man, on condition that no further wages be allowed above what other Continental troops received (DLC:GW; see also JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 14:546).