1. The enclosed resolution adopted on 16 June and docketed “No. 1” repealed all prior congressional regulations regarding authority to grant furloughs and then pronounced “that in future no furloughs be granted but by the Commander in Chief or the Commander of a separate department or by such persons as they or either of them may appoint for that purpose.” Additional clauses provided forms and record-keeping procedures. (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 , 20:656–57, and GW to Huntington, 3 Feb., and notes 2–5).

2. The enclosed resolutions adopted on 18 June and docketed “No. 2” begin with the reorganization of the clothier general’s department in its many details. Particularly notable clauses included the abolition on 1 Sept. of “all state purchases of cloathing on continental account and all state appointments and regulations in the cloathing department on continental account”; establishment of the annual clothing issue for “all non commissioned Officers and soldiers who are or may hereafter be enlisted during the War”; and a determination that no clothing be given to any “Non commissioned Officer or soldier who is not engaged during the war or for the term at least of one year.” The enclosure continued: “Ordered, That the board of War report a plan of Succession to vacancies in the hospital and medical lines of the Army.

“Resolved, That the Cloathier General furnish the Canadian Officers belonging to Colo. M. Hazen’s Regiment with a suit of Cloaths on the same terms Cloathing hath been furnished by the State of Massachusetts to their Officers.”

“That one years Interest upon the balances due on the 1st of Jany 1780, to the Canadian Officers and Soldiers of that Regiment be added to and included in their certificates.” A final clause clarified the payment of a $24 bounty to soldiers in Col. Moses Hazen’s regiment (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 , 20:662–69).

3. The enclosed resolution dated 20 June and docketed “No. 3” reads: “That Charles Pettit Assistant quarter master genl be permitted to resign that office agreeably to his request.

“That the office of Assistant quarter master general be abolished and that the duties of the said Office be performed by the quarter master general and his deputies under his direction” (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 , 20:677–78, and Charles Pettit to GW, 23 June, and n.5).