The Committee of Accounts produced an accol from the Committee of Berks County amounting to two thousand and seventy pounds, nine shillings, advanced and paid for the riffle companies and Col. [William] Thompson.
Ordered, That this be referred back to the Committee, who are to examine and pay the accot.
Ordered, that the President write to Genl Washington and request him to order Col. [William] Thompson immediately to send to the Congress an account of the expenditure of 5,000 dollars paid him by order of the Congress on the 29th July, being in advance for the service of a Battalion of Rifflemen under his command.
Sunday, September 21, 2008