Journals of the Continental Congress, Saturday, November 4, 1775 Resolved, That it be recommended to several Assemblies or conventions of the colonies respectively, to set and keep their gunsmiths at work, to manufacture good firelocks, with bayonets; each firelock to made with a good bridle lock, 3/4 of an inch bore, and of good substance at the breech, the barrel to be 3 feet 8 inches in length, the bayonet to be 18 inches in the blade, with a steel ramrod, the upper loop thereof to be trumpet mouthed ... and that until a sufficient quantity of good arms can be manufactured, they import as man as are wanted, by all the means in their power. Resolved, that cloathing be provided the new army by the Continent, and paid for, by stoppages out of the soldiers wages, at 1 2/3 dollars per month, that as much as possible of the cloth for this purpose by dyed brown and the distinctions of the Regiments made in the facings. That a man who brings a good new blanket into the camp, be allowed 2 dollars therefore, and take it away at the end of the campaign.