State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. At a meeting of the General Committee, appointed to act in recess of the General Assembly, convened at Providence, in said state, the 11th day of December, A.D. 1776 [electronic resource] : Resolved, that all the troops which now are, or may be raised and assembled for the defence of this state ... shall be under the same rules and regulations as the Continental Army ..

1776 Resolves of the General Committee, appointed to act during the recess of the General Assembly, as well as the Rules and Articles of the Continental Congress for a better Government of the troops raised.