(seq. 33)

Sept. 16, 1776.
The Committee, appointed by the Corporation
of Harvard College, to inquire into the Stwewards Recourts
&c beg leave to report,

That they have carefully examined his accounts of
disbursements for the Kitchen, & find, that from May 27 to
August 14, 1776 he purchased provisions &c to the amount
of ---------------------------------------------------------[?]218.19.2
from which Sum should be deducted
as follows—for provisions, charged
to the Scholars as [fizings?] - - - 12:11.0 ¼
--for 7 cords wood
--& 15 barrels cyder at 12/ which } . . . 9.0.0
remained Aug. 14 unexpended } 30.10.01/4
That the neat expence of provisions
for the College from June 21 to August 14
amounts to - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 188.g. 1 ¾
That in said term 78 perform, including officers of the
college & graduates, were in Common; & that the aggregate
of the time in which their commons were sent into the Hall,
in 355 Weeks & 4 Days.
That the neat expence of the provisions, divided by
355 Weeks & Days, makes the expence of one Week’s diet
to be 10 / 7 ¼ for each person.
that it has been customary, in making up the Quarter
Bill, to add a proportional part of the Stewards Salary, &
his allowance for servantry to the neat expence of provi-
sitions;— & that the part was in proportion of the number
of Weeks the Scholars were in common, in such Quarter,
to the number of Weeks, in which they were in commons
the whole year.