On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress established the Chaplain Corps. The Congress authorized payments for one ordained chaplain, with the rank captain, for each regiment.

Sources: https://www.army.mil/article/268697/army_chaplain_corps_celebrates_248th_anniversary; https://armyhistory.org/u-s-army-chaplain-corps/; Journals of the Continental Congress at 220, accessed at https://archive.org/details/us_congress_continental/lljc002/page/219/mode/2up

Also on that day the Continental Congress

Resolved, That Michael Hillegas, and George Clymer, Esqrs. be, and they are hereby appointed, joint treasurers of the United Colonies . . .

That the provincial Assemblies or conventions do each chuse a treasurer for their respective colonies, and take sufficient security for the faithful performance of the trust.

That each colony provide ways and means to sink its proportion of the bills ordered to be emitted by this Congress, in such manner as may be most effectual and best adapted to the condition, circumstances, and usual mode of levying taxes in such colony.

This resolution established a mechanism for funding the government of the United States that would prove entirely unworkable over the course of the American Revolution.

Source: Journals of the Continental Congress at 221, accessed at https://archive.org/details/us_congress_continental/lljc002/page/221/mode/2up