To discharge all those who had enlisted indefinitely for three years or during the war, the fact to be examined into by three commissioners, to be appointed by the executive; and to be ascertained, when the original enlistment could not be produced, by the oath of the soldier.
2dly.

To give immediate certificates for the depreciation on their pay, and to settle the arrearages as soon as circumstances would admit.
3dly.

To furnish them immediately with certain specified articles of clothing which were most wanted.
[Sidenote: They compromise with the civil authority.] On receiving these propositions, the troops agreed to march to Trenton.

At that place the terms were accepted, with the addition that three commissioners should also be deputed by the line, who, conjointly with those of the executive should constitute the board authorized to determine on the claims of the soldiers to be discharged; and thereupon the British emissaries were surrendered, who were tried, condemned, and executed as spies.
Until the investigation should be made, and discharges given to those who should be found entitled to them, the sergeants retained their command.

In consequence of the irksomeness of this state of things, the business was pressed with so much precipitation, that before the enlistments themselves could be brought from the huts, almost the whole of the artillery, and of the five first regiments of infantry, were liberated on the testimony of their own oaths.