64 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C C

No. 22

Certificate and Refusal. We are of Opinion from the Information
we have received, if the Commissioners in the Several Counties exe-
cute the Law, we shall detect a great Deal of Villany and find out the
Source from whence the Calamitous and distressing Situation of
our Army took its Rise

January 20
Liber C B
No. 23
p. 102

Thursday 20 January 1780

Present as on Yesterday
Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver to James Brice
Esq^r 3/4 yds Flannel to be returned in kind or paid for —

January 21

Friday 21 January 1780
Present as on Yesterday.
Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Levin Hays
a 9 M^o Sold in the 7 Reg^r Disch^d Twenty nine Pounds ten shillings
in Cloathing due him by Act of Assembly &c^a

p. 103

Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Serj^t John
Neary and John Gates of the 1 Reg^t 1 p^r overalls for each and 1
Jacket for Neary.

January 23

Saturday 22. January 1780

Present as on Yesterday.
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to William Turn-
bull three thousand six hundred Dollars to be delivered over to
Capt. William Dent Beall of the 6^th Regim^t to be by him expended in
the Recruiting Service and Accounted for.
That the said Treasurer pay to Brigadier General William Small-
wood four hundred Dollars allowed by a Resolve of the Gen^l Assem-
bly passed Oct Session 1778 and two thousand Dollars for himself
and two thousand Dollars for the use of Lieut Col^o Peter Adams of
the 7^th Reg^r and also two thousand Dollars for the use of Lieut
William Truman Stoddert of the 5^th Reg^t allowed them by an Act
of the General Assembly relating to the Officers &c^a
That the said Treasurer pay to Ens. Samuel Hamilton three thou-
sand Dollars to be expended in the recruiting Service and Ac-
counted for.
That the said Treasurer pay to Serjeants David Green, Robert
Yeates, Thomas Jenkins and Robert Green one thousand eight hun-
dred Dollars each to be expended in the recruiting Service and
Accounted for.
That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Francis Thompson and
James Clarke Recruits for the 1^st Regiment each, 1 coat, 1 Waistcoat