"Sir, I have the honor to inform you that John Leeds Kerr Esquire is duly commissioned and deputed as Agent in behalf of the State of Maryland to liquidate and adjust the State's claims against the United States for militia expenses during the law war with full powers to conclude any arrangement upon this subject..."
 

Ninian Pinkney, Clerk of the Council to John Leeds Kerr
5 August 1818
6636-104-192
1/7/3/92

"I have received your letter by Major Marriott and although the arrangement and Numbering the orders no on file in the Treasury Department will give me considerable trouble, I have to guard against delay, thought proper to send an express to Washington for the account book and intend proceeding on the work as soon as I shall have received it, which I presume will be tomorrow. In course of a fortnight I wish to leave Annapolis for New York and shall be absent for more than four weeks. As Mr. Hagner seems to be so particular I could wish him to be more so by requiring the pay rolls that have been paid off as I could I think soon gratify him in that respect. The book shall be returned by express to the war office in ten days after I shall have received it..."

MdHR 6636-104-204/207
1/7/3/92

Drafts, no date, re: forwarding? of pay rolls; can't read, orig. in Letterbook?

MdHR 6636-104-239
1/7/3/92

"A list of payrolls missing at the time that Mr. Kerr presented the account in January 1818. Those not scratched out were the only ones missing when Mr. Hagner's abstract was made out."

Resolution, State Senate
2 February 1818
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1/7/3/92

"By the Senate. Resolved that the Senators and Representatives from this state in the Congress of the United States be requested to use their exertions towards effecting a liquidation and settlement with the General Government of the claim made by this State for expenses incurred in providing for the common defense during the late war..."

Gov. to Benjamin Harwood, Treasurer of the Western Shore
Sept. 1818
MdHR 6636-105-11
1/7/3/92

"I have this day received from J.L. Kerr Esq. the inclosed letter advising me of the disposition of the Secretary of War to advance to this state the sum of $40,000 on account of the claim against the General Government for expenses during the late war. By act of December 1816, C. 101 the treasurer is authorized to receive payment from the general government ... That act did not contemplate the case of an advance being made on the State's claim, and therefore has not expressly provided for it, but as I conceive it important that the state's claim should be secured as early as practicable...I thin it agreeable that it [the money] should be accepted."

MdHR 6636-109-19
Ninian Pinkney, Clerk of the Council to Gen. Philip Stewart
2 March 1820
1/7/3/96

"The amount that was paid to you for service performed as Brigadier General from the 9th of June 1814 to 17th of August 1820 amounting to 443.30 has been suspended at the war office on the ground that there was not evidence of you having been mustered. The Voucher that I sent on to support that part of the State Claim against the general government was the account which was passed by the executive. If you can do anything which will tent to strengthen the Voucher already filed it would be rendered a service to the state if you will do so."

MdHR 6636-109-91
Peter Hagner, Auditor, U.S. Treasury Department to Ninian Pinkney, Clerk of the Council
3 March 1820
1/7/3/96

"Sir, Your letter of the 1st Instant requesting the accounts of Solomon Lowe and others, with the subordinate vouchers, to be transmitted to you has been received. The accounts in question contain charger against the Un. States, which on reexamination have in fact been admitted to the credit of the State of Maryland, the vouchers for which must therefore remain in this office, and it does not appear practicable to separate them from the vouchers and charges that have be objected to. It is presumed, from the remarks furnished, that the necessary information may be derived as to what further vouchers are deemed necessary, and that they may be supplied from the Office of the State, where the subject originated."

MdHR 6636-109-18
William Crane, Paymaster 21st Rgt to Ninian Pinkney, Clerk of the Council
25 March 1820
1/7/3/96

"Yours of the 14th came safe to hand & I have deferred answering it to this time trying to get A satisfactory Act. of Capt. Morrison's muster roll & find all the evidence I can get is A list of the men called out on duty in the service of the state on the 5th day of August 1813 amounting to 27 Including officers & men without stating how long they were on duty. I Recollect that at the time Capt. Morrison's company was not under the command of Colnl. Reed but on duty at Chester Town under the direction of General Chambers & that the pay roll went from the General tot eh Executive & that Capt. Morrison recd. an order on the Treasury for the money due which order I got payed of for him at the Bank in Easton (Talbot County) but I have no recollection what the amt. was."

Peter Hagner, Auditor, U.S. Treasury Department to Ninian Pinkney, Clerk of the Council
8 November 1820
MdHR 6636-109-150
1/7/3/96

"I have received your letter of the 6th instant regarding information of the amount of certain suspended and disallowed items in the accounts of the State of Maryland. From the manner in which these accounts have been rendered (with various descriptions of charges intermixed and blended in the same account, and the manner in which the remarks were necessarily made thereon at this office) it is found impracticable to furnish the information you desire."

Gov.? to General Assembly [draft]
n.d. (1820?)
MdHR 6636-109-136
1/7/3/96

"I have to satisfaction to communicate to the Honorable the G.A. that the payment of the claim of the State of Maryland for the expenses of the Militia called into service during the late war, has been assured by the general government. The enclosed letter from the Agent at Washington contains an assurance also that the claim will be settled with promptitude and alacrity. The assumption of this claim as soon as its nature was properly explained, affords the most satisfactory evidence of its [?] justice, while the documents before communicated illustrate the distinguished ability and zeal with which it has been enforced by the Agent of the State. The finances of the State being restored by the payment of this claim, the iniquities and destruction occasioned by the depredations of the enemy being repaired, and the citizens of the State [en??] with increased accord and unviolated harmony [due to?] the prosecution of the peaceful pursuits of civil life. I cannot forbear in the moment of our [satisfaction?] congratulating the honorable the General Assembly on the prosperity of Maryland [illeg.] speedy restoration from a situation of unprecedented alarm ad calamity to one of rigorous prosperity affords the best proof of the wisdom which has guided her councils and the form path [??] of her people. ..."

Account of Treasurer of the Western Shore
7 December 1820
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1/7/3/96

Includes entry for $100,000 cash "From the United States in part payment of the State of Maryland's claim against the said United States."

Peter Hagner, Auditor, U.S. Treasury Department to Ninian Pinkney, Clerk of the Council
17 October 1821
MdHR 6636-110-138
1/7/4/1

"I have read your letter of the 9th inst. with the documents therein referred to. The indisposition of the Clerk to whom the examination of the accounts of the State of Md. has heretofore been [entrusted?] prevents the immediate investigation of the documents forwarded. On his return to the office no time will be lost in taking up and deciding upon the claims of the state."