492 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. J,

Saturday 15 June 1776.

Met according to Adjournment. Present the same Members
as on yesterday.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
M^rs Anne Johnson twelve Pounds seventeen shillings and
three Pence for providing Subsistence for Capt. Mulliken's

Company of Militia on the late Alarm by the Otter Sloop of
War.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Major Gist three
hundred and eighteen Pounds six Shillings and five Pence,
the Amount of his Account.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to William Niven
fifteen Pounds two Shillings and seven Pence, the Amount of
his Account.
Adjourned till Monday 10 O'Clock.

Original.

[Maryland Deputies to Council.]

Gentⁿ Yours of the 10^th Ins^t was delivered to us yesterday,
it has happened very well that you have called a Convention
on the 20^th, tho for the purpose of complying with the resolve
of Congress we think your own powers are fully adequate.
It never was intended that any part of the militia was com-
pellable to march out of the Provinces; no do we know of any
Power in ours, even tho' the Convention was sitting, to order

the militia upon Service out of the Province, It was intended
that the flying camp should be formed by voluntary Inlist-
ments of the militia, and it was supposed that the People of
the respective Provinces would readily and voluntarily march
to the head quarters of this flying camp, which was ordered
principally to defend the middle Colonies. It will be necessary
however to appoint officers and give directions to the body of
militia when raised, and this may be done by your council or
the Convention. We wrote you a few days ago requesting a
call of the Convention to deliberate upon matters of the last
Importance, and we are glad that an earlier meeting than we
expected will afford an opportunity to our constituents to com-
municate to us the sense of the Province upon the very inter-
esting subjects mentioned in our Letter The session will be
a very important one and we wish to attend, tho we know not
whether it will be agreeable to our constituents to leave the
Province unrepresented in Congress, it being a matter of much
consequence to keep up the representation at this and all other
times. We shall wait to hear from you and them upon this
head, indeed we can't quit the Congress without Leave which