of the Council of Safety, 1776. 281

[Council to Buchanan.]

To Col^o William Buchanan
Sirs.
We have given Frederick Teems a warrant for Enlisting a
company of volunteers in Baltimore County. We take it for
granted from what you say, that he has been recommended
by the Field officers, altho no regular recommendation has
been returned, it will be proper to return the recommendation
and we will send warrents for the other officers — the County
money and one months pay being advanced the soldiers are
expected to find themselves all necessaries except arms. — this
is the construction we put on the Resolve of convention about
raising the last two Battalions: arms are to be got as you will
see by borrowing or impressing on receiving the appraisemts,
we shall pay for what may be necessary for two Companies
for Balt^o County.
18^th Sept. 1776.

C. S. C.
[183.]

[Rumsey to Council.]

Gent. In the last Ire. wrote you by the Harford Committee
of which I was lately a Member I was desired by them to
inform you of their transactions in a particular department
under the signature of the Chairman and also of their dissolu-
tion which they in consequence notified to the People by
advertisements set up in the most public places in the county.
Since my writing the above I received a letter from M^s
Ashmead in which he informs me he had sent down to
Harford the remainder of his Guns & Blanketts and also the
inclosed account proved which closes the affair of the [ ]300
and there remains in my hands a ballance of two pounds
eighteen shillings and one penny.
No expectations can be formed of our Committee's acting
longer without a new Election. They universally looked upon
the Convention's continuing them beyond the time for which
they were elected by the people to be unconstitutional and
laying a foundation and precedent for one of the most alarm-
ing stretches of power the continuation of some future Con-
vention or publick Body for many years. This was their
opinion before the resolve of the convention. I have no right
to think it changed.
In obedience to the commands of the convention I called
my Battalion together on Monday last and on reading their
resolves, three Cap^ts in the Battalion with their commissioned
officers, to wit Cap^t James M^cComas, Cap^t Alexander Cower
and Cap^t Rob^t Harris the first with thirty one the other

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