of the Council of Maryland, 1777. 239

May 3^rd 1777.
Present the same Members, as on the first inst'

Ordered, That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to Captⁿ
Nath^l Smith one hundred and fifty nine Pounds, four shillings
and eleven pence, for Am^t of Acc^t

C. B.

[Council to Norton and Beall.]

Annapolis 3^d May 1777.
Gen^l
We have some Goods in Statia in the Hands of M^r Steven-
son, which we shall be obliged to you to forward in small
quick sailing Vessels; we would have them divided in as
many such as conveniently may be. If there should be Diffi-
culties in shipping the Goods immediately to the Continent,
we shall be obliged to you to write M^r Stevenson to forward
them to our Agent M^r Harrison at Martinique.
Mess^rs Norton & Beall. We are &^ca

C. C.

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[B. Rumsey to Gov. Johnson.]

Phil. May 3. 1777
Sir
I take the Liberty to inclose to your Excellency a Letter
written by Major Forrest to Col Rumsey on the Subject of
the Officers Commissions.
Many of them have passed thro' this Town in their Way to
Camp and are exceedingly uneasy at not having them, they
continually wait on the Delegates agreeable to the Expecta-
tions hinted at in the inclosed Letter and are greatly disap-
pointed and much dejected at marching up without Commis-
sions as they say they will be used but as common men with-
out them if they have the Misfortune to be taken by the
Enemy.
Another Source of Discontent arises from the giving those
Commissions Dated the 9^th of April last to whom Commissions
were before given by the Commissioners on the 10^th Dec^r
1776 they say they have been in the publick Service from that
Time and it is hard they should lose both their Rank and Pay
A like Complaint is made by such as were appointed by the
Commissioners they think their Rank and Pay ought to be
from the 10^th Dec^r 1776 as the Want of Commissions was the
only Reason they were not made out for them.
At their pressing Entreaty I have a Second Time wrote to
your Excellency and if the Matter appears to you of the same

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