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Importance as to them beg you will send up the whole Arrange-
ment to the Delegates and the Sentiments of our State rela-
tive to it I have promised them that if agreeable to you they
should be sent to Camp.
I only wait for the Arrival of M^r Paca to decamp, he is not
yet arrived or your Excellency might not possibly be troubled
on the Subject at all by Your Excellency's
Most humble Servant
Philad^a May 3^d 1777 Benjamin Rumsey

Original.

[Col. Gist to Gov. Johnson.]

Baltimore 3^d May 1777.
Sir
M^r Hugh Young of this place having a parcel of Goods
lately arrived here among which are coarse Hats, Jackets,
Gaiters, Black Stocks, Knee Garters &^c suitable for Soldiers
which he Informs me he has promised you & Council the
refusal of; in consequence of which I have dispatched an
Officer of my Regiment Express, to Inform you that there are
a number of Soldiers now in Town of Col^o Halls and my Bat.
waiting for necessary Cloathing to Equip them for Camp from
the number of Troops already forwarded to Philadelphia the
above articles has become a scarcity at that place, and the
soldiers are detained there sometime before they can possibly
be furnished therewith
M^r Young requests me to Inform you that in order to pre-
vent any detention of the troops here, that he is willing to
leave the Valuation of the Cloathing to any two Indifferent
persons, which I hope will meet your approbation so far as to
Induce you to give us an order for such of them as we may
think necessary to Expedite their march to Camp
I am Sir
Your Mo Obed^t
Very Hum Servant
M. Gist Col^o 3^d Reg^t

C. B.

May 5^th 1777.
Present as on the third instant.

Ordered That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to John
Bullen two hundred & fifty five Pounds for Am^t of Acc^t
That the said Treasurer pay to W^m Wilkins three hundred
pounds, on Acc^t of Fortifications at Annapolis.
That the said Treasurer pay to John Randall Adm^r of Wil-
liam Buckland sixteen Pounds for House Rent p Acc^t