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MUSTERS OF MARYLAND TROOPS, VOL. II.

   "MARYLAND LINE."



  RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 25 MAY, 1776.

    "Resolved, That one battalion of Germans be raised for the service
of the United Colonies."

 RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 27 JUNE, 1776.

   "The committee to whom it was referred to devise a mode of
raising the German battalion, voted on the 25th of May last, brought
in their report, which was taken into consideration: Whereupon,
   Resolved, That four companies of Germans be raised in Pennsylvania
and four companies in Maryland, to compose the said regiment: That
it be recommended to the convention, or in their recess, to the council
of safety of Maryland, immediately to appoint proper officers for, and
direct the inlistment of, the four companies to be raised in that colony:
   That the said companies be inlisted to serve for three years, unless
sooner discharged by Congress, and receive bounty, pay, rations, and
all other allowances equal to any of the continental troops: That the
said companies, when raised, be formed into a battalion, under the
command of such field officers as Congress shall appoint: That the
rank of the captains of the said companies be regulated as Congress
shall hereafter direct."

RESOLVES OF THE MARYLAND CONVENTION OF JUNE, 1776.

   6 July, 1776.
   "Resolved, That this province will raise . . . . four companies of
Germans, according to the requisitions of Congress in their resolutions
of the 27th day of June last.
   That . . . two of the said companies of Germans be raised in
Baltimore county      and two of the companies of Germans be
raised in Frederick county. That each of the companies of Germans
consist of one captain, two lieutenants, one ensign, four sergeants,
four corporals, one drummer, one fifer, and seventy-six privates."

 RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 17 JULY, 1776.

   "Resolved, That Nicholas Hauseigger be colonel; George Stricker,
lieutenant-colonel; Ludewick Wiltner, major of the German battalion.