578  Records of Maryland Troops in the Continental Service

               MARYLAND ACTS-JULY,

   "An ACT relating to the officers and soldiers of this state in the
American army, and other purposes therein mentioned.

   And be it enacted, That the matrosses in the city of Annapolis
and Baltimore-town, who are effective, shall be incorporated into one
company, and sent as soon as may be to camp, and shall hereafter be
considered as part of the quota to be found by this state    and the
governor and council may select and appoint a proper number of
officers to command such company, out of the most capable of the
present officers     and the governor and council are requested to
recommend such of them as remain to his excellency general Washing
ton, to be provided for, and they shall contihue in the pay of this state
until they shall be taken into the continental service."

  		RESOLVES OF THE MARYLAND ASSEMBLY 9 MAY, 1780.

   "Resolved, That the three companies of artillery belonging to this
state in the continental army, commanded by Captains Brown, Dorsey
and the late Captain Gale, be incorporated with and annexed to the
regiment commanded by colonel Harrison, of the Virginia corps of
artillery, or to some other in the continental Army.
   Resolved, That the same be formed into four companies, with
proper officers belonging to this state to command them, and that the gov
ernor and council be requested to communicate the above resolutions
to congress as soon as may be, that the same may be carried into im
mediate effect and execution." *


   Pay Roll of the 2nd & 3d Companies of Maryland Artillery, Incor-
porated, for Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. & Dec., 1780.


NAMES.       	REMARKS.   		 NAMES.     		REMARKS.

 Capt.     				      Filers
James Smith  promoted from a          Thos. Tyack 		returned from No.
               Capt. Lt. and 					   Caro. Regt.
               rec'd 4 mos. pay       Elisha Redman
               as such    	      Peter Davis
          			      Thomas Potter

* For the results of the incorporation of the Maryland Artillery Companies with
Harrison's Virginia Artillery see page 596.