596 			Records of Maryland Troops in the Continental Service


    		ROLLS OF MARYLAND MEN IN VARIOUS OTHER CORPS
             		NOT BELONGING TO MARYLAND.


		RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 27 DECEMBER, 1776.


    "Resolved, That general Washington shall be, and he is hereby,
vested with full, ample, and complete powers to raise and collect
together, in the most speedy and effectual manner, from any or all of
these United States, 16 battalions of infantry, in addition to those
already voted by Congress; to appoint officers for the said battalions
of infantry; to raise, officer, and equip 3000 light horse; three regi
ments of artillery, and a corps of engineers, and to establish their pay;
to apply to any of the states for such aid of the militia as he shall judge
necessary; . . . to displace and appoint all officers under the rank of
brigadier-general, and to fill up all vacancies in every other department
in the American army."


		HOUSE OF DELEGATES, ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 7 JANUARY, 1782.


  				COMMITTEE REPORT.

   "THE committee, appointed to enquire the number of recruits want
ing to complete the quota of this state, &c. beg leave to report
that three companies of artillery (nearly full) belonging to this state,
have been incorporated with colonel Harrison's regiment of Virginia
artillery; and your committee are of opinion, that the said companies, in
justice to this state, ought to have been attached tO her line of infantry,
and that the said regiment ought to be kept up by Virginia and
this state, and that the promotion to vacancies ought to be
extended in common to the officers so incorporated, agreeable to their
rank and pretentions; but your committee are informed that although
the said regiment now consists almost entirely of the men of the com
panies of this state, yet they are commanded by Virginia officers, and
the former officers of the said companies belonging to this state are
forced to retire from the service on half pay. Your committee are of
opinion, that this matter ought to be represented to congress.
    Your committee beg leave further to report as their opinion, that
this state has been materially injured, by permitting corps of other lines,
and of the additional sixteen regiments, to recruit within this state, as
will appear by the following list of companies enlisted in this state, for