of the Council of Maryland, 1778-1779. 345

Treasury of this State, provided Application be made for that
Purpose before the 20^th May next. Inclosed you will receive
Arrangements of the Officers of the 3^d 4^th and 7^th Reg^ts speci-
fying the Times of their Appointments in the first Instance and
their Promotion and Succession to Vacancies in 1777. The
Resolution of this Board is to permit those who have applied
for Leave to go into New York, to go no farther than the
Lines, and from this we have but seldom departed, and in this
Case we wish not to add to the Instances, not from a Suspicion

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of M^r Hopkins's Attachment to America, but because the
Season for the Enemys taking the Field is near at Hand.
We wish to put an entire Stop to a Communication that may
be productive of bad Consequences; we therefore as M^r Hop-
kins is on the Spot, wish you would make the necessary
Application to his Excellency Gen^l Washington to promote
an Interview, on the Lines, betwixt him and any Person or
Persons he may name.
We are &^ca
General Smallwood

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Wednesday 14 April 1779

Present as on Yesterday
Ordered that the Commissary of Stores deliver to Zephaniah
Hoskins a 9 Months Soldier in the 3^d Regim^t Discharged the
am^t of Fourteen Pounds, five Shillings and Six pence in
Cloathing & 1 Blanket Notley Goldsmith a 9 m^o Sold^r in the
3^d Reg. Disch^d the am^t of Twenty one Pounds, five Shillings
& Six Pence in Cloathing, John Stone a 9 m^o Sold^r in the 2^d
Reg^t Disch^d the am^t of seven Pounds, fifteen shillings and six
Pence in Cloathing & 1 Blanket, Thomas Biggs a 9 m^o Sold^r
in the 2^d Reg^r Disch^d the am^t of Five Pounds, nine Shillings
in Cloathing Abednego Jackson a 9 m^o Sold^r in the 2^d Reg^t
Discharged, the am^t of Twenty Pounds & six pence in Cloath-
ing, John Norris a 9 M^o Sold^r of the 3^d Reg^t Discharged the
am^t of Twenty one Pounds fifteen shillings and Six pence in
Cloathing, James Yeates of the 2^d Reg^t Disch^d the am^t of Ten
Pounds, Eighteen Shillings in Cloathing, Barton Goddert a 9
Months Sold^r in the 2^d Reg^t Disch^d the am^t of seventeen
Pounds, ten shillings & six Pence in Cloathing, Steven French
a 9 m^o Sold^r in the 2^d Reg^t Discharged the am^t of Two Pounds,
one Shilling & Six Pence in Cloathing, Joseph Drury a 9 m^o
Sold^r in the 2^d Regim^t Disch^d the am^t of Six Pounds, thirteen
shillings in Cloathing Barney Payne a 9 m^o Sold^r in the 2^d Reg^t
Disch^d the am^t of Thirteen Pounds, ten shillings and Six pence
in Cloathing, Thomas Beall a 9 m^o Sold^r in the 2^d Reg.
Disch^d the am^t of Two Pounds, six shillings and six Pence in

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