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requested to furnish you with 30^lb Pork & as much Bread to
bring you down
We are &^ca
M^r Sam^l Brogden

C. B.

Friday 4 June 1779

Present as on Yesterday
Ordered that the Commissary of Stores deliver to George
Dent a 9 M^o Soldier in the 2^d Regim^t Discharged Three
Pounds five shillings & Six pence in Cloathing and also to
Jonathan Woodburn a 9 m^o Soldier in the 2^d Regim^t
Discharged Eight Pounds ten shillings and six Pence in
Cloathing due them p Act of Assembly to procure Troops for
the Amⁿ Army
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Robert
Reith Thirty six Pounds due him per Account passed by the
Dep^y Aud.

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[Council to Delegates in Congress.]

In Council Annapolis 4^th June 1779
Gent.
The Recommendation from Congress to raise 45,000,000
of Dollars and a Letter rec^d from Gen^l Washington strongly
pressing the Necessity of filling up the Quotas of Troops, may
probably occasion our calling the Assembly sooner than we
designed. The recruiting Service has not been altogether
without Success, though it would have been much better had
it been entered on sooner, or even, had Cloaths been sent
down as we pressed. If this Subject should come before the
Assembly, it is very natural for them to expect to have a full
Knowledge of the State of the Maryland Troops and to see
too how the other States have filled up their Quotas: we shall
not be able to give them the necessary Information without
your Assistance, and we request you'll send us the Summary
of the last Returns of the Army, if you are at Liberty to do so.
We have been obliged to furnish the Officers and Men, down
on the Recruiting Service, with several Articles of Cloathing
and the Recruits with more; this seems out of the Line of the
Resolutions of Congress, but, we expect, the Necessity will
justify the Deviation and that the State will be allowed; advise
us if you think otherwise.
We are &^ca
Delegates in Congress