486 Journal and Correspondence

C. C.

Advance of the Bounty Money, requested to be informed by
the Council and myself, what was the Allowance from this
State to the Recruiting Officers, alledging, I believe truly, that
their Pay was not near adequate to bear their Expences on
this Business; we informed the Gen' that there was no State
Allowance to the Recruiting Officers, beyond sixteen Dollars
for each Recruit, but that we had no Doubt the General
Assembly were well disposed to reimburse the Officers the
actual Expences, at least, which they might necessarily be at in
prosecuting the Recruiting Service, advised them to keep an
Account of their Expences and promised to mention the
Matter to you. I do it Gentlemen under a Confidence that
the bare mention of it is fully sufficient. I beg Leave also
to lay before you a Letter from Maj^r Nathaniel Smith. From
verbal Conversation, from Time to Time, with several of the
Officers of the Matross Company in Annapolis, they are under
the like Impressions and entertain the like Expectations as the
Officers of the Matrosses in Baltimore. I could wish, if it is
your Pleasure to do any Thing for the Relief of those Gen^t
that your Bounty may be clearly and fully expressed, without
referring to what is allowed in the Army, of which I am, in
most Instances, altogether uninformed and thereby prevent
any Misunderstanding or Uneasiness from an Apprehension
that the Construction of the Governor & Council is not so
liberal as your Intention.
Gen^l Assembly.

[Council to W. Bordley.]

In Council Annapolis 2^d August 1779
Sir.
Your Letter of the 31^st July with its Inclosures came to Hand
yesterday. Chambers, by the 2^d Sect, of the 20^th Chap, of Feb^y
Session 1777, is guilty of Treason and so are those who have
afforded him any Aid or Comfort, or have given him any
Intelligence of the warlike Preparations or Designs of
the United States or any of them. Wilmer's Deposition
ought to have been more circumstantial, it does not mention
how or in what Manner he was privy: his bare Concealment
of the Treason of those who aided or comforted Chalmers,
will bring him within the 3^d Sect, of the Act, and we think you
ought to bind him over to the General Court. This Matter was
no further before us than on a Letter from M^r Wilmer, desir-
ing Sluby might be secured, and that he would impeach him
of Treason, to which we immediately gave an Answer, advis-
ing him that an Oath was necessary previous to a Warrant's