406 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1747.

Lib. C. B.

Agreeable to your Desire, inclosed is a Copy of the Procla-
mation issued for the Encouragement of Persons to enlist,
with Copies of the Votes of the Assembly of this Province
touching the Bounty and Subsistance granted by them, also a
Copy of the Certificate given by M^r Bladen to the Officers ;
I am not acquainted with any Sum of Money advanced to the
Officers or Soldiers, either by M^r Bladen, or any other Person
here on Account of their Pay
The Troops raised here were furnished with Arms and
Accoutrements at the Expence of this Province upon the
Assurance expressed in the Letter from the Duke of Newcastle
that It should be reimbursed, and you will perceive by an
inclosed Copy of an Address from the Lower house on that
head, that they still depend on having a satisfaction made
accordingly, so that however reasonable It may be, that those
Arms and Accoutrements should be returned or otherways
accounted for by the Men or their Officers as you express in
your Letter, yet you will be pleased to consider that neither
the Men or Officers are now or ever likely to be in this
Government, or, if they were, could any of them be made
accountable here for the Loss of any such Arms and Accou-

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trements by a Stoppage out of their Pay, since I have no
Directions or Authority in the payment of them, and therefore
I doubt not of your Assistance in procuring the Payment for
such Arms & Accoutrements
My Duty and Zeal for his Majesty and his Service as also
my Earnestness to act what is in my Power agreeable to your
Wishes would leave me without Excuse, if I should be want-
ing in my Assistance to any Officers who may be sent hither
to raise Recruits for the Purposes you mention.
As I am not sufficiently acquainted with the Circumstances
& Scituation of all his Majestys Colonies, or the Difficulties
of raising Men there, I cannot pretend to judge what Pay
ought to be allowed to the Officers and Soldiers in general,
But as to the Pay of the Troops raised in this Province who
have marched and always served in New York, I make no
Question but you will think it reasonable, They should be
allowed Pay equal to his Majestys Troops upon the British
Establishm^t And indeed they may think they have a Right to
it upon the Assurance in the Proclamation (which I now inclose
and refer you to) issued by this Government for Encourage-
ment of the Levies in pursuance of his Majestys Commands
signifyed by his Grace the Duke of Newcastle
I am Gentlemen
Your most obedient humble servant
Sam: Ogle.