138 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C C

No. 22

p. 88

[Council to Richard Dallam Esqr]

Sir We send you by your Brother fifteen thousand Pounds, which
is as much as the State of the Treasury and other pressing Calls will
at present admit. We shall, in a short Time have it more in our
Power to determine on what is to be done about the Bran, Shorts
and Ship Stuff. If the Maryland Troops move to the Southward, of
which we have received some, tho' not official, Information, there
will, probably be a sufficient Demand for it

[Council to Colo. Edward Gaither]

Sir The Difficulty you are under, in Consequence of your Con-
tract with Tho^s Maccaulley appears to us to have arose from your
purchasing instead of seizing the Corn in his Possession. You have
still a Power of seizing it, which you ought to do and pursue the
Directions of the Law. Some Certificates are sent by the Bearer.

[Council to Colo. Josias Carvil Hall.]

Sir — We received your Favor of the 6^th Ins^t and have agreeable
to your Request, appointed Adam Hoops Cap^t Lieu^t to fill the
Vacancy occasioned by the Resignation of M^r Cromwell. M^r John
Randall was appointed an Ensign, but the Board of War refused to
commission him, his being State Agent at the Time, we conjecture
to be the Reason, and therefore conclude a Reappointment previous
to his Resignation, would be unnecessary. We cannot appoint
M^r James Clark, consistent with the Recommendation of Congress,
by which we are desired to forbear any further Appointments. We
shall transmit a Certificate of the Appointment of Cap^t Hoops, to the
Board of War. By an Act passed in October 1777, the County
Courts are empowered to afford Assistance to the Families of Re-
cruits raised in Virtue of it, during the Absence of such Recruits,
if they stand in Need, and we observe similar Clauses are inserted in
the subsequent recruiting Acts. The Soldiers that enlisted prior to
October 1777, under former Laws, are not comprehended within the
Letter of either of those Clauses, but we have no Doubt of their being
within the Spirit, and think their Families equally entitled to the
Assistance of the Public

April 12
Liber C B
No. 23
p. 136

Wednesday 12^th April 1780

Present as on Yesterday.
Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Thomas Mor-
man a Recruit for the 6 Reg^t one Suit of Cloaths the Bounty all^d by
the Gen^l Ass^y
That the said Commissary deliver to Ens Henry Clements 3 yds
Linen for Lining 2 p^r Stockings in part of the Articles allowed by
the Gen^l Assembly.