184 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C C

No. 22

[Council to the Members of the General Assembly]

Sir You will perceive, by the enclosed Extracts of a Letter and
Resolve of Congress of the 19^th Ins^t that our State is called on for
1.234.350 Dollars their Proportion of ten Millions of Dollars, with-
out which the Army cannot be put in Motion. Congress have pointed
out so fully the pressing and indispensable Necessity of an immediate
Compliance with that Requisition, that we esteem it quite unneces-
sary to superadd any Arguments to evince the Propriety of the As-
sembly's meeting to adopt the most efficacious Measures for that and
other Purposes of the greatest Moment. Nothing but the most im-
portant Business could have induced the Governor to convene the
Assembly so early as the seventh Day of June, and we hope that, and
the Consideration that you may dispatch the Business in Time to
return to Harvest, will influence you to meet on that Day without
Reluctance

May 27
Liber C B
No. 23
p. 158

Saturday 27^th May 1780

Present as on yesterday.
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Lieut Edward
Duvall Eighty eight Pounds, ten shillings per Acc^t passed by the
Dep^ty Aud.
That the said Treasurer pay to Ens. Samuel Hamilton of the 6^th
Regim^t five hundred and fifty five Pounds Due him per Acc^t passed
by the Dep^y Aud.
That the said Treasurer pay to Lieut Charles Bivan seventy five
Pounds p Account passed by the Dep^y Aud.
That the said Treasurer pay to Jonathan Parker three hundred
Pounds on Acc^t
That the said Treasurer pay to Capt Robert Berry Four hundred
and twenty one Pounds, ten shillings due him per Acc^t passed by the
Dep^y Aud.
That the Issuing Commissary deliver to Capt. Archer 20^ts Candles
for the use of Maj^r Lee's Corps now on their way to the Southward
to be charged to the Continent
That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Ens. Jacob Crawford of
the 2^d Regim^t 13 Blankets, 2 of them for Recruits of the 1^st 2 for
the 2^d 2 for the 4^th 2 for the 5^th & 5 for the 7^th Regim^t to be charged
to the several Regim^ts
Permission is hereby given to William Bacon to solicit Leave of
Gen^l Washington or the Commanding Officer at Elizabeth Town to
go to New York for the Purpose of obtaining a Passage to Great
Britain agreeably to a Resolve of the House of Delegates of the io^th
of April last.