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ing in the line of the state, but we are sorry to find that the matter
rested here and that no farther Provision than the bare Resolve
has been made, which your Excellency must be sensible is insuffi-
cient to answer our present Exegencies. We therefore beg that
whenever the more weighty concerns of your State will admit of it;
that your Excellency will please to cast your eyes for a moment on
the officers and Soldiers of your State belonging to this Regiment,
and order the same Supplies of money Cloathing and other stores
as were given the troops of the Maryland line to be forwarded to them
as soon as possible. Your Excellency we trust will have due regard
to the time of furnishing the different sums of money to the officers
of your line and make such farther allowances for the Depreciation
of the mony as you may think just and equitable, as the gratuity
given in the Spring of 1779 and the fall following will be found
entirely insufficient to answer the purpose it was intended for, and
as to the sums furnished the officers on their March to the South-
ward we can say nothing of. We would only wish to remind your
Excellency that we performed as long and fatiguing a march in
the course of the last summer without the Assistance of any State
or other County.
We have directed M^r Amos Loney to wait on you for the several
sums of Money allowed us by the Assembly and request it may be
paid into his hands in order to be forwarded to us.
NB in furnishing the Stores for The troops y^r Excellency will
please to have reference to the return from the Board of War, for the
numbers.

Red Book

No. 27

[Sam Huntington, President, Philadelphia to His Excellency
Gov. Lee.]

Sir The urgent necessity of drawing into the public Treasury the
ten millions of Dollars mentioned in the Act of the 19^th May was
so fully pointed out, that Congress exceedingly regret the failure
of this necessary supply, the conjuncture is already arrived when it
is become essential not only to the operations of this Campaign but
to the very existence of the Army.
Congress therefore can no longer delay reiterating the most im-
portunate Sollicitations that the proportions of each of the States
be forwarded immediately. For this purpose they have dispatched
a special Messenger, & they trust he will not meet with disappoint-
ment. A further sum must also be speedily had or it will be impos-
sible for the operations to proceed. Congress have therefore drawn
on those States for the remainder of their Quotas to the first of
March last inclusive; And it is their duty to conjure the several
States, if they should still be unprepared that they will at all events
transmit their arrears to the period last mentioned to the Continental
treasury within thirty days from the date of the warrants.

June 29
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