76 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C C

No. 22

is just and equitable. On the 2^d October last William Pendergast was
appointed Ensign in the 5^th Maryland Regiment consequently he is
entitled
[Council to Charles Thompson Esqr]

Sir We have to acknowledge the Receipt of your Favors of the
20^th Nov^r and 17^th Dec^r with the Proceedings and an Act of Con-
gress of the 16^th March 1778 The Acts &^ca therein requested to be
transmitted, shall be forwarded as soon as they can conveniently be
collected
[Council to Colo. Josias Carvil Hall]

Sir Your Favor of the 19^th Dec^r came lately to Hand. Two Thou-
sand Dollars due to Ensign Isaac Hanson, have been paid to
M^r Cromwell agreeably to his Order, We are informed that the
late Governor and his Council, were not acquainted with this Gentle-
man's Pretensions, otherwise this Gratuity would have been paid
upon the first Application. Iacob Rittenhouse Shoemaker we have
recommended to the Board of War for an Ensigncy at your Request

[Council to the Delegates from Maryland in Congress]

Gentlemen We received your Favors of the 29^th Dec^r and 5^th
Jan^y last, since the General Assembly adjourned. The Gratuity al-
lowed by the Act passed in July Session 1779, is expressly confined
to the Commissioned and Staff Officers and Soldiers belonging to
the seven Regiments of Maryland Troops. It would give us infinite
Pleasure, if we had Authority to extend it to the Officers and Men
belonging to this State, attached to Major Lee's Corps. Our wish
that those Men whose Merit and distinguished Bravery equally en-
title them to the Attention and Benevolence of the State with others,
should be as comfortably supplied, seconded by our Desire to remove
every Cause of Jealousy and Disgust, which the Opinion that an
unwarrantable Preference has been shewn, may have created will
induce this Board to lay your Letters and the Papers accompanying
them, before the Assembly in March, who, we trust, will do equal
Justice to all, by comprehending those valuable Men within the
Limits of their Generosity

Liber C B
No. 23
p. 108
February 3

Thursday 3^d February 1780

Present as on Yesterday —
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to James Brice
Esquire seven hundred Pounds for his Attendance in Council 35
Days Inclusive
That the said Treasurer pay to Robert Reith one hundred and
twenty five Pounds for 1 mo. Salary as Messenger to the Governor
& Council to the 1^st Instant.