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Present Militia Law is so defective that nothing Effectual can be .
done as the Orders of the Officers are Little Regarded by the men.

I hope the Present Assembly has or will make an amendment to that

Law. And I shall be Obliged if your Excellency will order me a
Copy or Extract as soon as possible

January 16

[Ja^s Murray to His Excel^y Gov^r Lee]

I have examined the State of the wounded Soldiers who were
comitted to my Care and have the Pleasure of informing y^r Excel^y
that only two of the brave Fellows appear to be in any considerable
Degree of Danger They are conveniently provided with every neces-
sary excepting Beds, which I yesterday took the Liberty of desiring
the Quarter Master to procure & I am informed they will be ready to
morrow.
I have to request of y^r Excel^y that you will give me Leave to order
a few shirts for some of the wounded who are greatly in want of
fresh Linnen & four yards of Flannel for their wounded Limbs

January 16

[M. Gist, Annapolis, to the Gov. and Council]

EncloS^td you have a State of my account from the Auditor Gen-
erals Books, Balance due the State £9629..10..8 of which sum
£349.. 1..0.. — stands charg'd against me, for monies deliver'd my Offi-
cers; this sum was exhibited in my account ag^t the United States;
as also sundry other charges for state Bounties of 40 Dollars to each
Recruit &c &c. amounting in the whole to the best of my recollec-
tion to £427..17..o. which sum was rejected in settlement of my ac-
count with the United States, and consequently become a regular
charge to the Debit of the State of Maryland.
On the reception of a Letter from the President of the Council
last winter, informing, that he had forwarded £10000 to be delivered
to me for the recruiting Service; I gave M^r Randall an order to
receive that sum of M^r Forbes (in whose hands the money was
lodgd) with directions to lay it out in stores for the Troops, & ad-
vanced my own money to Colo^l Williams, L^ts Col^o Ford, Howard,
and (I believe) Major Hardman for the Recruiting Service, which
together with the Bounty paid a Recruit, enlisted myself reduced the
Balance due the State to £7050.7.6 probably there may have been
some other trifling charge, but as all my Books & Papers except the
List of Balances now before you, have fallen into the hands of the
Enemy it is impossible for me to ascertain them more particularly.
I have therefore to request The Governor & Council will please to
direct the Auditor General to settle this Account, on my qualifications
that the above £7050.. 7..6 was the Just and true Balance due the
State by my Books, from which that & other Balances were taken
the 22^d July last.

January 16
Brown Book
No. 3
Letter 27