212 Journal and Correspondence.

July 12
Liber C. B.

No. 24
p. 309

John Deane twelve Pounds, five shillings & John Green one Pound
ten shillings of the same Emission due them per Accounts passed.
That the said Treasurer pay to John Dove, Twenty Pounds of the
same Emission for the use of John McDaniel & James McDaniel per
Accounts passed.

July 12
Liber No. 78
p. 357

[Council to Honble Robert Morris, Esq^r]

We are informed, but not officially, that the Congress have de-
termined to pay and cloath the Army from the Treasury of the
United States, for the present and succeeding Years. That no Ad-
vances made by particular States, to their Officers and Men, will be
admitted in Discharge of the Demand for the 8 Millions of Dollars.
That the Debt due to the Army from August 1780 to January 1782,
is to be considered as a Continental debt and not to be paid by the
respective States, as heretofore. If such Regulations have taken
Place, we shall be much obliged to you for them, otherwise we may
interfere with very proper Arrangements, without knowing it. We
have, for a considerable Time past, been in the Practice of making
Advances to our Officers, and it is still continued, which might not
be the Case, were we acquainted with the System adopted by
Congress, or under their Authority.

Ibid.

[Council to Honble Robert Morris Esq^r]

Among other Measures, adopted by our Assembly, at their last
Sitting, to raise Money for the United States, they laid a Tax of
five Shillings Specie on the hundred Pound, to be collected by the
first of August next, but afterwards, upon an Application from
General Greene, they directed that twenty Dragoon Horses should be
purchased out of the Monies arising from this Tax, or with Certifi-
cates to be received in Payment of the same. We do not flatter
ourselves that this Tax will be very productive. It is a Truth that
our People are possessed of but very little Specie, and even that!
Little is chiefly confined to Baltimore Town, and the few upper
Counties which are so situated as to have Intercourse with Baltimore
or Philadelphia. The lower and most considerable Part of the State,
has neither Specie nor the Means of getting it, for there is no
Demand for any Thing the People make, those in the upper Counties
having it abundantly in their Power to furnish every Article required
for Exportation by the Merchants of Baltimore, which is the only
Town in the State, where foreign Commerce is carried on. We have
been thus particular, as well for the Purpose of giving you, what we
deem, necessary Information, as to enable you to judge, from a View
of all Circumstances, of the Propriety of the following Proposition.
The Notes advanced to the Officers of the Maryland Line for two
and three Months Pay, have no Credit in the State at present, from