350 Journal and Correspondence.

January 27
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 382

Monday January 27^th 1783.

Present His Excellency the Governor.
Benj. Stoddert, G. Duvall, and John H. Stone Esquires

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Alice Redmond,
Ann Holdston and Mary Connolly each one pound two shillings and
six pence Specie due them per Acco^ts passed. —

That the said Treasurer pay to Joshua Mudd Thirty nine pounds,
five shillings and eleven pence specie agreeable to the Act to adjust
the Debts due from this State per Cert^a adjusted. —
The Board took into Consideration the Case of Henry Newcomer
of Washington County who had been tried and convicted on two
several Indictments at a special Court held at Frederick-town on
Friday the 6^th of July 1781, charging the said Henry Newcomer with
inticing and persuading a certain Andrew Horshman and a certain
Gabriel Baker, Citizens of this State, to return to and acknowledge
Dependence on the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain; and
on each Indictment and Conviction aforesaid, adjudged to suffer one
Years Imprisonment and to pay a fine of five hundred pounds : And
it appearing from the Petition of Barbara Newcomer his Wife, and
the Petition of a number of respectable Inhabitants of Frederick and

p. 383

Washington Counties that the said Newcomer has eleven small Chil-
dren, who will be reduced to a State of Begging and Ruin, unless the
whole or a part of the aforesaid Fines be remitted : And it also ap-
pearing from the Certificate of the Clerk of Washington County that
the whole of the said Newcomers property was Assessed to no more
than five hundred and sixty two pounds, ten shillings. —

Wherefore, and in Consideration of his having already suffered
a severe Imprisonment, It is determined that four hundred and
twenty five pounds of each of the said Fines be remitted. —
Benj Stoddert W^m Paca
G. Duvall
J. H Stone.—

January 27
Liber No. 78
p. 409

[W Paca in Council to Honble Gen^l Smallwood.]

We are at a Loss to know whether the Militia-Men who engaged
to serve 'til the 10^th of Dec^r 1781, and enlisted in the Continental
Army, before the Expiration of their Time as Militia-Men, should
draw pay from the State or the Continent, from the Dates of their
Enlistments to the 10^th of Dec^r. Will you be so obliging as to give
us any Information in your Power, on this Subject? We know it is
the Practice in the Army, to draw Pay from the Time of Enlistment,
but from the peculiar Circumstances of those Men, some Step may
have been taken to prevent their drawing Pay from the Continent
before the 10^th of Dec^r.