His Excellency the President when he Commanded at Rhoad Island, who, were requested to proceed with horses & payment garranteed by the Executive department of Government in August 1783.This charge made by your Committee on the Accounts is not agreed to by Mr Gorham, as no Resolve of Congress will Warrant it - yet your Committee suppose it of such Consequence as may require an application to Congress for an allowance of this charge

The Committee beg leave further; to recommend an Advertizement, calling upon each Town to bring in their accounts for any demand they have against the State during the late War on or before the day of 1786 or they shall be excluded from payment — which is submitted by Josh Wentworth for the Committee September session 1786

[7-94] [Elisha Payne's Letter of Excuse, 1786.]

Lebanon September 5th A D 1786

Sir, Not only duty, but inclination would be a sufficient inducement, for my attending the Honble Senate in their Sessions at Exeter the current weeks were it not for the previous engagements I am under, which will not admit of my dispensing with on any princi ples of reason or consistancy. (which to trouble your Excellency with the particulars [will] be needless) I heartily wish not only unanimity and agreement to attend both branches of the Legislature; but also wisdom and publick rectitude to influence in the important matters that may come under their consideration —

I am Sir with due regard

Your Excellency's Most Obedient & very Humble Servent

In Senate Sept 7th 1786

Voted that the within is not a satisfactory Excuse,

Elisha Payne

J Pearson Sec

[7-96] [Petition for pardon from Prisoners at Exeter, 1786.]

To the Honorable the Senate and the Honorable the House of Rep resentatives now convened in Exeter

We your humble Petitioners now justly held Prisoners in Exeter goal being truly and most sincerely repentant for the most atrocious

crime by us committed in imbodying disorderly, and surrounding the Meeting-house in this town to the great detriment of order and Goverment and the almost unpardonable insult of your most respectable body, and being now also impress'd with the truest compunction of heart for every the least offence committed by us against any particular Member of the Hon1e House or Inhabitant of this town, confessing ourselves guilty of the greatest and most agravated offence possible for men to commit - Do most humbly cast ourselves at your Honors feet imploring your mercy and forgiveness for these our aforesaid misdemeanors -All which confession we are heartily desirous to testify before your Honors.—

John mckan

James Cochran Jr.

Caleb Smith jr

Sargent Walls

State of

Hamps}

New Hamps In the House of Representatives Sept 23d 1786 — Upon reading and considering the foregoing petition,

Voted that prayer thereof be Granted, & that his Excellency the President give order for the release of sd prisoners.—

Sent up for Concurrence.

John Preston Speaker P. T.

In Senate Sept 23 1786 read and non concurred

J Pearson Secy

[7-99]

[States' Quotas for Indian Warfare, 1786.]

By the United States in Congress assembled. October 20th 1786. — The Committee to whom was referred the Letter from the War Office with papers enclosed containing intelligence of the hostile intentions of the Indians in the Western Country having reported

"That the Uniform tenor of the intelligence from the Western "Country plainly indicates the hostile disposition of a number of "Indian Nations particularly the Shawanese, Puteotamies, Chippa"was, Tawas and Twightwees

"That these Nations are now Assembling in the Shawanese towns "and are joined by a banditti of desperadoes under the name of Min"goes and Cherokees, who are outcasts from other nations, and who "have associated and settled in that Country for the purpose of war "and plunder

"That they are labouring to draw in other nations to unite with "them in a War with the Americans

"That it is expected one thousand Warriors will soon be collected "in the Shawanese towns from whence they have already dispatched "parties to commence hostilities.

"That from the motions of the Indians to the Southward as well "as to the Northward and the exertions made in different quarters "to stimulate the various nations against the Americans there is the "strongest reason to believe that unless the speediest measures are "taken effectually to counteract and defeat their plans, the War "will become general, and may be attended with the most dangerous "and lasting Consequences.

"That the Committee therefore deem it highly necessary that the "Troops in the service of the United States be immediately aug. "mented, not only for the protection and support of the frontiers of "the States bordering on the Western Territory and the valuable "settlements on and near the Margin of the Mississipi, but to estab"lish the possession and facilitate the surveying and selling of those "intermediate lands which have been so much relied on for the reduc"tion of the debts of the United States" whereupon

Resolved Unanimously that the Number of One thousand three hundred and forty Non Commissioned Officers and Privates be raised for the term of Three Years unless sooner discharged, and that they together with the troops now in service be formed into a Legionary Corps to Consist of 2040 Non Commissioned Officers and Privates, That the Additional Troops be raised by the following States in the following proportions to Wit

Maryland and Virginia each 60 Cavalry making 120

That the Secretary at War inform the Executive Authority of the Respective States in which the troops are to be raised, the number and Rank of Commissioned Officers to be furnished by each State in proportion to the Men

That the Pay and allowances to the Troops to be raised by this Resolve be the same as established by the Act of Congress of the 12th April 1785.

That the said Troops shall be subject to the existing Articles of War or such as may hereafter be formed by Congress or a Committee of the States.

That the Board of Treasury contract for a supply of Clothing and Rations at such places, and in such quantities, as the secretary at War shall judge necessary.

Resolved Unanimously That the States abovementioned be and they are hereby requested to use their utmost exertions to raise the quotas of troops respectively Assigned them with all possible expedition - And that the executive of the said States be and hereby are requested in case any of their Legislatures should not be in session, immediately to convene them for this purpose, as a delay may be attended with the most fatal consequences.

Ordered that the Board of Treasury without delay devise ways and means for the pay and support of the Troops of the United States on the present establishment and report the same to Congress.

Chas Thompson Secy
October 21st 1789

On the Report of the Board of Treasury pursuant to the orders of yesterday to devise ways and means for the pay and support of the Troops of the United States on the present establishment

Resolved Unanimously That the several States in the Confederacy be and they are hereby required to pay into the Federal Treasury on or before the first day of June 1787 their respective Quotas of the sum of Five hundred and thirty thousand Dollars in Specie, which quotas are

Which sums when paid shall be passed to the Credit of the States respectively on the terms prescribed by the Resolve of Congress of the 6 day of October 1779, and that the Monies arising from the said Requisition be and hereby are appropriated for the pay and support of the Troops on the present establishment. —

Resolved Unanimously that the Board of Treasury be and they are hereby authorized and directed to open a Loan immediately to the amount of Five hundred thousand Dollars at Six per Cent p. Annum on the Credit of the foregoing Requisition, which they are hereby authorised to pledge to the Lenders for the faithfull reimbursement of the monies Loaned with the Intrest thereof

Chas Thompson Secy

[7-101]

[Instructions to Officers, 1786.]

Instructions to senior officer of the troops to be raised in New Hampshire by virtue of the act of Congress of 20th of October 1786.

Sir As commanding officer of the troops to be raised in the state. of New Hampshire you are to superintend the recruiting of men for the service of the United States. In the execution of this duty you will yourself pay the greatest attention to the following instructions and enjoin on your inferior officers the most rigid observance thereof. Neither negroes mulattoes or indians shall be enlisted in the service of the United States. Every man under five feet six inches in height shall be refused. No man under sixteen or above forty five years of age shall be inlisted. Every man who shall be inlisted must be robust and perfectly formed with respect to his body limbs and organs and in full health.

Any officer who shall inlist men contrary to the above instructions shall be obliged to pay the expences which the United States may incur by such enlistment.

No inlistment shall be deemed valid except the person inlisted shall sign his name before a witness and take the oath as directed by the articles of war before a majistrate.

The Clothing arms and accoutrements shall be forwarded to you as soon as possible, and also a sum of money for to pay half a months pay to the men on their being inlisted and sworn. The officers and men will be completed with a months pay previous to their marching. A contract for furnishing your recruits with rations will be also formed as soon as possible.

The highest exertions and best arrangements must be made to obtain the full number of men immediately.

You will establish a proper rendezvous for the reception of your recruits. You will for this purpose hire some convenient building at a certain rate per month, You will also obtain some fuel taking care to keep only the number of fires which shall be absolutely neces

sary.

You must also purchase some straw, bowls and camp kettles for cooking. I have written to his Excellency President Sullivan to furnish you money for the advance pay of the men and for the purchasing these small necessary articles which shall be reimbursed to him.

You will inform me weekly of your actual success and prospects in recruiting.

In every expenditure you will consider economy and an attention to the public interest as essentially connected with your reputation. The accounts of your disbursements must be kept in the fairest