Baltimore-Town

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Baltimore-Town, January 31, 1776.

SIR: As we are desirous of knowing what number of muskets are in the hands of the Militia in your brigade, either belonging to the publick or to individuals, we request that you will furnish an account of them as soon as you conveniently can, distinguishing to what companies they respectively belong, and those which are good and serviceable from what are unfit for use; and that you recommend it to, and earnestly admonish those of your Militia, whose guns are out of repair, when circumstances will admit of it, to have them immediately put into good order; but, that if the owners of any such guns cannot, from their poverty, repair them, and they are only defective in the locks, that you have the same repaired and rendered fit for service at the publick expense.

Writing immediately lo the Colonels and other inferior officers we recommend, as the best method of gaining information in the above particulars.

We are, very respectfully, sir, your most obedient servants,

D˙ OF ST˙ T˙ JENIFER, CHARLES CARROLL, Bar˙, JOHN HALL, JAMES TILGHMAN.