captains and subalterns are now in town, whose opinions and approbation, as they are equally interested, they wish to have in the appointment.

The board, after consulting with such of the above mentioned officers as they have seen, and receiving their approbation, do appoint Col Muter and Col Daoney to correspond with Col. Marshall and Major Meriwether, and generally to attend to the business of the State officers and soldiers, whenever such attendance is necessary.

On examining the list of officers of the State artillery, the board are of opinion that they cannot decide finally in the case of Capt. Allen, whether he is to be considered as an officer entitled to half pay or not. In an act of Assembly, passed in May, 1778, for raising a battalion of infantry, and for other purposes, they find it enacted, "that the said regiment of artillery shall be officered in the same manner, and that the officers thereof shall receive the same pay and rations as is customary in artillery regiments in the service of the United States of America." And they are informed that there are no officers of artificers in the continental regiments of artillery, that are considered as officers of the line, entitled to all the privileges and advantages given to such officers. Capt. Allen was appointed an officer of artificers only, but on producing his commission to the board, they find that he is commissioned as a captain of artillery generally, no notice being taken in his commission of his commanding the artificers, though it appears that that has been his constant duty, and that he has never commanded in the line of officers at all. The board are also at a loss how to determine respecting two other gentlemen included in the list of the artillery officers, viz: Dr. Matthew Pope and the Rev. Mr. Andrews, the first surgeon, and the last chaplain, to the regiment. Dr. Pope, after the greatest part of the regiment marched, under the command of Col. Edmonds, to the southward, as there were very few soldiers of the regiment remaining in the state, and these much scattered, so that there was no duty for him to do as regimental surgeon, accepted of an appointment from the Executive, of physician and apothecary to the State at Richmond, and afterwards of chief surgeon in the army commanded by Gen. Muhlenburgh, but without resigning his appointment as surgeon to the artillery, though it does not appear to the board that, at the time of his accepting the first of these appointments from the Executive, he stipulated that his appointment as surgeon to the regiment should be secured to him. Mr. Andrews was regularly appointed to be chaplain to the regiment, but in the session of October, 1779, a resolution passed the Assembly to the following purpose: "that the following officers in the staff department are supernumerary, and ought to be discontinued, to wit: the director general, chaplains," &c. in consequence of which (the board have been informed) the officers enumerated in that resolution were discontinued, and, from the time of their being discontinued, have done no duty. Mr. Andrews considers that discontinuance not as an absolute dismission from the service, but only as reducing him to the state of a supernumerary. The board consider themselves as imcompetent to decide in these three cases, and therefore beg leave to refer them entirely to the determination of the Executive.

Thursday, February 14th, 1782.

Present-Col. Marshall, Col. Brent, Col. Muter, Lt. Col. Dabney, and Major Dick.

The board proceeded to the further consideration of the business before them.

Captain Campbell being (yesterday) recommended to the board by seve ral captains and subalterns of the State troops, to be joined to Col. Marshall and Major Meriwether in their appointment, the board readily agreed to it, and wrote to Major Campbell, requesting that he will consider the letter of the 8th inst., directed to those gentlemen, as also addressed to him.

No officer from the navy, and no officer from the regiments raised for the western defence, attending, and the board having no returns or information on which they can proceed, from the navy or from those regiments, they therefore cannot, with any propriety, proceed to consider them at all.

The board find that in May, 1779, an act passed, directing the raising two regiments for the eastern, and two for the defence of the western, limits of this State. They are informed that only one of these regiments (Col. Crockett's) was ever raised; and it does not appear to them, that any gentlemen appointed to command in those regiments can or ought to be considered as officers in the service of the State, except the officers of Crockett's regiment alone, therefore not entitled to half pay.

The board resolved that the returns of battalions and corps, with the lists of the officers, as subscribed by the commanding or field officers, should be delivered to the Commissioner of the War Office, together with their proceedings, and that the list of discriminated officers should be annexed to their proceedings.

T. MARSHALL, President.

IN COUNCIL, November 14, 1783.

The within report of the board of officers, is the original which was made to the Executive, and ought to be considered as authentic.

BENJ. HARRISON, Jr.

A LIST of such officers as are discriminated by the Board of Field Officers.

Sewel Edinburg
John Baytop

T. MARSHALL, President

[The following is endorsed on the original:]

The Auditors now present wish to have this report authenticated by a certificate from the Executive, before they proceed to adjust the claims of those officers who may be entitled to half pay.

November 13, 1783.

H. RANDOLPH,
J. PENDLETON, Jr.

I do hereby certify that the foregoing document, commencing "proceedings of a board of field officers," &c., and ending with the name of "J. Pendleton, Jr." is truly copied from an original paper, found by Judge Wm. H. Cabell, among the papers of Col. Read, and by him deposited in this office.

Given under my hand, at the Auditor's office of Virginia, this 17th day of August, 1831.

JAS. E. HEATH, Auditor of Public Accounts.