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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Sir, Philadelphia January 13. 1781 Your Excellency will receive enclosed, the Copy of an Act of Congress of the 8th Instant respecting Colonel Malcolm, expressing their Sentiments that he cannot be considered as entitled to Pay & Subsistence as a Colonel in the Service of the United States, longer than he held the actual Command of his regiment, and recommending
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him as a meritorious Officer who from the Impracticability of employing him in the Army is to be deemed a Supernumerary under the resolution of Congress of the 24th of November 1778, and referring it to the Executive of New York to settle & adjust his Pay for his Services after leaving his regiment and charge the same to the United States.(1)
I have the Honor to be, with the highest respect, your Excellency's most obedient & most humble Servant,
Sam. Huntington President
RC (N: Clinton Papers). In a clerical hand and signed by Huntington.
(1) Col. William Malcom had written to Governor Clinton in October to explain that he was about to become a supernumerary as a result of the merger of his regiment with Col. Oliver Spencer's Additional Continental Regiment, and Clinton had presented his case to Congress in a November 15 letter that was referred to the Board of War on December 4. PCC, item 67, 2: 332-35, 338; and JCC, 18: 1119. For the board's report and enclosed congressional resolve concerning Malcom's retirement, see PCC, item 147, 6:69-72; and JCC, 19:36-38.
Huntington also sent a copy of the enclosed resolve this day to Colonel Malcom with a brief cover letter expressing regret over the necessity for his retirement and explaining that New York had been requested "to settle & adjust" his pay. PCC, item 15, fol. 213. See also James Duane to Malcom, March 22, 1781.
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