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Report of a committee of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina concerning payment to Thomas Amis for capturing deserters
North Carolina. Provincial Congress
December 1776
Volume 22, Page 754

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PETITION OF THOS. AMIS.


December, 1776.

Your Committee appointed to examine the Acct. of Capt. Thomas Amis, of Bladen County, against this State, for apprehending, securing and delivering to their officers, Nineteen Deserters from the Troops belonging to this State; have examined the same, and are of Opinion that he be allowed for his trouble and expence in apprehending the said Deserters, and for carrying them from this State to Charles Town in South Carolina where they were delivered the sum of One Hundred & Twenty Pounds.

LEWIS DUPRE.

Concurred with 13 Dec., 1776.