Head Quarters, Middle Brook, Thursday, February 11, 1779.

    Parole Sunderland. Countersigns Bombay, Tirol.

    A formal complaint having been lodged with the Commander in Chief against Colo. Craige ⁴¹ for beating and otherwise ill-treating Caleb Brokaw, an Inhabitant of this State, a Court of Inquiry to examine into the circumstances of the affair will sit on Saturday forenoon, 10 o'Clock at the Court Martial room. The court will consist of Colo. Russell ⁴² as President, Colonels Williams ⁴³ and Butler, ⁴⁴ Lieut. Colonel Adams ⁴⁵ and Major Posey, ⁴⁶ Members. They will report a state of facts and their opinion to the Commander in Chief.

[Note:Col. Thomas Craig, of the Third Pennsylvania Regiment. He was retired in January, 1783. ]

[Note:Col. William Russell, of the Fifth Virginia Regiment. ]

[Note:Col. Otho Holland Williams, of the Sixth Maryland Regiment. ]

[Note:Col. Richard Butler, of the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment. ]

[Note:Lieut. Col. Peter Adams, of the Seventh Maryland Regiment. ]

[Note:Maj. Thomas Posey, of the Seventh Virginia Regiment. ]

    Accurate returns of Arms, Accoutrements, Ammunition &c. according to the printed forms which will be delivered out are to be forthwith made by the commanding officers of regiments to the officers commanding Brigades, who are to have them digested into Brigade returns and transmitted to the Adjutant General. The Officers will advert to the order of the 7th. of August last and all Arms, Ammunition &c. in use at that time or drawn since are to be regularly accounted for.

    At a General Court Martial whereof Colo. C. Hall ⁴⁷ was President, Feby. 6th, 1779:

[Note:Col. Josias Carvil Hall, of the Fourth Maryland Regiment. ]

    Captain Von Heer, ⁴⁸ commanding the M. L. D. was tried for, "Exacting without authority money for licensing Sutlers."

[Note:Capt. Bartholomew Von Heer, of the Marechaussée Corps (Provost). ]

    The Court are of opinion that Captn. Von Heer exacted without authority money for licencing Sutlers, being a breach of Article 5th. section 18th. of the rules and articles of war. They are also of opinion that as Captain Von Heer's conduct might possibly have arisen from a mis-conception of the nature of his office, he shall only be reprimanded in general orders and repay the several sutlers the money he exacted from them.

    As the public manner in which Captain Von Heer demanded fees from the sutlers is an argument of his being unconscious that he was committing the most heinous species of extortion, The Commander in Chief acquiesces in the lenient sentence of the Court Martial. He desires that Captain Von Heer will for the future pay stricter attention to his instructions and consider them as the only rule of his conduct which will be approved or condemned only, as he adheres to, or deviates from them.

    A course of lectures on Anatomy and the operations of Surgery will commence sometime between the middle and latter end of February instant, at or near the camp, so as best to suit the conveniency of those surgeons belonging to the Army who shall attend. A Preliminary lecture will be delivered by Doctor Brown, ⁴⁹ Physician General to the Middle Department, at the

[Note:Dr. William Brown. He resigned in July, 1780. ]