314 Journal and Correspondence

C. B.

George Robertson Doct^r of said Ship served 20 May &
Nathaniel Bond purser.
That the western shore Treasurer pay to Henry Meroney
Nine pounds seven shillings & six pence due on Acc^t passed.
That the Eastern shore Treasurer pay to William Steven-
son six hundred and eighty six pounds nine shillings & two
pence Currency to be by him delivered to Col^o Zadock Pur-
nail for the use of the Detachments of his Batt. in service to be
accounted for & the further sum of three hundred and Thir-
teen pounds, ten shillings & ten pence Currency due his Bat-
talion per Acco^t passed the Board.
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Cap^t:
George Cooke four hundred pounds on Acc^t
Lieutenant William Judah is appointed a Commissary for
the purpose of dealing out Rations and Provisions to the
Matrosses at Baltimore Town and Whetstone point ffort at
the rate of sixty pounds p Annum.
Ordered That Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth deliver to Lieut.
Judah Biscuit for the use of the above Matrosses occasionally
as he may want it

C. C.

127

[Council to Col. Purnell.]

In Council 9^th July 1777.
Sir.
Agreeable to your Desire in your Favour of the 4^th instant
by M^r Stephenson, we have delivered to him Orders on the
Eastern Shore Treasurer for £1000. 313 10 10 thereof, as
the Amount of your Account sent us & adjusted by the Board
of Accounts, and the Residue to be applied to defray the
Charges of erecting the Battery at Sinepuxent and the other
necessary Militia Expences. We have no Knowlege of the
Accounts you mention to have been transmitted last Fall; the
Clerk of the Assembly who possesses all their Papers, is not in
Town, and as the Assembly have not, as we know of, given
any Directions respecting those Accounts we apprehend they
must remain in their present State, until their next Session.
The Act of Assembly passed last Session, for regulating the
Militia, a Copy of which M^r Stephenson takes with him,
renders any further Notice of the Circular Letter, directing
the Raising three Companies of your Battalion, unnecessary.
You will perceive, by the Militia Law, the Manner in which
the Militia of this State are hereafter to be conducted and
that no Commissions can issue until the Lieutenants have
divided the Militia into Battalions and Companies and made
Returns to the Governor & Council according to the Direc-
tions of that Law. Col^o Richardson we understand is now at