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Guns, & Cartridges made up in Proportion. Let the Lieut'
of Cecil have 100 Stand of Arms and, if Occasion, supply the
Companies ordered on the present Service, with Powder and
Ball.

[Council to Gov. Rodney.]

In Council Annapolis 8^th April 1778.
Sir
In Consequence of Letters received from General Small-
wood and Col^o Henry Hollingsworth, strongly urging the
Necessity of collecting a Body of Militia to cover the Stores
purchased in your State and this, in their Removal to the
Magazines, the Assembly formed a Resolution, of which the

C. C.

inclosed is a Copy — We have ordered two Companies of
Militia on this Service from each of the Counties of Kent,
Cecil and Harford, which are as many, considering the Season
of the year and all Circumstances, as can well be spared from
thence, though perhaps not fully adequate to the Occasion.
Col^o Hollingsworth justly impressed with the Importance of
the Service, desires us to join our Request to his, for some
of the Delaware Militia to act with ours. We do so very
cheerfully and hope the Propriety of your giving Orders for
that Purpose may appear to you in the same strong Light
that it does to us.
We have the Honor to be &^ca
Governor Rodney.

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Thursday 9^th April 1778.

Present as on yesterday
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Turbutt
Wright two hundred Pounds to be delivered over to Charles
Downes Purchaser of Provisions in Queen Annes County, out
of the Money remitted by Congress for the Purchase of Pro-
visions to be accounted for
That the said Treasurer pay to John Coward twenty one
Pounds seven Shillings and six pence to be delivered over to
John Thomas and the further Sum of one hundred and sixty
eight Pounds to be delivered over to John Elliott due to them
per Account passed by the Auditor General
That the said Treasurer Pay to Col. Thomas Dorsey Pur-
chaser of Provisions in Ann Arundel County three thousand
Dollars out of the money remitted by Congress for the Pur-
chase of Provisions to be accounted for.

C. B.