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Order, if not very large. It will be essential to the Service
that you be punctual in your Returns agreeable to the Act,
and advise us at the same Time, of the Places at which it is
lodged, that we may give Directions, as to their Removal. If
you purchase any barrelled Meat, be careful in your Examin-
ation of it and that it is in good Order, or put into good
Order for Keeping.
We are &ca
Mr Benja. Griffith
Balto County
[Council to D. Beall.]
In Council Annapolis 9th Apl 1778.
Sir.
We are sorry to learn that few or none of the able People
in your County have paid in any Thing of their Assessments
and that the Recruiting Service is suffering for want of a Fund
on which to carry it on. It is a Matter of the first Conse-
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quence and we intreat your Industry in soliciting the People
to pay in immediately, to enable you to pay for the Recruits.
You can in nothing exert yourself more useful to your Country,
than by pushing for Money sufficient to keep the Recruiting
Service alive. You have, we expect, our former Directions
to advance 120 Dollars to each of the Officers appointed
under the Act of the last Session and to keep advancing, on
the Recruits being passed, so as to keep each Officer 120
Dollars beforehand. To those Orders we now add our Desire
that you will advance further to each of them sixty Dollars, so
that each may have the full Bounty at all Times for three
Recruits, and further that as any of the Regular Officers in
our Maryland continental Regiments may inlist Men, you repay
them the sixty Dollars Bounty on their Lodging with you, the
Lieutenant of the County his Certificate of their being passed,
with their Receipt for the Money, which you will be careful to
preserve as Vouchers for your Account.
Danl Beall Esqr Shff. of Washington We are &ca
Recruiting Officers under the Act
Francis Burgess Adam Utt Chas Prather.
Richd Davis Junr Isaac McCrackin
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