of the Council of Maryland, 5

[Council to Richard Dallam Esqr.]

Sir. We yesterday received your Letters of the 26^th and send you
by M^r John Smith the Bearer of them £40000. which is within £20
of the whole in the Continental Treasury and ours is not at present
able to assist it. We see the destructive Tendency of making Con-
tracts to be setled by the Rise of the Market and, pressing as the
Occasion is for Flour, will risk every Thing rather than concur in
such ruinous Measures and therefore request you'll make no further
Engagements on which the Price is to depend at all on any future
Contingency. The Assembly may probably take up this Matter next
Week and, if it is suffered to go on without any Restraint on Avarice,
we had rather the Evil should be continued as well as begun by any
Body, other than those of our Appointment; nor are we anxious for
your extending your Purchase of Wheat (as you have enough to
keep the Mills going for a while) at the exorbitant Price, 'til we see
whether any Thing is done by the Assembly. M^r Giles wrote for a
Licence and it would have been sent him, if he had enclosed his Ap-
pointment, but for Want of it, the License could not issue. The
Wheat you have you'll have ground and forward to the Army with
all Expedition

Liber C C

No. 22

p. 35

Friday 29 October 1779
Present as on Yesterday
James Martin, William Horsey, Levin Handy & Nathaniel Potter,
Licenced separately appointed by Conrad Theo. Wederstrandt Assis-
tant Commissary of Purchases under a Commission from Ephraim
Blaine, as Deputies under said C. T. Wederstrandt.
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Col^o Normand
Bruce three hundred Pounds to be delivered over to Capt Richard
Haff for the use of the Militia Guard over the Magazine near
Frederick Town and to be accounted for

October 29
Liber C B
No. 23
p. 71

That the said Treasurer pay to John Woolf Six Pounds to be
delivered over to Alexander Ogg, the Bounty allowed by the Gen-
eral Assembly for inlisting one Recruit
That the said Treasurer pay to Daniel Carroll Esquire five hun-
dred and forty Pounds on Account.
William Pendergast who was Commissary of the 1st Maryland
Brigade is appointed Ensign in the 5th Maryland Regim^t & Jacob
Mitinger who was a Lieut of Horse in the Marechausee Corps is
appointed Ensign in the 3^d Maryland Regiment and it is requested
that Commissions may issue to them accordingly from the Board
of War-
The Petition of Thomas Hopkins of Talbot County complaining
of an undue and unfair Election of Sheriffs for said County having
this Day been presented to the Governor & Council

[The Mare-
chausee
Corps was a
company of
cavalry be-
longing to
the troops of
Charles
Armand,
Marquis de
la Rouarie,
whose duties
chiefly ap-
pertained to
the police of
the army.
See Loss-
ing's Pictor-
ial Field-
book of the
Revolution,
p. 260]