368 Journal and Correspondence.

February 25
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 388

That the Issuing Commissary issue to James Isaacs, Valentine
Smith, Michael Duffey, John Witts and William Tutton, rations
until further Orders, taking care to make a return of such Issues to
this Board Monthly. —

February 25
Liber No. 78
p. 420

[W Paca in Council to Honble Intendant]

You will be pleased to direct one Suit of Cloaths and one Shirt
to be delivered to James Blever and Dennis Teaman, if on Hand.

p. 421

[W Paca in Council to Captⁿ De Barrass of the Tarleton]

Being in Want of Arms to supply the Militia in some Parts of the
State, exposed to the Incursions of the Enemy's Barges : we take the
Liberty to request that you will be pleased to deliver those you bor-
rowed some Time past, to Captⁿ George Keeports.

Ibid.

[Council to Maj^r Nathaniel Smith.]

We received your Letter of the 18^th Inst, and think you have acted
with Propriety, in not giving Credit for William Adams, who died
on his Passage. In Consequence of your Representation, some Time
past, we informed the Secretary at War that you had done the Busi-
ness of Deputy Commissary of Prisoners at Baltimore Town, since
January 1779, and that Recompence ought to be made you for your
Services; we also recommended you as a proper Person to continue
in that Department, and solicited a Commission for you. In Answer
to which the Secretary at War expressed himself in the following
Manner, " that it was his Wish, in appointing Intendants of Prison-
ers, to unite the Good of the Service with the Convenience of some
deranged Officer of the State in which the Appointment is to be
made." Since that Time Maj^r John Davidson has been appointed,
and his Commission transmitted to him. The Secretary at War in-
forms us, that if you will be pleased to make up your Accounts, and
forward them to him, they shall be setled, and we have no Reason to
doubt of your having a just Allowance. The Emoluments of the
Office, at present, are four Rations and Pay equal to a Major's

Ibid.

[W^m Paca, in Council to Honble Intendant]

Altho' you are pleased to state it as problematical, yet the Asser-
tion is just and true, that a punctual Payment of the annual Interest
as the Law directs, was neither difficult nor embarrassing, but prac-
ticable and easy; because the whole Specific in 1782 was appro-
priated, in the first Instance, for the Payment of it.
It is not fair to shift the Subjects of our Remonstrance and Ob-
jection, and raise Questions where no Difference of Opinion sub-
sisted. We made no Objections to such Advances of Money as were
approved of by us. We remonstrated and objected against your De-