of the Council of Safety, 1775-76. 101

Sunday 21^st January 1776.

Council met. Present the same members as yesterday
except M^r Rumsey.
Resolved, That Mess^rs Lancelot Jacques, Charles Wallace,
William Hyde, Allen Quynn, James Brice, William Whetcroft
and Beriah Maybury, or any three of them, be requested to
make a Chart of the Land and Water at the mouth of this
River, specifying the Width and Depth of the Channel between
Horn point and Greenbury's Point, and some Distance with-
out and within the same.
Adjourned till 3 o'Clock, and met according to Adjourn-
ment.
Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Cap^t Patrick Sim One hundred and twenty Pounds for subsist
and advance money for his Recruits.
Ordered, That a Copy of the Resolves of the late Conven-
tion relating to the Emission of Bills of Credit be inclosed in a
Letter (No. 2) to the Deputies [of this Province] in Congress.
Council adjourns till tomorrow morning half after 9 o'clock.

C. S. J.

[Council to Maryland Deputies.]

To the Deputies for Maryland in Congress
Gentⁿ Jany. 20
By a Resolution of the Convention the City of Annapolis and
the Town of Baltimore are to be fortified if it be practicable ;
as we are much at a Loss for Cannon and as we hear they
have more at New York and Philadelphia than they have
Occasion for, we imagine they may be willing to spare some
of them. We must therefore request you will be pleased to
enquire of the Gentlemen of those Provinces in Congress, or
of the Committee of Philadelphia, whether it will be agreable
to them to lend us any of them and acquaint us with their
Answer. We shall want about thirty or forty eighteen
Pounders. If we are favoured with the Loan of them they
shall be returned, or paid for, if lost or damaged, as there will
be great danger in attempting to get them round by water if
we borrow them from the Province of New York we judge it
may be best to get them down by Land to Delaware Bay from
thence over short carrying Places, they may be got into our
Bay.
Any Money that may be necessary to defray the expense of
getting them down shall be sent you or lodged where you
think proper.
We inclose you a copy of the Resolutions of the Convention
for emitting Bills of Credit, as several clauses require particular
duties to be performed by yourselves.
January 20^th 1776

C. S. C.

No. 2.