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202 Journal and Correspondence

way up the Bay their destination is not known but as they may
intend for your Town, we send off this express that you may
be on your guard and make all the preparations in your power
for your defence.
[March 5^th 1776?]

[Talbot Committee to Council.]

Talbot County March 5^th 1776. In Committee
Gentlemen: In answer to a letter from you, requesting our
Sentiments of a Place the most proper for the Independant
Company, appointed by the Convention to be stationed in this
County, we beg leave to propose, oxford, which in our opinion,
is the most convenient for that purpose :
We are with much Respect Gen^t Your mo. Obed^t Servt^s
By order of the Committee Nicholas Thomas Chairman.

[Plater to Council.]

Sotterley March 5^th 1776.
Gentlemen: In obedience to the order of the Congress
transmitted by you, I have collected what gold I could in Saint
Marys County, & now send it by Col. Fitzhugh, amounting
to two hundred twenty four pounds one shilling & three pence,
as noted below. You will be pleased to give him an order on
the treasurer for the paper money to that amount. I have the
Honour to be: Gentlemen
Your most ob^t hum^l Serv^t
Geo. Plater.

One hundred & six Guineas 185.. 10
Twenty three half Guineas 20.. 2.. 6
Five half Johannes 15..
One two Pistole Piece 2.. 15..
One half Pistole 1 3.. 9

C. S. J.

£224.. 1.. 3

Wednesday 6 March 1776.
Council met. Present as yesterday.

Ordered That Captain George Stacker's Company of
Light Infantry immediately march to their Station at the City
of Annapolis.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
the Clerk twenty Pounds to pay Expresses and for other Pur-
poses, and that he render an Account thereof.