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and we are persuaded they will attend for that Purpose on
any notice your Commissioners will be pleased to give them.
We have heard little of the Otter and, her Tenders since their
leaving this River except that they pillaged a small Island on
our Eastern Shore. We are not without expectation of another
visit from them and shall be extremely obliged for any Intelli-
gence you may be pleased to communicate to us of their
Movements.

P. S. We have just received a letter from Geo. Mason and
John Dalton Esq^rs requesting the loan of ten barrels of powder
which we have supplied them with for the Use of your Colony.

No. 68.

[Council to Plater and Dent.]

To George Plater Esq^r& Brigadier General Dent, severally.
Gentⁿ
In consequence of the inclosed Letter from the Committee
of Safety of Virginia, desiring us to appoint Commissioners to
cooperate with the Gentlemen nominated by them for erecting
Beacons on the Shores of the River Potowmack, We have
taken the Liberty to appoint yourself and Brigadier George
Dent and we hope it may be agreeable to you to attend at any
Meeting their Commissioners may desire for carrying that
necessary Measure into Execution.
19^th March 1776

C. S. J.

Tuesday 19 March 1776. [ (In Continuation) ]

Ordered That the Committee of Observation for Kent
County send under a Guard of a commissioned Officer and
two Privates of Captain Veazey's Company two Barrels and
an half of Gunpowder out of the Order received from Cap^t
Tibbit to the Committee of Observation for Queen Ann's
County or to such Person or Persons as they shall appoint to
receive it. Also two Barrels to the Committee of Talbot
County, and one Barrel to said Committee for the use of the
Committee of Caroline County, and 4 1/2 Barrels to M^r Richard
Harrison of Cambridge for the use of Dorchester Somerset
and Worcester Counties.
Ordered That the Committee of Observation for Dorchester
County send under a Guard of a commissioned Officer and
two Privates of Captain Woolford's Company one Barrel of
Gunpowder, to the Committee of Somerset, and also one
Barrel of Gunpowder to the Committee of Worcester County,
or to such person or persons as they shall appoint to receive it.