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well as others you may necessarily have incurred in the Ser-
vice, and hope it will be found adequate to the Purposes for
which it is designed, if however it should not, you shall be
immediately re-imbursed any Money you may be obliged to
expend. We sent to Philadelphia upon the Receipt of your
Letter of the 28th February for the continental Regulations
relative to Wages and victualling, and desired our Deputies if
an Opportunity should offer, to convey them directly to you,
which we apprehend has been done, as they have not been
transmitted to us, but least they should not have sent them,
we will endeavour to inform ourselves of the Pay and lodge
an Account of it for you with the Treasurer of the Eastern
Shore. We are much obliged to the People of Accomack
and Northampton Counties for the Civilities you have experi-
enced from them, and the Pains taken by their Committees to
render your Time as easy and agreeable as Circumstances
would admit of, and we request you will make our grateful
Acknowledgments to them for their Favors. We wish you a
happy return.
30th March 1776
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[Council to Charles County Committee.]
To the Committee of Observation for Charles County.
Gentn When we requested your Committee to furnish
Calvert with one Barrel of Powder, we had not any Fund so
convenient, or yet so well supplied as that in Charles. Your
intention of complying with the Order at a time when you
apprehended it could not be well spared is in Confirmation of
all your other Actions, hitherto manifested in promoting the
general Welfare. We have wrote to Colo Joshua Beall to
inform us how much Musquet Powder is at Bladensburg; so
soon as we are informed thereof a due Proportion shall be
sent to Charles County. One Ton of Bullets from Frederick
we expect is by this Time with you, Part of which you will
spare to St. Mary's and Calvert, should those Counties be in
Want. Port Tobacco is the place appointed for Part of Capt.
Beall's Company to be stationed at, and we request that you
will assist him in providing proper Houses and Firewood for
his Men, as well as supplying them with Provisions and other
Necessaries 'till they are furnished by the Contractor, which
we imagine will be in a few Days.
30th March 1776
[N. Smith to Council.]
Gentlemen. When I had the honour of seeing you last in
Annapolis you desired I would commit to writing what would
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