302 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

No. 99.

[Council to Baltimore Committee.]

To the Committee of Observation for Balt^o County.
Gentⁿ The enclosed is a Copy of a Letter we have just
received from M^r Hughes, and as mounting the 18 Pounders
immediately will be a capital Thing for your Town and event-
ually the Province in general, we request you will exert your
utmost Diligence in getting the Carriages ready for them.
31^st March 1776

No. 100.

[Council to Beatty and Johnson.]

To Mess^rs Charles Beatty & Baker Johnson
Gentⁿ
Sixty Pounds Currency was sent by M^r Ford the 23^rd Janu-
ary by order of our Board to M^r Thomas Johnson at Frederick
Town, and in his Absence to you to be expended in the Pur-
chase of Gun Locks for the use of the Province; but as we
have not heard any Thing from him or you upon the Subject,
and are in very great Want of that Article, we desire you will
inform us how many were bought and where they are, or if
there have not been any purchased, whether there is a Proba-
bility of applying the Money to that Use in your County.
April 1^st 1776

No. 101.

[Council to Talbot Committee.]

To the Committee of Observation for Talbot County.
Gentⁿ
In Consequence of an Information we received, that there
were one or two Barrels of Bullets and a Quantity of Gun
Flints belonging to this Province in the Possession of M^r Leeds;
we wrote to you the 14^th February requesting that you would
make Enquiry into that Matter & if you found it true, that you
would take them under your Care, and send them to the Coun-
cil of Safety by the first safe Conveyance; but as we have not
received any Answer to our Letter, we presume it must have
miscarried, and therefore we send you this, and beg that you
will immediately examine into the Truth of the above Infor-
mation.
Ap^l 1, 1776

[H. Young to Council.]

Baltimore 1^st Ap^l 1776.
Sirs. I have this day been called upon by our Committee
to answer a complaint that I should have made against them,