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three Shillings and four pence being the Ballance of his gen-
eral Account to the third of April.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to M^r Oliver Whiddon
eight Pounds fifteen Shillings for stocking 14 Musquets.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to M^r John Bullen
twelve pounds for the Hire of his Teams 6 Days.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to M^r William Deards
forty Shillings for straw for the use of the Troops.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to M^r George Gordon
four Pounds on Account of the Iron Work for the Gun
Carriages.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Cap^t Peter Adams
ninety six Pounds eighteen Shillings being the Ballance of his
general Account to the 3^d Instant.
Copy of Letter N^o 109 was sent to the Deputies of Maryland
in Congress.
Adjourned till Monday Morning 10 o'clk.

C. S. C.

No. 109.

[Council to Maryland Deputies.]
To the Deputies of Maryland in Congress.

Gentⁿ We have your Favors of the 26^th of March and the
2^nd of this Month and are pleased with the Assurances Mess^rs
Willing and Morris give us that we may shortly expect the
Powder they agreed to supply us with, those gentlemen should
recollect that our Money was advanced in Confidence, that
their Contract would long ago have been fully complied with ;
we shall be much obliged if you will let us know the exact
Number of the Chests of Arms that were sent us by them.
As we are not in immediate Want, we would not have you
borrow the Ton of Powder you mention, of the Congress, but
as we fear we shall be in great Want of Duck for our Tents,
could the Congress spare us any of the light Kind and fit for
making Tents we would willingly take it in Exchange for
Part of that belonging to us which you disposed of to them.
M^r Duvall has appointed M^r Gerard Hopkins of Baltimore
Town to act as his Deputy, who will take care of whatever is
sent to that Place for the use of the Public. We shall com-
municate to the Gentlemen of the Convention, when they
meet, your Sentiments on the Expediency of an Adjournment,
and shall have the Affidavits made out you desire for ascer-
taining the Time Hudson's Ship was in Possession of the Ten-
ders, she left Patapsco River ten or twelve Days ago and as
we have heard Nothing of her since, hope she is out of the
Bay by this Time.
Ap^l 5^th 1776