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tions of being appointed Major) resigned & solicited the Comp^y
to Recommend his son who is yet a youth, as Cap^t over your
petitioner And y^r petitioner hath proper Credentials to pro-
duce to the Hono^l Board if required, of his being in the pro-
vincial service nine years the last war at the Reduction of
Quebec &^ca Your petitioner therefore hopes y^r Hono^rs will
be please to app' him to the post as Cap^t as by Rotation he
humbly thinks he is intitled to, and in duty bound will &c.

C. S. J.

Thursday 11^th April 1776'.
Council met. Present as yesterday. M^r Hall attended.

Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Capt. Barton Lucas sixty nine Pounds fifteen Shillings being
the Ballance of his general Account to the 3^d Instant.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Mess^rs Beriah Maybury, Cornelius Garretson and W^m Waller
nine Pounds each for sounding the Depth of the River between
Greenbury's Point and Horn Point.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to M^r John Gibson
three Pounds five Shillings for Boat Hire &c. as per Account.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Cap^t John Haskins
Stone forty eight Pounds ten Shillings being the Ballance of
his general Account to the 3^d Instant.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Major Thomas
Price £39..3..9 for cloathing for the Troops.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Major Price fifteen
Pounds four Shillings and three Pence, the Amount of his
Account for Subsistence till the 14^th of March.
Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver to M^r Isaac
Harris all the Musquets now in the Magazine, which are not
fitted with Steel Ramrods in Order that they may be fitted
therewith.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Doct^r Benjamin Kennedy forty four Pounds three Shillings
and four Pence for Medicine for the Troops.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Doct^r Michael
Wallace fifty Pounds Currency for Medicine.
Copy of Letter N^o 114 was sent to Cap^t James Hindman.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Col. John Hall One hundred and twenty nine Pounds six
Shillings and six Pence to discharge the Pay of his Battalion
when on Duty the 9^th March last.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to M^r Jacob Brice
three Pounds ten Shillings and ten Pence, the Amount of his
Account for Subsistence till 14^th of March.