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for your Order, and expect they are arrived before this.
Inclosed you have a memdm. of the several p^s Be pleased
inform us if you have heard from Vanbeber. No important
Occurrence since we last wrote you. We are y^r most ob^t
servt^s
Th. Johnson Jun^r T. Stone, R. Alexander.

We wish to be informed if in your Opinion the Cruger is
proper for tents.

C. S. J.

Monday 15 April 1776.
Council met. Present as on Saturday.

Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
M^r William Lux Agent for the Ship Defence eight hundred
Pounds.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Cap^t John Allen Thomas sixty one Pounds five Shillings and
eleven Pence being the Ballance of his general Account.
Copy of Letter N^o 118 was sent to Col. Smallwood.
Adjourned till next day 10 O'Clock.

C. S. C.

No. 118.

[Council to Smallwood.]
To Col^o W^m Smallwood.

Sir. You are hereby requested to send a commissioned
Officer to apprehend Alexander Ross of this Province on
Suspicion of his having been instrumental in communicating
Intelligence to Lord Dunmore and other Persons inimical to
this province and to the cause of America, and to bring him
with all convenient Speed before the Council of Safety. The
officer you send will probably find him in the Neighbourhood
of Queens Town in Queen Ann's County, and for so doing
this shall be your Justification. Witness our hands this 14^th
day of April Anno Domini 1776.

N. B. The Officer is to command what Assistance he may
want after he gets to the Eastern Shore.
14^th Apl. 1776

Original.

[Hanson to Council.]

Frederick Town Middle District Ap^l 15^th 1776.
Gentlemen. The committee have received the Rolls of Cap^t
Youngs and Cap^t Goods Minute Companys, and the times of
the mens attendance, agreeable to the resolves of the Conven-