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C. S. C.

defray for the present not doubting but our Province will
hereafter be re-imbursed.
We have since received a Letter from your Congress with
a List somewhat different from yours. We shall transmit
Copies to Pennsylvania. You will be pleased to send us a
written Memorial or Stite of their Case, so far as relates to
the Prisoners to be confined here, that we may know how to
treat them properly.
12^th May 1776

No. 155.

[To New-Castle County Committee.]
To Committee of Observation for New-Castle County

Gentⁿ
We send you inclosed a List of the Prisoners from North
Carolina, as also Copies of the Letters we have received from
the Congress there and Committee of Safety. You will please
give the necessary Orders for having the Prisoners conveyed
safe to Philadelphia, or to such Place as may be directed by the
Hon^ble Continental Congress or Committee of Safety for the
Province of Pennsylvania. Be pleased also to send Copies of
the Letters forward by Express.
12^th May 1776

C. S. J.

Friday 17^th May 1776.
Council met. Present as yesterday.

Ordered That Treasurer of Western Shore pay to En:
Haynes one hundred Pounds on Acc^t of Prisoners of N^o
Carolina.
Adj^d till next Day 10 ^o'Clock.

Saturday 18^th May 1776.
Council met. Present as yesterday.

Ordered, That Treasurer of Western Shore pay to Joseph
Middleton ninety one Pounds, five Shillings, it being the
Balance of his Acc^t for furnishing a Pilot Boat to 3^rd Day of
Inst^t
Adj^d 'till Monday 10 ^o' Clock

Original.

[Woolford to Council.]

Cambridge 19 May 1776.
Sir, I shall be very much obliged to you to inform the
Convention of the opportunity (to send p the Boat who brings