454 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. J.

Pounds to pay Expresses and for other Purposes, and that an
Account be rendered of the Expenditure of the same.
Adjourned till next Day, 10 o'clock

C. S. C.

No. 2.

[Council to Nicholson.]

To Cap^t James Nicholson.
Sir
You will please to proceed to Baltimore and wait our further
orders; we send this by M^r Middleton, whose boat you may
keep with the ship 'till you come off Annapolis, presuming you
will not want her further, — if however it should not be neces-
sary for her to attend you, you will order down the Bay to
gain what intelligence she can of the ships you left below.
May 30^th

No. 3.

[Council to Hill.]
To Captain Duncan Hill.
Sir. You are immediately to return to your Vessel, and

convey at the expense and risque of this Province across the
Country to the first Inlet to the Northward of Cape Charles
such of your Cargo as you may find necessary and proceed
round with the residue in y^r said Vessel between Smith's
Island and Cape Charles. Upon your arrival in that Inlet you
are to take on board what you send across by Land, and with
the utmost diligence proceed on your Voyage agreeable to
former instructions.
May 31^st 1776

C. S. J.

Friday 31^st May 1776.

Met according to Adjournment. Present the same Members
as on yesterday, and also Thomas Smyth Esq^r who was quali-
fied before Mr. Hall by taking the Oath prescribed by the
Convention.
Copy of Letter N^o 4 was sent to M^r Hugh Young of Balti-
more Town, Copy of N^o 5 to the Committee of Observation for
Baltimore County Copy of N^o 6 to the Honble Committee of
Safety for the Colony of Virginia, and Copy of N^o 7 to Capt.
James Nicholson of the Ship Defence.
Commissions issued to Thomas Wilson appointed Captain,
John Ken i Lieutenant, Robert Tate second Lieutenant and
Forrester Ensign of a Company of Militia in Queen
Ann's County belonging to the 20^th Battalion.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Col. Henry Hollingsworth of Caecil County five hundred