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Pounds common Money on Account of his Contract to manu-
facture Gun-Barrels.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to the said Hollings-
worth four pounds four shillings and ten Pence like money,
being the Amount of his Account for the Carriage of Gun-
Powder from Christiana to Susquehannah.
Ordered That Col. Smallwood be requested to send a suf-
ficient Detachment to guard the Magazine near Cap^t James
Tootell's in the neighbourhood of Annapolis.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Peter Littig fifty Pounds common Money on Account of his
Contract for making Musquets.
Adjourned till next Day 10 O'Clock.

C. S. J.

[Council to Young.]
To Mr. Hugh Young.

Sir. We presume the first valuation of the Schooner ninety
two, was regular, and therefore conceive ourselves bound by
it without paying any regard to the subsequent proceedings of
Cravath and Drugan — the necessary repairs which have been
since made under your Agreement ought to be added. We
cannot now give orders to the Schooner, and doubt very much
whether she can sail at all, but of this will determine in a few
days and apprise you, or in your absence the above Gentlemen
of it.
1^st June 1776.

C. S. C.

No. 4.

[Council to Baltimore Committee.]

To the Committee of Balt^o County.
Gentⁿ
We received a letter this morning from Virginia by express,
and as there is no telling the particular destination of the fleet,
and as your Town may possibly be an object with them, we
have thought it proper to enclose you a copy, that in case it
should be necessary you may be prepared to receive them.
2^d June 1776

No. 5.

[Council to Virginia Committee.]
To the Committee of Safety of Virginia.

Gentⁿ
We are very much obliged to you for your favour of the 26^th
Our boats for four days past have brought us information from
Cap^t Nicholson of the Defence on a cruize down the Bay that

No. 6.