of the Council of Safety \ 1775-76. 489

Friday 14 June 1776.

Met according to Adjournment. Present the same Mem-
bers as on yesterday.
Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver out of the
Magazine at Annapolis to Henry Yost and John Unseld all
the Musquets by them respectively made, which were ordered
by the late Convention to be returned to the said Yost and
Unseld as unfit for Service.
Copy of Letter N^o 23 was sent to M^r Jesse Hollingsworth,
and Copy of N^o 24 to the Deputies of Maryland in Congress.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
William Hannah of Queen Ann's County two hundred and
fifty Pounds common money to enable him to carry on a Salt-
Work agreeable to a Resolution of the late Convention.
Adjurned till next Day 10 O'Clock.

C. S. J.

[Council to Hollingsworth.]
To Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth.

Sir.
We have received your letters with regard to the vessels
sunk at Whetstone point, and altho' you declined acting in
your first letter, we are pleased to find you have since accepted
of the trust reposed in you by the Council of Safety, and we
find by your last letter that you have in part executed the

same by raising several of the vessels. — You are desirous of
having some further instructions about repairing and valueing
the vessells after they are raised. We must beg leave to refer
you to the proceedings of the last Convention page (13) where
you will see what we are directed to do, and also we refer to
our former instructions by which you are requested after rais-
ing the vessels to cause them to be rigged and put in same
state they were in before they were sunk, as near as may be —
and then you or any two of you are to cause them severally to
be reappraised on oath by persons you may appoint — to which
we shall add nothing further at present, only request you to
advise with Captain Nicholson in all your proceedings, and to
take care your men appointed be free from any partiality or
just objection, and that they make regular returns of appraise-
ment to us; we doubt not you will do what is right and then
the owners cannot complain, or if they do, their unjust allega-
tions will be little attended to, we believe, by the Convention
who are shortly to meet.
14^th June 1776

C. S. C.

No. 23.