496 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

No. 25.

[Council to I. Vanbebber.]

To Cap^tn Isaac Vanbebber, Balt. Town.
Sir.
By the resolves of the Convention one thousand pounds
were appropriated for the building one or more powder-mills.
— five hundred pounds have been already drawn by a Gentle-
man in Charles County named Hanson upon his giving bond
with security to erect a powder mill, there remains 500£
unappropriated, which you may have an order for on comply-
ing with the terms prescribed by the Convention.
P. S. If any change be necessary in the order about repair-
ing the vessels, application must be made to Convention, we
cannot give directions to the owners themselves to repair, or
oblige them so to do.
17^th June 1776

Original.

[Baltimore Committee to Council.]
In Committee Baltimore 17^th June 1776.

Gentlemen: Information having been given to this Com-
mittee by M^r Lux that you had application by Letter from
Doct^r Stevenson that two casks of Gunpowder were taken
from him, for which he never had been paid, This Committee
desire you will please to transmit them a copy of said Letter,
that they may have an opportunity of answering the charge.
They have further to inform you that an application has been
made by Doct^r Stevenson for a Barrell of Powder which he
imported from Phil^a and was received into the Publick Store,
But, as he has neither signed the Association or Enrollment,
he stands in the light of an Enemy to America, and therefore
it would be dangerous to trust so much Powder in his Hands,
they therefore desire your orders therein :
We are Gentⁿ Your most hum^l Serv^ts
Sam^l Purviance Jun^r chair"
Will^m Lux, J. E. Howard, Darby Lux
And Buchanan J. Griest
Tho^s Sellers Benjⁿ Nicholson
Thomas Harrison, Will^m Aisquith:

Original.

[Sholly to Council.]

To the Honourable the Convention or Council of Safety of
the Province of Maryland: Gentlemen: Inclosed is the
Commission that your Honours favoured me with, and I must
inform your Honours that I have resigned, for the following