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you 43 musquets and 17 Rifles in good order, that you may
be enabled to defeat any such designs. You will by the return
of the Cart send us such of the arms as you now have, that are
so defective and bad that cannot be used. We imagine that
these muskets and rifles are more than you will want at
Drumpoint and that the overplus you will send to Captⁿ
Thomas — we expect that arms are arrived at Port Tob^o for the
Troops stationed there before this Time.
25^th June, 1776

No. 44.

[Council to Capt. Montagu.]

Sir. By command of the Council of Safety I inclose you
their resolution of yesterday, which expresses the occasion of
discontinuing an intercourse with the Fowey, which was wished
and expected to end more satisfactorily. Any measures that
may be attempted for the ostensible cause of stopping the
Governor's baggage, must properly be imputed to your breach
of the truce, and will be resented in full proportion to the
injury.
[Dan^l of S^t Thomas Jenifer Pres^t]

Original.

[Montagu to Jenifer.]

Fowey Off Annapolis the 25^th of June 1776.
Sir. I have been waiting all this day for the return of the
boat with the remainder of the Governors baggage, but to my
great astonishment perceive she is still alongside the wharf;
and as I yesterday received a letter from M^r Carroll on behalf
of your board, am apprehensive she is detained. If that is the
case it will break off the Truce that is now subsisting between
his Majesty's ship under my command, and the province of
Maryland.
I desire that you will be pleased to let me know the reason
of this delay of the boat, that I may take my measures accord-
ingly; and desire that his Majestys boat now sent on shore,
will return with an immediate answer.
I am Sir, Your humble Servant :
Geo. Montagu.
To the President of the Council of Safety :

It being represented that Tho^s Selby, W^m Orme and Leonard
Pearel enrolled in the Company formerly commanded by Captⁿ
Beall, now Captⁿ Bracco's refuse to join their Corps now at the