of the Council of Safety, 1775-76. 85

Brass mounting Bayonets with Steel Blades 17 Inches long,
steel Ramrods, double Screws, priming Wires and Brushes
fitted thereto, with a pair of brass Moulds for every 80 Mus-
quets, to cast 12 Bullets on one Side, and on the other Side to
cast Shot of such Size as the Musquet will chamber three of
them, wholly made within this Province, the Public will, pro-
vided the Differences continue between Great Britain and the
Colonies, take the said 50 Stands p^r Week at the Rate of four
pounds common money per stand, or for such part of the said
two years as the said Differences shall continue: But if hap-
pily there should be a Reconciliation between Great Britain and
the Colonies after the said Workmen shall embark, and before
the End of the said two years, that then the public will, if the said
Reconciliation shall take place before the said Workmen shall
have been set to work, take an Assignment of the Contracts
made by the said Whetcroft with them and pay him not only
his actual Expences in procuring and importing the said Work-
men, but also forty shillings Sterling for each of the [said
workmen imported, for his] Trouble. And if such [recon-
ciliation shall] take place after any Delivery of the said [stands
of arms] and before the End of the said two years, that then
the public will make an Allowance to the said Whetcroft in
Proportion to the part of the two years then unexpired, on
such Assignment as aforesaid being made. It is agreed that
it shall be at the Option of M^r Whetcroft to fit 800 of the Mus-
quets first delivered with imported Locks, provided the prime
Cost of the said Locks be not less than five Shillings Sterling
each. It is understood that the Importation of the said Work-
men shall be at the Expence & Risque of M^r Whetcroft.
Ordered, That a Copy of the foregoing Agreement, signed
by the Clerk, be delivered to M^r Whetcroft, and that it be
kept secret.
The Council adjourned to 3 o'Clock, P. M. and met pur-
suant to Adjournment.
Whereas Samuel Purviance Jun^r William Smith, and David
Stewart, have certified to this Council that in Consequence of
the Resolve of the late Provincial Convention of the 4^th Day
of August last, sundry Persons have lent and advanced to the
public, divers Sums of Money, amounting in the Whole, to
Eleven hundred and ninety five pounds three Shillings and
six pence Sterling which [they have paid into their hands. It
is therefore ordered] That upon [the said Samuel] Purviance
Jun^r William Smith and David Stewart [their certifying] to
the Treasurer of the Western Shore the names of the Lend-
ers, and the Sums of Money by them respectively advanced
and paid into their Hands; and on the same Certificate and
also the Receipt of the said Samuel Purviance Jun^r William

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