40 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. J.

200 Dollars each, and to the Ensign One hundred and Sixty
Dollars to be advanced as a Bounty to the said Company.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay Cap^t John Allen
Thomas fifty pounds Continental Currency to defray the Ex-
pences of his march to Philadelphia.
Ordered that the paymaster advance to Cap^t Thomas's
Company half a month's Pay.
Copy of Letter N^o 32 was sent to the Deputies of this Prov-
ince in Congress.
Adjourned till 3 o'Clock and met accordingly.

Ordered That Col. Robert Tyler march a Company out of
his Battalion of Militia, to the City of Annapolis by Tuesday
Evening next, and take Care that they come well armed.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Col. Thomas Ewing, two hundred pounds on Account of the
lower Battalion of Militia for the flying Camp.
Copies of Letter N^o 33 were sent to the Committees of Ob-
servation for S^t Mary's, Charles, Calvert and Prince George's
Counties.
Ordered That the proprietor of poplar Island immediately
remove from thence the whole of the Stock except such part
thereof as are used for the purpose of Tillage.
That the proprietors of Tilghman's, Sharp's, Baron, and
James's Islands, and also of the Islands from Hooper's to Cage's
Straights immediately remove from thence all the Stock except
such part thereof as are used for the purpose of Tillage.
Adjourned till Monday Morning 10 O'Clock.

C. S. C.

No. 32.

[Council to Maryland Deputies.]

To the Deputies in Congress
Gentlemen. M^r Hughs the Bearer of this has been under
Contract with the Convention to supply them with Cannon,
he has nearly Complied with his Contract with us and has run
himself and his partners to a pretty considerable expence to
get his works into such order as may enable them to cast
many more than we shall probably want for the use of this
Province, the Cannon of his first casting did not stand proof
but he has his furnace now in such order that the Cannon
they cast are very good — he has been informed that the Con-
gress are in want, and would willingly contract with them and
would yet considerably Inlarge his Works, Provided the Con-
gress would take all the Cannon, he and his Partners should
cast before the first day of next January Twelvemonth. We
introduce him to you as a Man of Credit & who will in our
opinion comply with any contract he may enter into with the
Congress.
July 12 1776