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one dollar per pair. As to your Firelocks, if you will part
with them on the terms we have contracted with others for,
you may send them We shall want every kind of Linen and
Woolen manufactures, and will give monies adequate to the
value and demand for them.
Nov. 9^th 1776
Stephen West, Esq^r

No. 252.
[251.]

[Council to Commissioners.]
Gentⁿ
We have sent by King two bundles of Blank Commissions
which you will be pleased to make use of or return to Con-
gress, as circumstances may require
Whether you are to proceed to Camp or return to Mary-
land depends upon the pleasure of Congress. It is our wish
& hope that they will relax or in some measure recede from
the resolution communicated to our convention and that you
will receive from Congress the necessary credentials for the
completion of your commission, which have already been
delayed too long, the public service requiring on this occasion
the greatest union & utmost dispatch. We wish you health
& success in the business you have undertaken.
Nov^r 9 1776
The Commissioners of Maryland for the Camp &c.

Thus end the epistolary Proceedings of the Council of
Safety to the 9^th Day of November 1776
Test R. Ridgely, Clk.

[Vanbibber and Harrison to Council.]

St. Eustatia 9^th Nov. 1776.
Gentlemen,
We think it highly necessary to advise you of our draft
bearring date 8^th Instant, on Mess^rs Willing & Morris for 450
Pensylvania Currency (for the emolument of the State of
Maryland) in favor of Capt. Samuel Skinner, we have given
them suitable information relative to said Bill and hope it will
be duly honoured. We are with the greatest esteem,
Gentlemen,
Your most obed^t Humble Serv^ts
Van Bibber & Harrison.