of the Council of Safety, 1-776. 7

[Council to Baltimore Committee ?]
Gent^m
The Convention have given no order for laying out any
further sum of money on the Fortifications at or near Baltimore
Town. If more money had been necessary application should
have been made to that respectable body. We consider our-
selves not at large to comply with your request in advancing
a further sum and so we have repeatedly' intimated when the
Plan was first offered to us.
We send it you enclosed, and are, Y^r most obed. Servts.
P. S. If the money you have for erecting fortifications be
not expended you will apply it to erecting the fortification
desired.

[Smallwood to Council.]

The Bearers Michael Hart and Laurence Keenan, of the
Artillery Company, having been released from Jail, prosecution
against them being withdrawn, have applied for a discharge,
the date of which will properly commence the 7^th day of May,
when they were imprisoned, as I ordered them to be given up
at that time to the Civil Power and having no authority to
discharge them, must refer them to the Hon^ble Council of
Safety for their discharges.
W. Smallwood
Sunday 7^th July 1776.

[Tootell to Council.]
Gentⁿ
As the Surgeon Major & his Assistant must march with the
Battalion, which was stationed in this City, to which Corps
they belong'd, I presume the difficiency of that Battalion will
be immediately supply'd with Militia. The Troops stationed
here for the Safety of the City, will stand in need of a Sur-
geon Major, and an Assistant.
I petition y^r Honours for the Office of Surgeon Major to the
above mentioned Troops.
I'm with greate respect
Y^r Honours most obd^t hum^t Serv^t
R. Tootell
Annapolis 7^th July 1776.

[Jesse Hollingsworth to Council.]

Baltimore July 7^th 1776.
Sirs.
I have sent you 3 vessells at the request of M^r Purvines
which I hope is right, hee tells mee the one to carry troops to

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