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dred and six Pounds fifteen shillings and eight Pence for
Demurrage of the Brig Rogers.
Copy of Letter N^o 65 was sent to Brigadier General Dent ;
Copy of N^o 66 to Cap^t Isaac Perkins, and Copy of N^o 67 to
Brigadier General Hooper.
Adjourned till 3 O'Clock & met accordingly.

Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
M^r John Ball thirty six Shillings for the use of his House for
Barracks.
That the said Treasurer pay to James West twenty four
Shillings and nine Pence for 396 Flints.
Copy of Letter N^o 68 was sent to the Committee of Obser-
vation for Kent County, and Copy of N^o 69 to M^r Thomas
Ringgold, M^r Aquila Brown and D^r Ringgold, Kent Island.
Denwood Turpin, and Solomon Ward having been ordered
up under a Guard from Somerset County by the Committee
of the Council of Safety, and being brought before this
Board, and the Depositions taken against them, having been
read, and the Prisoners heard in their own Defence, and
alledging they had offended through Ignorance of the true
State of public Affairs, and promising to conduct themselves
better for the future, It was ordered and adjudged that the
said Denwood Turpin and Solomon Ward be conducted back
again under a Guard to Somerset County and remain in
Custody until they give Bond in the Sum of []300 Currency
each, with good Security to be approved of by the Committee
of Observation for said County, with Condition that they do
not correspond with the Enemies of American Liberty, and
further that they obey all Orders of the honble Congress and
Convention, and that on giving Bond with such security and
paying all Charges they be severally discharged.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Capt. Oneas Campbell for the use of the Committee of
Observation for the lower District of Frederick County three
hundred pounds common money.
Whereas it hath been represented to the Council of Safety
by physicians and others that the intolerable Stench arising
from Slaughter Houses and spreading green Hides to dry in
the City of Annapolis may be productive of pestilential
Disorders and ill Consequences to the Troops and others
residing in the said City, Therefore Ordered that no Butcher
or other person shall, after the twenty sixth Day of this
Instant, presume to slaughter Bullocks, Mutton or any kind of
meat, or put up green Hides to cure within the Limits of said
City for and during the Term of three months thence next
ensuing.
Adjourned till next Day 10 O'Clock.

C. S. J.