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do it, but if bills can be purchased even at the loss of 25 pr ct.
we should be glad that you would make the remittance. Pray

inform us when you expect it will be in your power to comply
with your contract with this State We are &^c
Messrs. Welling & Morris

No. 185.

[Council to W. M^cCreary.]

Sir. March 15^th 1777
Your attendance at the Council Board is desired on Mon-
day next with any papers you may have relative to the goods
you shipped from Bordeaux and Rotterdam on account of this
State.
M^r William M^cCreary. We are &c.

No. 186.

[Council to Jesse Hollingsworth.]

Sir. March 14^th 1777
You are (with all dispatch) to get the Ship Lidia ready to
proceed up Potomack to Nanjemoy to the address of Col.
Hooe who has the chief of her cargo ready. He will lodge
orders with Col^o Richard Harrison or Mr. Bayley who live at
the Cove & to whom direct Capt Kelty to apply for them unless
before he sails you receive from us or M^r Hooe other direc-
tions. You and the Captain will take care to have her fitted
& provisioned at Baltimore Town so that nothing may be
wanted for her in Potomack except her cargo. We are &^c
Mr. Jessee Hollingsworth.

[Jesse Hollingsworth to Council.]

Baltimore March 14^th 1777.
Sirs. I have it in my power to purchase about 80 or 100
hh^d of tobacco at this place, Inspected and ready for shiping
some from Patuxent, some from Potomac, and some from Elk
Ridge it is intended for a cargo but I can purchase it for 35^s
p^r hundred I should recommend the taking of this in here as
it is ready on the spot and an emty ship ready to receive it
with staves on board for stowing it and she must wait a few
days for some small riging and the iron, but if the M^r Snow-
dens was to take the 5o£ p^r ton which I have offered them I
would balance with Stone as the iron wont bring in france
more than i6£ sterlings pr ton so that there will be a sartain
loss on the iron of near half, the new England States have