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C. B.

That the said Treasurer pay to Captⁿ Benjamin King
twenty pounds on Acc^t
That the said Treasurer pay to James Tooth one hundred
and twenty six Pounds for Am^t of Acc^t
That the said Treasurer pay to Colonel Thomas Price two
thousand, two hundred Dollars on Acc^t of the second Regi-
ment.
That the said Treasurer pay to Tho^s Hyde one hundred
and five pounds, fourteen shillings, and three pence for Am^t
of Acc^t
Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal
Delivery issued to Queen Anne's County, directed to Solo-
mon Wright, Turbut Wright, John Browne, Thomas Wright
and John Thompson or any three or four of them by Virtue of
the Act intitled an Act to enable the Governor to issue Com-
missions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery in certain
Cases for the Trial of all Offences directed in the said Act
committed on the Eastern Shore of this State.

C. C.

68

[Council to J. Smoot.]

In Council Annapolis 16^th May 1777.
Sir.
We have taken your Plank, Scantling and Shingles for the
Public and as from the Memorandom to your Skipper, you
seem to have desired the Money to be paid to him, we have so
ordered it. The Inch Plank, we are told, is good the Scantling
and Shingles very indifferent and too high priced; therefore,
unless you will moderate the Price and improve in the Quality,
we shall not incline to take any more of those Articles; if
you'll send us more Inch Plank good, we will take it.
M^r John Smoot. We are &^ca

69

[Council to S. Wright and others.]

In Council Annapolis 16^th May
Sir.
We have inclosed you a Commission for the Trial of all
Treasons &^ca committed on the Eastern Shore and also a
Copy of the Act under which the Commission issued. We
were induced to send the Commission to Queen Ann's, from
our Expectation that the Public and the accused may rely on
a fair and impartial Trial. We are informed that your County
Goal, as most of the Goals on the Eastern Shore, is but indif-
ferently calculated for the Keeping of Prisoners, wherefore we
have not as yet, given Orders for the Removal of those who
are here, but as soon as we know of the Time you appoint for