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holding the Court, we shall send them over to the Sheriff,
with a Power to call for a Guard, if he judges it necessary.
We shall be obliged to you to inform us of the Time you may
appoint for the holding of the Court, as well as of any Thing
you may think necessary to be done by us; if any Thing
should appear to you necessary, to enable you to proceed in
this Business. We have inclosed you a great Number of
Depositions, which we presume may answer the Purpose of
Information to the Prosecutor, what Witnesses to summon,
and Lists of such as have been discharged and of such as
have been bound for good Behaviour and to appear, when
called on; such as we have discharged, we have permitted to
take the Oath of Fidelity, which, in Effect, we designed as a
Pardon, the Ends of Justice and Example not requiring, in
our Judgment, Prosecutions against them. We are &"
Sol^o Wright, Turbutt Wright
& others

C. C.

May 17^th 1777.
Present as on yesterday.

Commission issued to John Strawbridge appointed Sheriff
of Cecil County
Ordered, That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to Nich^s
Maccubbin fifty Pounds, on Acc^t
That the said Treasurer pay to Middleton & Barry ninety
five pounds, ten shillings and nine Pence for Bal^a of Acc^t
Commissions issued to Tho^s Hardy app^d 1 L^t
Ebenezer Finley 2 L^t
W^m Judah 3 L^t of
Captain Dorsey's Company of Artillery stationed at Balt. Town.
It is the opinion of this Board that James Mead formerly a
Drummer in Captⁿ Hindman's Company now in the fifth Regi-
ment properly belongs to the second Regiment, and that two
persons mentioned in William Frazier's Deposition to have
been inlisted by Pitts and Worthington now retained as
Soldiers in the second Regiment belong properly to the fifth
Regiment, and that all the said Persons ought respectively to
be returned to their own Regiments.
Ordered, That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to Thomas
Sim Lee sixty six Pounds, for forty Day's Attendance in
Council.
That the said Treasurer pay to Joseph Sim thirty five
pounds, fifteen shillings for twenty six Days Attendance in
Council.
Ordered, That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to George
Gordon seven pounds, five shillings for two Guns.

C. B.