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dred and thirty two pounds due to him for recruiting twenty
two men at six pounds each.
That the said Treasurer pay to Col^o M. Gist one thousand
Dollars of the money lately sent by Congress for the recruit-
ing Service and two thousand Dollars of the money of this
State amounting in the whole to three thousand Dollars to
pay the County of Recruits already raised and to be raised for
the third Regiment & to be charged to that Regiment.
That M^r Crysall deliver to Capt. Daniel Deshon one Barrel
Turpentine five Barrels Pork, two Barrels Beef and one Barrel
Tallow afr 120 lb for the Sloop Molly.

C. C.

121

[Council to W. Lux.]

In Council Annapolis 19^th March 1778.
Sir
Inclosed you will receive a Letter which came under Cover
to the Governor from the War & Ordnance Office. The
Subject of your Letter is mentioned in his. We have never
been able yet to obtain an Account of the Public Lead which
was in the Baltimore Magazines or what of it remains. We
wish you would make Enquiry and, if there now remains
more than four Tons, receive one Half of it and send it for-
ward, sending us a Receipt, on the Continental Account,
unless any Quantity is to be purchased in Baltimore, and we
hear there is if there is it ought to be purchased for the Con-
tinent at once and ours kept for our own Use, for we are so
short in that Article, that we ordered a Purchase of a Ton or
two on the Sea Board at 5/ p^lb Col^o Jos. Dashiell tells us that
the Goods purchased by Col^o Simpson, are coming by land, as
well as ours, to Cambridge, and that it is by no Means advise-
able to trust the Goods under your Direction below, by Water.
William Lux Esq^r We are &^ca
Baltimore

122

[Gov. Johnson to Delegates.]

March 19^th 1778.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates
I herewith lay before you a Resignation of the Auditors of
Accounts delivered to me in Council the nineteenth Day of
last Month. The Council and I, hoping you would have Met,
soon afterwards agreeable to Adjournment, thought it most
adviseable not to appoint Auditors in their Stead, who could
scarcely have proceeded to Business before the Appointment
would have devolved on you. Many Accounts have been