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inclosed in your Letter of the fifth Instant and agreeable to
Recommendations & Certificates from the Massachusett's Bay,
several Vessels from that State have obtained Permissions to
load here with Grain and Flour
We are Sir with very Great Respect
His Excell^y Henry Laurens &^ca
Pres^dt of Congress

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[Council to Delegates in Congress.]

In Council Annapolis 17^th Sept^r 1778.
Gentlemen.
By the last post, we received the Resolution of Congress, of
the 2^d Instant, for giving Permission to the Eastern States to
export Grain &^ca from hence to their own States; in Conse-
quence of it, several Permissions are already granted: We do
not know the Reason wherefore the Exportation is entirely con-
fined to the Eastern Bottoms, and should be glad the Congress
would revise the Resolution and permit our own People, if
they please to export to the Eastern States, on the like Securi-
ties for landing their Cargoes. We cannot imagine that the
Assembly will approve the Carriage of our Produce being
exclusively thrown into the Hands of the Inhabitants of any of
the other States: we wish a Continuance of the Embargo, and
the detestable Practices of the Ingrossers, have made it the
more necessary, indeed it is to be hoped that the Assembly
will interfere to make them part from the Grain and Flour
they have got into their Hands, for the use of the Army and
our own Inhabitants. We yesterday received a Letter from
the President with the Resolution of the eleventh from whence
it may be inferred, Congress have had an exaggerated Ac-
count of Infractions upon the Embargo and, what cannot
but be mortifying, coming to any Resolution on the Subject,
looks as if Congress thought it necessary, not only to inform
the Executive of the Fact, but to spur us to our Duty, than
which, nothing can be more wanting in Truth. Immediately
on its being said that Flour was shipping at Baltimore, every
Step was taken which could be thought of to detect, punish
and prevent, but, possibly, the Informer, we do not know who
he is, might not so much care for any good Effect following
from his Information, as to raise a Cry against Maryland; we
have had many such Whigs in this State and the Neighbour-
hood of it. We are sorry to be informed, as we have been
lately, by Letters from some of the Maryland Officers, that
they have not been able to get Cloaths or Blanketts from the
Continental Stores; it is high Time that those who were clad