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M^r Robt^t Buchanan, this will cost upwards of 30000£. M^r
Dallam has purchased in Kent 500 B^lls of Flour, we do not
know what he has done in Harford. Col^o Henry has engaged
about 1000 B^lls of Flour in Kent, he has agreed to give the Phila-
delphia Price, deducting Freight and Carriage, and some
Wheat. We have wrote him to make his future Contracts
certain, he complains of Purchasers coming from Delaware,
amongst them, Continental Purchasers, and raising the Price.
Col^o Perkins in Kent has bought upwards of 200 B^lls at £15
p ^bl the Casks at 25/. he has also engaged about 1000 Bushels
of Wheat at the Current Price when delivered & expects
about 200 Bar^lls & 1500 Bushels more; we wrote him, as we
did Col^o Henry, as to uncertain Contracts. There is yet
Wheat in Balt^o Harford, Montgomery, Frederick, Kent & a
Little in Queen Anns, but we do not know where the Price will
stop. We hear there's a good Deal of Flour in Baltimore,
we expect M^r Rob^t Buchanan down Daily and design to con-
sult, whether the deficient Quantity may not be got on the
Water at once; we had better procure it, even at an advanced
Price, and Save the Delay and Expence of Carriage We have
advanced thirty thousand Dollars on the Recruiting Service.

C. C.

We never knew, 'til by a Letter from Gen^l Washington, rec^d
last Sunday, that the whole of the German Regiment was
placed to Maryland, and our Rifle Companies under Col^o
Rawlings a distinct Corps, presuming the latter was a Part of
our Quota, we have drawn the 400 Dollars to the Officers:
the other Day we advanced him 1000 Dollars for recruiting
and, as he was ordered on a detached Service, we drew
£1000 to be expended in Sugar, Coffee Spirits &^ca for the
Officers, as is customary for our Officers & others: they never
having yet been benefitted in that Way and the Service they
go on, rather than any other, requiring it, we shall charge
these Advances to the Continent Pray dispatch Col^o Hyde &
M^r Howard with as much of the Money as can be got, less
than 200,000^ will do nothing
We are &^ca
Delegates from Maryland
in Congress.

[Council to Hemsley.]

In Council Annapolis 21^st April 1779.
Sir.
We yesterday rec^d your letters of the 12^th & 17^th Ins^t. We
have sent to Philadelphia for Money and now inclose you an
Order on the Eastern Shore Treasury for 10000£. as much as

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