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our Circumstances can bear, 'til we are supplied by Congress.
If you can get good Wheat at £5 ... 10 ... or so much in
Weight as will be equivalent to that by the Bushel and not
inconvenient to Mills, high as it is, we believe you will do as
well as the other Purchasers. The Quantity expected from us
is 10000 Barr^ls By the Accounts we have from Kent & Balti-
more, about the Value of 3000 is already secured there. What
Wheat you purchase, we wish you to have ground up at your
own or any other Mills convenient, and forwarded with all
despatch to Col^o Hollingsworth at the Head of Elk, that it may
be sent on; we imagine that the Bran & Shorts only need be
taken out and that, unless the Bran & Shorts can be disposed
of otherwise to Advantage they had best be sent to Col^o Hol-
lingsworth, to be consumed by the Continental Draft Horses
kept there. We expect hourly to see M^r Robert Buchanan
from Baltimore to confer about the Purchase of Flour; there's
a good Deal in Baltimore & probably there may be no Occa-
sion to use the extraordinary Power which the Assembly will
not have exercised but on the most absolute Necessity.
We are &^ca
Wm Hemsley Esq^r

[Council to Dickinson.]

In Council Annapolis 21^st April 1779
Sir.
We shall be obliged to you to send hither all the Continen-
tal Bills in your Office, belonging to the Public, of the Emis-
sions of May 1777 & April 1778 that they may be put into the
Continental Treasury and draw Interest from the Continent
as soon as may be; and be pleased also to advise us of the
sum of circulating Money now, to an exactness, in the Eastern
Shore Treasury, as we may know how to draw occasionally
We are &^ca
Henry Dickinson Esq^r
Treasurer of the Eastern Shore.

C. B.

Thursday 22^d April 1779.

Present as on yesterday
Ordered that the Commissary of Stores deliver to Thomas
Horney a 9 M^o Sold^r in the 5^th Reg^t Discharged Twenty seven
Pounds, ten shillings in Cloathing, John Horney a 9 M^o Sold^r
in the 5 Regim^t Disch^d Twenty seven Pounds in Cloathing,
Thomas Lewis a 9 M^o Sold^r in the 3^d Reg^t reinlisted Two
Pounds Fourteen shillings & four Pence in Cloathing and also