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to Thomas Bird a 9 M^o Sold^r in the 3^d Reg^t reinlisted Eleven

Pounds, four shillings & ten Pence in Cloathing due them by
an Act of Assembly to procure Troops for the American Army
That the western shore Treasurer pay to Joseph Ashmead
Nine thousand, three hundred and ninty nine pounds, fifteen
shillings & eleven Pence for the use of and to be delivered
over to Margaret Cummins Executrix of the Testamentary &
last Will of Robert Cummins late of Baltimore County
Deceased (Certificate of Letters Testamentary granted being
produced)
That the said Treasurer pay to Lieut Bagness Twelve
Pounds, five shillings due him per Account passed by the
Dep^y Aud^r
That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Beatty the following
sums of Money for the use of the several Persons hereafter
mentioned per Acc^t passed by the Dep^y Aud^r
One Pound seventeen shillings & six pence for the use of
Guy Elder
Thirty Pounds for Nicholas Hissler Five Pounds for Henry
McLeery
Eleven Pounds, fourteen shillings for Lodowick Kemp
Two Pounds Ten shillings for Jacob Hoof
One hundred and Fifty six Pounds, three shillings & nine
Pence for William Beatty
Sixty Two Pounds, Five shillings for John Ransburg
Ninteen Pounds, seven shillings and six pence for Elizabeth
Stoner
Thirty Eight Pounds, thirteen shillings & four Pence for
Capt Geo Beckwith & his Comp^y
Twenty Eight Pounds, five shillings and ten pence for Capt
Isaac Barr & his Comp^y
Ninty one Pounds, ten shillings and Eight Pence & Fifteen
Pounds, five shillings for Richard Hoff
Forty five Pounds, thirteen shillings and Thirty one Pounds,
ten shillings for Thomas Beatty

C. B.

[Council to Naval Officers in Baltimore.]

In Council 22^d April 1779
Sir
Inclosed you have a Copy of a Resolution of Congress of
the 14^th Ins^t rec^d this Morning accompanied with a Letter from
the Massachusetts Delegates in Congress, requesting in parti-
cular, Permission for loading the Schooner Bonner, Cap^t
Richard Stiles. Cap^t Stiles has also produced us his Address
from the Board of War in Boston to Mess^rs Hoofman and May

C. C.

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