362 Journal and Correspondence

C. C.

of Balt^o who appear to be Agents for that Board in conducting
the Purchase and shipping off Flour & Grain to them.
We therefore desire that the said Schooner Bonner may be
permitted to load with Grain & Flour or either of those Articles
and afterwards cleared out in your Office for Boston, but pre-
vious to the Vessel's being cleared out the Persons who ship
the Grain or Flour, as well as the Captain, make Oath or
Affirmation, if a Quaker and indorsed on the Back of the
Manifest of the Lading " that the Grain or Flour therein men-
tioned was shipped and received on board the within men-
tioned Vessel in Pursuance of the Orders of the Board of War
of the State of Massachussetts and for the Sole Purpose and
Intent of transporting the same to the State of Massachusetts
to be there delivered according to the Order and Desire of the
said Board of War." If, as probable, Mess^rs Hoofman and
May should want Permits for other Vessels, advise them that
we think it necessary they should write to us on the Subject.
You'll give a Certificate to Cap^t Stiles of the Oath being taken
on his clearing out &, for his Safety, we intend to add an In-
dorsement on his Papers, on his way down, which may satisfy
any Body into whose Hands he may happen to fall, of the
Exception in Favor of his being loaded with Articles generally
prohibited
We are &^ca
The Naval Officer at
Balt^o Town

Friday 23^d April 1779

Present as on yesterday
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Lieut
Jacob Norris of the 6^th Regim^t Three thousand Dollars to be
expended in the recruiting Service.
Commission of Letter of Marque & Reprisal issued to
Nicholas Martin Commander of the Sloop Porpus mounting
6 Carnage Guns 4 Howitz & 8 small Arms belonging to John
Davidson & Comp^y Annapolis
Commission issued to Aquila Paca, John Love Thomas
Johnson, William Smithson, John Archer, William Bond,
Abraham Whitacre Ignatius Wheeler, James McComas, Sam^l
Groome Osborne John Rumsay Mordecai Amos, Robert Amos,
John Patrick, James Giles, James Philips, John Hall, Jon
Craub, Aquila Paca jun^r app^d Justices of the Peace for Harford
County also to Aquila Paca, John Love, John Rumsay, John
Archer and Thomas Johnson appointed Judges of the Orphans
Court for Harford County.