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C. C.

to your Care, all Flour they might procure for Carriage to
Christeen, some of it may reach your Hands before different
Orders may get to the Purchasers under Letters we received
by this Days Post and therefore we now request that all such
Flour as you may receive from any of the Gentlemen of our
Appointment may be carefully stored at the Head of Elk to
wait the Orders of the Commissioners for superintending the
Purchasing Commissary's and Quarter Master's Departments
or these of Sir &^ca
Col^o Henry Hollingsworth

[Council to W. Hyde.]

In Council Annapolis 3^d May 1779
Sir.
John Ward Veazey one of the Purchasers in Cecil wrote us
the I^st Inst for twenty thousand Pounds to be delivered to the
Bearer M^r George Vickars, who he had sent for it. M^r
Vickars will probably meet you, if he does, deliver him the
twenty thousand Pounds for M^r Veazey to be laid out in the
purchase, taking his Receipt hereon
We are &^ca
Col^o W^m Hyde

C. B

Saturday I^st May 1770,
Present as on Thursday.
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Jesse
Hollingsworth five hundred and seventy four Pounds, ninteen
shillings and five pence p Acc^t passed by the Aud. Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Johnson Jun^r One
hundred and seventeen Pounds, fifteen shillings & two pence
due him as Cl to the Gov^r & Co. from the 1 Feb^y
That the said Treasurer pay to Serj^t Joshua Lamb of the 1
Maryland Regim^t Two hundred Dollars the Bounty to Thomas
Stallins enlisted by him in the Reg^t p cert^e Produced and
also the further sum of Six Pounds the allowance for enlisting
the said Recruit
That the Commissary of Stores deliver to George Weekley
a 9 M^o Sold^r in the 7^th Maryl^d Reg^t the amount of twenty
seven Pounds, in Cloathing due him by an Act of Assembly
to procure Troops for the American Army

Monday 3^d May 1779

Present as on Saturday except Thomas Sim Lee Esq^r
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Samuel