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to procure Flour, that we request you will exchange immediately
all you can, reserving about 2000 Bush^ls of Salt and writing
immediately to the Committee on the Commissary and
Quarter Master General's Departm^ts to countermand or
approve; there is no Time to be lost, and for what is done
before you have Instructions, we are willing to be considered
as responsible. We wish the Salt to go into as many Hands
as possible, as it may tend to keep down the Price of that
Article with which Sellers seem willing to measure the Price
of What they have to dispose of. We cannot furnish a Galley
to lie below the Town, we believe if we could have one in
each River in the State, we could not prevent small Quantities
of Wheat and Flour going to Virginia.
We are &^ca
Robert Buchanan Esq^r

C. C.

Wednesday 6^th October 1779

Present as on Yesterday
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Robert
Littell Ninty one Pounds seventeen shillings and Six Pence p
Account passed by the Dep^y Aud. That the said Treasurer
pay to Commodore Grason two hundred and thirty six Pounds
on Acc^t

C. B.

[Council to W. Hemsley.]

In Council Annapolis 6^th October 1779
Sir.
The Dolphin goes over for the 50 Barr^ls of Flour and the
10 or 12 of the old Purchase; be pleased to order them to be
delivered; the old Flour marked in such a Manner that they
may be distinguished on the first View, from the New.

We are &^ca
William Hemsley Esq^r

C. C.
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Friday 8^th October 1779

Present as on Wednesday
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to John
Currey Three thousand eight hundred and fifty Pounds to be
delivered over to William Hemsley Esq^r to be accounted for
That the said Treasurer pay to John Wells two thousand
five hundred Pounds to be Acc^d for
That the said Treasurer pay to William Logan three
hundred Pounds due him per Account passed by the Dep^y
Aud.

c. K.