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Pounds for the use and to be delivered over to James Steel
due him per Acco^t pass^d by C. C.
That the said Treasurer Pay to Andrew Grebble Jun^r one
hundred and twelve Pounds ten Shillings due to him per Acc^t
passed by the Com. of Claims

C. B.

[Council to S. Sharp.]

In Council Annapolis 4^th April 1778
Sir
Inclosed you have a Commission as Agent to purchase
Provisions in Talbot County, you will also receive by Col^o
Tilghman, two thousand Dollars, for that purpose. It is

C. C.

essential to the Service that we should be regularly furnished
with a monthly Return of your Purchase agreeable to the Act,
and we request you will have what Provisions you may pur-
chase sent on immediately either to Baltimore or the Head of
Elk. The Barrelled Pork and Beef which you may get must
be well examined and if there's Doubt of its keeping you
must by all Means have it put into proper Order and, if neces-
sary Salt added.
We are &^ca
M^r Samuel Sharp

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[Council to Delegates.]
April 4^th 1778
The Governor and Gentlemen of the Council request the
Favor of the Gentlemen of the House of Delegates to inform
them of the Names of the Magistrates who have qualified and
of the Hundreds in their respective Counties
Gen^tn of the House of Delegates.

[J. Henry to Gov. Johnson.]

York Town Ap^l 5^th 1778
Dear Sir
I acquainted you in my former letter that the Delegates had
obtained from Congress the loan of one hundred thousand
Dollars. I expected when I wrote you, that I would have
been able to have sent you the money in a day or two but the
great Demands on the Treasury has prevented me — In the
course of this week you may expect the whole or at least some
part of it.

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