250 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98.

           Lib. H. D. Georges County be constituted & empower'd, and he is

                  hereby accordingly appointed, Constituted & empowered to

                  go as often as he shall see necessary to vissit the Garrison,

                  and the other men appointed to Range the Eastern branch,

                  at Potomock to see tht they discharge their duty & for to

                  give them such necessary Orders as he shall think requisite

                  for his Majties service. And further that if the Men to be

                  raised & sent thither cannot find themselves Wth Provisions,

                  so tht they need not be necessitated to depart from their

                  severall posts, he furnish them therewith in moderation, the

                  wch is to be deducted out of their wages & allowed for in the

                  publick leavy of this Province; as also is to be allowed for his

                  trouble & pains in Vissitting the sd men & Garrison.

                          Octobr the 19th 1697.

                   Ordered that the Roads on each side the Eastern branch

                  of Potomock be well cleared from Plantation to Plantation

                  and from the said Plantations to the Garrison.

                   Ordered that the Honoble Coll Ino Addison discourse Coll

                  Ninian Beale whether or no he be willing to continue in the

                  Cornission he already has for raising men upon any disturb

                  ance of Indians

                          October the 20th 1697.

                   Ordered that in case any of the men to be raised for the

                  service of this Province, or their officers should dye or re

                  move out of the Countrey or be for any misdemeanor dis

                  missed, that then the Colonells of the Counties take care

               p.     576 imediately to fill up their vacant places wth other men; and

                  tht the Honoble Coll John Addison in like manner take care

                  to see tht the thirteen men and two Officers appointed for

                  strengthening the Garrison and frontiers of Potomock be

                  allwaies compleat that number by putting in other persons

                  upon any such accident happening.

                   Ordered that the forty five men to be raised in Ann Arrun

                  deli County and the fifteen men to be raised in Baltimore

                  County be divided into two Troops; Vizt Thirty in each Troop

                  who are to have for their officers to Comand them, a Captain

                  a Lieutent a Coronett & Quarter master, and that those of

                  Baltimore County be joyned to the neerest of those men tht

                  are to be raised in Ann Arrundel County aforesaid to make

                  up that Troop. That the forty men to be raised in St Maries

                  County be an intire Troop by it seife as also the forty to be

                  raised in Calvert County. The forty in Charles County to

                  be Commanded with the like proportion of Officers That the