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          Lib. W. B. and that if that place be not tymeby Succoured it must be

                  given up.

                   His Excy Also acquaints the Board that our Potomack In

                  dians have been out but are come in again, & that it may be

                  Supposed they have had some Corespondence with other

                   Indi an s—

                  Whereupon He had ordered and sent fourscore Arms with

                  proportionable Aniunition to Prince Georges County,

                   And desires the Advice of the Board whether It be not

                  expedient a Supply of Arms &c should be sent to Baltemore

                  & Cecil Countys.

                   To Which the Board do answer they think it very Advisa

                  ble such Arms &c should be sent to the said Countys.

                   His Exncy acquaints the Board that He has wrote to Col

                  Blakiston our Agent in England to purchase £500 l worth of

               p. 46 Arms & Ammunition according to the Resolve of this Board

                  the last Session of Assembly. And His Exncy proposes to

                  the Council that Whereas there is a provision made by Act

                  of Assembly for raising a Quantity of Tobo not exceeding

                  fifty thousand pounds in one yeare on any necessity during

                  the Intervall of Assembly Whether in Case He should have

                  any Account from Col. Spotswood concerning the further

                  Distress of his Matys Subjects at South Carolina They do not

                  agree that (in Reguard it is very difficult on any suddain

                  Occasion to get a full Council together) Col Holland Col

                  Young & Col Addison or any three of the Council with his

                   may order the levying any Quantity of Tobo not exceed

                  ing 80000 l to be disposd of by their Discretion. Which was

                  agreed to by all the Members of the Council now present.

                   Also Resolvd and Advised that in Case His and

                  any three of the Council shall think fit to send any Arms or

                  Ammunition to So Carolina for the Succour of his Matys Sub

                  jects there, It be wholy left to his Exncys Discretion with the

                  Advice of Such a Number of the Council And it being con

                  sidered that there is not so Sufficient a Store of Powder

               P 47  in the publique Magazine as might be wisht at this tyme To

                  the End that all the Powder and Ball now in the Province

                  to be dispos'd of by any Merchts Traders may be secured for

                  his Matys Service at this Juncture. Resolved and advised (in

                  Case his Exncy shall send any Powder & Ball to South Carolina)

                  that the Colonels & Sherriffs of the Several Countys make

                  dilligent Inquiry what Quantity or Quantitys of Powder and

                  Lead are in the hands of any Merchts or Traders, And that

                  they imediately impress the Same for his Matys Service, to be

                  lodged with and Secured by the respective Colonells of the

                  Countys and payd for at the Publique Charge And in Case

                  it be discovered that our Neighbour Indians have a Corre