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hands a Month, M^r Middleton thinks four hands and a Boy will be
sufficient to work and manage the Boat.
In Virtue of a Resolve of the General Assembly of the 30^th Instant
Permission is hereby given to Captain Nathaniel Mitchell to trans-
port from this State to the Islands of Bermuda Eleven hundred
Bushels of Indian Corn in the Sloop Fanny for the relief of the In-
habitants of the said Islands Provided the said Mitchell his Officers
and Crew previously to the Vessels Clearing out take the Oath pre-
scribed by the 17 Section of the Act to Prohibit for a Limitted time
the exportation of Wheat Flour &c^a
Agreeably to a Resolve of the General Assembly of the 3^d Inst.
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to David Poe Esq^r
acting in the Quarter Masters Department in Baltimore Town fifteen
thousand Pounds for the use of his Department which said Sum is
to be charged to the United States and for which the said David
Poe is to be Accountable.
On the Petition of Empson Bird and William Currer of Cecil
County, Ordered that they be relieved from the Collection of the
present Assessment of £5 in the C^t
Joseph Wilkes a Matross in Baltimore Town enlisted in Jan^y 1776
by Maj^r Nath^l Smith, appearing by his representation to be unfit for
Service the said Wilkes is hereby discharged.
The Governor & Council agree with M^r Hemsley for 200 Bbles
of Sup-fine flour & the Middlings which come out of that Flour at
70£ p C^t and 12 Doll^{rs
p Barrel.
Commissions issued to Joseph Robinson, Ezekiel Vickars & Levin
Kirkman appd Coroners of Dorchester County and also to William
Ennalls, John Dickinson, Joseph Richardson Edward Noel and
Thomas Firmin Eccleston appointed Judges of the Orphans Court
for Dorchester County.}

Liber C B
No. 23

[Council to the Collector of the Tax for Cecil County]

Sir Empson Bird and William Currer of Cecil County have, by
their Petitions set forth to us that they suffered very considerable
Losses by the Enemy in the year 1777. Empson Bird, that he had
taken from him by the Enemy one mulatto Man, one Negro Woman
a Horse, Saddle and Bridle, and William Currer that he had taken
from him, four able bodied Negro Men and it appearing to us by
their Depositions and the Depositions of others that the said Facts
are true, and we esteeming it proper that the Collection of the present
Assessments of the said Empson Bird and William Currer of five
Pounds in the Hundred Pounds should be suspended, do direct you
not to collect the same or any Part thereof from either of them, and
if collected, to refund the same.

Liber C C
No. 22
p. 82