134 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C C

No. 22

to procure a Number of Blankets, we cannot think of taking the
whole on M^r Hudson's Terms, you will therefore communicate this
to him.

[Council to Richd Dallam Esqr]

Sir We have received yours of the 2^d Ins^t your other Letters to
us being before a Committee of the House of Delegates, we cannot,
at present enter fully into the Subject of your last and we think it
would be proper for you to send us a general State of your Account,
that we may have some Rule to judge by, in complying with your
Request for a further Sum. As only a small Part of the Order we

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drew on the Collector the 27^th Dec^r last for £30,000 is complied with
and we presume no further Sum will be received on that Order, and
by Information just received from the Board of War, the Army still
remains in an alarming Situation for the Want of Provisions, we
have enclosed an Order on the present Collector for five thousand
Pounds and have delivered to M^r Paca five thousand Pounds more,
to be forwarded to you; both these Orders are in Favor of the Com-
missioners of Harford and to be expended in carrying the Act for
the immediate Supply &^ca into Execution.

[Council to Mr. Edmund Talbot, Harford County]

Sir We have received yours of the 30^th Ult^o and have this Day
sent M^r Dallam an Order on the present Collector for five thousand
Pounds, and a Sum of Money to the same Amount, to be expended
by the Commissioners in carrying into Execution the Act for the
immediate Supply &^ca The Army continues to be in an alarming
Situation for the Want of Provisions and requires the utmost Exer-
tions to relieve them

Liber C B
No. 23
April 8
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Saturday 8 April 1780
Present as on Yesterday.
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to William Mid-
dleton five hundred Pounds on Account.
That the said Treasurer pay to John Berryman one hundred and
Fifty nine Pounds due him per Account passed by the D. Aud.
That the said Treasurer pay to L^t James Skinner one hundred and
Fifty four Pounds, three shillings and nine Pence due him p ace^t
passed by the D. Aud.
That the Eastern shore Treasurer pay to, John Page, Isaac Perkins
and Josiah Johnson Comm" for Kent County six thousand Pounds
to enable them to carry into Execution the Act for the immediate
Supply of Flour and other Provisions for the Army to be ac-
counted for.