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desired Success. This Board are of Opinion that the Tax of fifteen
and five per Centum, as the Case may be, is to be levied and collected
from such Classes as fail to furnish Substitutes or Deserters. The
Commissions for Militia Officers are enclosed agreeable to your
Request. You will have the Militia marched to the Head of Elk
where they are to rendezvous and where they will be provided with
Arms and every other Necessary for Marching &^ca

[Council to The Worshipful the Justices of Cecil County Court]

Gent. The enclosed Commissions were issued agreeably to your
Request as intimated by M^r Williams's Letter of the 26^th May

[Council to Nathaniel Potter, Esqr.]

Sir. Yours of the 23^d Inst, we have this Day received and are
Sorry to observe that you should have so unpromising a Prospect of
procuring the Articles absolutely necessary for furnishing and Sup-
porting our Army We could not conceive that any of the good Citi-
zens of this State would, at this Crisis, withold these necessary Com-
modities, and we wish not to be under the Necessity of using the last
Resort, a Seizure. We hope and expect the Farmers will readily
vend their Wheat, Flour &^ca and receive Certificates or wait a Short
Time for their Money which we shall be enabled to pay as fast as
Taxes come in. We think you ought not to exceed 22..IO..O for
Wheat 67..IO..O for Flour, 375 £ for a Barrel of Pork and 6os. for
a Pound of Bacon; these are high and generous Prices. It is alto-
gether out of our Power to furnish you with the Money you require,
and still Trust that you will be able to make your Purchases on the
Credit of this State. The Wheat you receive we wish to have manu-
factured into Flour as fast as possible and would readily send you
the Nails, if we had them. We have not supplied M^r Wederstrandt
with any Money lately. You will frequently inform us of your Pro-
ceedings in your Purchases

Liber C C
No. 22

[Council to the Lieutenants of the Several Counties]

Sir We desire you will have the Soldiers who may be delivered to
you in Virtue of the Act to procure Recruits to complete the Bat-
talions of this State in the Service of the United States and to raise
an additional Battalion, the Supplement thereto, and the " Act to
expedite the raising an additional Battalion of Regulars," imme-
diately marched to Chester Town, where Cloaths and Provisions
will be furnished them by Officers who will be in Readiness to
receive them.

NB those on the W. Shore are directed to send the Recruits to
Annapolis

p. 137