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Contracts at 40 for 1 in the new Money at which Rate the Public
will Receive it again for Taxes. We have likewise thought proper
to direct the Lieutenants of the Counties, to order into your Hands
any Wheat which the People may be inclinable to deliver for the
15 p O under the Law for filling up our Battalions. As this will
certainly be a great Ease to the People, we flatter ourselves it will,
at the same Time contribute considerably to the material End in
View. We have certain Intelligence that the Army under His Ex^y
the Commander in Chief is encreasing very rapidly, the Object of the
Campaign continues the same and immediate and considerable Sup-
plies of Provisions are indispensably necessary. In Addition to the
Articles of Provision mentioned in the Laws forwarded to you, we
find it necessary to direct you to procure what Beef you can, on the
Hoof and in proper Condition. It will be necessary, when a Sufficient
Number are collected, to hire proper Persons to have them driven
and delivered to The Price must be left to your own Discretion,
and depend on the Information you may receive of what it is gen-
erally sold at, making a proper Allowance in Favor of the State for
the Purchase being made in large Quantities. By the Resolve of Con-
gress, this State is to have Credit for Beef on the Hoof, until Decem-
ber at 5£ Dollars Hard Money Net Hundred, which at 40 for I in
the New Bills is 220 Dollars p Net Hundred; it is to be wished
that this Price may not be exceeded. The Business entrusted to you
is of the last Importance and we are under such Circumstances that
it is necessary we should receive the most speedy Information of your
Success and Expectations; no Time should be lost in forwarding
what you have procured, of which we should be constantly informed.
p. S. We have not enclosed any Tobacco as mentioned in the
Beginning of this Letter, but will send you Orders on the Collectors
of the Loans as soon as you inform us that you can obtain at least the

Price mentioned.

N. B. To the Commissary for Talbot County, the following Post
Script. " Instead of sending you Tobacco as mentioned in the Begin-
ning of this Letter we have it only in our Power to enclose an Order
for £16000, on M^r James Lloyd Chamberlain."

Liber C C

No. 22

[Council to Colo. Thos. Price]
Sir Your Letter of the 13^th Ins^t came to Hand this Morning. The
Order on the Collector of Frederick County for £2250, we have
enclosed agreeably to your Request. We would have the Flour for-
warded immediately and delivered to M^r Thomas Donnellan of
Baltimore Town. The three hundred Hats which you contracted for
should be finished by this, therefore you are furnished with an Order
for £7875, on the Collector of Frederick County, to enable you to
comply with your Agreement. The Hatters, we flatter ourselves, will
deliver the Hats on the Credit of this Order, as the Collector is on

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