of the Council of Maryland. 287

those Articles all^d by the Gen^l Assembly for May, June, July and
August.

Permission is hereby given to Dorothy Hedrington and Sam^l
Stanning of this State to solicit Leave from His Excellency Gen^l
Washington or the Commanding Off at the Out Posts of the Ameri-
can Army at Elizabeth Town to go to New York for the Purpose of
obtaining a Passage from thence to Great Britain not to return
again into this State during the present war, without the Leave of the
Gov^r & Council.

Pardon granted to Negro Jack Slave of Samuel Daw, convicted

in Calvert County Court for House Breaking.

Liber C B
No. 23

[Council to Solomon Stympson]

Sir You will call on the People mentioned below for the Corn
which they are deficient by your Certificates and oblige them either
to deliver the Corn, or pay the Price of what you gave for it with the
Interest thereon, or take Wheat agreeable to the Prices given by the
Commissary of Purchases for Montgomery County to be delivered
to him at Such Place as he shall direct
W^m Hough 44i Bush^ls John Harwood 6 Sam^l Offut 2^
Jn^o Gillum 3. Henry O Neil 27 Josias Miles 10. Geo.
Beall 3^d 50 142! Bush^ls

[Council to Colo. James Hindman]

Sir We received yours of the 6^th Ins^t When we gave Directions
to the Lieu^t of the County to receive Wheat from those who other-
wise could not pay their Proportion of the 1 5 p C^l we little expected
that a Measure tending so much to the Ease of the People would
have met with any obstruction, much less that the Power of the
Lieu^t of the County, to issue his Warrant to execute those who
neglected to pay, would be disputed, particularly in a County which
has not raised a Man of their Quota for the new Regiment & filling
up our Battalions. We are of Opinion that it was the Intention of
the General Assembly, that the Horses furnished by the Non-jurors
should be construed a Part of the Number required from each
County. Enclosed we send you five hundred of the new Money
amounting to twenty thousand Pounds at 40 for I, and request you
to forward, with all possible Dispatch, all the Provision you obtain.
The Cattle as well as Flour are extremely wanted at Camp and, as
soon as you have made up a sufficient Number to send in a Drove
it will be proper to hire Persons to drive them, to be delivered to
Col^o Hollingsworth at the Head of Elk. It will not be proper to issue
any more Certificates

Liber C C

No. 22

p. 176