of the Council of Maryland. 297

Wednesday 20^th September 1780
Present as on yesterday
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Capt. Mich^l
Boyer four Pounds, Eighteen shillings & Eight Pence half Penny in
Specie in lieu of the three hundred and forty three Pounds, five
shillings due him p acc^t passed by the Aud. Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to Capt. Michael Boyer sixty Pounds
of the New Emission of this State to be delivered over to Capt Geo
Keeports on Account
That the said Treasurer pay to Athanasius Ford five hundred
Pounds of the New Emission of this State to be delivered over to
Joseph Ford Com^y for S^t Marys County on Ace^l
Capt. Michael Boyer of the German Regim^t is hereby appointed
to issue the Articles allowed to the Officers and Soldiers of the said
Regim^t agreeably to the Act of Assembly.

September

20

Liber C B
No. 23
p. 197

This Board have agreed with Mathew Ridley Esq^r for 8 or 9 hhd^s
of good Rum at 27-10-0 p Gall. 2000 Gall⁸ Taffier @ 18.15.0 p Gall
and 1000* of Coffee @ £ 3.15.0 p 1 to be paid in the new Emission
of this State at 1 for 40.

[Tafia is a
cheap kind
of rum]

[Council to Col. Lodowick Weltner]

Sir Yours of the 10^th of August was received and we are really
sorry for the Sufferings of you and your Regiment and wish it had
been in our Power to have given them immediate and ample Relief ;
but, such has been our Situation with Respect to Money, that we
have not been able to gratify our Inclinations by supplying you with
the Stores &^ca ordered by the General Assembly. We have given
Cap^t Boyer Orders on the Treasury for all the Stores due the several
Officers of your Regiment, from Maryland, to the first Day of
October next, and have furnished him with Stores Sufficient to the
first Day of January next: as soon as it is in our Reach they shall
be supplied with the necessary Cloathing. We have appointed Cap'
Boyer to issue these Articles, which he is to account for. As there
is more Rum sent forward than will be sufficient for the Officers,
Cap^t Boyer has Directions to issue it, on your Order, to the Soldiers
in the Proportion ordered by the Assembly

Liber C C

No. 22

p. 183

[Council to Joseph Ford Esqr.]

Sir. We received yours o fthe 14^th Ins^t and send by your Brother
£500 in new Bills. We do not know on what you have founded your
Opinion that the Commissioners will not allow the Collector to
receive the Money for Taxes, or that they have any Power to direct
what Money shall or shall not be received. The Law for sinking our
Proportion of the Continental Bills of Credit, makes the new Bills

p. 184