of the Council of Maryland. 299

Stuff, so as to make it fit for Use, to prevent farther Loss. We
request you to be particularly attentive to the Rum, and before you
receive it, to examine the Quality, as it was sold to us for what was
esteemed good, and, as many Tricks are played, both in the West
Indies and on the Passage with this Article, this Precaution we think
necessary.

[Council to Capt. Geo. p. Keeports]

Sir We wrote you yesterday by Cap^t Boyer and by the same Hand
transmitted you 60 £ of the new State Bills of Credit for the Purpose
of procuring the Articles therein mentioned. Since then we have
purchased a Quantity of Coffee which is to be delivered to M^r Thomas
Donnellan, on whom you will call for one Hogshead of Rum and the
Quantity of Coffee ordered to be purchased by you these with the
other articles, as soon as purchased, you will deliver to Capt. Boyer,
taking his Receipt for them. We request you to send down all the
Blankets, Cloth and Linen in your Possession, to this Place; by
applying to M^r Donnellan he will give you Information when there
will be a convenient Conveyance.

Liber C C

No. 22

Friday 22^d September 1780
Present as on yesterday.
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Thomas Giles
Two hundred and fifty Pounds of the new Emission of this State to
be delivered over to Col^o Henry Hollingsworth on Account.
That the said Treasurer pay to His Excell^y Thomas Sim Lee
Esq^r sixty Two Pounds ten shillings of the new Emission of this
State in lieu of an Order of the 25^th of July for Two thousand five
hundred Pounds.
That the Collector of the Tax for Cecil County pay to Col^o Henry
Hollingsworth Eight thousand Pounds on Account.
That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Capt. B. Maybury 170
Rations in flour in part due him from the State.

September

22

Liber C B
No. 23
p. 197

[Council to Delegates in Congress]

Gent" We beg Leave to refer you to a Resolve of Congress of the
10^th of Sepf 1779 Not having received any Information from the
Board of War agreeable to that Resolve, of any considerable Ad-
ditions to the Stock of Cloathing provided by the United States, by
Importation or otherwise, we are at a Loss to know what will be
expected from us towards cloathing our Troop's. They have gener-
ally suffered very severely by not being supplied in Time, and we are
apprehensive the Distance to which they are removed from the pub-
lic Stores, will encrease their Hardships in that Respect, unless proper

Liber C C

No. 22
p. 185