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can make Use of the new Money, this is all we have in our Power
to do. It is our Opinion, if the Horses are good and substantial and
fit for the Draft, the Service they were purchased and intended for,
they ought to be received, and the only proper Mode that occurs to
us to determine it, in Cases where an Objection is made by the Quar-
termaster to receiving them, is to call on one or two Persons well.
Skilled in Horses to examine them and if he or they should be of
Opinion they come up to the above Description, you ought to offer
them to the Quartermaster and insist on his taking them, and, in Case
of his obstinately refusing, you must put them out to Pasture and
take Care of them, and send us a Report of what you do in Conse-
quence of the above Directions. Those adjudged to be unfit for
Service, by the Persons called in, are also to be pastured and taken
Care of.

Liber C C
No. 22

Saturday 23^d September 1780

Present as on yesterday.
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Ann Littell three
Pounds two shillings and six Pence of the new Emission of this
State in lieu of one hundred and twenty five Pounds due her p
Account passed by the Aud. Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to Lieut James Bruff of the 6^th
Regim^t seventeen Pounds, sixteen shillings & three Pence of the
new Emission of this State in lieu of an Order of the 24^th Aug^t last
for one thousand nine hundred Dollars.
That the said Treasurer pay to Conrad T. Wederstrandt one thou-
sand Pounds of the new Emission of this State to be delivered over
to Charles Blake Commissary of Purchases for Queen Anns County
to be by him Accounted for.
That the said Treasurer pay to Lieut Edmond Moran of the 6^th
Regim^t seventeen Pounds, sixteen shillings and three pence of the
new Emission of this State in lieu of one thousand nine hundred
Dollars allowed by a Resolve of the General Assembly to enable him
to bear his Expenses to the Southward.
That the said Treasurer pay to the said Edmond Moran three
Pounds in Specie for the Purpose aforesaid
That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Harwood Esq^r Continental
Treasurer or order Eighteen thousand eight hundred and seventy one
Dollars and seven ninetieths of a Dollar of the new Bills emitted by
this State in lieu of seven hundred and fifty four thousand eight
hundred and forty three Dollars and ten ninetieths of a Dollar of
the Continental Bill of Credit part of the Quota of this State raised
for the use of the United States
That the Eastern shore Treasurer pay to Thomas Harwood Esq^r
Cont^l Treasurer or order Twenty five thousand nine hundred and

September

23
Liber C B
No. 23
p. 198