316 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C B
No. 23

State should meet on Tuesday the seventh day of October Instant
and do therefore in Virtue of the Power with which I am invested
by the Constitution and form of Government Hereby appoint the said
seventeeth Day of the Current Month for the Holding- the General
Assembly of which the several Sheriffs of this State are hereby
enjoined to give Public and due Notice. Given at Annapolis this
sixth Day of Oct^r in the year one thousand seven hundred & Eighty

Liber C C

No. 22
p. 193

By his Exc^ys Command. T. Johnson J^r Sec^l* Tho^s S. Lee

[Council to the Commissaries of the Several Counties]

Sir We request you to send us a complete Return of the Pro-
visions you have purchased and obtained and in what Manner, since
your appointment as Commissary, and hope this will not be delayed,
at farthest, beyond the 17^th Ins^t when some Member of the General
Assembly may afford you a favorable Opportunity.

[Council to Colo James Hindman]

Sir Yours of the 7^th Ult^o we have this Day received and have sent
you by M^r Gibson £600 of the late Emission of this State, Consider-
ing the Situation of the Collection of the Tobacco Tax, in your
County, we think it unnecessary to send you an Order on the Sheriff
at this Time; but as soon as you can give us Information that the
Sheriff has received a sufficient Quantity of Tobacco to pay the
Order you now have, and has Tobacco remaining in his Hands, we
shall then transmit you an order for any Quantity that may be neces-
sary to complete your Purchases. We wish you to forward the
Cattle with as much Expedition as possible, to the Head of Elk. We
think the best Mode for getting the Wheat manufactured would be,
to agree with the Millers to grind it for a fixed Price in Money, and
to deliver you all the Flour, Shorts, Bran &^ca The Wheat, if
delivered to any Person before it is manufactured, ought to be deliv-
ered to Col^o Hollingsworth at the Head of Elk, We are sorry to
be informed of the Rise of Wheat in your County & still hope you
will be able to purchase at our Limitation, but if it cannot possibly
be accomplished, we must agree to your giving the enormous Price
which wheat has risen to in your County. As we shall want Flour,
you will have your Purchase sent to this Place by the first safe
Conveyance

Liber C C

No. 22
p. 194

[Council to the Lieuts who had not made their Returns of Militia]

Sir Not having received a Return of the Militia in your County
agreeable to the Directions of the Act of Assembly for a new and
speedy Enrollment of the Militia, we request you to send it by the
first good Opportunity: If none offers before the Meeting of the
Assembly on the 17^th Ins^t we hope you will send it by some Member