Letters to the Council. 411

I shall conclude by observing that should your Excellency & Coun-
cil think proper to retain the flour seized it will be proper that
minute & Speedy returns be transmitted me of the exact quantitys,
so as I may obtain from Congress the immediate reimbursement of
all advances & expences made thereon, as also of all those Expenses
which the Seizure & redelivery of the flour and wheat have occasioned
if it should be returned by the State commissioners, to my agents
in Maryland.

Brown
Book No. 8

[William Banks Baltimore to His Excellency Thomas Sim Lee Esqr]

May It Please Your Excellency Agreeable to the Desire of Capt.
George Keeports I take the Liberty of Acquainting you he went Off
for Camp Friday 28^th Ins^t with 9 Waggons. That he had discharg'd
3 Soldiers from the Fort and retained 2 as they would be Sufficient.
Time Will not Admit Sending Invoices of the Cloathing taken with
him but shall have them ready for your Inspection as soon as possible
Should I be favour'd with Letters from Your Excellency Please
to have them Directed to the Care of M^r Keeports where I shall be
found.

January 20,

[H. Hollingsworth, D. Q. M. Gl., Head of Elk, to Gov Lee
in Council]

Gentlemen In the Postscript of my last Informed your Excellency
and Honours that I was in want of some Certificates for Money
Receiv'd sometime since have this day had an Application for more
would be glad therefore that few blank Certificates be sent me with
those wrote for by M^r Elijah Cole, the bearer the money I have been
obliged to lay out for Forage and Waggonage for the supplying the
Army, if it must be paid into the Treasury it must be when I am
better supply'd with Cash, as at present and for sometime past, have
been much Distress'd the pressing demands of the Army, with the
great Difficultys of procuring Forage at the same time an Absolute
necessity for calling in more Teams, will, I flatter myself, account
for the measure, and the early supply sent, attone for it. I have
now One Hundred and twenty teams Employd at this post, the

usual Number io from Seventy to Eighty your Knowledge of the

wants of the Army, will suggest how long it will be necessary to
Continue this Extra Expence. I have wrote to some of the Com-
missioners on the Eastern shore, who have applied to me for Teams
to have their flour &c Hailed down to Convenient Granaries for
navigation, that when the Frost breaks it may be Transported by
Water to this place, where I have Public Stores & Granaries Suffi-
cient to hold large Quantities. Measurers measures Baggs &c^a and
one half the Teams will hall the Flour to Christeen, the Wheat to
the Mills, and the Forage to where it is wanted. I am Inform'd that

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