44 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C C

No. 22

on our Assistance, to remove every Obstacle that might impede, or
render a full and speedy Execution of this Law, difficult. The Copy
herewith sent, is sufficient, without particular Instructions from us,
to direct you how the Business entrusted to your Care and Manage-
ment, is to be conducted. We expect you will make Returns to us,
every Fortnight, of the Quantity of Flour and other Articles ob-
tained in Consequence of the Law. We advise you, in granting Cer-
tificates, to consult the Ease and Convenience of the Person entitled,
by giving Certificates for small Sums, if required. The Copy of the
General's Letter is sent as the most authentic and indisputable Proff
of the Truth of the Grounds of the Law merely for your Information
and not to be communicated to any Person unless you think it will
facilitate the Execution of the Law in particular Cases and induce
a more chearful Compliance. We have enclosed you Certificates and
a few Copies of the Proclamation.

p. 49

[Council to the Sheriffs of the different Counties]

Sir We have enclosed you four Proclamations, which you are,
immediately on Receipt of this Letter, to read, publish and make
known, or cause to be read, published and made known, by yourself
and Deputies to the Inhabitants of your County, at the most public
Places thereof.

December 30
Liber C B
No. 23
p. 94

Thursday 30 December 1779

Present as on Yesterday
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to His Excellency
Thomas Sim Lee Esq^r seven hundred and sixty Pounds, ten shillings
due himself and one thousand Eight hundred and seventy five
Pounds for the use of John Rogers Esq^r Chancellor the Compen-
sation made by the General Assembly —
That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Beatty the following
Sums of Money for the use of the several Persons thereto annexed
p Accounts passed.
Six Pounds for Henry Fero. Twenty seven Pounds for Henry
Clemens.
Seven Pounds, ninteen shillings for John Abell, three Pounds five
shillings for John Gump
Three Pounds for Martin Toshman, Seventy Pounds four shil-
lings for David Levy
Forty Pounds ten shillings for John Waggoner, Twenty eight
Pounds, sixteen shill^gs for Ch^s Secrest
Forty nine Pounds, ten shillings for Geo Bear, Twenty nine
Pounds five shillings for Geo Beall
Ten Pounds sixteen shillings for Sam^l Dorff Six Pounds fifteen
shillings for John Cray