Letters to the Council. 493

[Dan'l Jenifer, Portobacco, to Gov. Lee]
Sir I some time ago committed a certain Joseph Thompson and
his Wife to the Jail of this county on Suspicion of their having
Robbed M^r Tho^s Reeder of a silver Watch and a considerable sum of
Money As the proof I believe will not be suff^t to convict them and
Thompson wou'd make an Excellent Soldier and is willing to go as
such. Therefor should be glad that your Excellency, and the Council
wou'd take the matter into consideration & either grant a pardon or
order a Nole p seq^r which to your Excellency shall seem meet.

May 13

[Henry Dickinson Caroline County to His Excellency
Thomas Sim Lee]
Honourable Sir I received your favor of the 1 1 Instant by the
Express, and am sorry to hear the State is in such great want of
money. I have about forty thousand pounds in my hands, which I
wish you had, but have been so Poorly for sometime Past that I
am not able to Carry it to Annapolis, and you have not directed me
to pay it to your express, nor indeed had I have Choose to have sent
it by him, he had no way of Carrying it, as he had nothing to carry
it in, and if he had, should have thought it imprudent to have sent
it by a man who appears to me to be too fond of Spirits, unless a
Perticular Order from you to that Purpose, if its in my Power to
get any Person to day or to morrow that I can Trust will send it over
to you, but should I not be able to get any Person, I hope you will
send an Order for it. I suppose you expected I had a much Larger
sum in my hands, but the late Sherriffs has paid of their Balances
in Certificates, and there is only three Collectors has undertaken this
Present Collection of five pounds, two of which has paid off in Cer-
tificates and the other I hear, has got Certificates Sufficient to pay his
off so that I immagine I shall not receive much money, untill all the
Certificates are brought in.
Your Letters sent by the Express for the Different Collectors
will take care to forward & will endeavour to Compell immediate
Payments from them all. but I shall not be able to compell Payments
unless the Assembly will oblige the Commissioners of the Tax to
return the Collectors Bonds to the General Court, instead of giving
the Bonds to the Collectors themselves to return, which they take
care not to doe. for on application to the Clark to put several of their
Bonds in Suite for the last Payment, I found there was only three
return'd for this Shore, and them Complied with, the Late Collector
of Kent County has made me no Payments at all, nor have never
seen nor heard from him and his Bond was not return'd, so that no
Action has been brought

May 13
Red Book
No. 26
Letter
No. 54
(See
Liber C C

No. 22
p. 102)

[Mordecai Gist, Baltimore, to His Excellency, Thomas Sim Lee
Esqr p favor of Captain Dorsey]
Dear Sir Captain Dorsey of the Maryland Artillery waits on you
for a proportion of the Money rais'd in Baltimore for the Officers

Brown Book
No. 3
Letter No. 33
May 13