528 Journal and Correspondence.

Red Book
No. 7

The monthly estimates of money heretofore made were but barely
sufficient at that time, their value has since greatly diminished &
the payment has been delayed long after it become due. These cir-
cumstances have already involved our affairs in much perplexity &
driven to expedients which nothing but the last necessity could
justify. Permanency & arrangement in the public finances must
at every hazard be introduced & supported. In this view Congress
do again with the most earnest Solicitude press on the several
States the necessity of vigorous & decisive measures for carrying
into full & immediate execution their resolutions of the 18^th of
March last. The doing which at the same time that it places public
credit on the surest basis will in the course of the year give all the
relief that could possibly result from a- further emission equal to
the whole that is now in circulation. These resolutions Congress
are persuaded are every day better understood, & that upon giving
them their full effect very much depends the final establishment of
our Liberties.
It is unnecessary that Congress should suggest to the several
States the expediency of providing by Loans against any deficiency
they may have reason to apprehend from their taxes.
The blank bills for the several States will be forwarded as fast
as the Acts of their Assemblies providing funds for them are trans-
mitted to Congress

June 29

[Thos. Beall of Geo. Town to His Excellency Tho^s Sim Lee]

Sir This day Ship'd 1380 Bushells of Indian Corn on Acc^t of the
State, to Col^o Hy. Hollingsworth at head of Elk, it being the Sur-
plus above the Quantity Ordered to be left at this post, have rec^d
about 80 Bushells of wheat from Prince Georges County, and am
Apprehensive it will not keep without it's Manufactured,
Shall be greatly Obliged to your Excellency to inform me what
to have done with it.
The Jobbers of this place we are every day dunning me for
money, due them from the State, for load'⁸ Vessels, &^c &^c

June 29

i [Isaac Perkins, Kent County, to the Council]

Gent" By the Inclosed Deposition you'll observe that my In-
valuable set of Mills were burned to the Ground on the 27^th Instant
at night before I reached home from Annapolis My Conjectures
are that the Tories in the upper part of this County flushed with
the Enemys success against Charles Town and the Arrival of
Clinton with Troops from the Southward to New York and know-
ing The precarious supply that our army has had for some time past
and the Considerable Consequence my Mills has been in Manu-
facturing such large Quantitys of Grain for the Army and french