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Liber C B
No. 23

in the Tan yard in the City of Annapolis. Inventories of the Par-
ticulars will be Lodged at George Mann's Tavern in Annapolis, and
at the Merchants Coffee House in Baltimore Town by the first Day
of March.

Liber C C

No. 22

p. 66

[Council to The Delegates from Maryland in Congress.]

Gentlemen — We are informed that the Congress resolved, some
Time in November last, that the Officers in the American Army
should be furnished with sundry Articles of Cloathing, as a Gratuity
for their Services, and that the species were enumerated. That Re-
solve has not yet been transmitted to us. We request the Favor of
you to procure and forward it, and at the same Time, beg Leave to
apply through you, to Congress, for Permission to supply the Officers
of the Maryland Line, provided we may be allowed to draw from
the Continental Treasury of this State, to reimburse the Money that
may be expended in the Purchase of them

[Council to Monsr. Holker]

Sir We shall embrace the next Opportunity of answering your
Letters of the 28^th of Ian^ry and 9^th of Feb^ry and in the mean Time
remain with due Consideration &^ca

[Council to His Excellency The Chevr De la Luzerne.]

Sir It is with deep Concern we find that the Measures adopted by
this State to obtain an immediate Supply to relieve the extreme Dis-
tresses of the Continental Army have occasioned such Uneasiness
to your Excellency and created even the Semblance of a Doubt of
our firm Attachment to the Alliance. We think with you that it is
the incumbent Duty of this State to exert themselves in the same
Degree for the Preservation of the Fleets of France as the American
Army, and can, with Confidence assure you that if your Fleets had

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been in the same Distress, Steps equally vigorous and efficacious,
would have been used to extricate them. We are exceedingly hurt
that you should esteem the Seizure of the Flour allowed to be pur-
chased for our Ally a Violation of our Engagement when the press-
ing Wants of the Army urged the General Assembly to it and when
too, we informed your Exc^y that it would not be used, if those Wants
could be otherwise relieved; but that it should be restored to M^r
Smith and Permission given for the Exportation of it, as soon as
Congress or his Excellency Gen^l Washington assured us that the
Distresses of the Army ceased to be alarming. It gives us Pain to
repeat the Information we communicated in our last, that our Power
is so circumscribed and limited, that we cannot, without committing
a manifest Infringement of our Constitution and acting inconsistent
with the Trust delegated to us, suspend the Law, until we have As-
surances from Congress or General Washington, that the Army is