92 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C C

No. 22

fully informed. We approve fully of the Steps you have taken to
detect Frauds and Impositions in purchasing of Flour and trust you
will continue to act with your wonted Circumspection; such Abuses
ought to be corrected and discouraged. We shall not fail to take the
necessary Measures to strengthen and cooperate with you in a work
so laudable and Salutary as preventing such Practices in future.
Your Complaints of the Order of Flour sent you, are repeated in
yours of the 13^th Ins^t where it is necessary, we wish you to have it
repacked and in every Instance, it may not be amiss to weigh it.
It surely is the proper Province of the Commissioners to see that
Justice is done the Public in the Weight as well as the Quantity of
the Flour and the Inattention of those of Baltimore and Harford,
on whom we greatly relied, surprizes us. M^r Wright is licenced ac-
cording to the Law of the last Session, and your Request, for the
sixth District. In Answer to yours of the 15^th Ins^t we inform you,
that your Licence is granted and enclosed. Your Motives for con-
tinuing in your Department and not buying Provisions, by which
a Competition would be created with the Commissioners, are truly
praiseworthy. An Extension of your Care and Attention, to Balti-
more Town, would not be amiss, as the only acting Person in that
District is in an inferior Station, and may require your Advice and
Aid. The Contract made by M^r Wright with the Gen^l of Virginia,
we think advantageous to the Public, and as our Interposition would
be rather out of our Line, advise you to request Gen^l Green to apply
to the Government of Virginia to permit an Exportation of the Grain
purchased. M^r Wright has the Order on the late Collector of Cecil
for the Money you require

February 21
Liber C B
No. 23
p. 115

Monday 21 February 1780
Present as on Saturday.
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Jeremiah Townly
Chase Esq^r nine hundred Pounds for his Attendance in Council to
this Instant.
That the said Treasurer pay to William Logan one hundred and
fourteen Pounds due him per Account passed by the Dep^y Aud.
That the said Treasurer pay to Samuel Chase Esquire Ten thou-
sand Pounds for the use of John Dorsey & Comp^y on Account.
That the said Treasurer pay to William Hyde four hundred and
sixteen Pounds, thirteen shillings and four Pence for one Months
Salary as Ass^t Q. to the Governor and Council ending the 1^st Instant.
That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Lieut. Jn^o Jeremiah
Jacob of the 6^th Regim^t 2 pair of Stockings and 3 yds Linen for Lin-
ing in part of the Articles allowed &c^a