of the Council of Maryland. 163

and expended near one hundred Pounds Gold Currency on that
Account. That your Respondent with the said Prisoners on Board
the said Sloop Experiment sailed from the Island of New Provi-
dence on or about the twenty third Day of August in the year afore-
said and arrived at the Port of Baltimore on or about the fourteenth
day of September last. That it was the Intention of your Respon-
den to Stop at Annapolis and communicate the Business of the Flag
10 the Governor of the State but your Respondent passed the said
Port of Annapolis in the night without knowing it and was pre-
vented by his Vessel being light and having sprung her mast from
returning. That your Respondent on his Arrival at Baltimore went
ashore and Carried his Flag & his Commission to M^r Daniel Hughes
Deputy Commissary of prisoners that the American Prisoners were
set at Liberty and Your Respondent Confined to the said Sloop by

the Order of Col^o John Steward as Commanding a military Officer

then in the said Town of Baltimore that your Respondent was
released from his Confinement & permitted to go to Annapolis to
represent the Business of the Flag to the Governor & Council.
That the Governor & Council were of opinion your Respondent
had obtained a Flag of Truce from the Governor of New Provi-
dence in the Manner and for the purpose herein set forth and per-
mitted your Respondent to refit the said Sloop Experiment and to
take in three Barrels of Meat and three Barrels of Flour for the
Subsistance of four persons besides your Respondent which number
was deemed sufficient to Navigate the said Sloop from Baltimore
to New Providence. That your Respondent understood from the
Conversation that passed in Council at the Time the said permis-
sion was obtained that in case your Respondent could procure British
Prisoners in Exchange for the American Prisoners brought to
Baltimore that he would be allowed a further Quantity of Meat and
Flour according to the above Proportion of three Barrels of Meat
and three Barrels of Flour for every five men taken on Broad the
said Sloop that M^r Daniel Hughes Delivered to your Respondent
ten British Prisoners to be Carried to New Providence and your
Respondent took a further Quantity of Bread and flour for the
Subsistance that the Bread & Flour Shipped on Board the said Sloop
with the privity & Consent of Your Respondent and by his Order
did not in the whole exceed fourteen Barrels of Flour and ten
Barrels of Bread.

That your Respondent has not been reimbursed any part of the
sums of Money expended by him in the purchase of Provisions for
the use of the American Prisoners brought to Baltimore nor allowed
any compensation for his Vessel that your Respondent has not
wilfully Violated the Flag nor committed any Act which he sup-
posed Contrary to the Intention thereof and if there has been any
Irregularity in his manner of proceeding. It cannot justly be ascribed

November 9