of the Council of Maryland. 165

to pay I cannot call on Millers and Others for settlements The
Accounts I have heretofore furnished will show that a considerable
sum is due me thereon therefore it cannot be thought I keep my
Accounts back because of monies in my hands Your Excellency
I know is fully satisfyed that I can have no such design The Returns
of Stores delivered may satisfye other Gen^l that I could not purchase
them with the money supplyd me. The wheat delivered me on
account of Taxs has been Received in so many different Mills that
its scarce worth grinding until further Quantities can be procured
Your Excellency may be assured I will not delay it longer then I
think for the Public good. I mentioned some time agoe that I had
delivered in M^r Hutsons Mills Quantities of wheat the flour of
which I could not obtain The matter is yet unsettled & I have no
expectation of geting the flour but by a corse of Law I wrote
Attorney General on the subject but received no directions how to
proceed to recover it.
Our Farmers are sending their Wheat to other Maketts for cash
and therefore I have little hopes of obtaining any Quantity, this
distresses me especially as your Excellency seems to put dependence
on this County for considerable supplies for the Army I have done
everything in my Power to procure Provisions but having lost my
Credit with the People on acc^t of bad payment It has answered
no good purposes therefore I have thought the Appointment of
some other person of Cappetal might tend to Public advantage As I
have no wish to continue longer in office then while I render real
Services to the Public
I hope my Returns tho: late will give Satisfaction

October 28
Red Book
No. 26
Letter
No. 61

S^r The Express I employed to forward dispatches agreeable to
Your Excellencys orders is draneing on me for money and says
he cannot any longer Ride as he cannot get Cash to bare his Expences
I have furnished him with New money but it will not pass. Please
inform me what is allowd for Express riding and enable me to pay
if Possible. I have not a Dollar that will pass I would goe down
to inform your Excellency of my distress but have neither money
nor Cloths to make my appearance with at Annapolis

Postscript
November 1
Red Book
No. 26
Letter
No.61

[Conrad Nichodemus, to Governor and Council]

[Resigns captaincy in 2^nd Battalion. Washington County Militia
and recommends Martin Billmeyer as his successor.]

October 28

[Uriah Forrest to Gov. Lee]

Sir Duty, together with a desire of doing a public Good Induce;
me to address your Excellency Relative to the great Injustice done
those men who have served faithfully the full Terms of then
Enlistments and have been regularly discharged from the Army

October 20,
Red Book
No. 26
Letter
No. 154