298 Proceedings and Correspondence

February 2
Liber No. 78
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in the Continental Army as part of the Quota of Troops of this State
to be commanded by a Major and to request that you will fill up
Commissions according to the Officers belonging to said Companies,
who are to take Rank agreeable to the Date of their Commissions
and that you will fill up Commissions to such officers who may be
recommended by this Board to supply the Vacancies. We wish to
have your Answer as speedily as possible.

Ibid.
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[Council to Treasurers of the Western and Eastern Shores.]

By a Resolution of the General Assembly of the 1^st Instant the
Bonds of several Collectors are to be put in Suit unless the Monies
due from them are paid by the 20^th Instant. We therefore request
you to transmit to this Board an Account of the Balances which may
remain due from the several Collectors of your shore after the 20^th
Instant that the above Resolution may be carried into Effect.

Ibid.

[Council to Mr. Henry Dickeson.]

We request you to deliver to Colonel Forrest or order three hun-
dred Hogsheads of Tobacco on such Ware Houses as he may direct
any Part thereof that the Treasury will afford

Ibid.

[Council to Henry Courtenay, Esqr.]

Yours of the 3 1^st Ult. respecting the Cloths we have received and
in Answer, request you to send us a Sample of the Cloths, the Prices
and your Terms of Payment. They are such Articles as are much
wanting and if we approve your Terms, shall purchase them most
chearfully. If the Stockings are proper for Soldiers and the Price
not too extravagant we will contract for them also. We shall be glad
to be favored with your Answer as soon as convenient.

Ibid.

[Council to Capt. William Middleton.]

You are to receive on board your Boat the Dolphin one 6^tt Cannon
wheels and Carriage 100 Stand of Arms, 1000 Flints 2 Barrels of
Powder one of Cannon the other of Musket, which you are to deliver
to the Lieutenant of Dorset County for the use of the Militia of that
County at Cambridge. You are then to proceed down the Bay as far
as Patuxent, to the Relief of M^r Berry who is stationed there as a
lookout and dispatch him immediately with whatever Intelligence he

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may have relative to the Movements of the Enemy; and you are then
to proceed down as far as you can with safety for the Purpose of
discovering with Certainty, where the Enemy are, and what there
Designs may be, which you are to communicate to this Board as
speedily as possibly.