392 Proceedings and Correspondence

April 11
Liber No. 78

p. 122

p. 123

into the County and without Waggons Teams and Drivers are pro-
cured it will be impossible, we therefore hereby empower and request
you to impress such Numbers of Waggons Teams and Drivers and
Horses as may be sufficient to remove the Artillery and Stores under
Charge of Ensign Sears to such Place or Places as he may order
should you think it necessary to remove any Horses Cattle or Pro-
visions from the Stores, we hereby direct you to do it.

Ibid.

[Council Circular to all the Counties except Baltimore and Harford.]

We have been induced to suspend the Drafts in Several of the
Counties until the first Day of May next and we think it expedient
to extend it to all the Counties, you will therefore suspend the Draft
in your County until the First Day of May next. We request you
to remove all the Tobacco from such warehouses as you may think
exposed to Danger and liable to be plundered by the Enemy to places
of Safety Col Ware to be added to the circular Letter for suspending
the Draft.

Ibid.

[Council to William Bordley, Esqr.]

Yours respecting the Locks we have received and have sent you
forty, the Number mentioned in your former Letter. We are happy
to find you so successful in recruiting, and think with you that a
Draft may be dispensed with for the Present and we now order it to
be suspended accordingly until the 1^st Day of May.

Ibid.

[Council to Mr Charles Blake.]

You will deliver to M^r Holmes what Salt Provisions you have on
Hand. We desire you to dispatch the Vessel immediately as we are
now without Provisions to supply the Troops and others in public
Service at this place.

April 12
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 70

Thursday 12^th April 1781

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Zachariah Duvall
fifty one pounds thirteen shillings and four pence due him per Acc^r
passed by the A. G^l
That the said Treasurer pay to Elizabeth Issabell one pound thir-
teen shillings and nine pence and two pounds sixteen shillings and
three pence due her per Account passed by the Aud. Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to Hannah May one pound seventeen
shillings and six pence due her per Account passed by the Aud. Gen'
That the said Treasurer pay to John Alien Thomas Esq^r twenty
four pounds due him per Account passed by the Aud. Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to Jonathan Parker Twenty five
Pounds on Account.