408 Proceedings and Correspondence

April 20
Liber 78
p. 138

and twenty five wanting Seven, which we imagined had been delivered
at Baltimore pursuant to our Order, a Copy of which is enclosed.
The Mode generally here for the Subsistence of the Militia, when
called into actual Service to repel small Parties of the Enemy, and
to prevent their Ravages, is to allow them for Rations which they
provided for themselves, except in a few Instances where they have
not had either Provisions or Money; so that the public Stocks is but
little diminished by ordering them into Service. It has always been
our Endeavour to make Provisions for the wants of every Part of the
State without any Distinction, and we trust our Duty and Inclination
will ever prompt us to afford the same Protection to the Eastern that
we would to the Western Shore; and although it will give us great
Pleasure to receive any Proposition from you that will in the least
conduce to promote the Interest of the whole or any Part of the State,
we must object to your taking any Measures, giving any Orders, or
making any Applications which relate to the State in General.
Though your former Letter contained some Expressions that were
deemed improper, our Desire to avoid every thing that might disturb
the Harmony between us, determined this Board to overlook them
and whatever did not encroach on the Authority and tend to lessen
the Dignity of the Executive of the State. We have observed with
Freedom and Candour on those parts of your Letter of the 17^th
which are held exceptionable, not with a Design to inflame or create

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uneasiness, but to define and ascertain the Bounds of the Jurisdiction
of each Body, whereby we earnestly hope that every Ground and
Cause of Jealousy and Distrust may be removed and our Endeavours
cordially united and the strength of the State brought into Action
properly directed to secure the Independence and preserve the Peace
and Happiness of America.

April 21
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 72

Saturday 21^st April 1781

Ordered That the Eastern shore Treasurer pay to Henry Dickin-
son thirty two pounds, two shillings and eleven pence due him per
Account passed by the Dep^y Aud.
That the western shore Treasurer pay to Frank Leeke Esq^r one
hundred and thirty seven pounds ten shillings of the new Emission
in lieu of five thousand five hundred pounds to be delivered over to
Jonathan Hudson Esquire on Account.
That the said Treasurer pay to John Mills one hundred Dollars
to be delivered over to Richard Barnes Esq^r on Account.
That the said Treasurer pay to Lieut Nicholas Mangers of the
3^d Regim^t nineteen pounds, ten shillings and eleven pence due him
per Account passed by the Dep^y Aud. and also the further sum of