434 Proceedings and Correspondence

May 12
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 82

That the said Treasurer pay to Vachel Worthington thirty one
pounds five shillings and six pence due him per Cert^a passed by the
Aud. Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to George Keeports seven hundred
and twenty seven pounds two Shillings and three pence due him p
Acco^t passed by the Aud. G^l
That the Issuing Commissary deliver to Ens. James Arthur
Twenty one Gallons of Rum and eighty pounds of Sugar due him to
the 1^st Instant.
Thomas Grason is appointed Captain of the Barge Experiment
agreeably to a Recommendation of the Special Council of the
3^d May 1781

May 12
Liber No. 78
p. 156

[Council to Hon'ble Board of War.]

Major Gen^l Smallwood writes us this will be addressed by Ensign
Arthur of the fourth Maryland Regiment in which he acted as a
Volunteer from the 17^th June last under Promise of a Commission,
but has not obtained it owing to his having been ever since with the
Southern Army. He claims his Rank from the above Date and
Stands arranged from that Time upon the new Establishment we
therefore hereby appoint the said James Arthur Ensign in the fourth
Maryland Regiment, and request a Commission may issue to him as
such to bear Date on the 17^th June 1780.

Ibid.

[Council to Chevalier De Aumours, French Consul.]

We received your Favor of the 3 1^st of April, and as the Assembly
was then expected speedily to meet, we intended to consult them on
the Subject of your Letters and delayed writing to you until we could
give you a Satisfactory Answer; this you may rely on shall be done,
and your Letter of the 10^th Current laid before the Assembly as soon
as they meet which in all Probability will be in a few Days; in the
mean Time we have directed the Collector in Baltimore Town to
suspend the Collection of the Taxes from those who may be pointed
out by you as coming within the Description of his most Christian
Majestys Subjects entitled to such Indulgence until the General
Assembly shall take order therein.

Ibid.

[Council to William Whitely Esqr.]

We have received yours of the 10^th Instant to give you Directions
in what Manner you are, or ought to conduct yourself is of such a
Nature that requires serious Consideration, all that we can think of,
'til the General Assembly takes Direction therein, is to omit taking
any public Money whatever but at the real Exchange in your County,
and to keep an exact Account at what Times you receive it.