448 Proceedings and Correspondence

May 29
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 87

napolis and back for which they engage to allow him six Dollars
Specie or the value thereof at the time of Payment for his trouble and
expences for each ride.

May 29
Liber No. 78
p. 165

[Council to Joshua Beall, Esqr.]

You have enclosed the Commissions for the Select Militia re-
quested by your last Letter

Ibid.

p. 165

[Council Circular to James Calhoun and Henry
Hollingsworth, Esqr.]

By a Resolution of the general Assembly of this Day, we are
requested to order the Public Wheat collected and remaining on
Hand in Cecil Kent Queen Anns Harford Baltimore and Ann
Arundel Counties, and at Bruces['] Lantisses and Ogles Mills in
Frederick County to be manufactured with all Dispatch into fine and
superfine Flour and to order immediate Returns to be made of all
wheat and Flour in those Counties. We request you to have the
above Resolution carried into Effect immediately in the Counties
above mentioned within your District, one half of the Flour to be
manufactured into superfine the other half into fine Flour. You
will make us immediate Returns of all the wheat and Flour agreeably
to the above Resolution.

Ibid.

[Council to Capt. Gilbert Middleton.]

You will immediately proceed down the Bay at least as low as
Patuxent River and act as a look out Boat, to remain cruising in
the Bay, until our further Orders, or until you make any Discoveries
of the Movements of the Enemy that may be necessary to be com-
municated to us.

Ibid.

[Council to Commissioners to preserve confiscated
British Property]

We enclose you an Extract from a Resolution of the general
Assembly, which we beg Leave to say will require your immediate
Attention.

Ibid.

[Council to Colo. Robert T. Hooe.]

It has become an Object of such Magnitude to this State to have
the most early and authentic Intelligence of the Movements of the
Enemy in Virginia, that we most earnestly solicit you to renew your

Application to your Kriende to forward any Information from the

Theatre of War they deem of Importance. Nothing for our Anxiety
for the Public Welfare and knowing your Readiness to facilitate any
Measures that may tend to that End, cou'd induce us to give you soe
much Trouble.