490 Proceedings and Correspondence

June 28
Liber No. 78
p. 204

[Council to Colo. Samuel Smith.]

It is necessary immediately to assist M^r Green to purchase about
forty Reams of Paper fit for the Purpose of printing Money, we must
therefore request you to assist M^r Green in procuring a sufficient
Quantity upon the best Terms you can, and we will see that Payment
is made immediately after the Money is printed.

June 29
Liber C. B.
No. 24
P. 97

Friday 29^th June 1781

Ordered that the Commissary of Stores deliver to Captain John
Courts Jones of the 7^th Regiment Facings for a Coat be paying for
the same and also to Lieut James Winchester of the 2^d Regim^t a suit
of Cloaths & two shirts for the pres^t year.

June 20,
Liber No. 78
p. 204

[Council to Luther Martin Esqr.]

Yours of the 28^th Instant we have received, and think it highly
necessary that you should attend the Special Court to be held at
Frederick Town on the 10 July next for the Trial of a Number of
State Prisoners.

Ibid.

[Council to General Smallwood.]

You will be so obliging as to order the Negroes captured in the
Privateer Jack o'the Lanthern by Cap^t Folger some Time past

ordered into Confinement, to be released and delivered to Ml^r David

Sterett in Behalf of the Captors.

Ibid.

[Council to Mr. James Skinner.]

We have received yours of the 28^th Instant, and wish you had been
more particular respecting the Tobacco, and informed us to whom
it belongs; if it is public Tobacco you will have it delivered to M^r
Key or his Order; taking a receipt for the exact Quantity which you
will transmit to us by the first opportunity

Ibid.

[Council to Philip Key, Esqr.]

M^r James Skinner Inspector at Hunting Creek Warehouse informs
us that there was a Vessel loading with State Tobacco, at that Ware-

p. 205

house, and could not get a full Load, and has offered fourteen Hogs-
heads to be put on Board this Vessel. We have wrote him, if it is
public Tobacco to deliver it to you or your Order, and if the Craft
is under your Direction and you approve of the Tobacco, you will
forward it in the Manner you have engaged to forward the Tobacco
heretofore delivered.