of the Council of Maryland. 493

[Council to Mr. Thomas Beall of George.]

We have received yours of the 1^st Instant and have given Orders
for the Discharge of all the Militia collected at George Town, which
will relieve you from present Distresses. The Detachment now in
this City will not march for some Days, and we have no Doubt but
M^r Brookes will furnish you with a sufficient Quantity of Provision
in Time for it.

July 2
Liber No. 78
p. 207

[Council to Mr. Edward Gaither.]

It is not in our Power to order any Money to you at Present the
General Assembly having directed that none of the Bills of Credit
now in Circulation should be issued from the Treasury as soon as the
Money to be emitted is ready we shall be able to supply you and not
till then.

Ibid.

Tuesday 3^d July 1781

Ordered that the Commissary of Stores deliver to Lieut. James
Simmes of the 1^st Regim^t Cloth and Trimmings suff^t for a Suit of
Cloaths and Linen for four shirts for the year 1780.
That the western shore Treasurer pay to Col^o William Lyles Jun^r
Three hundred and sixty seven pounds, eleven shillings and one
penny Specie agreeable to the " Act to Adjust the Debts due from
this State " due him per Account passed by the Aud^r General the 12^th
June 1781.

Julys
Liber C. B.
No. 24
P. 9.8

[Council to Marquis La Fayette.]

We were honored with your Letter of the 25^th and are much
obliged to you for the Information contained in it. The General
Assembly have passed a Law for collecting five hundred Horses,
three hundred light Horse and three hundred draught Horses, but it
is out of our Power to inform you precisely when they will be pro-
cured and forwarded, whatever we can do shall be affected; A Law
has also passed to raise two Battalions of Militia to be composed of
thirteen hundred and forty effective men including the non-com-
missioned Officers to serve until the Tenth Day of December next
and to be subject to the continental Articles of war. This Body of
Men is intended for the Defence and Protection of Virginia and of
this State in Case the war should be transferred to it, we have ordered
the Baltimore and Frederick Militia light Horse amounting to about
Seventy to join you and we expect they are with you before this, the
Horses are good and the men unquestionably brave active good and
well equipped, about four hundred Regulars well disciplined and
officered will march to your Assistance from hence in a few Days

July 3
Liber No. 78
p. 207

under the Command of Col. Adams, and we flatter ourselves they

p. 208