494 Proceedings and Correspondence

July 3
Liber No. 78
p. 208

will be a very acceptable useful Succour. It would make us happy to
be frequently apprized of the Movements, Conduct and Designs of the
Enemy. The Assembly is up and abandoned the Design of raising a
Regiment of Blacks, if the Assembly had adopted that Plan of
Defence, we should have paid the greatest Deference to your recom-
mendation of Major McPherson.

Ibid.

[Council to Matthew Ridley Esqr.]

Your Commission Instructions and other Papers that relate to the
Business entrusted to your Negotiation are prepared. We think it
absolutely necessary you should immediately return to the State that
you may adjust your Affairs and prosecute your intended Voyage to
Europe. Agreeable to the Propositions you made to this Board, we
have wrote to Capt. Moore on the Subject

Ibid.

[Council to Capt. Nicholas Moore.]

We some Time ago appointed Mathew Ridley Esq^r Agent for the
State for the Purposes of obtaining in Europe a Loan of Money
Arms Ammunition and Cloathing which Appointment has been con-
firmed by the General Assembly, his Commission and all the necessary
Papers prepared, and we think it absolutely necessary he should im-
mediately return to the State, and prosecute his Voyage, and there-
fore request you should discharge him, and communicate the Reason
to the Gentlemen under your Command.

Ibid.

[Council to Samuel Hughes, Esqr.]

The general Assembly not having any particular Notice of the
Contract made with you, leaves us at Liberty and we are willing to
release you from it on your paying for the Transportation of the
Cannon to Baltimore Town and the Expence of proving them, unless
the Purchaser from you shall have them again proved, then the
Expence approving them to be given up.

July 4
Liber C. B.
No. 24
P. 98

[Wednesday 4^th July 1781]

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer deliver to Horatio
Clagett seven thousand and sixty five pounds of Tobacco including
four per Cent at Pornonkey Warehouse or any Warehouse above on
Potowmack, in lieu of fifty eight pounds, Seventeen shillings and
Six pence Specie to be delivered over to Thomas Clagett & Company
due them for Cloathing purchased by William Clagett under the " Act
to procure an immediate Supply of Cloathing and flesh Provisions
for the Troops &^ca " per Account passed by the Dep^y Auditor.