510 Proceedings and Correspondence

July ig
Liber No. 78
P. 215

[Council to President of the Special Council.]

We have sent you by Express five thousand Pounds of the new
Money unsigned, and should have forwarded the whole appropriated
to the Defence of your Shore, but the Quantity already struck is not
sufficient to enable us to do it, as soon as there is enough struck we
will furnish you with the residue, and hope what we have now sup-
plied will answer your Demands in the mean Time. We have the
Honor to enclose you Copies of the Several Acts of Assembly of the
last Session which were ordered to be printed with the Subscription
and Association Papers; most of the Inhabitants of the City have
Subscribed and associated and are determined to support the Credit
of the new Money, we have not yet heard the Determination of the
Merchants in Baltimore much depends on this Resolution the People
in the County we understand subscribe and associate generally.

Ibid,
p. 216

[Council to Thomas Harwood Esqr.]

We request you will deliver to John Wilmot five thousand Pounds
of the unsigned Bills of the last Emission to be delivered to the special
Council for the Eastern Shore being Part of the Sum appropriated
for the Defence of that Shore.

Ibid.

[Council to Gabriel Vanhorne.]

Your Letter of the 17^th Instant respecting the Horse taken from
you by the Collector of Horses for your County we have received, as
the law expressly directs the Collector to take Horses from such
Persons he thinks under the Description of that Law, this Board do
not think proper to direct the Horse to be restored without being well
and particularly informed of all the Circumstances

Ibid.

[Council to William Hemsley, Esqr.]

We received your Letter of the 17^th Instant and cant help express-
ing our Surprise that the Letters and Warrants for the recruiting
Officers of your County were not sooner delivered, the Letter and
Warrants for all the Counties were sent down to the House of Dele-
gates, and given to the Members that they might certainly be received
in Time; the Law has not vested a Power in us to suspend the
Draught, and therefore it would be improper in us to direct a Suspen-
sion for ever so short a Time.

Ibid.

[Council to Commissioners for the Preservation of British
Property.]

M^r Shaw informs us you have a Quantity of Pewter taken as
confiscated British Property, we shall be obliged to you to reserve
it to make Buttons for the Soldiers Cloathing.