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	of your County which are exposed to the Ravages of the Enemy ought to be immediately purchased or seized agreeable to the Act for the immediate Supply of Cloathing &ca secured and put upon good Pastures until our further Order is communicated.	August I Liber No. 78 P. 225
	[Council to Mr. William McBride.] We are informed by the Lieutenant that there are many Cattle on those Parts of your County which are easily approached by and much exposed to the Ravages of the Enemy, and that there is great reason to believe they will fall into their Hands unless removed in Time and therefore request you will immediately purchase or seize one hundred of them agreeable to the Act for the immediate Supply of Cloath- ing &ca then Secure and put them on good Pastures subject to our future Order, the Lieutenant of your County will give you any Assistance you may want in this Business. If there should not be that Number exposed or if there should be more inform us by the first opportunity	Ibid.
	[Council to Doct. Murray.] We shall be obliged to you to examine Mr Wood who has applied for the Place of Surgeons Mate to one of the Maryland Regiments and to inform us of your opinion of him	Ibid, p. 226
	[Council to Mr. Robert Bowie.] It has been represented to us that the detaining the Horse taken from John Beans in Virtue of the late Act, will be attended with very great Hardships, that the Horse is the Property of John Beans his Son who lives with his Father, and is the only one for the use of both Families to ride or drive in a Chaise and is occasionally used by both, that John Beans Junr is a married Man and a Juror. As it is not our Desire that any of the people of the State should be oppressed when it can be avoided, we desire you would enquire into the above Circumstances and if you find the representation to be true, and that particular Hardships will result from the Detention of the Horse that you would restore him to the young man.	Ibid.
	Thursday 2d August 1781 The Governor and Council have agreed with Captain Daniel Bryan to command the State Boat Plater on the following Terms, Eleven pounds five shillings Specie or the value thereof, two Gallons of Rum, half pound Bohea Tea, eight pounds brown Sugar and four and an half pounds of Coffee per Month and two rations per Day and Commissions issued to the said Daniel Bryan appointed Captain of the said Boat plater in the Service of this State and Commission also issued to Thomas Groves appointed Captain of the Barge Wye River belongg to himself	August 2 Liber C. B. No. 24 p. 120