560 Proceedings and Correspondence

August 14
Liber No. 78
p. 246

[Council to Mr. John Chalmers.]

We request you to procure immediately forty Beeves by Purchase
or Seizure, if you are obliged to seize you will give Certificates for the
quantity seized, if purchased you are not to exceed four Pence p
Pound.

Ibid.

[Council to Joshua Beall Esqr.]

M^r Nicholas Waters has complained to us of the Manner of his
being drafted for the 4^th Class of the middle Battalion of Prince
Georges County. He asserts that W^m Fenly according to his Appre-
hension and a M^r Club were first fairly draughted, that a second Draft
for the same Class in the Manner made was improper. We suspend
our opinion until we have a Clear State of the Facts, which we request
you will let us [have] by the first opportunity.

August 15
Liber C. B.
No. 24
P. 130

Wednesday 15^th August 1781

Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to John Ensey
Clements Two pounds, thirteen shillings of the Bills emitted under
the Act for the Emission of Bills of Credit not exceeding two hun-
dred thousand pounds &^ca of the money appropriated for the present
Campaign due him per Account passed by the Aud. Gen^l That the said
Treasurer pay to William Lary, Roger Posey Nelson Johnson and
Benjamin Culbert Johnson, each, two pounds, sixteen shillings, John
Stone Hunt Three pounds, William Glasgow one pound, twelve shil-
lings and nine pence and Thomas Davis ten shillings of the same
Emission of the money appropriated as aforesaid due them for
rations per Accounts passed by the Aud. Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to John Ridout Esq^r eight pounds two
shillings of the same Emission of the money appropriated as afore-
said per Account passed by the Auditor General.
That the said Treasurer pay to Elizabeth Issabell one pound two
shillings and six pence and also Three pounds, eight shillings and
one penny of the same Emission of the money appropriated as afore-
said p Acc^t passed by the A. G^l
That the said Treasurer pay to William Simpson Three pounds
eleven shillings and nine pence of the same Emission of the money
appropriated as aforesaid per Account passed by the Auditor Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to Capt. John Pitt seven pounds ten
shillings of the same Emission of the money appropriated as afore-
said due him per Account passed by the Aud^r Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to Edward Gaither jun^r Fifty four
pounds, two shillings and six pence of the same Emission of the
money appropriated as aforesaid due him per Account passed by
the Aud. Gen^l and also eighteen pounds sixteen shillings and eight