586 Proceedings and Correspondence

August 29
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 142

That the said Treasurer pay to Brigadier Gen^l Gist thirty pounds
Specie part of the £4,000 appropriated to the Officers going to the
Southward on Account.
That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Captain Henry Gaither,
one Drum and two fifes for the use of the fourth Regiment.

p. 143

Greenbury Simpson drafted from the 5 1^st Class of Militia in Ann
Arundel County under the " Act to raise two Battalions of Militia
&^ca passed May Session 1781 having made Oath that he was drafted
in the 47^th Class in said County under the Act passed October Session
1780 and procured John Jordan to enlist for the war to whom he gave
Forty pounds, part Gold and part paper equal to Gold, and that he
has a Mother sixty odd years of age and three Sisters the eldest about
fourteen, two has not been able to do any thing for two years past,
the next to her about 12 and the youngest about ten years of age, who
depend on his labour only for Support; is therefore discharged from
the Duty for which he was drafted.

August 29

Liber No. 78
p. 261

[Council to William Hemsley, Esqr.]

Peter Bahan who is returned by you as a recruit enlisted during the
war, complains that he was hired as a substitute by M^r Richard
Amory, and that M^r Amory engaged to give him one hundred Bushels
of wheat, which he Bayhan has not received, we request you to make
Enquiry, and give us Information of this Mans Situation that Justice
may be done him, for, if he has not received a Compensation for
becoming a Substitute he will of Course be entitled to the Bounty
given to recruits.

Ibid.

[Council to John Dorsey and Company.]

We are entirely without Sugar and the frequent Demands on us
from the Army make it necessary again to request you to forward
without Delay our part of the Foxes Cargoes and that the Accounts
may be closed as speedily as possible you will give us the earliest
Information to Answer to this Letter

Ibid,
p. 262

[Council to Frederick Green, Esqr.]

We request you to have printed without Delay five hundred Copies
stitched, of the rules and Articles for the Government of the Draughts
and other Militia of this State while in Service agreeable to the Act
passed March Session 1780.

Ibid.

[Council to Colo. Samuel Smith.]

We are entirely Without Rum at this Post, and therefore request
you to procure with new Money ten Hogsheads of such rum or
Brandy as will answer for the Soldiers, and two Hogsheads of good
Rum for the use of the Officers, which we wish you to send down