of the Council of Maryland. 619

Bay without Hazard. We feel your Excellency's Distress from an
apprehension that your operations may cease or be impeded for want
of Provisions and the more so because we can't instantly furnish you.
In Consequence of your Requisition, we directed our Commissaries
to collect all the Public Flour and deposit it at convenient Places on
navigable Water; since which M^r Calhoun the Commissary for the
Western Shore has informed us that 1185 Barrels are at George
Town, and the public wheat in Washington and Frederick Counties
now manufacturing and transporting to that Post, will, we are satis-
fied, afford from fifteen hundred to two thousand Barrels more.
There are at Baltimore Town about four hundred and fifty Barrels
and at the Head of Elk three hundred Barrels which last Quantity
must be greatly augmented in a short Time unless the French Pur-
chasers (who have hard Money to procure what they want) interfere
with our Measures and render them inefficacious. If that Event
should happen, we shall be constrained to resort to Seizure which
will procrastinate our further Supplies and from its Odiousness
ought if possible to be avoided. All the Vessels belonging to the State
being impressed and now employed in transporting the Troops to the
Point of Destination puts it out of our Power to forward the Flour
immediately, as soon as they return we shall order them on that
Service. The Number of Beeves we engaged to furnish, your Ex-
cellency may depend on, and we will have them driven to such Places
within this State as you may point out. We apprehend those on the
Eastern Shore must be sent by Water, however you will be pleased to
determine and give Directions. Your Excellency may rely on our
making every possible Exertion to supply you with every Thing in
this State that you may want, but we wish you would not depend on
us entirely for Axes, Hatchets and entrenching Tools. The Credit
of our new Money, our only Medium, has been greatly wounded and
the Circulation in some Measure stopt, since the French Contractors
have been in the State, who have parted with their Specie with great
Liberality, and we expect for some Time to meet with Difficulties in
obtaining what is required

September

19
Liber No. 78
p. 284

Thursday 20^th September 1781.

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Doct^r Henry
Schnebely sixty nine pounds nine Shillings and three pence Specie
agreeable to the Act to adjust the Debts due from this State per
Account passed by the Aud^r Gen^l the 19^th Instant.
That the said Treasurer pay to Capt. Chirstopher Orendorff fifteen
pounds of the Bills emitted under the Act for the Emission of Bills of
Credit &^ca of the money appropriated for the present Campaign for
Stores on Account.

September
20
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 155