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change, and find them provisions Forage, you will readily conceive
how short a time the five hundred pounds sent me will serve when

it is considered that the one half is laid out in Forage for the use of
the Teams.
Col^o Yeates has often mentioned to me his difficultys for forage,
and this day M^r Jones his Assistant (Col^o Yeates being absent)
shewed me a letter from your Excellency, to Col^o Yeates in which
you mention that you would write to me about Corn, which I In-
duced him to think I had some orders relative thereto, this InduS^td
me to take the Liberty of acquainting you that 1 can buy any quan-
tity of corn on good Terms with State money, but not on Credit
without giving an Extra price, which will be prejudicial to the pur-
chase hereafter, I am going down the state in a few days in order to
look after the Provisions, waggonage &c and will buy any quantity
you may please to order providing I am furnished with the needfull.
or an order for it on the Treasury of this Shore.

May 10
Red Book
No. 30
Letter 06

[Le Chev^r D'anmours, Council General of France to His Excellency
Thos. Sim Lee]

I had the honour to write to your Exelency on the 30^th of Last
March. Give me leave to beg for an answer to it, By the Bearer
of this. I flatter myself that the importance of the subject it Con-
tains, will have been the object of your Exelency's Consideration;
and that in Consequence of it you will be so Good to send Orders to
the Collectors of the taxes, who still Continue to threaten his M. C.
majesty's Subjects with seizing their Properties, it is also necessary
I should have a letter from you in that Regard, that I may Justify
myself — By sending it to his Majesty's ministers In France

May 10
Brown Book
No. 8
Letter 58

[Wm. Whitely, Caroline County, to the Governor and Council.]

Your Excellency & Honours I have sent forward all the recruites
that were raised in our County except one that has gone out of the
way which I shall indeavour to have apprehended; and I would
likewise inform you that we could raise our Quota of Men pro-
vided I could get the hard money or the rait difference in State
Bills — the Commissioners of the Tax having fined the exchange at
two for one — a great many Peopel that have hard money wont pay
it and at the same time refuse to pay more than two for one in State
Bills which is not the difference that is going.
I have Collected as much as would pay of the Recruites that are
raised at three for one which is the Current Exchange with us. I
have not Issued against those that refuse to pay, for I am at a loss
what to do in it as the Commissioners and several others contend
that I have no right to collect any other way then at the exchange
they have fixed therefore I shall take it as a favour if Your Excel-

May 10