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I received orders from Mr Calhoun to forward to Elk all the Corn
flour & Midlings I had in my Possession accordingly I sent off to
Mr Yeats two Vessel Loads the greater part of which is returned
as Sour'd & he writes me his orders are not to receive any flour but
such as will Pass Inspection as Fine or Common flour, I have fre-
quently ask'd for directions what I must do with flour I had on hand
as I feard by keeping, it wld Spoil I suppose that I shall have not less
then 500 Barrels of mix'd flour & Midlings in this County if some-
thing is not done with it in a short time will be entirely lost to the
State
I Borrowed in the Spring 20 Bushels Salt for Public account &
am now much in want of Salt to return it, and hope your Excellency
will by some means enable me to do it I received directions to apply
to Mr Calhoun for what salt I want'd & it wld be deliverd but on
application he informed me that he had no Salt & never had Orders
to procure any. I mentiond this to Your Excellency a month since
& as I received no answer am obliged again to mention it.
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AugUSt 22
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[Hezekiah Reeder, Portobacco, to the Council.]
I have yours by express, am sorry you incline to think I have not
been as expeditious as I might have been in Collecting the Cattle.
I readily agree they might have been at Annapolis e'er this could I
been furnish'd with Cash when I applyed but had none of the public
money in my hands and could not get drivers without the Cash, I
received 40£ the 7th Inst, and immediately set out to collect a Drove
which is now on their way up — and hope to be able to forward them
as fast as they are wantting. I wrote for a further supply of Cash
by Edward Kerrick who has the direction of the Cattle.
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August 22
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[William Hanson, Alexr Baird, William Semans, Solomon Semans,
James Clayton, John Zelefro, Samuel Dickinson, John White,
Gilbert Semans, Joseph Carrel, to the Governor and Council]
We the Subscribers whose Names are underwriten, Do Certifie
that the Bearer James Russel is a poor man haveing wife and four
Small Children and his wife almost at the Lieing in of the fifth and
has nothing to Support them But what he gets by his Labour, and we
think if he is Obliged to go to Camp that his wife and Children must
Perrish given under our Hands this 22d Day of Augt 1781.
State of Maryland] On the 23d Day of August 1781 Came James
Kent County Ss J Russell before me the Subscriber one of the
Justices of the Peace for sd County, and made Oath on the holy
Evangels of Almighty God that the within State respecting the Situ-
ation of his family are Just and true
Sworn to before
William Henry
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AugUSt 22
[Indorsed :
"Application
of James
Russel
a Draught
from Kent
County to
be Dis-
charged."
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